What do you think about reports that the Islamic State wants to destroy Mecca and the Kaaba because it is idol worship and does not focus on Muhammad and Allah?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174075/posts
From what I’ve read, Mecca is already destroyed by the Saudis. We’re just going to have to take them out like we took out the Japs. We’ll probably be long in our graves before western governments face up to this little fact.
I don’t buy it, I think it’s a false report falsely ascribed to ISIS as a psyop. The founder and Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi, has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad. It’s not conceivable to me that he would have a desire to destroy Mecca, any more than a new Pope would have a desire to destroy St. Peter’s Basilica.
It’s true Baghdadi is a demon for blowing up Shiite shrines etc, but they see Shiite shrines as as iconographic idols.
That would NOT extend to Mecca. Remember, three of the five pillars of Islam involve worship of the physical black moon rock in Mecca. To me it’s more than a reach to think a PhD in Islamic Studies, the new Caliph, would want to destroy the foundation of the two physical pillars.