http://www.amazon.com/Siege-Mecca-Uprising-Islams-Holiest/dp/0307277739
The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam’s Holiest Shrine
What gave rise to Al-Qaeda was the US giving Afghanistan’s Al-Qaeda weapons, money and training in the 1980s.
From what I recall the saudis did little but hire Infidels, the French eventually flooded the lower levels and dropped high voltage cables into the water to end it.
The 1979 attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca refutes claims that Islamic terrorism was evoked by the US in order to challenge the Soviets in Afghanistan. Plainly, the 1979 attack stemmed directly from the radicalism inherent in Saudi Wahhabism, from the fissures in Saudi society, and from Islam’s poor fit with the modern world.
Turn Mecca into Meccatite.
Since this story comes from NPR, how do we know it’s true?
I consider myself to be well informed and I never knew about this.
Somebody should have leveled that mosque back then.
“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
Richard M. Nixon