[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 7/10/2012, thanks again Dallas59.

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.

Someone screwed up -- the Obamanation DNC media boilerplate required the reference to be "Egypt's first democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi".

[zeugma]

The only thing islamics can do is destroy. they build nothing.

[madison10]

Muslims=scourge of the planet

[gleeaikin]

This story was posted in 2012, and 11 years later the pyramids are still there. I think tourist dollars won the election.