Remember, non-believers can't get into the city of Mecca at all. This
entire area - including a vast number of hotels and shops - is only for
those performing haj.
deb
On 3/8/07, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:
>
>
> I CAN'T BELIEVE SAUDI ARABIA AUTHORIZED THAT A MALL WITH A VIEW TO
> THE KASBAH BE BUILT! Take a minute to read the english intro. That
> would be like a mall with a view to the Vatican or to the Wall in
> Jerusalem... World is such a strange and kitsch place these days. I
> actually fear that anything postmodern might turn out from this but
> actually a more violent anti-modern answer.
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:16 PM, deborah downing-wilson wrote:
>
> > Utlimately the real enemy of
> > fundamentalisms (political, religious or otherwise) is consumerism.
> >
> > Interesting!
> >
> > The "powers that be" certainly must agree with you - the malls in
> > Saudi
> > Arabia are heavily patrolled by the mutawah and seem far from
> > secular. I
> > have trouble seeing beyond a captive population of wealthy
> > fundamentalist
> > Muslims - where some of their own have brought in a highly selected
> > sampling
> > from the world's market. I had never looked at the consumerism, in
> > itself,
> > as undermining the fundamentalist message, but those products that
> > increase
> > exposure to other worlds must have an impact - the most benign
> > seeming
> > purchases can lead down dangerous paths.
> >
> > Thanks for posting this link.
> >
> > Deb
> >
> >
> > On 3/8/07, JAG <joe.glick@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> For me it is both comic and tragic. Utlimately the real enemy of
> >> fundamentalisms (political, religious or otherwise) is consumerism.
> >> There is no victory anywhere - there is just the possibilty that
> >> things that are now deathly serious become postmodernly curious. .
> >>
> >> On 3/8/07, deborah downing-wilson <ddowningw@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hope for....?
> >> >
> >> > On 3/8/07, JAG <joe.glick@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > http://www.abrajalbait.com/
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