This author is offering more of the "don't give them a reason to hate us" claptrap. It is actually a reason for them to fear us. So much better.
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/pillars.shtml
A pilgramage (Hajj) to Mecca is a requirement of all Muslims financially and physically able to do so. Eliminating one of the 5 pillars would seem to be a pretty useful threat.
Tancredo was wrong to mention this. It plays into the hands of Muslims who aren't moderate but wish to seem so.
I wouldn't take it off the table. But I wouldn't mention it either.
Ahhh, but to quote Dr. Strangelove ... "But the whole point of having a DOOMSDAY device is for other people to KNOW that you have a DOOMSDAY device."
You have to let them know that it will happen. They should be scared s***less that we are even talking about it.
Radical Islamists believe that we are ultimately impotent -- we can't find Osama, and we can't even threaten to kill thousands of Muslims if there is an attack without the whole billion Muslims coming after us, and Allah would't let us destroy their holy places anyhow. They feel invulnerable. So they attack us with impunity. And so called "Moderate Muslims" are guided by the Koran to protect any Muslim against any unbeliever.
This is a very dangerous belief ... for us, and, unfortunately, for them. They evidently don't understand that, since the US convinced itself it was necessary to destroy Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US could equally well convince itself to destroy Mecca. It would be much better for all if Muslims believed that we would incinerate all Muslim Holy Places if we were attacked with WMD.
OR ...
Maybe they should worry that some members of the Zionist Conspiracy might decide that turn about is fair play, and make their own dirty bomb and contaminate Mecca with radioactive cesium -- making it uninhabitable for the next 100 years.