To get back to the point of the topic: What is the point of threatening to blow up the Qaaba?
Deterrence or revenge?
There are strong anti-idolatory feelings in Islam and the Wahhabist groups that provided much of the ideology for the Bin Laden wave of terrorism are not just iconoclastic regarding other faith's sacred objects. There are influential forces in Saudi Arabia that also want to destroy the Qa'aba and the Grand Mosque on the grounds that these mere objects have become an idolatrous focus of worship among the Muslim masses, distracting from the entirely sublime nature of God.
Don't assume that they are obsessed by the sanctity of material objects.
A deterrence has to threaten to hurt what the other side holds valuable, otherwise it is no deterrence. As for revenge, well...big deal. Whatever would make you feel better...
Think again, chaps. Perhaps you'd be better off suggesting you'll bring the whole thing to Disneyworld instead.
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