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Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
FrontPage Magazine ^ | July 10, 2012 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 07/10/2012 4:42:17 AM PDT by SJackson

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Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin

Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On July 10, 2012 @ 12:35 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 20 Comments

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?

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TOPICS: Egypt; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ancientegypt; egypt; giza; godsgravesglyphs; greatpyramid; muslimworld; pyramidiocy; pyramidiots; pyramids; religionofpieces
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To: Amagi
They should sell Emam Burgers at the Pyramids.
21 posted on 07/10/2012 5:10:46 AM PDT by AGreatPer (Any Republican. Just NO Obama.)
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To: SJackson
Can't they just redecorate?


22 posted on 07/10/2012 5:11:28 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: SJackson

Wow, who didn’t see this coming?


23 posted on 07/10/2012 5:12:04 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: originalbuckeye

Goes to show that Islam is from the DEVIL.


24 posted on 07/10/2012 5:12:25 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
I had to do a Wiki search to find the year, but it was the mooslems in the 1300’s that removed the white limestone that coated the pyramids. The stones were used to decorate mosques and even crushed to make roads. So really, this is nothing new at all. If not for Islam we would have pictures of smooth white pyramids and I believe the Sphinx would still have his nose.
25 posted on 07/10/2012 5:13:20 AM PDT by Casie
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To: SJackson

You realize that the Metropolitan Museum of Art built a new wing into Central Park around 1985 to house a ton of artifacts on loan from the Government of Egypt? If they demand them back, and the Museum has no legal reason to refuse, they will be left with an empty wing and the antiquities will ride into oblivion.

The empty wing should be called the “Cenotaph of Egyptian Civilization.”


26 posted on 07/10/2012 5:14:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans!)
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To: Ronin

Allah = THE DEVIL.


27 posted on 07/10/2012 5:14:07 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SJackson

What are you going to do with the huge cone of rocks right next to the foundations of the pyramid you’ve just destroyed? Popcorn...


28 posted on 07/10/2012 5:14:50 AM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: equaviator

Speaking of which... I wonder what sort of monstrosity Obama is going to have for a presidential library. That old trailer park mobile home thing Clinton had hung out over a river is hideous. Maybe we should have a contest to design Obama’s library.


29 posted on 07/10/2012 5:16:59 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Casie

Another Obama victory.


30 posted on 07/10/2012 5:17:13 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: SJackson; mickie
Who wants to go to Egypt for tourism anymore, anyhow...unless you want to view chaos, collapse, crowds of rapers or be kidnapped.

See American first!

(....while you still can, that is.....)

Leni

31 posted on 07/10/2012 5:17:46 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: SJackson

I was waiting for this. Those rag-heads aren’t content unless they are doing something stupid.


32 posted on 07/10/2012 5:19:29 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: SJackson
I hope they get started right away. I want to see Obama’s purple lips tensed as his brain spins into overdrive trying to appear appalled without actually being able to condemn the actions of his owners.
33 posted on 07/10/2012 5:20:23 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: SJackson

They can’t wait to get their hands on Mt. Rushmore.


34 posted on 07/10/2012 5:20:27 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: SJackson

let american lib-holes take care of the pyramids...it’ll look like Detroit in no time at all..


35 posted on 07/10/2012 5:21:04 AM PDT by wny
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To: SJackson
I hope Israel has a nice,fresh,large stockpile on hand because it looks like they're gonna need one on two fronts.
36 posted on 07/10/2012 5:21:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President Of My Lifetime)
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To: SJackson
I predict frogs will fall from the sky if the mooselimbs try this.


37 posted on 07/10/2012 5:21:29 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SJackson

Wonder what Zawi Hawas thinks of all this.


38 posted on 07/10/2012 5:22:43 AM PDT by Straight8
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To: SJackson

If They were smart, they would sell them to Las Vegas. Plenty of room in the Valley of Fire to house them.


39 posted on 07/10/2012 5:24:23 AM PDT by blackpacific
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To: Casie
My feelings exactly! If the west had not found and saved the artifacts from the tombs they would all be gone by now. It is the fact that they have become museum pieces that they have value. I am not in favor of them tearing down the pyramids, I haven't been there yet.
40 posted on 07/10/2012 5:24:47 AM PDT by Ditter
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