"At <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKCNUqbpH0&amp;t=1m29s"">1:29</a> he says Mecca was the place Abraham and Ishmael built to give Muslims a unified direction of prayer. But I had read that before Islam it was filled with pagans praying there and idols", sooooo is he just bsing?,(reply>), The offspring of Ishmael eventually turned to paganism over many generations and associated other deities with God, that's why Islam came to purify the message again.