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Muslim Clerics call on the new Egyptian President to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids
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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.
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.

And then there’s these assholes

Though shoddily written neocon opinion piece source aside, for the most part, the majority of Egyptians identify as being Egyptian first and would abhor such a threat to the great civilization that gave them their namesake. These people calling for the destruction of the Pyramids are just fundamentalist shitbirds blowing steam. But still, somewhat mad as Egypt gave over a fifth of their government’s power to Salafists who actually do want to conceal the Great Pyramids as they represent “Idolatry” or something. wut
Plus fundamentalists in Afghanistan and now Mali have destroyed multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites in their own countries in recent memory, so it’s not entirely too outlandish to believe that some clerics have been preaching the destruction of national heritage in Egypt..

I swear if anything happens to those pyramids besides what nature and time can do, I will be so livid and pissed. The destruction of important history is never acceptable, no matter the reasons. Especially a reason as inane as religious differences. For a religion and culture that once was a jewel of knowledge, learning, teaching, art, and science, Islam has come a long way to become the one of the destroyers in our world.

Muslim Clerics call on the new Egyptian President to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids

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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 7^th 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.

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.

And then there’s these assholes

Though shoddily written neocon opinion piece source aside, for the most part, the majority of Egyptians identify as being Egyptian first and would abhor such a threat to the great civilization that gave them their namesake. These people calling for the destruction of the Pyramids are just fundamentalist shitbirds blowing steam. But still, somewhat mad as Egypt gave over a fifth of their government’s power to Salafists who actually do want to conceal the Great Pyramids as they represent “Idolatry” or something. wut

Plus fundamentalists in Afghanistan and now Mali have destroyed multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites in their own countries in recent memory, so it’s not entirely too outlandish to believe that some clerics have been preaching the destruction of national heritage in Egypt..

I swear if anything happens to those pyramids besides what nature and time can do, I will be so livid and pissed. The destruction of important history is never acceptable, no matter the reasons. Especially a reason as inane as religious differences. For a religion and culture that once was a jewel of knowledge, learning, teaching, art, and science, Islam has come a long way to become the one of the destroyers in our world.

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crime-think:

Religion, as a whole, needs to go away. In this country, in all countries, as a Whole, for the sake of humanity, it needs to go away.

It hurts all. It saves none.

If you would like help in this realization of the problems either morally, philosophically, or historically with god. Please, come to me and I will guide you away from the bright light of delusion.

Or me as well. I would gladly discuss this issue with anyone. I will try to be as unoffensive as possible, but I make no promises. If you try to be as logical and thoughtful as possible as well.

Fantastic video. This is a debate from London called Intelligence²: Is the Roman Catholic Church a Force for Good. They debate over that motion between an Arch Bishop and the Ann Widdicome on the side of the Roman Church being a force for good, vs. Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens on the side of The Roman Church NOT being a force for good. Obviously I’m biased against religion, but as you can see if you watch this, the Roman Church gets its ass handed to it on the way out the door. Please watch!

Mother fucking agreed

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