[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Tolik]

Very interesting. Thanks for the ping. It prompts two reactions.

1. He will be easily dismissed as a self-hating Muslim :)) Seriously, I afraid for his life.

2. If his reactions on defeats are any indication (they prompted him to doubt that his Allah is all powerful) then indeed erasing Mecca and Medina (without Allah rage) will have similar therapeutic effect. Maybe.