After much debate the council concluded that, if the Muslim community at large approved, Husain bin Ali should be ousted from Makkah. An enquiry was sent to Muslim leaders, signed by Ibn Saud's son, Prince Faisal, proposing that Husain bin Ali, Shareef of Makkah, King of the Hijaz, Caliph of all Muslims, should be deposed. The Indian Khalifate Committee, influential in that it represented 70 million Muslims, came out in favor of the move.
The conquest of the Holy Places was a different enterprise in kind from the acquisition of other territory in the Arabian Peninsula. First, it meant assuming a responsibility for the safety and security of the holiest Muslim sites on earth, and for the millions of pilgrims that perform the annual Hajj. Secondly, and consequently, it would bring the isolated desert domain of the Nejd into contact with the cosmopolitan world of the Hijaz.