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[RiZ III]

Destroying Mecca would summon the wrath of Muslims all over the world regardless of their political stance.

Was this confirmed to be ISIS?

No one hates Isis more than Muslims. All of the surrounding Muslim countries are waging war against Isis already.

 

[Frozenprince]

An aside from this horrible incident that I'm glad was resolved, hopefully, without any innocent deaths.

Is that yeah, what the Saudi government, in particular King Fahd and King Abdullah, has done to the history of Mecca is beyond disgusting. They leveled the birthplace of the prophet to build a tourist attraction to sell things from gift shops and hotels.

 

[Netherscourge]

BTW two more attacks were foiled as of now.


ISIS doesn't recognize the Saudi Arabia and wants to liberate Mecca from them.

By blowing it up??

 

[BigBoss]

By blowing it up??

Logic and reason isn't their strong suit.

 

[water_wendi]

Forgive me if im mistaken but its Ramadan right? Pure evil. Its not like it wasnt known though. The day when the word Isis once again only evokes thoughts of Egyptian mythology cant come soon enough.

 

[Steel]

Forgive me if im mistaken but its Ramadan right? Pure evil. Its not like it wasnt known though. The day when the word Isis once again only evokes thoughts of Egyptian mythology cant come soon enough.

I think Isis ruined the word for keeps. And I had a dog named Isis before they cropped up....

 

[Patrick S.]

By blowing it up??

They've played too much Mass Effect.

 

[I Stalk Alone]

Reaping what you sow.

Who reaped what?

Oh the irony

For who?

 

[Messofanego]

ISIS/Baghdadi was inspired by Al-Qaeda/Bin Laden. Bin Laden/Al-Qaeda was inspired by Juhayman Al-Otaybi.

Read up on the siege of Mecca, where Juhayman led a bloody insurrection in 1979 by capturing the holy mosque structure in Mecca, if you're at all interested in understanding how modern "Radical Islamic" terrorism was born.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure

It's ironic that you'd think islamic terrorists wouldn't be into innovation or declaring people in our time to be mahdi and would be against forming a cult leader, but here you are. Bad people are always full of contradictions and lies.

The worst thing is Saudi Arabia learned the completely wrong lesson from all of that:

Saudi King Khaled however, did not react to the upheaval by cracking down on religious puritans in general, but by giving the ulama and religious conservatives more power over the next decade. He is thought to have believed that "the solution to the religious upheaval was simple - more religion."[48] First, photographs of women in newspapers were banned, then women on television. Cinemas and music shops were shut down. School curriculum was changed to provide many more hours of religious studies, eliminating classes on subjects like non-Islamic history. Gender segregation was extended "to the humblest coffee shop". The religious police became more assertive.[49]​

It's like NRA, but with religion.