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Re:Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth by 1024core on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:18PM (#10332829)
> The boorish Saudi Royal family is turning this into a religious disneyland.

My guess is that they're doing it to put a Wahabbi stamp on things and erase everything else.

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Re:Mecca Then and Now – 128 Years of Growth by Gibbon1 on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:16PM (#10335677)
The Wahabbi/Salifists see destroying all that old stuff as a feature not a bug.
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