Comparting St. Peters or the Vatican to Mecca exposes your total ignorance of Islam. Catholics do not base their entire faith upon praying to a magical black stone in the center of St. Peters. 2 of the 5 pillars of Islam demand prayer directly to that black stone. If that black stone is gone, the religion is gone.
Comparting St. Peters or the Vatican to Mecca exposes your total ignorance of Islam. Catholics do not base their entire faith upon praying to a magical black stone in the center of St. Peters. 2 of the 5 pillars of Islam demand prayer directly to that black stone. If that black stone is gone, the religion is gone.Through most of the world, effectively they pray towards Mecca. The faith itself would easily adjust to replacing the Kabaa with the "martyr city". They'd also be far more radical and anti-western.
Indeed, it wouldn't suprise me in the least if upon getting ahold of a nuke, AQ used it in Mecca, after making a spectacular strike on the US. It would very much serve their purposes.
-Eric
Do you think this would end such an irrational religion? These followers do not base their beliefs on nice things like reality, logic, and human kindness; they base their religion on relative subjective reasoning and what they can get for themselves. What would stop these people from finding a way to make such destruction of their religious shrine into a prophetic sign that America is actually Satan's legions after all, and Bin Ladin was right all along?!