Of a fault line, and of the Qibla
But you should read too her linked critique of the remaking of Mecca, The Architects of the War on Islam, from August 6th:
This is addressed to Muslims who think that Islam is under attack: They are right. Just take a look at the images of the House that Abraham built, the Ka’aba and see how progresses that ancient attack. Just look at the transformation of the environs of the Ka’aba and the Haram Shareef into a garish resort rivaling Las Vegas or Atlantic City.
Just look, at the transformation of the sacred environs of the Haram Shareef into a shopping mall and Disney world–to understand the war on Islam and who is responsible for waging it. Just look at this and see how Islam has been trafficked as though it were a bonded slave, dressed up in bells and baubles to be whipped and sold in the marketplace.
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Note finally her remarks, in today’s piece, on fear and silence:
Much is at stake if people are not silent. Much is at stake if people remain silent.
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I fear that Haj and the Ka’aba, a central principal of Islam, sacred to 1.2 billion people have been privatized, by an estimated 5000 people belonging to one family. Why? How is the privatization of the Ka’aba different from the wholesale seizure and privatization of the commons and public lands and spaces all over the world? I fear that the Ka’aba and the Haram Shareef which is sacred to 1.2 billion people has been privatized and occupied by the members of one family and that this is the same as what is happening to the entire world and its public goods and commons and public space which have been eroded and literally stolen from the people.
And now you can see, too, why I am reminded of Somoza and his farm, Nicaragua:
With this profound difference: that the Ka’aba is the Qibla, the point of orientation to which all Muslim prayer turns, as others orient their prayers towards Jerusalem.
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omar:
August 28th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Saudi malignant influence needs to be taken down, but Maniza mixes fact, fiction and myth with blithe ignorance of the sectarian origins of many of her unnecessary flourishes of “Islamic” argument against the Al Saud. I wish she had written against Saudi Arabia without feeling the need to pull out all the stops and go for propaganda overkill.
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Whatever. My comments are on those blog posts.
Charles Cameron:
August 28th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Hi, Omar:
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One of the other commenters on Naqvi’s posts referred to a Wikipedia entry on the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites.
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Obviously, the destruction of religious sites is a problem from Bamiyan to Ayodhya / Oudh to Timbuktu — is it your feeling that Mecca, too, has been subject to needless destruction — and is the account given us by Wikipedia reliable?
larrydunbar:
August 29th, 2012 at 1:39 am
In the Mormon faith today there is a Sunni/Shia divide, much like what went on in Islam.
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With Islam, it was a cousin that out performed the destructive/construction process(John Boyd) that led to the disadvantage of the blood relation to Muhammad (bbuoh), and a divide grew.
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With the Mormon faith, the last in the bloodline turned out to be a woman. If I understand correctly this led to a split in the Mormon faith, much like Sunni/Shia divide.
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So far the divide seems to be between Mitt Romney (Shia) to Harry Reid (Sunni), but I just don’t know. Does anyone have any information on this, as to the accuracy of my statement? Maybe I have the divide switched, or maybe Romney and Reid are on the same side of the split.
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I just think it would be interesting to note, if the last of the super-powers were lead by a “Sunni” or “Shia” Mormon, and how this would lead to the End Times, and if.
Charles Cameron:
August 29th, 2012 at 2:10 am
Hi Larry:
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As I commented here a while back:
Part of what fascinates me about network theory is the fact that ideas come embodied in people, yet while you can trace the networks (nodes and edges) of people or of ideas, nobody really knows how to trace both — because they diverge. And the split between genetic tie (family member) and memetic tie (closest disciple) that so often characterizes schisms is a sort of perfect illustration of that…
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Lyphatma:
September 24th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
I fail to see the difference between the family business of the al Sa’ud and the family business of the Hashem clan.
psych files 101:
April 9th, 2013 at 4:56 am
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