[swarthyguy]

What's your opinion of the view that the Kaaba is really a Shiva Lingam expropriated by the Mohammadans as a matter of simple expediency for some physical manifestation of the newly formed religion? Any truth to it?.

[Cronos]

What's your opinion of the view that the Kaaba is really a Shiva Lingam expropriated by the Mohammadans as a matter of simple expediency for some physical manifestation of the newly formed religion? Any truth to it?.

It's possible -- Mohammed took the aspects of ARabic paganaism (Allah was an early ARabic pagan God with two daughters -- interestingly those two daughters of allah were sanctioned worship in the early part of hte Koran, later on Mo got more influenced by the Jews and tried to make his cult monotheistic)