Jeg havde ikke hørt om det før jeg læste en artikel i Wikipedia i dag. Jeg troede det var løgn: Det Saudi Arabiske styre har siden 1985 jævnet 95% af det historiske Mekka med jorden, herunder adskillige moskéer, gravpladser, gravhøje og historisk islamiske steder. Vi taler om over 1.000 år gamle bygninger.
Hvad der er endnu mere utroligt, er, at verdens muslimer ikke er i oprør over det.
I stedet er der blevet bygget luksushoteller og ejerlejligheder i luksusklassen. Medina har i øvrigt fået samme tur.
Blandt de ting der er blevet ødelagt i Mekka er:
Destroyed sites Mosques
- The mosque at the grave of Sayyid al-Shuhada’ Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib.[6]
- The Mosque of Fatima Zahra.[6]
- The Mosque of al-Manaratain.[6]
- Mosque and tomb of Sayyid Imam al-Uraidhi ibn Ja‘far al-Sadiq, destroyed by dynamite on August 13, 2002.
- Four mosques at the site of the Battle of the Trench in Medina.
- The Mosque of Abu Rasheed.[10]
- Salman al-Farsi Mosque, in Medina.[10]
- Raj'at ash-Shams Mosque, in Medina.[10]
Cemeteries and tombs
- Jannat al-Baqi in Medina, completely leveled.
- Jannat al-Mu'alla, the ancient cemetery at Mecca.[10]
- Grave of Hamida al-Barbariyya, the mother of Imam Musa al-Kazim.
- Grave of Amina bint Wahb, Muhammad’s mother, bulldozed and set alight in 1998.
- Graves of Banu Hashim in Mecca.[10]
- Tombs of Hamza and other martyrs were demolished at Uhud.[10]
- Tomb of Eve in Jeddah,[10] sealed with concrete in 1975.
- Grave of the father of Muhammad, in Medina.[10]
Historical religious sites
- The house of Mawlid where Muhammad is believed to have been born in 570. Originally turned into a cattle market, it now lies under a rundown building which was built 70 years ago as a compromise after Wahhabi clerics called for it to be torn down.[11]
- The house of Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife. Muslims believe he received some of the first revelations there. It was also where his children Umm Kulthum, Ruqayyah, Zainab, Fatimah and Qasim were born. After it was rediscovered during the Haram extensions in 1989, it was covered over and it was made into a library.
- House of Muhammed in Medina, where he lived after the migration from Mecca.[10]
- Dar al Arqam, the first Islamic school where Muhammad taught.[11] It now lies under the extension of the Masjid Al Nabawi of Madinah.
- Qubbat’ al-Thanaya, the burial site of Muhammed's incisor that was broken in the Battle of Uhud.[6]
- Mashrubat Umm Ibrahim, built to mark the location of the house where Muhammad’s son, Ibrahim, was born to Mariah.
- Dome which served as a canopy over the Well of Zamzam.[10]
- Bayt al-Ahzan of Sayyida Fatima, in Medina.[10]
- House of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, in Medina.[10]
- Mahhalla complex of Banu Hashim, in Medina.[10]
- House of Ali where Hasan and Husayn were born.[10
Nu kan vi ikke-muslimer jo i pricippet være ligeglade. Men når Saudi Arabien kan sløjfe gravpladser i Mekka, så kan vi også her i Danmark tillade os at sløjfe den islamiske gravplads i Brøndby.
