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‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
Al Arabiya ^ | 11/12/2012 | By AL ARABIYA

Posted on 11/12/2012 7:52:09 AM PST by Nachum

An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.

Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”

“All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” he said on Saturday during a television interview on an Egyptian private channel, widely watched by Egyptian and Arab audiences.

“God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” he added. “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”

His comments came a day after thousands of ultraconservative Islamists gathered in Tahrir Square to call for the strict application of Sharia law in the new constitution.

But in retaliation to Gohary’s remarks, the vice president of Tunisia’s Ennahda party, Sheikh Abdel Fattah Moro, called the live program and told Gohary that famous historic military commander Amr ibn al-Aas did not destroy statues when he conquered Egypt.

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TOPICS: Egypt; News/Current Events
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To: agere_contra

Nuke the Aswan High Dam!

And “drone” any wrecking crews sent to destroy the Pyramids!

To h*** with Islam! To h*** with its demon moon god & all his followers!


21 posted on 11/12/2012 8:10:29 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: all the best

** but the pyramids might present a bit of a challenge.***

This was tried a couple of hundred years ago. After a few dozen stones were removed they gave up.


22 posted on 11/12/2012 8:11:32 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Nachum

There’s a big rock in Mecca we should be happy to bunker-bust.
Oh, I forgot—our president is not, I repeat, not a moo-slime.


23 posted on 11/12/2012 8:12:24 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Nachum

They could use those EZ movers they have on TV.

Come to think of it, that’s probably how they built them in the first place.


24 posted on 11/12/2012 8:16:38 AM PST by moonhawk (Free Republic: Show prep for Rush Limbaugh.)
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To: Nachum
Well, THAT was unexpected...
25 posted on 11/12/2012 8:16:45 AM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: tumblindice

“...president is not, I repeat, not a moo-slime.”

But moo-slime lives with him in the White Hut...


26 posted on 11/12/2012 8:18:47 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Without its antiquities, few tourists would want to visit Egypt. It would just be an oversized sandbox, like Libya. I guess they don’t want our Yankee dollars after all.


27 posted on 11/12/2012 8:19:30 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: PeachyKeen

The last time they took charge Alexandria had a Great Library, the Sphinx had a nose and the Pyramids had smooth sides.

Just sayin’...

posted on Fri Nov 2 19:54:05 2012 by null and void


28 posted on 11/12/2012 8:20:54 AM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: Nachum

I just want to see the explosion!


29 posted on 11/12/2012 8:24:09 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: paglia444

When it comes to power in Britain, Islam will destroy those too.


30 posted on 11/12/2012 8:34:58 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Nachum

America is being destroyed, why not Egypt? WTF. The whold world is next with no America and it’s allies to prevent it. Maybe Russia or China may step in and save Earth. What a joke.


31 posted on 11/12/2012 8:36:09 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Nachum

I read a fictional novel back in the 90’s that I can’t even remember the name of, but the storyline was remarkably similar to how things are unfolding now. Egypt is taken over by hardline islamists, who then go about destroying the great pyramids, while the US government is completely infiltrated by islamists. The similarities are just too weird. It was just a pot-boiler novel I read out of boredom, but the name escapes me. The storyline involved an archeologist and his love interest, whose father was a bigwig in the egyptian antiquities business in Cairo. Perhaps someone else remembers it.


32 posted on 11/12/2012 8:37:00 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: all the best
"The names on the petitions will be forwarded to the IRS for audits and the TSA for the no-fly list."

Not with the Islamic bomb of peace. sarc/ Or they may just use the Coptic Christians as slaves to deconstruct history.

33 posted on 11/12/2012 8:41:28 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Not the Colosseum. So many Christians were martyred there that it is surely a festival site in Islam. It will be restored and put back into service.


34 posted on 11/12/2012 8:50:34 AM PST by sphinx
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To: griswold3

But didn’t he burn down the library at Alexandrea?


35 posted on 11/12/2012 9:04:31 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

These moozlums have such a wonderful, tolerant, embracing culture. NOT! Boom, slash, smash! They want to kill you and your family...especially if your head is shaped like a pyramid.


36 posted on 11/12/2012 9:12:49 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: US_MilitaryRules
‘These people are as stupid as democrats’

Wow, that was a real slam on the Muzzies.

The policy of destruction of idols is traditional, Quran based, obedience to Allah. A faithful, practicing Muslim should support, aid and abet the demolition of the Pyramids.
Mr. Rushmore comes a little later, though I think the Statue of Liberty(they see it as ‘License’) and the Lincoln Memorial would come first.
TWB

37 posted on 11/12/2012 9:14:54 AM PST by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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To: PGR88

Yup, let ‘em go for it. Then there will be absolutely no reason for anyone to visit Egypt...ever.


38 posted on 11/12/2012 9:20:23 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Nachum
Destroy the SOLE example of them mastering mathematics!
Bwwwa-ha-hah-ha-ha-ha!

Is it not NASA’s mission to stop them?
Remove all business and defense from the middle east. Cordon them off by air, by sea, by land. Sit back and watch them annihilate one another. Pass the popcorn until they are finished, then go in and pump them dry.

39 posted on 11/12/2012 9:24:44 AM PST by RavenLooneyToon (Tail gunner Joe was right.)
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To: Nachum

Obama continues to destroy the planet while his Democratic drones cheer! How is that recovery in New York going Obama drones ?


40 posted on 11/12/2012 9:25:17 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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