The destruction of Mecca: The Middle East’s largest building project has effaced [tr]

Economist ^ | March 2, 2017 | Staff

[C19fan]

AS THE governor of Mecca, Prince Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud has been able to compensate for earlier failings. He came to his role in 2007 from Asir province, where his plans to erect modern tower blocks in the city of Abha were largely unfulfilled. He successfully erased Abha’s quaint old town, with its beehive houses made of wattle, only to replace them with squat breeze-block bungalows. Not a high-rise was to be seen.

[C19fan]

Freepers like to talk about, tongue in cheek, leveling Mecca. The Saudis in a historical sense has already done the job. The Saudis are converting Mecca to Disney World for Muslims.

[Red Badger]

Oh goody! I bet the Head Chopping Ride is really cool!.....................

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The preferred method:

[Unam Sanctam]

That Stalin Gothic clocktower monstrosity is a real eyesore. Why couldn’t it have been built further away from the Great Mosque? It really upsets the scale of things. If I were a Moslem, I would be furious.

[a fool in paradise]

When is Hollywood going to campaign on behalf of a transgendered candidate for governor of Mecca?

[VTenigma]

Sounds like it’s going to take more than one to level the place.

[castlegreyskull]

It is the only way to be sure.

[PLMerite]

"The Saudis are converting Mecca to Disney World for Muslims."

There's probably a whole comedy skit to be made from this.

[VietVet876]

Mohammed al NoPekka

[left that other site]

Should have happened on 9/12/01.

[minnesota_bound]

Mecca World.
I see the Griswolds family paying a visit someday.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Should have happened on 9/12/01.

Yeah, well...

[left that other site]

I know.

One of the biggest disappointments of my life.