Posted on 08/12/2007 11:09:37 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
I just read the link up a few posts...wow...I didn’t know they’d ruin all their own history in fear of idolatry. Apparently some historians are trying to keep some Abrahamic sites secret, so they won’t be destroyed!
It’s an idea.
Hey, Meccans....
I was hoping for a major saturation bombing.
What a disappointing thread.
It's hard to believe that things have changed so much but this picture of the Ka'aba is supposed to be from 1371 AH = 1951 or 1952. I suppose the relatively primitive state of the surrounding structures at that time is related to the fact that the Saudis were just beginning to get their oil money.
Test of nuclear artillery piece, Nevada test range, 1953
Saudi Arabia is PERFECT for this stuff!.
I don't speak Arabic all that well. Is the Arabic word for prophet synonymous with the Arabic word for pedophile?
FYI- Muslim business associates of mine have told me that Mecca is not really that nice of a place, and that the millions of poor folks who come for their hajj have a tendency not to clean up after themselves.
This was still going on long after Rome had taken over all of Greece.
One of the deals Mo made with the existing power structure in Mecca was to keep the Kaaba, sans it's hundreds of "gods", for purposes of drawing the ever valuable religious pilgrims. Negotions were made regarding who got to peddle meat, who sold the bread, who got to deal tents and houses for sleeping, and who would secure the concession to direct traffic to caravans.
In short, a new and ever more commercial skyline is really well within the traditions of this city.
I would imagine a penthouse suite overlooking Abraham's Altar would be worth hundreds of millions!
Not sure, but I’m pretty sure that a “Cinnabon” means a “God-fearing gentleman”. lol
That’s part of the religious sternness of the Wahhabis. They approve no shrines, no pilgrimages to birthplaces or tombs or anyplace but the Kaaba, no images, no memorials, no honor to the hallowed dead or anything like it.
Wahhabis are very much like Puritans. They see the Shiites, who honor Islamic “blesseds” like Khadijah, Fatimah, and so forth, as something like Catholics with their saints.
I’m put in mind of the Protestants of Holland, who 400 years ago smashed all the statues of Apostles which were on the Cathedral in Alkmaar; and Cromwell’s men, who gouged the eyes of icons.
Though better late than never.
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