Posted on 07/10/2012 2:54:42 PM PDT by Dallas59
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?
I read once that they were just 250 million in the early part of the 20th century, now they are over a billion, Why? We fed them, gave them aid during disasters and provided them with modern medicine. Should we recognize them as an enemy group and stop giving aid and comfort to the enemy? The western countries have tried to elevate the muslim world for a century, now that these countries are not under western powers, they are under the power of the muslim mullahs and they are hurtling back into the 7th century.
Are your friends Christian Egyptians or Muslim Egyptians?
Destruction of the pyramids: I wonder if our diversity-loving press will even cover the event. Or, will we get a lecture on respecting the differences of other cultures?
Liberal intellectuals are very much into cultures and history, I think they will be shocked but will be caught between their adoration for culture and their adoration for political correctness and multiculturalism. I think many would blow a fuse, they just wouldn’t know how to react.
Liberal intellectuals are very much into cultures and history, I think they will be shocked but will be caught between their adoration for culture and their adoration for political correctness and multiculturalism. I think many would blow a fuse, they just wouldn’t know how to react.
Wouldn’t it be funny to see how the school books would deal with this? Would the children even ever hear or read the word pyramid?
None are friends. I have meet many Muslims and Christians and they are all very proud of their history.
Like I said, this may be interesting.
The religion of peace and tolerance at it again.
What a load of shit. Nothing but a bunch of fanatical stone age dumbasses. This is not a religion, it’s a violent hate group...humanity will be better served if Islam is wiped off the face of the earth.
Their last election removed all sense of history they may have had.
They should reconsider.
Destroying the Pyramids will piss off the aliens who built them.
This topic was posted , thanks again Dallas59.
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.
Someone screwed up -- the Obamanation DNC media boilerplate required the reference to be "Egypt's first democratically elected president, Muhammad Morsi".
The only thing islamics can do is destroy. they build nothing.
Muslims=scourge of the planet
Why tear it down? Just put a list of Arabic names on it and it’ll sink under the weight...
....
Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad Tapar
Ghiyath al-Din Abu’l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nishapuri al-Khayyami
Ghiyasuddin Iwaj Shah
Ghīyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw bin Qilij Arslān
Seljuk Sultan of Rum
Ghīyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw bin Kayqubād
Ghīyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw bin Qilij Arslān
Ghiyas ud din Balban
Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq
Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah
Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʾūd al-Kāshī
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿAlī Iṣfahānī
Ghiyath Shah
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah
Ghiyasuddin Jalal Shah
Ghiya’as ud-din
Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah of Selangor
Ghias-ud-din of Qazvin
Ghiyasaddin Taha Mohammedi
...
Obaidullah Rameen
Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah
Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah
Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh
Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan
Ubayd Allah ibn Umar
Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad
Ubaydah ibn al-Harith
Ubayd ‘Abd Allāh al-Bakr
....
And if Khufu can stand the weight up to there, throw in
Uqba ibn Abu Mu’ayt
and her daughter,
Umm Kulthum bint Uqba ibn Abi Mu’ayt
and that’ll topple the old boy.
This story was posted in 2012, and 11 years later the pyramids are still there. I think tourist dollars won the election.
Pay per view?
the only way to justify Islam is to destroy anything that predates it. it isnt out of bounds of reason to say they could succeed eventually.
Morsi was removed at gunpoint, was tried for his various Islamofascist BS, and died in jail during trial, if memory serves. Good riddance.
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