Mecca
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Mecca is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 20, 2021 and September 13, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Mina, the tent city of Mecca”; “Infidel soldiers staying in the country of Mecca and Medina was considered a huge sacrilege”. It most often appears alongside New York, 1999 apartment bombings, 4chan.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 20, 2021
- Last seen: September 13, 2024
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Related Pages
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- 1999 apartment bombings (1 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- 11 (1 shared issues)
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- A Clockwork Orange (1 shared issues)
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- Abbasid (1 shared issues)
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- Abu Hafs (1 shared issues)
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- Abu Hamza al-Ghamdi (1 shared issues)
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- Abu Khabab (1 shared issues)
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- Abu Qatada (1 shared issues)
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- accelerationists (1 shared issues)
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- Adrenochrome (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
This is a good moment to note that that jihadists in the book are all obsessed with Israel, mostly not because they are angry at the oppression of Palestinians (Muslims are oppressed in many places around the world), but because Jerusalem features in a lot of prophecies, so it’s really important for it to be under Muslim rule. They also passionately hate the USA, partly because of its support of Israel, but maybe even more importantly because the US has stationed troops in Saudi Arabia since the Gulf War. This was a reasonable thing to do against a potential Iraqi invasion that was a very real threat while Saddam was in power. But Infidel soldiers staying in the country of Mecca and Medina was considered a huge sacrilege by the jihadists and made them hate the US a lot.