The "Vegas-ization" of the Haram

Ha!  Leave it to Saudi Arabia to excise the heart and soul of Islam.  As if it wasn't bad enough to spread Wahhabism all over the world, they now have to do crap like this...grrrrr! 

Normally, I'm opposed to U.S. involvement in the Middle East, but if Bush decided to use the rest of his time in office to depose the Saudi royal family and Wahhabi religious authorities, then I just might forgive him for everything he did wrong beforehand.  (Assuming, of course, that he, for once, did not screw everything up!)

P.S. That was a joke...I don't want Bush or his forces anywhere near the holy cities.

"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free."
--Valerie, in V for Vendetta

As-Salaamu `Ala Filasteen wa Rahmatullah

Yaowza, Yaowza, Yaowza!
get your new luxury condos here,
view the Ka'ba at your leisure.
No need to circumambulate,
when you can navigate
from the balcony.

Come one, come all
To the Holy City
Mecca of your dreams
No need to sweat
It's air conditioned

Want to pray?
No need to go
just look below
But bring lots of dough

Yaowza, Yaowza!

Somebody call for an aesthetic jihad- this stuff is surely a major architectural sin. What's the hadd punishment for ugly  city planning? And would Dubai simply have to be razed, with salt sown into the earth, or would something less drastic do?

I vote for Rem Koolhas to come in and redo Mecca, Dubai, heck, even parts of NYC, for that matter. But if we want to the cuting, bleeding-edge Middle-East designer route, I vote for Bernard Khoury ...

Grow stuff all over all of it. 

They could have punk shows to raise money.

--kafr fakhr

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