Burial Mounds

These are very, very, very, very, very, very, very old burial mounds. They essentially look like piles of rock. This particular area is very large, with thousands of these mounds. I was looking up the history of these (they are the Dilmun Burial Mounds, by the way) and ran across this quote on wikipedia. This country is sometimes very back assward.

"Attempts to protect the burial mounds have run into opposition by religious fundamentalists who consider them unIslamic and have called for them to be concreted over for housing. During a parliamentary debate on 17 July 2005, the leader of the salafist Asalah party, Sheikh Adel Mouwdah, said "Housing for the living is better than the graves for the dead. We must have pride in our Islamic roots and not some ancient civilisation from another place and time, which has only given us a jar here and a bone there."