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Here is the link to the original article, but its not working as of the time I posted this..... http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/
This reminds me of the late 1990s when the Taliban was controlling Afghanistan, and there was large statue of a Buddha in the mountains of the country, that basically showed the geographical extent of Buddhism historically. The Taliban threw the statue in the bushes/destroyed it in the midst of huge international criticism and rebuke. Also, reminds me of in Saudi Arabia, where they even got rid of some of Muhammad's era's buildings or possibly places he lived in in Mecca I think. Historical minded people wanted to protect these buildings from new urban development as national treasures and tourist sites, but the government said no, based on the fact that Islam apparently says no "idolatry" is acceptable. Meaning, they felt Muslims would come to these Muhammedian historical sites as places of worship.
It's pretty fuucked up, and I respect people's religion and culture, but sometimes these mindsets are just
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This reminds me of the late 1990s when the Taliban was controlling Afghanistan, and there was large statue of a Buddha in the mountains of the country, that basically showed the geographical extent of Buddhism historically. The Taliban threw the statue in the bushes/destroyed it in the midst of huge international criticism and rebuke. Also, reminds me of in Saudi Arabia, where they even got rid of some of Muhammad's era's buildings or possibly places he lived in in Mecca I think. Historical minded people wanted to protect these buildings from new urban development as national treasures and tourist sites, but the government said no, based on the fact that Islam apparently says no "idolatry" is acceptable. Meaning, they felt Muslims would come to these Muhammedian historical sites as places of worship.
It's pretty fuucked up, and I respect people's religion and culture, but sometimes these mindsets are just
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Prison Planet.com » Calls to Destroy Egypt
Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
Raymond Ibrahim
Front Page Mag
July 10, 2012
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.