wasn't Paris Hilton in Makkah Mukarramah recently to launch her new store?
she wasn't. her store was.
with the wahabis on the one hand and the likes of the supposed 'Sunnis' pictured above on the other hand, sincere Sunni Muslims really are stuck between a rock and a hard place;
“You will certainly follow the ways of those who came before you hand span by hand span, cubit by cubit, to the extent that if they enter the hole of a lizard, you will enter it too.’ We said, ‘O Messenger of Allaah, (do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?’ He said: ‘Who else?’” [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim] (copied from
here)
one sect knowingly or unknowingly follows them in their tajsim and/or tashbeeh and/or decadent over commercialized lifestyle, the other loves to call their christian priests as their holy fathers and brothers!
notwithstanding the atrocities of the shias.
anyway, as the article says, i don't see what the fuss is all about. it's not something new. those malls are owned by filthy rich princes and their businessmen friends who are enemies of let alone Islam, even basic human decency, and they already present other brands like versace (named after its proud gay owner), christian dior and so many more.
their and their puppets' daleels are -
'the Prophet, sal Allahu 3alaihi wa sallam, conducted business transactions even with the jews of Madinah who were a routine nuisance for both his blessed self and the Muslims of Madinah, we're only bringing in merchandise and trading fairly, it's not like we're asking western supermodels to walk up the ramp in the holy cities'
maybe a fair point when seen from a certain perspective, but then considering many other factors like world politics and promotion of Muslim businesses and helping the average Muslim shop owner etc., it may be another issue.
as for the destruction of the holy sites,
their daleel (which needs archaeological and historical verification by those who know better) is something like -
'they're only being swallowed by the holy mosque precincts themselves, and being made into overall larger mosques for the benefit of the pilgrims. in any case, the sites as people knew them before we (i.e., they) started our expansion are themselves restored from the Ottoman era and not exactly in THE original shape they were in the Prophet's own times.'
