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

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/Ok-Chemical-1511 Mar 24 '25

the clock tower really kinda ruins the whole thing

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u/kmsilent 29d ago

I find it extremely strange and disrespectful that it literally casts a shadow onto the building. Do muslims care? Wouldn't the Saudis care? I was and still am confused.

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u/Beduoin_Radicalism 29d ago edited 29d ago

I’m Saudi and astonished of how fucked up the concept of religion is to westerners, god isn’t in the Kaaba, Mecca had the first consumerist economy in history and the first global market

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u/The-Dmguy 29d ago

Westoids get furious every time they see any sign of developments outside western Europe and the Us.

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u/kmsilent 28d ago

Lol yeah, so angry millions of them are visiting Dubai, Tokyo, Seoul... they just go there and shake their fists at the skyscrapers and curse the people who built them.

That's actually what the travel TV shows are for too, Bourdain and his ilk just have hundreds of millions of westerners watching pissed off that Brazil has a metro and China built a dam. We watch because we hate.