Calls to Destroy Egypt's Great Pyramids Begin

[talsor]

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids--or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi'i, those "symbols of paganism," which Egypt's Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs" and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, to "destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not."

This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad's companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian tribesmen, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Muslim rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself--deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran--was destroyed under bin al-As's reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar's command.

However, while book-burning was an easy activity in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not--even if Egypt's Medieval Mamluk rulers "de-nosed" the latter during target practice (though popular legend still attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon).

Now, however, as Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sheikhs" observes, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed. The only question left is whether the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt is "pious" enough--if he is willing to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt's first Islamic conqueror.

Nor is such a course of action implausible. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage--starting with Islam's prophet Muhammad himself, who destroyed Arabia's Ka'ba temple, transforming it into a mosque.

Asking "What is it about Islam that so often turns its adherents against their own patrimony?" Daniel Pipes provides several examples, from Medieval Muslims in India destroying their forefathers' temples, to contemporary Muslims destroying their non-Islamic heritage in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, and Tunisia.

Currently, in what the International Criminal Court is describing as a possible "war crime," Islamic fanatics are destroying the ancient heritage of the city of Timbuktu in Mali--all to Islam's triumphant war cry, "Allahu Akbar!"

Much of this hate for their own pre-Islamic heritage is tied to the fact that, traditionally, Muslims do not identify with this or that nation, culture, heritage, or language, but only with the Islamic nation--the Umma.

Accordingly, while many Egyptians--Muslims and non-Muslims alike--see themselves as Egyptians, Islamists have no national identity, identifying only with Islam's "culture," based on the "sunna" of the prophet and Islam's language, Arabic. This sentiment was clearly reflected when the former Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, declared "the hell with Egypt," indicating that the interests of his country are secondary to Islam's.

It is further telling that such calls are being made now--immediately after a Muslim Brotherhood member became Egypt's president. In fact, the same reports discussing the call to demolish the last of the Seven Wonders of the Word, also note that Egyptian Salafis are calling on Morsi to banish all Shias and Baha'is from Egypt.

In other words, Morsi's call to release the Blind Sheikh, a terrorist mastermind, may be the tip of the iceberg in coming audacity. From calls to legalize Islamic sex-slave marriage to calls to institute "morality police" to calls to destroy Egypt's mountain-like monuments, under Muslim Brotherhood tutelage, the bottle has been uncorked, and the genie unleashed in Egypt.

Will all those international institutions, which make it a point to look the other way whenever human rights abuses are committed by Muslims, lest they appear "Islamophobic," at least take note now that the Great Pyramids appear to be next on Islam's hit list, or will the fact that Muslims are involved silence them once again--even as those most ancient symbols of human civilization are pummeled to the ground?

By Raymond Ibrahim
Frontpage Magazine

[jjmuneer]

When they stop hypocrites, having 70 wives, drinking alochol and gambling, then they can talk about "removing pagan symbols". What exactly is the problem with the pyramids being up? It actually is very economically benefical. Lol but the fact this sheikh is talknig about its "pagan meaning", is just promoting it, idiots.

[brendar]

When they stop hypocrites, having 70 wives, drinking alochol and gambling, then they can talk about "removing pagan symbols". What exactly is the problem with the pyramids being up? It actually is very economically benefical. Lol but the fact this sheikh is talknig about its "pagan meaning", is just promoting it, idiots.

Well said
Also, marrying little girls because its shariaa law lolll. In paris and new york at weekends Then, they come and discuss new laws in parliament.

The is the first session of the Egyptian parliament after sweep by deputies and Islamists drown in sleep.

[talsor]

I really do not know what good could come from these guys . Frankly I would not trust them taking care of chickens .The revolution was done by the youth and now those fanatics are in power . what a lose .

[Anthea]

I really do not know what good could come from these guys . Frankly I would not trust them taking care of chickens .The revolution was done by the youth and now those fanatics are in power . what a lose .

I just found your post and cannot believe that any government would ever consider destroying such fantastic structures as the pyramids

Do you have any more recent information

When they stop hypocrites, having 70 wives, drinking alochol and gambling, then they can talk about "removing pagan symbols". What exactly is the problem with the pyramids being up? It actually is very economically benefical. Lol but the fact this sheikh is talknig about its "pagan meaning", is just promoting it, idiots.

I have been thinking I need 5 husbands. One to massage me One to cook and clean for me Three to work and pay for all my comforts Do you think that I should start a new religion, because I know most women would join me

[crazyhorse]

I really do not know what good could come from these guys . Frankly I would not trust them taking care of chickens .The revolution was done by the youth and now those fanatics are in power . what a lose .

I just found your post and cannot believe that any government would ever consider destroying such fantastic structures as the pyramids

Do you have any more recent information

When they stop hypocrites, having 70 wives, drinking alochol and gambling, then they can talk about "removing pagan symbols". What exactly is the problem with the pyramids being up? It actually is very economically benefical. Lol but the fact this sheikh is talknig about its "pagan meaning", is just promoting it, idiots.

I have been thinking I need 5 husbands. One to massage me One to cook and clean for me Three to work and pay for all my comforts Do you think that I should start a new religion, because I know most women would join me

Lets do that
We just copy & past the bible/quran/etc. and replace 'men/man' with 'women/woman' and 'women/woman' with 'men/man'.

xd

[Anthea]

Lets do that
We just copy & past the bible/quran/etc. and replace 'men/man' with 'women/woman' and 'women/woman' with 'men/man'.

xd

If women ruled the world there would be no more fighting or wars, the men would be fare too busy to fight with all the washing, cooking and cleaning they had to do

I always say that God created the heaven and the earth, then God created the land and the sea, then God created all the birds, fish and animals, then God created Adam, lastly God created Eve in her own image, God knew that she had finally created perfection and did not bother to create anything else

[Kuwaiti]

Breaking News:

The ruling Islamist party of Egypt revealed earlier today that it had drawn plans to turn the pyramids upside down.

Experts in the field of turning things upside down were called from their homes in Turkey to undergo the procedure.

[Anthea]

Breaking News:

The ruling Islamist party of Egypt revealed earlier today that it had drawn plans to turn the pyramids upside down.

Experts in the field of turning things upside down were called from their homes in Turkey to undergo the procedure.

[unitedkurdistan]

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