What Is It With These Guys?

Via On The Third Hand

So two raving geniuses have gone and blown themselves up in Mecca after the Saudi authorities tried to arrest them for having ties to al-Qaida.

So, do these guys just walk around town with "emergency" bombs in case the cops try to arrest them? Are all their clothes made of Semtex? If this were in Gaza or Nablus, I could understand running into a guy carrying a bomb (it still wouldn't be right, but it's semi-expected in the Territories), but this is Mecca, one of the two home cities of the Religion of Peace. Muslims are supposed to be there to worship and pray, not to take part in bomb making seminars. Have they no respect for the sanctity of their own holidays? Don't the rules for Ramadan include such restrictions as no eating, having sex, or self-detonating during daylight hours?

The legitimacy of Saudi rulers rests partly on their custodianship of Mecca, which is off-limits to non-Muslims. A strike on Mecca could be seen as a strike on the regime

So we're going to blow up religious shrines to get back at a government we don't like? Doesn't seem like it would be too effective. For some reason I don't think that for an American to blow up the National Cathedral would really have much effect on the governance of the nation. Wouldn't have an effect on the legitimacy of the government either. Would get someone's butt thrown in jail for long time, though.

Even a religiously based government like Iran's wouldn't lose any perceived legitimacy because the biggest mosque in Iran blew up. The moron that did it would lose his head, but the government wouldn't fall.

Which makes me question what these guys were thinking if they thought that blowing up Mohammad's childhood home would bring down the modern Saudi government. But then again, they blew themselves up, which indicates to me that they weren't thinking too much.

Oh, well. Two less people in the gene pool.