"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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Posted on 08/19/2011 1:13:12 PM PDT by americanophile
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will officially launch a $10.6-billion (7.3-billion-euro) extension project Friday for the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, media reports said.
The project is intended to allow the complex to accommodate some two million worshippers at a time, the daily Asharq al-Awsat said.
The site, where 10,000 workers are already working round-the-clock covers an area of 400,000 square metres (4.3 million square feet).
The project envisages a multi-level extension on the north side of the complex, together with stairways and tunnels to facilitate worshippers access to the mosque, built around the cubic Kaaba that all Muslims face to pray.
The Grand Mosque underwent significant expansion in the mid-1980s, but the number of Muslim pilgrims has steadily grown, requiring another expansion.
Friday evening, Abdullah also is due to officially inaugurate the 601-metre (1,983-foot) Mecca Royal Clock Tower, topped with a gigantic four-faced clock that rises from behind the hills and helps visitors at other holy sites locate the Grand Mosque.
The clock tower is the world's second tallest building -- behind the Burj Khalifa, the 828-metre (2,717-foot) skyscraper inaugurated in Dubai early last year.
Mecca, which during the annual hajj pilgrimage attracts some 2.5 million Muslims from around the world for a stay of two weeks on average, last November opened a metro service that will operate only during the hajj season.
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“The project is intended to allow the complex to accommodate some two million worshippers at a time”
Target-rich environment?
"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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Nice of them to build the clock tower to serve as marker.
In other words....WE are building a 10.6 Billion dollar Mecca expansion since the filthy arabs dont produce anything...our petro-dollars are paying for it.
I want to bid on the porta-potty contract
Historic and religious site. Shut down the project down.
Designed by German engineers and Pakistani and Yemeni labor. Saudis rarely get their hands dirty, aside from wiping their arses..
Too bad that not everyone can witness the Haj at Jeddah Airport. Fustercluck! Moslems from all over the world come in for it, and they are all funneled through King Abdul Aziz Int’l. The rich folks do all right; they’re whisked through all the formalites. But these poor folks from Mali or Bangla Desh arrive with little more than the shirts on their backs. Before and after, they camp out on the grounds of the airport. While they’re in Jeddah, they buy everything they can get their hands on. TVs and electric fans are big sellers. People sleep on their soft baggage awaiting their charter flights. When I was there - and I don’t suppose it’s improved any - the authorities had to separate the Iranians from the Nigerians because of some long-standing animosity. They put the gentler Malaysians in between the two.
In a way, yes.
A bigger target.
They only produce children.
Hateful, angry ones at that...
2 million koranimals circling a rock dressed in drag that cross dresses as a gigantic pot-o-gold.
Classic. What’s the odds of a massive stampede wiping out a couple hundred thousand?
Hell, I may dress in drag myself in order to start the running of fools.
Filthy koranimals. I piss on all of their beards!
I also think the “growth” is a result of the ability for more people to get there.....including tourists...as it’s become a tourist event as well. Perhaps not just the Muslim growth alone.
And it's working isnt it. Population explosion here in the US and other countries is exactly what their agenda is seeking to do. It's thier weapon of choice to conquer by inflitration and when their masses are large enough...it's always war that follows.
No, non-Muslims aren't allowed into the city. It's all Muslims.
Then why do they have signs pointing for non-Muslims to go?
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