07-04-2006, 06:47 PM
I can well understand the need to stop it becoming a tourist attraction, and isn't what I was intending.
TBH I think it was surprise more than anything. I've been to Lourdes in France and,although I'm not catholic. I was disgusted with the level of commercialisation there. I don't see anything wrong with making money, but I do believe that profiteering out of someones beliefs and religion is wrong.
If you ask me there should be a building code that prohibits buildings exceeding a certain height, within a certain radius of Mecca. Just my two'penneth.