Ozymandius from "Watchmen". Theoretically, a Good Guy with a major thing for Alexander the Great, and a secondary fascination with ancient Egypt.
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?
Blame it on Booosh!
What a sick, sick belief system Islam is.
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The next time someone cautions you to rise above your enemy punch that person in the nose. |
But I'm sure nobody would do anything.
It would be like trying to remove a modest mountain. It could be done, with modern strip mining equipment, but it wouldn’t be as dramatic as blowing up those Buddhas in Afghanistan
Ouch! I resemble that remark!! Like your english peeps didn't genocide some 50 Million original north american inhabitants in their western expansion. I know , I know ..blame the Spanish Inquisition...
Today the pyramids, tomorrow it’s the Vatican. Or the Lincoln and Washington Memorials.
They are hell bent on submitting everyone or killing all that don’t.
But, yeah, let’s turn our schools into madrassas.../s
How much do you think they will get holding them ransom?
Barbarians at the gate.
Hopefully 25 Kilatons.
Think how much money they can make selling rock chips for souveniers....
I was thinking along those lines, this sounds like a cartoon villian’s plot.
Hmmm. Wonder what liberals will think about this? Will they still say that ALL cultures are equal, and we shouldn't judge any that seem a little 'off'?
Ozymandius from "Watchmen". Theoretically, a Good Guy with a major thing for Alexander the Great, and a secondary fascination with ancient Egypt.
There is no moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam.
There is no doubt anymore that Obama HUSSEIN is the figurehead of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD and their Plant in the Oval Office, the Alleged Leader of the Free World, who wants nothing less than the total Destruction of America and the Freee World and to make America the 58th Caliphate of the Islamic Republic! How much longer is America going to let this two bit fraud and Liar pose as Our Legitimate President? Hell! His entire past has been laundered and lied about and we still don’t know who he freakin really is!
What more proof do we need?
Islam is going to destroy every single Culture in the world...
Bye Bye! France
Bye Bye! England
Bye Bye! Spain,Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Canada,America,
Germany,Poland,Italy.....etc,etc,etc.
bye bye! Christianity,Judiasm,Budda,Copts,Rastas...
welcome to the Facist World Nation of Islam-o-Nazis
They will contort their spines to find a way to blame you-know-who.
More American Indians were killed by other American Indians than whites. But the greatest killer was disease.
Where I presently live in the Pacific Northwest, the main culprit in death dealing was german measles brought by whaling ships.
By the time white settlers dragged into this part of North America during the 1840s, most American Indian tribes had been decimated by diseases.
I did some investigating about small pox. The variola virus is only transferable via a small window of time, about five minutes, and mostly person-to-person. It is very, very difficult, almost impossible, to weaponize as a bioweapon.
There is no way it could be spread by “infected blankets” as so many left-wing academics have posited. I know the British tried to do so, but that wasn’t successful. A more likely scenario was exposure to blood when killing or scalping, or taking prized items from a recently killed white. All it would take to wipe out a village later is one person, exposed to the virus, coming back from a raid.
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