. . . Except That One City

Captain Ed over at Captain's Quarters offers his thoughts on an article in the British newspaper, the Independent. The article discusses the impending demise of Mecca and Medina (Tom Tancredo notwithstanding) at the hands of radical Islam. The good Captain observes:

The voracious iconoclasm of Wahhabism and radical Islamists will do what Muslims feared the West wanted in the first place -- the destruction of the Prophet's cities. It won't take long before the Ka'aba stone itself will disappear as well. Once that happens, the Islamists will find themselves surrounded by a whole new class of enemies, enemies from the ranks of moderate Islam whose religion insists that Muslims must make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca in their lifetime.

Perhaps. Or maybe they will turn to Islam's third most holy city instead.