Posted on 10/01/2014 6:18:24 AM PDT by C19fan
WHEN Malcolm X visited Mecca in 1964, he was enchanted. He found the city “as ancient as time itself,” and wrote that the partly constructed extension to the Sacred Mosque “will surpass the architectural beauty of India’s Taj Mahal.”
Fifty years on, no one could possibly describe Mecca as ancient, or associate beauty with Islam’s holiest city. Pilgrims performing the hajj this week will search in vain for Mecca’s history.
The dominant architectural site in the city is not the Sacred Mosque, where the Kaaba, the symbolic focus of Muslims everywhere, is. It is the obnoxious Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel, which, at 1,972 feet, is among the world’s tallest buildings. It is part of a mammoth development of skyscrapers that includes luxury shopping malls and hotels catering to the superrich. The skyline is no longer dominated by the rugged outline of encircling peaks. Ancient mountains have been flattened. The city is now surrounded by the brutalism of rectangular steel and concrete structures — an amalgam of Disneyland and Las Vegas.
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And not one roll of turlit paper to be found.
Next Disney will be trying to start a religion where one of the Five Pillars is to have at least one mandatory visit to Disney World.
Truth is so unacceptable to some people
All to walk around a meteorite, worship the moon and pay homage to serial mass murderer, slave trader and child rapist...
Step ONE: Get a big plane. Make a very large water balloon type “bomb” filled with red paint.
Step TWO: Drop it on the black box thus changing the color to red.
Step THREE: Notify all countries that the next killing of any kind in the name of islam will result in another bomb but the next one will be filled with pig blood.
Step FOUR: Time for popcorn.
Interesting... I could make a case that one of the major reasons the Saudi’s are promoting and ‘exporting’ Islam everywhere around the world is that part of a devout Muslim’s life duty is to go on a pilgrimage at least once in their life to Mecca.
Lot’s of money to be made in religious ‘pilgrimages’ and a good fall back plan when the oil revenue dips to far down.
Odd Fact: The Ka’aba is 666 nautical miles from the Temple Mount. Make of that what you will.
#25 Coordinates:
21.4225°N 39.826181°ECoordinates: 21.4225°N 39.826181°E
Location Mecca, al-Hejaz, Saudi Arabia
And THAT is the most interesting thing I've read in days.
Mecca: home of the Pet Rock.
Looks like they changed everything.
Gallery of many images http://www.alzahracentre.org/gallery/mecca/
How did Malcom X Die?
#33 He was killed by a Amish fanatic..... who liked tea.
Man, that is hideous.
Looks like some hybrid of the New York, New York and Venetian resorts from Las Vegas.
Jerusalem had nothing to do with Mohammed. He never went there.
Someone needs to shop the eye of Sauron into that crescent at the top.
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