[FreedomCalls]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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.