Kuwaiti preacher calls for destruction of 'pagan' pyramids and Sphinx

Cairo Post ^ | Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | Rany Mostafa

[SunkenCiv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Casing_stones

[BenLurkin]

There is a certain moon god meteorite that needs to be crushed with a wrecking ball.

[ConservativeInPA]

Just to point out a little hypocrisy of Muslims. The al-Ḥajar al-Aswad (Black Space Rock) is the eastern cornerstone of the Ka'aba towards which Muslims pray. The al-Hajar al-Aswad is a meteorite that Muslims believe was placed by Abraham and Ishmael. Prior to invention of Islam, the Ka'aba existed, often at times with multiple idols. There is no biblical evidence that Abraham was ever in the vicinity of Mecca.

[jjotto]

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/06/isis-vows-to-conquer-mecca-and-destroy.html

...ISIS member Abu Turab Al Mugaddasi said that they would destroy the Kaaba in Mecca: “If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the stones, not for Allah.”

[ZULU]

Islamist should shot dead as soon as they announce themselves as such or behave as such.

[Joe Boucher]

Oil and money.
That’s about it.

[SunkenCiv]

Given the concavity in the black stone, it would be more appropriate and satisfying to convert it to a urinal for the White House.

[Little Ray]

Darn good question.
We should have let Iraq have Kuwait and we should have let the Soviets fight on Afghanistan.
But hindsight is always 20/20.

[Fiddlstix]

Just why did we bother saving the Kuwaitis from Saddam?

A product known as oil....
I believe was the main reason...

[Abathar]

The way those are constructed a few tons of HE in the vaults and then charges to seal the shafts before it was detonated might not bring them down, but they will forever be just a pile of rocks.

They and the sphinx are one of the few things really worth fighting for over there imho.

[null and void]

History did not begin on the birth of the pedophile, mass murderer Mohamhead.

If they have their way, no one could ever prove that.

[colorado tanker]

"promoting prostitution and debauchery."

We should drop him into the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and see if his head explodes. Then again, maybe the girls could win him over to debauchery.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Even if you succeeded in winning that imam over to debauchery, it wouldn't help. He'd just realize that he was so defiled that he'd need to become a suicide bomber and (taking a a couple dozen kafirs with him) die "in the way of Allah." All sins removed from soul, Express Lane to Paradise.

I remember that Muhammad Atta of the 9/11 gang spent his days before the attack visiting stripper joints, drinking alcohol, getting lap dances, etc. because he knew it would all be seared from his soul by the upcoming flambeau.

[Ezekiel]

After the Great Pyramid was initially sealed, it's original entrance was hidden and faced with smooth limestone. Because this blended in so well with the surrounding casing, the opening was invisible. Around 820 AD, Abdullah Al Mamun mobilized men to bore a tunnel into the pyramid to search for chambers and treasure. Due to the difficulty of the task of breaking up the hard rock, fires were built to heat the rock and then cold vinegar was poured over the heated rock. Battering rams were used to pound away the weakened rock and clear a tunnel. Eventually, a passageway was found which descended into the lowest chamber of the pyramid. Following this passageway back upward, the original entrance was finally located. In these pictures of the NORTH side you can see the intrusive entrance lower down, and the original entrance higher up flanked by angled stones:

http://guardians.net/egypt/gp1.htm

[SunkenCiv]

If Egypt got The Bomb, and jihadists took over (again), I’ve seen it suggested that they’d nuke the Great Pyramid — however, it is too close to Cairo even for jihadists to pull that kind of stupidity. :’) In the case of the Great Pyramid, there’s a subterranean chamber, with a sloped passage leading to it, that would make a nice place to give this a try. But again, one of the most populous urban centers in the world would have to be evac’d first, with nowhere for the residents to go.

[SunkenCiv]

The Great Pyramid was opened during the Late Kingdom (or perhaps a little before, during the Persian occupation), and like other tombs and such in Egypt, was quite the tourist attraction. Sometime during the century or so preceding the Islamic conquest of Egypt, the local authority (I believe it was the Byzantine Empire) closed the thing back up. During the few centuries it was open, someone managed to cut four characters in an alphabetic script, they can be seen over the entrance, and are in a so-far-unknown language.

As you noted, the muzzie bozos couldn’t find the original entrance that had not been any great challenge to the earlier authorities.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, I was late: Kuwait: Muslim Preacher Echoes Isis Call to Destroy Egypt's Pyramids, Sphinx