LUBP: Saudi Arabia’s Wahabists are tearing down buildings that have links to the Prophet and replacing them with skyscrapers and shopping malls.
Muslims are often criticised for not speaking out more vocally on key issues that affect their community. Barely a week goes by without the media asking why community leaders aren’t more vocal in condemning button topics such as terrorism or violence against women.
It’s a difficult balance and often the criticisms are unfair. One the one hand ordinary Muslims cannot be expected to answer for everything that is done in their name. But at the same time silence and reticence from a majority simply allows the vocal minority to have disproportionate influence on how Islam is both practiced and perceived by the rest of the world.
One area that you might think would see Muslims speaking out with one voice is the wholesale archaeological and historical destruction of Islam’s birthplace. Over the past twenty years, fuelled by their petro-dollars and intolerant Wahabi backers, the Saudi authorities have embarked on cultural vandalism of breath-taking proportions.
Categories: Asia, Saudi Arabia
Muslims should protest, in strongest possible terms, against saudi’s demolition of holy sites. how shameful of them, they they built museum’s to preserve items of their forefathers (ex-kings) and yet they are destroying the the sacred sites linking to our Holy Prophet (PBUH)
I would draw the line on graves of Holy Prophet, Khulafa Rashideen and the Prophet’s immediate family. In my own personal opinion every thing else can be sacrificed for the expansion of the Mosque.
Just my opinion.
I agree, although, had it not been for wahabi teachings guiding and sanctifying this grand expansion plan more could have been done to preserve the historical character which is now a known science with good town planners. This is what worries me about this news item since it seems that even the demolition of the Holy Prophet’s grave has been approved by the Saudi Grant Mufti Fatwa in 2007. With this plan put into motion and with no real opposition from the Muslim world, it is likely that this may happen. I am quite hopeful though that good sense will prevail and they will desist, if not, then no one can save them from Allah’s retribution. In the urdu item news it is just terrible to read all the other historical marks that have already been destroyed.