Here's a more recent pic, she's aged very nicely.
Posted on 07/10/2012 9:22:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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?
While I agree with you, it’s their country. Let them destroy them. As someone else pointed out in this thread, then NO ONE will visit their crap hole. (And just another reason we should end ALL aid to these cretins).
Thank you.
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You’re welcome. I aim to please.
What Goes Up - Alan Parsons Project
What goes up, must come down
What must rise, must fall
And what goes on in your life
Is writing on the wall
If all things must fall
Why build a miracle at all
If all things must pass
Even a miracle won’t last
What goes up, must come down
What must stand alone?
And what goes on, in your mind
Is turning into stone
If all things must fall
Why build a miracle at all
If all things must pass
Even a pyramid won’t last
How can you be so sure?
How do you know what the Earth will endure?
How can you be so sure?
That the wonders you’ve made in you life
Will be seen
By the millions who’ll follow to visit the site
Of your dream?
What goes up, must come down
What goes round, must come round
What’s been lost, must be found
“Do it, you crazy b*****ds! Do it, and prove to the world you are indeed a “religion of peace.”
You mean the ‘religion of pieces’?
Here's a more recent pic, she's aged very nicely.
I saw the Bangles in concert at Six Flags Over Texas many years ago. I am so glad they weren't wearing burkas. I liked Susanna Hoffs already, but a couple of the other band members also looked good in person.
There is absolutely no tolerance for others within some of the Islamic faith.
However, there are others within the Islamic faith of Sufism who are banned in Iran and other countries with less tolerant views. I was at a Sufi wedding where they read from the Bible, Torah, and holy books from Buddhist texts. Of those who are Muslim, this is the only group that has seemed to express some tolerance and its views are banned in many of the “Arab” countries of the Middle East.
That was their plan all along.
She has. She must be in her 50’s by now.
Have any “reliable” news outlets reported on this yet? I’d like to post this on my Facebook page for my lib (i.e., idiot!) friends, but all I can find is political blogs and right-wing sites reporting on this. And my lib friends won’t even consider any info from anything but the MSM. I went directly to Al Jazeera English but they had nothing. If anyone finds a source on this from a bigger site, like ABC, the Telegraph, NY Slimes, whatever, would you please ping me? Thanks!
While their at it why not destroy that big old Dam too..
It was built by pagan people for pagan reasons to seduce the Egyptians away from a natural Moon God.. toward the concept of a Jewish God..
The Jewish God said make a garden out of your living arraignments..
The Arabs need to depend on the fate of Allah’s providence..
Yeah destroy that damned old Dam... electricity is a tool of the devil..
Then Hawass will be out of a job and off the History Channel...............
Screw the tourist and Egypt...You’d have to be a stupid fool to go to that part of the world anyway.
What I find ironic, is the level of tolerance the followers of LIBERALISM demand from others, compared to the tolerance they extend to others.
Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .
Looks like an idol of Baal.
No, they're not old and in fact are only a few thousands years old
In compared to the age of this planet, the pyramids are basically brand new.
It you want to see real genuine antiquity, pick up a rock, or look to the stars.
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