writes this op-ed for the Mideast Times about the destruction of Mecca at the helms of Saudi control. "Flush with Petro-dollars for the last few decades, the Saudis have embarked on building modern cities, which is not only their right, but a duty to help their citizens toward progress, but it does not have to be achieved by destruction of an invaluable past." Sami Angawi, an expert on the region's Islamic architecture adds: "1,400-year-old buildings from the early Islamic period risk being demolished to make way for high rise towers for Muslims flocking to perform the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city."
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