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Posted on 07/11/2012 5:47:24 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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 Amr bin al-As could not."
Has the sun finally set for Egypt's Great Pyramids? 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 a simple process in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not—even though many early Muslim leaders certainly tried; by the time gunfire was invented, Egypt's Medieval Mamluk rulers even managed to "de-nose" the Sphinx during target practice (though popular legend naturally 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 Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president 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 Muhammad himself, who ransacked 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 ancestors' 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 legacy 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, or language, but only with the Islamic nation—the Umma. Accordingly, while many Egyptians—Muslims and non-Muslims alike—see themselves first and foremost 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, recently 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 recent call to release the Blind Sheikh, a terrorist mastermind, from U.S. imprisonment, 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?
Give each pyramid a new name. Like Teheran, Mecca and Medina. Anything happens to a pyramid, its corresponding city is rendered flat, black and glowing in the dark for the foreseeable future. Rename the Sphinx as the Dome of the Rock and, if any further damage to the Sphinx, use megaloads of conventional weapons from the sky to kiss the abomination on the Temple Mount goodbye. Repeat process as necessary on further targets until, in the future, no one will know where Islam had been.
Burn their houses, salt their fields and leave not a stone lying upon a stone as a Roman Senator once observed as to Carthage at the outset of the Third Punic War.
Or, as a military equivalent of Robert Frost might say: Good B-2s and Ohio class boomer subs make better behaved neighbors. At least when the "neighbors" are inclined to be barbarians.
“Islam would be dead.”
It’s not going to die on it’s own.
It’s not going to die because of the disdain of NY Times type liberals.
I’m becoming convinced that we are actually going to have to kill it.
We are going to have to dump the Bush/Obama doctrine and take up the Coulter plan: Invade their countries, kill their leaders, convert them to Christianity.
Forget “no child left behind” the drug program, TARP, and everything else. The worst thing President Bush did was his failure to realize that we ARE in a war against Islam, because Islam is in a war against us.
And themselves.
They are completely demented.
And, you know, I’m not even that religious and I try to respect other people’s beliefs. But most of those other people aren’t expending all their best efforts to kill people and destroy things, only Islam is doing that.
The left makes excuses when they stone women (and men) to death, they made excuses for Bill Clinton, the Lothario in Chief. They’ll make up some excuses for this.
It’ll all be the fault of American Christians.
How they are going to manage that, I have no idea. But they’ll try, and they’ll convince themselves, of that I have no doubt.
Yes and no. Operation Anvil did a good job of rounding up a lot of the Mau Mau fighters, and operations in the Aberdares finished off the rest. Though atrocities were committed by both sides, superior military force was the key factor in breaking the rebellion - that, and a lot of informants who ratted out the “Mickey Mice” in their midst.
Roman and Greek pagan temples.
Many of the earliest basilicas and churches were originally built from materials salvaged from the torn-down temples.
OK, knock it off with the Black Legends, both of you.
The Native Americans/Indians were largely wiped out by encounters with white men, but neither the Spanish nor the British are guilty of this. To the largest extent, it was disease.
Oh, nice, seems to me the Taleban did the same thing to the Colossal Budahs.
Leftist art students and lawyers like Hitlery would just enjoy that kind of smear on other artists... They do not care. They have found a political smell trail of destruction and pseudo conquest for now and they will milk it like demonic idiots until the end, matters not who or what gets destroyed on the way there. These people are retards.
In Afghanistan, they did not care about the colossal Budahs. The point was their message of terror to be accepted while it being called a “religion of peace”.
Same “dealdoh” here.
Oh, I am surprized they have not burned down the library of Alexandria and blamed Bush yet, just like when they blamed him for the looting of the Bagdad museum of Assyrian artefacts.
These same hypocrite iconoclastic groups then complain and ask GreatBritain or France to bring back the rescued artefacts and obelisques from museum where they are preserved in much better shape with international approval... Go figure.
This pseudo-nationalist right of return of national treasure, cultures and “Palestinians” or what not is the biggest hypocritical clap trap ever.
Ignorance is bliss, indeed, and in your case, SatinDoll, it reeks in gladness of satisfied empowered hypocrisy.
Christians make a vow to avoid figures and be free from sodomic molestation. This is quite the opposite of what Islam does, but it is convenient for some leftists atheistics homos to not figure that out, I understand. Don’t want to leave those young clean virgin christian girls keep virgin... must force the boyscouts to be molested.
But it’s ok, it’s all part of the plan for government interference and molestation of everyone... Denial is quite strong these days about the huge worldwide decline happening in the world.
Meanwhile coward compassionate conservatism still claims Islam is peace, while our good works and people we have here as dissidents are sent back to red China or Cuba, along with all the museum artefacts that will get destroyed by the Taleban in Afghanistan and the muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
Nothing like a sick and happy liberal who is not allowed to rape in his country watch happily pictures of jews getting raped in Israel or Christian churches burned down, or christian dissidents sent back to islam.
Randy Newman.....what a song!
“Let’s Drop the Big One”
“No one likes us
I don’t know why.
We may not be perfect
But heaven knows we try.
But all around even our old friends put us down.
Let’s drop the big one and see what happens.
We give them money
But are they grateful?
No they’re spiteful
And they’re hateful.
They don’t respect us so let’s surprise them;
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them.
Now Asia’s crowded
And Europe’s too old.
Africa’s far too hot,
And Canada’s too cold.
And South America stole our name.
Let’s drop the big one; there’ll be no one left to blame us.
Bridge:
We’ll save Australia;
Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo.
We’ll build an all-American amusement park there;
They’ve got surfing, too.
Well, boom goes London,
And boom Paris.
More room for you
And more room for me.
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town.
Oh, how peaceful it’ll be;
We’ll set everybody free;
You’ll have Japanese kimonos, baby,
There’ll be Italian shoes for me.
They all hate us anyhow,
So let’s drop the big one now.
Let’s drop the big one now.”
I’d be interested in finding out just how much of Egypt’s GDP is tied to tourism, and how much Egypt would lose should the insane clown posse get around to destroying the Sphinx and pyramids.
Mark
The “religion of peace”?
I resist calling people names on FR. People like you make that difficult.
When Spanish came into the southern part of what is now the US, they left behind some pigs, who spread what is now thought to possibly have been a variety of swine flu. It killed the vast majority of Native Americans. When the English founded Jamestown, there were abandoned and empty villages and fields, had been empty for some decades at least. The English wondered why.
You forgot to mention Disney tearing down part of Disneyland to create the California Adventure theme park.
Miserable freaking savages. Why do we let them come to this country?
That would be a tough task. Each of those stone blocks must be as big as my house!
We don’t know for certain who built The Great Pyramids. However, there is one undeniable fact, it wasn’t these idiot’s ancestors.
“Obama’s Fault!”
Dang straight! He’s given the Islamists license to do as they please.
It was bad enough when al Quada/Taliban destroyed Afghanistan’s ancient ruins.
But, not bad enough for bammy.
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