The Peculiar Anti-Reform Mosquitoes of Mecca…………..

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“And tragically, today the streets and residential quarters of Mecca have become filled with sewage. This is not only a moral and social catastrophe for the Meccans and for all Muslims who treasure the city, but also stands as a symbol of the corruption the house of Saud has imposed on its subjects. Mecca lacks the necessary infrastructure, including sufficient vehicles for sewage disposal, to clean its streets. As if Mecca had never benefited from civic improvements, which were extensive under the Ottoman predecessors of the Wahhabi-Saudi misrulers, its inhabitants must dispose of sewage on their own, around their homes. Meccans are alarmed at the spread of stagnant water as an environment for disease-carrying mosquitoes. How is this possible in a country that is so rich from oil wealth it cannot qualify for western economic aid, as other Muslim and formerly-colonised countries do? One element of an accurate explanation comes from the mouth of Mecca's deputy mayor for services, Abdul Salam Mashshat, who as cited in the daily Arab News, simply denied that mosquitoes in sewer water would carry fatal infections. According to this specimen of Saudi urban planning, mosquitoes prefer to multiply in clean water……… Saudi King Abdullah wishes to introduce social and political reforms that would make his country, which many people consider the leader of the Muslim world, more normal. King Abdullah is obstructed on his reforming course by the denial exercised over him by Wahhabis in his family no less than by the hardline faction of Wahhabi clerics……….” The Guardian (UK)

Interesting: even the mosquitoes seem to adhere to the Salafi fundamentalist ideology.
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Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/7/2010 11:18 AM
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