Posted on 12/09/2005 8:00:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Mecca is planning a major upgrade of facilities around the Al Masjid Al Haram, or "The Sacred Mosque", Islam's holiest site.
On December 27 the "Studies on the Central Region of Mecca" seminar will be held in Mecca to discuss development plans for the city's central region.
Interior minister and chairman of the supreme Hajj committee Prince Naif will open proceedings. The seminar will survey construction, engineering, transportation, environment and media issues.
The seminar precedes the launch of several construction projects around the Grand Mosque, including the $3.2 billion Jabal Omar project.
Organizing committee chairman Mohammed Idrees said that the government realized the need for fundamental changes in Mecca's facilities in order to accommodate the growing number of believers who perform Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages each year, estimated by Saudi authorities to exceed 10,000,000 annually.
"Making quick plans for such a large influx of pilgrims is essential in order to protect public interests. This demands setting out new construction strategies and comprehensive plans," Idrees said.
The proposed alterations are the second major round of reconstruction inside the city. During the 1970s the Bin Laden Group, headed by Osama Bin Laden's father Mohammed, was awarded a contract to expand both the Al Masjid Al Haram and the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
Economists said that new construction projects around the Al Masjid Al Haram would eventually generate investments of over $26 billion.
Not for me
Nude camels, rotting corpses, and cells lined with steel bars is not my lifestyle.
HooRah.
Listen. It's like this:
Islamo-Fascists are the new Third Reich. Ugly. Not cool. Don't play well with others.
The only solution is to completely annihilate the contagion.
Don't like it? GROW UP.
I think you mis-directed your reply. I'd nuke the terrorist Islamic bastards in a heart-beat.
(Original post:
Tongue-in-cheek sarcasm.)
If it were my war, I'd obliterate the "shrine" and any unlucky dumba$$ within 5 miles.
These animals don't comprehend mercy, love, and peace. They live to conquer, to destroy, and to enslave. I say we take the fight to them and annihilate them completely.
I dont' know, but there are "space peanuts" revolving around it once a year!
WWII? I suppose it can be argued that we've done a piss-poor job of eradicating Shinto.
Spare us your ad hominem dhimmi lectures.
Are you sure you are in the proper forum?
Some of us deal with the anguish of losing friends, relatives and co-workers with a little non-PC sarcasm.
Take it as "gospel" as you wish.
You forget it was not the islamokazis who invented WMD's who now crave them to use on us.
We just are willing to give them a helping hand with their renewal and let them have their 72 virgins and little boys a tad sooner.
I'm sure you would be willing to go back to the 8th century to join your pals.
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