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Since Muhammad is the final prophet Islam hates all that came before Muhammad. Egypt has no oil so it had better protect its antiquities and tourism business. But remember when 60 European tourists were gunned down by the pyramids?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre

Bombs threaten Egypt tourism industry anew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuYVn80_2s

By Maria Sheahan,

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European tour operators and airlines cancelled trips to Cairo as angry protesters took to the streets, dealing a blow to a tourism industry that provides about one in eight jobs in the country.

INDEPTH: EGYPTIAN ATTACKS
Targeting civilians
CBC News Online | July 25, 2005

Since the early 1990s, there has been a string of attacks on civilians by suspected Islamic militants in Egypt. The country’s authorities have accused several groups of trying to destabilize the tourist industry, which is worth about $6 billion US a year to Egypt’s economy.

Authorities have also said most of the attacks are likely the work of people who want to overthrow the country’s secular government and replace it with an Islamic fundamentalist regime.

Foreign tourists among 15 abducted in Egypt

Kidnappers took group, including five Italians, five Germans and one Romanian, across border to Sudan, officials believe

* Audrey Gillan
* guardian.co.uk, Monday 22 September 2008 16.17 BST
* Article history

Kidnappers have taken 15 people in Egypt, including five Italian tourists, five Germans, one Romanian and their four Egyptian guides.

The group is thought to have been captured at a remote location near the Sudanese-Egyptian border south of Aswan while on a desert adventure last Friday in four jeeps across an area of the western desert famed for its prehistoric cave paintings.

The four Egyptians were identified as two safari company employees, the owner of the company and a security officer looking after group.

The Egyptian tourism minister, Zoheir Garana, said his department was negotiating with the kidnappers, who are thought to be desert tribesman demanding up to $6m (£3.25m) in ransom.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/22/egypt.sudan

But remember when 60 European tourists were gunned down by the pyramids?

Damn those pyramids! They should be arrested and thrown into a cell with a Sphinx named Bubba.