And Muslims who whine, riot and murder over cartoons, videos and words won’t even wage their faux inner jihad. via Saudi Arabia to raze Prophet Mohammed’s tomb to build larger mosque — RT.
The key Islamic heritage site, including
Prophet Mohammed’s shrine, is to be bulldozed, as Saudi Arabia plans a $
6 billion expansion of Medina’s holy Masjid an-Nabawi Mosque. However,
Muslims remain silent on the possible destruction.
Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina,
is planned to start as soon as the annual Hajj pilgrimage comes to a
close at the end of November.
After the reconstruction, the mosque is expected to become the world’s largest building, with a capacity for 1.6 million people.
And while the need to expand does exist as
more pilgrims are flocking to holy sites every year, nothing has been
said on how the project will affect the surroundings of the mosque, also
historic sites.
Concerns are growing that the expansion of
Masjid an-Nabawi will come at the price of three of the world’s oldest
mosques nearby, which hold the tombs of Prophet Mohammed and two of his
closest companions, Abu Bakr and Umar. The expansion project which will
cost 25 billion SAR (more than US $6 billion) reportedly requires razing
holy sites, as old as the seventh century.
The Washington-based Gulf Institute
estimated that 95 percent of sacred sites and shrines in the two cities
have been destroyed in the past twenty years.
The Prophet’s birthplace was turned into a
library and the house of his first wife, Khadijah, was replaced with a
public toilet block.
Nuff said.
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