if true nuking Mecca, as some have proposed, might not take the wind out of their sails.
1 I doubt it's true as they are the ones in control of it.
2 Say we do, what happens the next day? There's a fighting chance that the entire Islamic world(all 1+BILLION) rallies to OBL and his gang of thugs. Then you'd get to see what a real religious war is like.