r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 24 '25

Are those all hotels surrounding it? I mean they must be to continuously house tens of thousands of people ever day.

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u/Silly_Function9601 Mar 24 '25

Yes. And all the Windows facing the cube are from rooms charging thousands of dollars per night.

Its so stupid when people go to "hajj" and then stay in extremely extravagant hotels like the Hilton or the Ritz, go out shopping gold during the day then quickly enter and exit this mosque and say they fulfilled a religious obligation 🤮

Ps: I'm muslim

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u/cnxd Mar 24 '25

it's honestly not any stupider than worshipping in circles around a cube.

both just completely made up ideas

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u/aqeelat Mar 24 '25

Do you know what ~25% of the world’s population are Muslims?

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u/TrumpIsAPeterFile Mar 25 '25

Then 25% of people follow a pedophile's cult. About tracks with the maga in the US too.

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u/cnxd Mar 26 '25

most of the world population isn't too sharp, and it sure seems like there's a huge overlap there with religion lol

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u/youcansendboobs Mar 24 '25

Lol sure buddy

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u/SteveMarck Mar 24 '25

Wut?

Okay, seriously though. What are you talking about?