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in response to reader comment: Devasahayam, about the Ka'aba

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), May 20, 2008 at 15:56

You wrote: "The Ka'aba existed prior to Muhammad"

From my earlier post: "Kaba is the base of an earlier idol which had demanded Mohammed's father Abdullah as sacrifice from his grandpa, agreed to a 12-camel ransom and then killed Abdullah anyway"--implying exactly the same.

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