Saudis Bulldoze Mohammad's House... Build Toilet
Bummer... The Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia bulldozed Mohammad's home to build a public toilet.
Over the years, the Saudi government has let fundamentalist Wahhabi clergy and developers destroy the famed old mosque of Abu Bakr and tombs of close relatives of Muhammad in Medina. It has turned the sites of Muhammad's great battles of Uhud and Badr into a parking lot and an area of empty tarmac. In 1990, a site where some believe Muhammad lived with his first wife, Khadija, was paved over when developers extended prayer areas around Mecca's Great Mosque -Wall Street Journal.
The minaret at the Imam Ali Ureidh Islamic Shrine in Medina was another casualty of Wahhabist destruction in Saudi Arabia.
The LA Times reviews a new book by Steve Coll on the Bin Laden family.
Infidel Bloggers Alliance reported on the new toilets:
The results have been particularly appalling in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, where Saudi-financed construction projects undertaken by the Bin Ladens essentially have eradicated the historic pilgrimage sites.Progress- Wahhabi style.
Not too many years ago, the remains of the Prophet Mohammed's house in Mecca were bulldozed to construct a public toilet.
These projects not only allow the Saudis to profit more from the hajj, which religious Muslims are obliged to make at least once, but also have imposed a Wahabi straitjacket on the pilgrimage. Formerly, Shia and sufic pilgrims observed the hajj with all sorts of individual rituals and visits to shrines and tombs they referred. Now, thanks to the Bin Ladens' demolition and construction projects only a Wahabi version of the pilgrimage is possible.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/03/2008 05:36:00 AM
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Right, yet most of the ummah, while Sunni, follows varieties of Islam that are both syncretistic and heavily Sufi (saint and tomb worshipping) influenced. So rather than exploit this by winning hearts and minds with Muslims in these countries we are supporting the Wahhabist Saudis, the very people who through their wealth and power are with haste setting out to "purify" the rest of the ummah from their aberrant ways. How crazy is that?
Anon~ I agree. We need to reduce dependancy on Saudi Oil. (of course, they will be running out of oil in another decade or so, but still-)
A few options:
Give the middle class Massive tax breaks if they install solar and wind power.
NUCLEAR POWER.
Allow drilling in most of the regions around the US (especially Alaska), so we can reduce that dependancy by using OUR OWN oil.
And always, Always continue to work on improving energy technology. CO2 is NOT a problem (not with a new Dalton Minimum, or as some are saying, call it the Gore Minimum, approaching), the rest IS!.
I understand that they found a valuable artifact. Who kows, maybe it was even the profligate's, uh, "prophet's" favorite piece of furnature.
I sorta cracks me up that people always are harping on about gasoline/power generation as the main reason we are "so dependent" on oil.
It isn't that. It is the PLASTICS. Look around you and see all the things made out of plastics.
Here is just a partial list...
Air conditioners, ammonia, anti-histamines, antiseptics, artificial turf, asphalt, aspirin, balloons, bandages, boats, bottles, bras, bubble gum, butane, cameras, candles, car batteries, car bodies, carpet, cassette tapes, caulking, CDs, cell phones, chewing gum, cold, combs/brushes, computers, contacts, cortisone, crayons, cream, denture adhesives, deodorant, detergents, dice, dishwashing liquid, dresses, dryers, electric blankets, electrician’s tape, fertilizers, fishing lures, fishing nets, fishing rods, floor wax, footballs, gaming platforms, glues, glycerin, golf balls, guitar strings, hair, hair coloring, hair curlers, hearing aids, heart valves, heating oil, house paint, ice chests, ink, insect repellent, insulation, jet fuel, life jackets, linoleum, lip balm, lipstick, loudspeakers, medicines, mops, motor oil, motorcycle helmets, movie film, nail polish, nylons, oil filters, paddles, paint brushes, paints, parachutes, paraffin, pens, perfumes, petroleum jelly, plastic chairs, plastic cups, plastic forks, plastic wrap, plastics, plywood adhesives, refrigerators, roller-skate wheels, roofing paper, rubber bands, rubber boots, rubber cement, rubbish bags, running shoes, saccharine, seals, shirts (non-cotton), shoe polish, shoes, shower curtains, solvents, solvents, spectacles, stereos, surgical instruments, sweaters, syringes, table tennis balls, tape recorders, telephones, tennis rackets, thermos, tights, toilet seats, toners, toothpaste, transparencies, transparent tape, TV cabinets, typewriter/computer ribbons, tires, umbrellas, upholstery, vaporisers, vitamin capsules, volleyballs, water pipes, water skis, wax, wax paper.
Some of this "disposable" stuff are toys that many will throw away when the "new and improved" toys come out. For example I know someone who has had probably 20 cell phones in the last 10 years-he has to have the newest and shiniest one available even though his current one works just fine.
Mohammed's house is a toilet. Hmm.
How much islamophobic is to bulldoze the Mohammad house?
The good part is that they are destroying all and any trace of Mohammad and early Islam. So, not far from today, we will be able to point out that Mohammad is a legend for little children, without any proof of existence.
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