Scaled-down hajj pilgrimage to start July 29: Saudi officials

Business is business, whether it is in Vatican or in Mecca it makes no difference to those who make billions from it. In this sense nothing is holy about Mecca, nothing is holy about Vatican, nothing is holy about religions that function as money making factories. I don't know where people get such ideas but certainly declaring an X place as holy (and the rest not so holy) would go against the creator's work.