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Subject: what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked
rwporter    8/20/2004 5:40:54 PM
if israel or the united states decided to retaliate against muslims by nuking islams two holiest cities(mecca and medina)what would happen to the war on terrorism....would radical muslims retaliate or would the war on terrorism be over since the center of islam is mecca and medina??
 
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4kerry04    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   8/21/2004 2:03:47 PM
Wake up call to the blind. Muslims - whether the murdering martyr types seeking virgins in paradise or your friendly Pakistani convenience store clerk down the street - all have one common thread of absolute belief. That Mecca is the center of the universe and the stone in the Kaaba was placed there by Allah. No non-believer can get within 50K of either Mecca of Medina. One of the main motivating factors for Al Queda is that the corrupt House of Saud controls these two holiest of sites of Islam - the full official title of the King of Saudi Arabia is "The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques". I believe that certain aspects of the Cold War strategy of mutual assured destruction be applied to our war on terror - and make no mistake this war, it isn't against rampaging Hindus or Budhists. If we could hold tens of millions of Russian residents of Moskow, Kiev, Stalingrad, or Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) hostage by the treat of nuclear weapons - why not Mecca and Medina? Just the threat might have the effect of marginalizing the radicals within the larger Muslim population. If not, and these crazies ever set off a WMD anywhere in the world, then put a 10MT thermonuclear device on top of the Kaaba in Mecca and Mohhammeds tomb in Medina. If Armageddon is the result, oh well - on one side we still have thousands of nuclear weapons with pin-point accuracy. I would then only have to worry about the Pakistani convenience store clerk down the street - but then again maybe not. I just wonder how many blind and brainwashed Muslims will "see the light" after the Kaaba is gone and Mecca and Medina are craters? And on the otherhand.... if the Kaaba still stands and those Mosques are left unscathed by a nuclear blast..... I'm gonna get a prayer rug and a prayer schedule with bearings facing Mecca from my location real fast. Hey, and if the idea of 4 wives don't go over with my current wife - well saying "I divorce you" three times is a whole lot simpler than lawyers, courts, alimony and custody settlements. Oh, and let's not forget those "perpetual" virgins in heaven. While martyrs get seventy, I'm sure there is a couple handed out for just saying Allah is great and Mohamamed was his messenger, praying five times a day, fasting for one month a year, giving alms, and doing a pilgrimage to Mecca-Medina. Yep, dust off those Minute Men missile silos - new mission in ths war on terror.
 
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Desertmole    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   9/19/2004 2:08:01 AM
This would be a very bad thing. If you wanted to unite all of Islam against the US, you would succeed beyond your wildest dreams, and give legitimacy to bin Laden's cause.
 
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Savant    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/5/2004 6:54:51 PM
Mecca and Medina have no strategic or much military value therefore I seriously doubt any country would ever waste a perfectly good nuke on them.
 
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Kadyet    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/5/2004 8:14:26 PM
>>Mecca and Medina have no strategic or much military value therefore I seriously doubt any country would ever waste a perfectly good nuke on them.<< They have quite a good deal of military value in the role of psychological operations. I'm quite certain that the Israelis have a couple of missiles pointed towards them should the Samson approach become necessary..
 
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Savant    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/5/2004 9:07:39 PM
well, trying to keep this in context.... like another poster said that would probably just enrage every muslim from here to Lahore, so explain to me the psychological value of that? Now I do know there are some bases in the Medina/Mecca area but if they are in the deplorable state of the other Saudi bases I have been to, they wouldnt pose any military threat whatsoever.
 
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PlatypusMaximus    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/5/2004 9:30:01 PM
That, sir, depends on the definition of happen. Can justice happen? Heavens to Betsy, we don't want a bunch of enraged muslims crawling over half the planet. We want them happy and festive, passing candies out to children in the streets.
 
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Savant    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/6/2004 12:23:05 PM
"Heavens to Betsy, we don't want a bunch of enraged muslims crawling over half the planet. We want them happy and festive, passing candies out to children in the streets". - funny.... the question I was trying to get across is...would there be any physcological/psywar advantage to nukeing either or both cities? Would there be an advantage to enraging them, because taking thier oilfeilds would piss them off enough, but nuking the two holy cities would put them over the edge? Maybe there is, I dont know, I dont claim to be a Psywar ops guru.
 
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rwporter    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/24/2004 12:59:54 PM
the point im trying to get through is islam is the greatest threat to the world. mecca and medina are the capital of this threat. they hate the western world and everthing it stands for. history has shown us that any country that has a majority population regresses insteads of progressing. if mecca and medina were destroyed i believe the islamic threat would gradually decrease, since they would have no direction to pray too.
 
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rwporter    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/24/2004 1:04:59 PM
arabs and moslems think the western world owes them something. they are incapable of governing themselves in a modern democracy. history has shown that there are no arab or islamic democracies.
 
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rwporter    RE:what would happen if mecca or medina in saudi arabia was nuked   12/24/2004 1:08:38 PM
arabs and islam are perfect for each other; they are both barberic. they live on hate. the religion preaches killing and hate. westerners and civilized people beware, moslems hate us and want to enslave us.
 
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