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This is most truly insulting and inappropriate:
- Muhammad’s Birthplace To Be Razed: Bulldozers To Demolish Site Steps Away From Mecca’s Grand Mosque In Multi-billion Dollar Redevelopment Plan
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- Suicide Bomb In Eilat
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- Holy Dhimmitude!
Maybe I'm an overly sensitive infidel but see if you can find what pisses me off about the following paragraph from Reuters. RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim leaders gather in the holy city of Mecca this week to find ways of tackling religious extremism,...
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Eilat's municipality turns shameless: they want to build tourist monument for Mecca goers
This is most truly insulting and inappropriate:
The residents of the southern Israeli city of Eilat are shocked at a plan by the municipality to establish a monument in the heart of the city’s downtown to commemorate Arab pilgrims to Mecca.It's truly offensive that they'd want to pay tribute to the Religion of Peace by building a site like that and will definitely not change the minds of the Islamists. This should be opposed in as much the same way as the mosque at Ground Zero should be opposed.
The monument is planned for Eilat’s Shahamon Square.
Moshe Yosef, a resident of Eilat and a former city employee, claimed that the venture is jointly funded by the Municipality of Eilat and the Housing Ministry.
“This grandiose plan would include construction of lit metal statues of people wearing djellabas,” Yosef told Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service on Thursday. “The monument will include an observation terrace with a bench, decorative lighting and a circular pergola. The statues will be visible from the terrace. There will also be images and signs to explain to residents and tourists about the Muslim history of the place.”
He added that the plan has left the city’s residents stunned.
“I’ve lived here for 41 years and this is a central square in the city,” Yosef said. “All the military vehicles which come to Eilat from the local military bases travel through this square. Sports events are held here every evening, and residents walk, run, and ride their bicycle in the area. All of it is going to soon be in the shadow of this project.”
The project would in essence be recreating the Darb el Hajj or “Pilgrim’s Road”. The road was used by Arab pilgrims to go to Mecca and it ran from Africa through Egypt to Mecca, passing from the west at Eilat.
“It’s surreal to invest millions of dollars on a project to commemorate the immigrants from Mecca,” added Yosef. “The last time they went to Mecca via Eilat, at least according to what is written in the project, was in 1883.”
He added that just as the Arab city of Umm el-Fahm would not think to perpetuate the Jewish pilgrims to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, it is inconceivable that Eilat would perpetuate the pilgrims to Mecca.
- Muhammad’s Birthplace To Be Razed: Bulldozers To Demolish Site Steps Away From Mecca’s Grand Mosque In Multi-billion Dollar Redevelopment Plan
From the Times of Israel: Bulldozers are set to demolish a building in Mecca situated right above the site believed by scholars to be the birthplace of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The Saudi Binladin Group, which is charged with redeveloping the...
- Now Israel Is Under Rocket Attack From Sinai Peninsula As Well As Gaza
From AP: JERUSALEM (AP) — Explosions rocked the southern Israeli city of Eilat late Wednesday, and the military said it suspected that rockets were fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. No casualties or damage were reported. Eilat...
- Obama's Grandma Attends The Hajj
ADNKronos: Saudi Arabia: Obama's grandmother in Mecca for 'Hajj' ceremony Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) - The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the 'Hajj' or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca...
- Suicide Bomb In Eilat
Thanks to Ehud Olmert's negligence and easing of security restrictions, now suicide bombings have returned, and this one reaching as far as Eilat: A terrorist bomb rocked a shopping area in the Izidor neighborhood of Eilat Monday morning killing...
- Holy Dhimmitude!
Maybe I'm an overly sensitive infidel but see if you can find what pisses me off about the following paragraph from Reuters. RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim leaders gather in the holy city of Mecca this week to find ways of tackling religious extremism,...