These people are crazy, religious dogma should have no place in decisions about destroying a world history site. We still have no real idea on how they built those massive structures, and some religious nut job wants to level them...
There are limits that should be set for religious tolerance.
Calls to Destroy Egypt's Great Pyramids Begin
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2012/07/11 03:07:57
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?
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Curmudgeon 2012/07/11 03:16:29
Radical Islamists call on Egypt to destroy pyramids has been revealed to be a HOAX
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Radical Islamists call on Egypt to destroy pyramids has been revealed to be a HOAX
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Radical Islamists call on Egypt to destroy pyramids has been revealed to be a HOAX
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Radical Islamists call on Egypt to destroy pyramids has been revealed to be a HOAX
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
and one day we are going to demand thier return
that and other items the church has stolen from Pagans like 3 Chapters of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth and the Book of Omi its a very anicent Book that talks great deal about the Afterlife and reincarnation
they Merge all other Religions into thier collective and you will be assimluated Resistance is Futile
The Pyramids are a testament to Human effort and ingenuity--who the hell do they think they are in defying Human heritage in favor of their imaginary sky-man??
'Culture' of islam...
If this and the other points mentioned above are examples of it's 'culture', then they need to be penned up in a quarantine region and kept from harming the rest of us on this world.
Or treasures that belong to Humanity as a Species.
Radical Islamists call on Egypt to destroy pyramids has been revealed to be a HOAX
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
History repeats itself...
stupid is , as stupid does!!
a new Somalia?
can only think, if they so wish it on themselves```````````~~~~ LET 'EM HAVE IT!!!
dont come running asking for help later. you're toasted sand!
everytime Christian theocracies exist in the past there are bad things happening