Posted on 12/27/2011 7:06:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The pyramids at Giza are the most stunning sight I have ever seen.
True, their lonely eminence is threatened by Cairo's unlicensed building sprawl, with half completed houses inching their way towards them.
Surveying them at night as the calls to prayer multiplied into a thunder of sound from central Cairo already told me a few years back what was coming.
For now members of the Nour (The Light) Salafist party, which won 20 per cent of the vote in recent elections, are talking about putting an end to the 'idolatry' represented by the pyramids.
This means destruction - along the lines essayed by the Afghan Taliban who blew up the Banyam Buddhas - or 'concealment' by covering them with wax. Tourists would presumably see great blobs rather than the perfectly carved steps.
This last suggestion was made by Abdel Moneim Al-Shahat, a Nour candidate for parliament. Apart from wanting to do away with this 'rotten culture', this gentleman also wants to ban the Nobel prize winning novels of Naguib Mahfouz, one of many great Egyptian writers.
I suppose they could call in the great Bulgarian artist Christo, who specialises in putting curtains across the Grand Canyon or surrounding Pacific atolls in fetching pink cloth? But I doubt they have heard of him.
Salafism means reverting to the mores of the founding generation of Islam, for the close companions of the Prophet were called Salafi meaning 'pious founders'. Since the last adherent of ancient Egyptian religion allegedly converted (to Christianity) in the fourth century AD, the original Salafists had little to worry about the pyramids and left them alone.
But not their 21st century successors, who also want what they call 'halal' tourism, with women told to dress decorously and no alcohol, something pretty general already in conservative Egypt.
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No problem. They will take a chapter from the Nazi’s playbook and blame da Juice.
It’s a wonderful world when you can create misery and chaos and blame your enemies for the consequences. Ask the Won.
Probably just a matter of time before they blow those suckers up. Wait till they get control of the army. Islam is scourge on humanity.
You may be on to something there...
can you imagine the shine they could put on those suckers?
Just curious - any military demolition experts - just how hard would it be to serious disrupt the structural integrity of something as huge as a pyramid made entirely out of stone? I’m guessing more than a few cherry bombs or M-80s.
Why? Because Salafist Muslims are going to be elected in Greece, a country that at last count was somewhere between 95% and 98% Greek Orthodox? Iconoclasm hasn't been a theological movement in Greece since 787 AD.
A blight, those wackos are a blight on humanity.
The sand-fleas could just declare the Pyramids look like phallic symbols, and cover them with massive burkhas.
Progress in the Midde East:
Two steps forward, a thousand years back.
But they insist on kissing and worshipping The Black Stone of Mecca.
Go figure...
...members of the Nour (The Light) Salafist party, which won 20 per cent of the vote in recent elections, are talking about putting an end to the 'idolatry' represented by the pyramids... This last suggestion was made by Abdel Moneim Al-Shahat, a Nour candidate for parliament. Apart from wanting to do away with this 'rotten culture', this gentleman also wants to ban the Nobel prize winning novels of Naguib Mahfouz, one of many great Egyptian writers.
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...members of the Nour (The Light) Salafist party, which won 20 per cent of the vote in recent elections, are talking about putting an end to the 'idolatry' represented by the pyramids... This last suggestion was made by Abdel Moneim Al-Shahat, a Nour candidate for parliament. Apart from wanting to do away with this 'rotten culture', this gentleman also wants to ban the Nobel prize winning novels of Naguib Mahfouz, one of many great Egyptian writers.Note: this topic is from 12/27/2011. Thanks SeekAndFind.
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