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Critics Notebook
New Look for Mecca: Gargantuan and Gaudy
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: December 29, 2010
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia It is an architectural absurdity. Just south of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Muslim worlds holiest site, a kitsch rendition of Londons Big Ben is nearing completion. Called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower, it will be one of the tallest buildings in the world, the centerpiece of a complex that is housing a gargantuan shopping mall, an 800-room hotel and a prayer hall for several thousand people. Its muscular form, an unabashed knockoff of the original, blown up to a grotesque scale, will be decorated with Arabic inscriptions and topped by a crescent-shape spire in what feels like a cynical nod to Islams architectural past. To make room for it, the Saudi government bulldozed an 18th-century Ottoman fortress and the hill it stood on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/design/30mecca.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Mecca&st=cse
The can provide electric power by attaching a dynamo to Mohammed spinning in his grave.
As expected.The can provide electric power by attaching a dynamo to Mohammed spinning in his grave.
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Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
That didn't take long..
Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
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Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
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Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
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Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
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Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
That didn't take long..
Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
Before the usual suspects show up and go nuts...I want to say I think this is a very good thing. Capitalism has a way of modernizing a society.
Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
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There you go again with your anti Muslim rhetoric and hatred, dave.
which is the point he missedPerhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".
Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
Using humor to point out that Mohammed wouldn't be a fan, does not equate to "denigration of a religion".
Perhaps now you can explain how that was "denigration".Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
That didn't take long..
Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".And..
That didn't take long..
Your posts make baby Mohammed cry....
Perhaps now you can explain how that was "denigration".Perhaps you can explain how that was "going nuts".
Well the rightie posters hopped right over the virtues of Capitalism and jumped right into denigration of a religion.
How American of them.
Not.
And..
That didn't take long..
