Posted on 07/10/2012 9:22:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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?
When is Hillary going to step to the plate and tell Obama to shove it.
First order of retaliation:
Demolish the “Dome on the Rock”, the mosque raised on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
If this does not get the Islamists’ full attention, then a nuclear detonation over the big black rock in the desert at Mecca, turning the immediate neighborhood into a radioactive wasteland, should be the next order of business.
If the Islamists are still recalcitrant, then perhaps a second nuclear detonation over the city of Medinah, also turning that site into another radioactive wasteland, should make it clear to them that messing with other people’s antiquities is not to be tolerated.
After that, it is just demolition of remaining “holy sites” the Islamists hold in great esteem, mosque by mosque.
We would leave their bunkers alone, so long as they never again emerge.
I don’t believe Christians have ever wanted to get rid of those pyramids. Nobody worships at them any more; they are not idol temples now.
If Islamists achieved controlling dominance in Europe they would carry out a massive destruction of cathedrals, churches and monuments.
Do it, you crazy b*****ds! Do it, and prove to the world you are indeed a “religion of peace.”
After islam destroys everything that isn’t islamic, it’ll begin in earnest destroying everything that isn’t islamic enough. It’s like the serpent swallowing it’s own tail, except the usual symbolism of renewal is completely absent. It’s a black hole swallowing itself, a self-correcting problem. All we have to do it keep it isolated, away from here and over there.
This Islamic Democracy thing is a hoot. There are all kinds of things that can be destroyed in Egypt, and Obama’s brotherhood will do it.
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Mental note to check naptha futures.
It’s almost as if there was a parasite eating away the brains of these people.
The pyramids are a treasure from antiquity, nothing more. People don’t travel to the pyramids and suddenly start to observe some pagan religion. They come because the pyramids are a sight to behold, and are ancient relics.
Someone mentioned the Buddhas that the Taliban destroyed. How ridiculous! People didn’t pass by them and suddenly fall under a Buddhist spell.
What I find ironic, is the level of tolerance the followers of Islam demand from others, compared to the tolerance they extend to others.
The Bangles are an American female-pop group who scored a major hit with "Walk Like An Egyptian" back in the 1986 along with a quirky video.
Well, I was just thinking that if The Bangles had to record a video for the song today, they would probably have to wear burkas. The Bangles in burkas...that's an image that I am going to have to get myself used to.
I should have visited Egypt when I had the chance.
LOL! Mel Brooks is smiling.
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