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ISIS: DESTROYING EGYPT’S SPHINX, PYRAMIDS IS ‘RELIGIOUS DUTY’
Breitbart ^ | July 3, 2015 | Jordan Schachtel

Posted on 07/04/2015 12:03:55 PM PDT by C19fan

ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told followers of his terror group that destroying Egypt’s national monuments, such as the pyramids and the sphinx, is a “religious duty” that must be carried out by those who worship Islam, as idolatry is strictly banned in the religion, according to reports.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt
KEYWORDS: albaghdadi; ancientegypt; egypt; egyptisis; fatwa; giza; godsgravesglyphs; greatsphinx; history; iran; isis; isisatrocities; isisegypt; muslimworld; pyramids; qatar; shiites; sphinx
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To: C19fan

I seem to remember hearing a story about French soldiers using the Sphinx’s nose for target practice.


41 posted on 07/22/2015 10:52:20 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: C19fan

I think Zawi Hawass should re-think his hatred of Israel. They might be the only ones who could save his precious antiquities (and him, too!) by being the only ones willing to defeat ISIS.

Just my opinion...don’t wanna start a flame war.


42 posted on 07/22/2015 5:16:53 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Of course the fact that these world heritage sites have nothing to do with idolatry is irrelevant.

Serious Islamists believe that graves should be unmarked, or only minimally marked, so a giant tomb like a pyramid would be forbidden.

43 posted on 07/22/2015 5:23:53 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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Islam is a war plan.

Funny how these tools claim the property of what’s transcribed in The Great Works.


44 posted on 07/22/2015 9:08:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: C19fan

Exterminating ISIS is a “religious duty”.


45 posted on 07/23/2015 4:08:48 AM PDT by ZULU (Democrats are paleosocialists)
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To: C19fan

I read somewhere that the Great Pyramid took 20+/- years to build, using some 20 million stones, according to the records extant.

The Egyptians would have had to set a stone into place every 7 seconds to complete it in that time.

That task would be daunting today with our equipment, so these guys should be busy for a while.


46 posted on 07/23/2015 1:51:45 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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