Look how Mecca is destroying the holy city of Muslims (Photo)

The largest Middle East construction project has wiped out 1400 years of Islamic history. Destruction had actually begun much earlier. «We have transformed our past from Ibrahim's time with oil pumps», stresses a meccasion, writes the Economist».

As governor of Mecca, Prince Khalid bin Faisal Al Saudi has managed to compensate for earlier failures. He took office in 2007 when he came from the province of Assyria, where his plans to build blocks of towers in the city of Abha had not been fulfilled under vows. It successfully destroyed the old city of Abhas with traditional homes that replaced them with one - story homes. There was no rocking.

Now, over what was known as flat balconys and arches called rivets of the old city of Mecca, the prince is overseeing the largest construction project in the Middle East. The coals have sided with the most holy Islamic site, looking down at the granite House from above. The mounds that were once marked with small houses of women and companions of the prophet and of the first calliaf are being levelled. New roads are being seen from the skyscrapers. Local magnets are working equally with the government on the major construction project. «Jabal Omar Development», the consortium of old families from Mecca, is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in construction of fifty-story towers in the area of the third potassium house. So intense is the speed of development that for a time the bodozer was the logo of the holy city.

Destruction, officials say, is the inevitable price of enlargement. In 1950, before the start of everything, 50 thousand pilgrimagers circled the House, the heart of the pilgrimage ritual. Last year they brought 7.5 million sosh. Within three years, authorities hope to double the number. «We have no other solution», notes Anas Seraf, architect and board member of «Jabal Omar Development». «Qysh can we accept millions of hypniques differently?» There are also victims of the construction project. In September 2015, the world's largest mobile crane fell on the Great Mosque, leaving 107 zenilers dead. But two weeks later, more than two thousand pilgrimagers died in the town, stressing once again the risks of space shortages.

As the Guardian of Mecca, King Salman bin Avdel Aziz sees prestige and profit at the same time. According to the government's transformation plan, revenues from pilgrims will increase so much that they will compete with oil. Billions are being invested in railways, parking lots for eighteen thousand buses to transport the pilgrimagers, and hotels for their accommodation, with gold lamps. «gold gold framer McDonald's» lit outside the gates of the Great Mosque.

So pronounced is the cancellation of history that many doubt that the Saudi royal family is determined to end an assignment started in the eighteenth century when from Arabia's unanticipated heart, Al Saudi and the Bedouin Allied tribes were brought against the Ottomans. Proclaiming jihad, they turned to their Puritan way of Islam, known for the euphemism of Wahhabiism, first opposing the multireligious rule of the empire, and after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, against other Islamic rites on the peninsula. As part of the campaign for territorial and spiritual unification, known as Tauhed, occupied Mecca in 1924.

Critics call this Islamic maoism. And the heterogenes of the maelchi rites were gone, and did swallow and Zaid; and the Wahhabi homogenization came. Along with black and white clothing, they forced women and men, respectively, to change the urban environment by getting rid of the past. They replaced four schools near the Temple, one for each of the Sunni's schools of Islam by one, exclusively placing Islamic preachers.

They restated the obedience of the holy faith by destroying shrines that were venerated by similar traditional Shiite and Sunni. From many holy sites in the city, only the House has survived.

Now most of what's been blown up, they're starting to guess the Macas. «We have transformed our past from the time of Ibrahim with oil pump«, a meccasy points out. Seraph, representative of the construction company, is designing a virtual heritage migration. Maps travel the streets of the non - existent city, making great emphasis on the homes of the first calliphiles. His brother has received the benefits of opening near the best art gallery of Jedda.

Will the government under the crown deputy, Muhammad bin Salman, support an element of restoration? The transformation plan that has launched the year highlights the Kingdom's tourism potential, and it promises billions for heritage projects. His minister of information, Adel Al Toraifi, has sharply criticised «radicals and terrorists» for cultural destruction. «People and beautiful regions filled with culture, music, dancing and tradition have all been destroyed by political Islam», he has declared. The restoration of four Temple schools can be a good start.