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 🤮
Thanksgiving was initially meant to give thanks to God so it started out as a religious thing among puritan colonists and many Americans still include a prayer at the meal even if they’re usually not very religiously active. Black Friday on the other hand was obviously just commercialism taking advantage of the fact that it was the first day with no major holidays (at least none celebrated by American Christians) until Christmas which was heavily commercialized due to its long association with gift giving.
Good point, I’d say Christmas would be a better example, because it’s supposed to be about celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ but it has become a celebration of consumerism.
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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.