ex cathedra: Rare perspective on Islam

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Rare perspective on Islam

It's an enormous new 5-star hotel that dominates the skyline and dwarfs the mosque that contains the Kaaba. Pics of it evoke Big Ben-Bellagio-Stalinism.

One culturally insensitive lout suggested Sauron's Tower in Mordor, from Lord of the Rings.

Truly bizarre.

What a similar arrangement might look like in Rome, with the Westin Times Square Hotel looming over St Peter's tomb...

3 comments:

Abdul exCathedra said...: This mega-hotel is still very much in the planning stages, and may ultimately be like Frank Lloyd Wright's "mile-high" building. I understand, that if everything goes right, California's high speed rail line will have a station at the hotel.

I hope to see Mr. exCathedra in the bar car.; 8:05 PM, July 22, 2012
Unknown said...: I know I'm going to out myself as a geek, but that's Saruman's tower, not Sauron's.; 7:58 AM, October 02, 2014
OreamnosAmericanus said...: Geeks are always welcome at Ex Cathedra, who has himself been occasionally accused of being a pointy-headed intellectual.; 1:04 PM, October 03, 2014

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