From The Independent, with thanks to RB. Historic Mecca, the cradle of Islam, is being buried in an unprecedented onslaught by religious zealots. Almost all of the rich and multi-layered history of the holy city is gone. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past … Continue reading The destruction of Mecca: Saudi hardliners are wiping out their own heritage