Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Txjake · #1 07-10-2012, 02:15 PM

More INSANITY..... INTOLERANCE and IGNORANCE....

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/

jplinville · #2 07-10-2012, 03:27 PM

The only thing they have going for them is the tourism...real smart on their end.

jplinville · #3 07-10-2012, 03:33 PM

I can't wait to here Chill's response...

Air&Road · #4 07-10-2012, 03:39 PM

I can't get the link to open, but I can't imagine what would make them want to tear them down. If it were the US, then it would probably be some beareaucratic, greedy, municipality wanting to replace them with high dollar condo's for the tax base. They never saw anything about immenint domain that they didn't like.

jplinville · #5 07-10-2012, 04:10 PM

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I can't get the link to open, but I can't imagine what would make them want to tear them down. If it were the US, then it would probably be some beareaucratic, greedy, municipality wanting to replace them with high dollar condo's for the tax base. They never saw anything about immenint domain that they didn't like.

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Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On July 10, 2012 @ 12:35 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 105 Comments
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.
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.
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?

Zulfiqar · #6 07-10-2012, 04:24 PM

I would like to personally go ahead and shoot these dimbulbs, they are using the name of "islam" to do acts that are downright idiotic and trying to relate to history just by feel. You can read one sentence in the mid of the article to banish the shia and baha.

That one sentence in its entirety concludes the whole article for me, This is the same lot aka "wahhabi" - they gave the world Bin Laden and the taliban, they as a collection have zero understanding of any common sense and are blind to any factor of legit reason and they are quoting this demolition as "left over work of some sahabi" - YEAH RIGHT.

Studying real islam - actually tells to preserve such monuments so that people can see what happened to past civilizations.

Benz Fan · #7 07-10-2012, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Air&Road

I can't get the link to open, but I can't imagine what would make them want to tear them down. If it were the US, then it would probably be some beareaucratic, greedy, municipality wanting to replace them with high dollar condo's for the tax base. They never saw anything about immenint domain that they didn't like.

More anti-American statements, I see. If you hate America so, why not move back to the country of your ancestors? Furthermore, I believe the term is "eminent domain", although perhaps imminent domain may be more appropriate in your case.

elchivito · #8 07-10-2012, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar

I would like to personally go ahead and shoot these dimbulbs, they are using the name of "islam" to do acts that are downright idiotic and trying to relate to history just by feel. You can read one sentence in the mid of the article to banish the shia and baha.

That one sentence in its entirety concludes the whole article for me, This is the same lot aka "wahhabi" - they gave the world Bin Laden and the taliban, they as a collection have zero understanding of any common sense and are blind to any factor of legit reason and they are quoting this demolition as "left over work of some sahabi" - YEAH RIGHT.

Studying real islam - actually tells to preserve such monuments so that people can see what happened to past civilizations.

Correct me here, but isn't Saudi Arabia also Wahhabi? If so, then this is the same lot that gave us the taliban, Bin Laden AND our very good friends the Saudis?

MTI · #9 07-10-2012, 05:52 PM

Desecration, Looting, Destruction of Sites . . . stories as old as the sand.

Richard Engle NBC Rock Center Report on Egypts Ancient Treasures After Revolution

spdrun · #10 07-10-2012, 06:00 PM

OK, so Egypt has some looney clerics. We have Fred Phelps. Don't judge a country or a revolution by the yappings of a few vocal idiots.

lorainfurniture · #11 07-10-2012, 06:05 PM

Just think about how many beautiful antiques and buildings where destroyed in the name of religion.

It kind of makes me sad.

jplinville · #12 07-10-2012, 06:17 PM

Mali Islamists destroy tombs at famous Timbuktu mosque | Reuters

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(Reuters) - Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday at the famous 14th century Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu, classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site, residents said.

About a dozen militants arrived in an armored four-wheel drive truck, armed with pickaxes and hoes. They fired in the air to intimidate people and started smashing the tombs, said Ibrahim Cisse, who witnessed the scene.

"They blocked the two main roads leading to the mausoleums. When they saw people gathering for a ceremony nearby, they began firing shots in the air," said another resident, Mahamad ould Ibrahim.

The new destruction comes after attacks last week on other historic and religious landmarks in Timbuktu that UNESCO called "wanton destruction".

Islamists of the Ansar Dine group say the centuries-old shrines of the local Sufi version of Islam are idolatrous.

Ansar Dine and well-armed allies, including al Qaeda splinter group MUJWA, have hijacked a separatist uprising by local Tuareg MNLA rebels and now control two-thirds of Mali's desert north, territory that includes the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu.

They have destroyed at least eight of 16 listed mausoleums in the city, together with a number of tombs and a sacred door at Sidi Yahya mosque,