Islamic Clerics Call on Egypt to Destroy Great Pyramids
They’re offensive.
Islamic Spring.
Several Islamic clerics called on Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammad
Morsi to destroy the great pyramids and finish the work of Mohammad
companion Sahabi Amr bin al-As.
AINA reported:
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.
In December the Salafist Party in Egypt, which just won 20 percent of the vote, wanted to cover the “idolatrous” Giza pyramids with wax.
Now they want to blow them up.
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