I agree with you about wiping Mecca [and the other holy sites for that matter]. Could the mudslimes hate us any worse than they already do? Would their pagan god be discredited? Would they bow to a smoking crater? There’s only one way to find out. Perhaps we could appease the squeamish by using conventional bombs instead of nukes. As other posters have said, killing 2 billion pagans isn’t feasible. Destroying their holiest shrine is.
No. They stated that their anger would be directed towards those who deceived them, not those who revealed that allah was a false god.
“Would their pagan god be discredited?”
Yes. An all powerful omnipotent god would have not let himself be destroyed in the first place.
“Would they bow to a smoking crater?”
No. Bowing to a crater would just further their humiliation. Humiliation is a big deal in that neck of the woods/desert.
“There’s only one way to find out. Perhaps we could appease the squeamish by using conventional bombs instead of nukes.”
Appease and lose, nuke and win - your choice. In any case, once the jihads kill enough of the vocal squeamish, the hand wringing will cease.