QuoteSo..We have The stone Kaaba in the courtyard ofAl-Kabir Mosque vs Mecca`s shrine?
I'm telling you the Yemenis know something that we don't. Besides the fact that their traditional folk tales and ballads (called "mazameer" - Psalms), which they have been singing for thousands of years, mention prophets Hud, Saleh, Shuaib, Abraham, and Ismael, David and Solomon, and the fact that their ancient poets - up until the Abbasid Era - continuously boasted that the Israelites where among their ancestors , and mentioned place names like "Zion" and "UrSalem" (I will post samples of this poetry soon), the old Yemeni Jewish elders didn't even recognice Palestine as the land of their ancestors. The entire Levant region meant nothing to them. :-)
Also, the tradition of "crying at the ruins" is as Yemeni as the term "Yankee" is to an American. (think of the "Wailing Wall", and contemplate where this came from).
Now if you ask any Yemeni what is that cube doing there in the Sana'a mosque, he will most probably stare at you, wide-eyed, with a big ball of chewed "qat" bulging his mouth, and instruct you to piss off and not ask such questions. That there are "things we don't speak of"....
