From today’s Google Alerts: What a stupid article—someone actually spent time writing 800+ words about this. Let’s see how long it takes to become a creeping sharia/impending global caliphate thing. Added emphasis mine.

Mosque-Building Bin Ladens Buy Marble Once Used for Churches

A €45 million euro ($60 million) deal signed on July 30 in Tuscany, Italy, gives the construction group controlled by Osama’s Saudi Arabian family the largest single stake in an Italian firm that quarries Michelangelo’s favorite white Carrara marble—the very stone he used to create the iconic sculptures of the nude David, sling in hand; of Mary mourning the crucified Jesus in The Piet; and of Moses glowering from the tomb of Pope Julius II.

These defining works of Christian art show off the creamy white sheen of the prized Tuscan marble, which has long caught the eye of the Bin Laden family firm, a construction giant where Osama’s half-brother Bakr is chairman, because the marble’s rich luster works so well in the mosques and mansions of the Muslim world. […]

“They are one of the biggest construction groups in the world and can give Marmi Carrara the push it needs,” Luigi Piacentini, the head of the group that sold its 50 percent stake in Marmi Carrara, told The Daily Beast. “Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.

It was Piacentini who revealed that Marmi Carrara had supplied marble for interiors at the Freedom Tower in Manhattan, meaning the Bin Laden family is now the largest single shareholder in a firm that helped complete the skyscraper erected at Ground Zero. […]

But Piacentini, for his part, said he had no qualms about a Muslim firm taking a slice of the Italian quarries which have provided the building blocks for so much Christian history and culture. […]

thedailybeast.com

I’m guessing the marble itself didn’t express any religious preferences. //