Islam has five pillars. The Hajj is one of them. Obliterate it and Islam is made impotent.
Will the Islamic world issue violent reprisal? Yup. But it won't last forever.
Within a generation or two of the initial shock, Islam would be defunct apart from a few fringe movements. And those can be easily exterminated.
Islam has had 1400 years to learn to play nice with others. We are under no obligation to preserve this "religion" for posterity.
I concur. It is the only way out if we want to survive. ‘We’ meaning the lovers of life.
Iran might nuke Mecca—it’s in Saudi Arabia.