What do you think the Great Whore, that the Beast will shed, represents?
Paganism, including now many supposed christian based religions, is the father-of-lies subversion until he desires center stage, that nothing other than him, unadulterated, will be worshiped, ergo, the shedding, eventually, of the Whore, which is paganism to the core and permeates just about everything in politics....she's a useful tool since Babylon.
dunno,i have several friends in egypt that i chat with almost every day on facebook,they say the story is false.