If a Christian or other non-Islamic power captured Mecca and the Kaaba with it, is it conceivable that they could have held it (and the contents thereof) as hostage, its safety dependent on a cash ransom or other concessions, or would any Muslim potentates approached with such an offer shrug it off? Could the invaders potentially extort the Islamic world as a whole, or just the one ruler who the Kaaba was taken from? Would any Muslim be willing to pay to receive it from them?
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