Article from The Guardian

The article I choose take place in the context of Hajj pilgrimage's week that starts yesterday, when more than 2 million Muslims visited the Saudi Arabia's Mina Valley in order to follow the footsteps of the prophet Muhammad. While they were arriving, they realized all the changes on the sacred places of the city that the authorities with foreigner influences have been making, as the director of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation says, the authorities are trying to destroy all the prophet's heritage in the Mecca, Grand Mosque and others important places for the community. In this way, with the influence of the globalization and the purpose of simulate the big occidental cities, the authorities have been destroying the consecrated and historical monument, building in  it's stead luxury hotels, public lavatories, underground car parks and metro lines, they already have bulldozed the Muhammad wife's house, forbidden to pray in his birthplace and demolished a group of 500-year-old columns that used to show Muhammad's poetry and journeys.

It shows one more time the constant struggle of the modernity against the material culture remains and in certain way also against the culture itself, not allowing the people do their religious practices in peace in their sacred places. It is important to remind that this pieces cannot be recover once they (or when we allow these people to) destroy them. 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/14/as-the-hajj-begins-the-destruction-of-meccas-heritage-continues