Foster and Hadid to redesign Mecca. Did the rest of the Muslim Blogosphere miss this? Come on thabet, sort it out! You are slacking!
Anyway, seems rather interesting choice of designers – though I prefer Foster to Hadid.
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thabet 8:43 pm on December 10, 2008 Permalink |
Yes, I’ve been slacking. Sorry. Too many other things going on.
aziz 9:39 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink |
I imagine that in a couple of decades we will have the Mall of Mecca, with a fully-enclosed central area for Hajj just like Camp Nick at the Mall of America. You can eould even pay to have animatronic robots do the safa-marwa run for you. And tawwaf could be in little electric carts that zip around at a precisely-controlled speed for maximum effeciency.
Or maybe we could have Mecca Mountain, where you have concentric roller coasters around the Kaaba, in the dark with psychedlic neon lighting.
Maybe the Saudis should just declare the Kaaba haram and replace it with the Bean from Chicago’s Millenium Park.
aziz 9:40 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink |
I seem to be in an unusual mood this morning. Maybe it was the physical labor of shoveling my way through the snow, four times in the last 36 hours.
thabet 11:45 am on December 11, 2008 Permalink |
Why not? They’ve destroyed everything else in Makka and Madina.