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The destruction of Mecca: Saudi hardliners are wiping out their own heritage
06 August 2005 | Daniel Howden

Posted on 08/05/2005 8:03:02 PM PDT by mdittmar

Historic Mecca, the cradle of Islam, is being buried in an unprecedented onslaught by religious zealots.

Just a link.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iconoclasm; iconoclasts; mecca; petra; saudiarabia; wahhabism
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To: mdittmar

Logic dictates then (yeah, yeah, I know what does logic have to do with Islam) that they get rid of the (k)aaba and the (g)rand (m)osque, since they are prayed to, as well.


21 posted on 08/05/2005 8:50:04 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy (It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Similarly, finds by a Lebanese professor, Kamal Salibi, which indicated that once-Jewish villages in what is now Saudi Arabia might have been the location of scenes from the Bible, prompted the bulldozers to be sent in. All traces were destroyed.

GGG Ping.

22 posted on 08/05/2005 8:50:11 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: mdittmar

How can we get this news out to the Arab street and when? If this news got out, you might be seeing some heads rolling, literally.


23 posted on 08/05/2005 8:50:16 PM PDT by TypeZoNegative (Future Minnesota Refugee)
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To: mdittmar

Ah hah, and if they pray to Mecca 5x a day, maybe they'll get rid of IT as well.


24 posted on 08/05/2005 8:51:06 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy (It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
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To: mdittmar

Howdy pilgrim. Take this here suitcase to the Grand Mosque and you will get 72 virgins.


25 posted on 08/05/2005 8:59:38 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: Pookyhead
These guys are like venomous snakes who bite everything and everyone around them, including themselves.

They're brain dead. It's a prerequisite.

On the other hand, satanallah tells them in their koran that if mecca ever goes it means that islam was never true. So I say, "Bulldoze everything in mecca.

26 posted on 08/05/2005 9:10:23 PM PDT by WarPaint (Crush Islam)
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To: WarPaint
The ultimate would be to grind the kuuuhbah into hogfeed. Then allah the good moozies would bow and pray to porcine excrement 5x a day!

Kill A Commie For Mommie
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

28 posted on 08/05/2005 9:26:23 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black send it back." Homer's guide to drinking in Springfield)
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To: Tolik; CHARLITE; tiamat; Squantos

holy shiite!


29 posted on 08/05/2005 9:28:19 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: Pookyhead
I guess they will buldoze the Silver Kitty of the Kaaba, then...


30 posted on 08/05/2005 9:32:43 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: Dallas59
[Interesting photo of young musroom cloud deleted...]

Nice technique ! How'd you photoshop that anyway?

(" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)

Love your tagline. --and all Kerry ended up doing is beating around the Bush!

Cheers!

31 posted on 08/05/2005 9:44:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: King Prout

In Catholic grade school, for goodness sake, we were taught that according to Islamic legend the black stone of the Kaaba was originally white, until mankind's sins stained it. Oh - we also learned that the Crusaders were the good guys.

I say take the MOAB bomb and rename it "King Richard".


32 posted on 08/06/2005 3:00:53 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: FreedomCalls

Mecca being destroyed? Gosh, what bad news. ;')

I think the real reason for the destruction of those villages is twofold. Number one, they were probably the very places where Mohammed massacred the Jewish population of Arabia; and two, the later story about how events of the Bible actually took place in Arabia -- a view adopted in various 20th century books -- undermines the claims that only "Moslems" have ever lived in Arabia.

Thanks for the ping. I think there's a similar recent thread about this.


33 posted on 08/06/2005 3:30:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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To: Pookyhead
Similarly, finds by a Lebanese professor, Kamal Salibi, which indicated that once-Jewish villages in what is now Saudi Arabia might have been the location of scenes from the Bible, prompted the bulldozers to be sent in. All traces were destroyed.

This just proves Islam is a "living religion" not tied to its past. The Koran is a living document to be interpreted by the Wahabbists much as our own ACLU is entitled to interpret our living constitution. < / sarcasm>

34 posted on 08/06/2005 4:32:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: kalee

Brevity is the soul of wit & you are person of great wit & a great insight into the mind of a Wahhabist muslim.


35 posted on 08/06/2005 7:17:01 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: mdittmar

All of Mecca, right down to the Kaba is a place of idolatry. Saudis, do your duty and level it. While you're at it, salt the earth in and around it and take out Medina in the same way. Then pay the Israelis to demolish that tacky Dome of the Rock thingy. Thanks.


36 posted on 08/06/2005 7:17:18 AM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: FierceDraka

Make up your mind will you! Do you want it to be a brothel/night club or a hog farm ? Trying to have all three on the same bit of land ain't gonna work.


37 posted on 08/06/2005 7:20:31 AM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: ValenB4
This is the ultimate in symbolism in how Islamic societies destroy themselves.

Much as I appreciate antiquities, we can only hope that this self-effacing process will hasten the end of this toxic, malignant, mongrelized ideology. Let the cancer kill its host and the world will be better off.

38 posted on 08/06/2005 7:38:39 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: A. Pole; All; sergey1973; lizol; Lukasz

Dzieki"A.Pole"


translation

"These people only care for themselves; they have left their heart in place they don't understand. How sad is life of a man who's work on a field just so it becomes fore illusion of idol. From nothing they came and to nothing they will return. Of hate and anger in their heart et fore that has come: from et fore it will come back to them; blame is their game; how sad is blind man who lives in hate. Warning:=hate is in front your door; look at it and make your decision: choose wisely and don't look back: today life is what it seems a dream; tomorrow life is different."



thank you all


39 posted on 08/07/2005 8:54:00 PM PDT by anonymoussierra (Nie b¹dŸ pochopny w duchu do gniewu, bo gniew przebywa w piersi g³upców)
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To: FreedomCalls

Interestingly, the Ka'aba is a real point of focus for the Wahabbists. It's as if the rest of the religion doesn't matter. Now, it seems to be the only thing left.


40 posted on 08/07/2005 9:07:11 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "ROFLOL!" -- tuliptree76)
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