Egyptian Leader Calling for Destruction of the Pyramids and Sphinx

[scribblet]

Total nutzoid, wondering if they wish Mubarak back.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/12/249092.html

An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.

Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”

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His comments came a day after thousands of ultraconservative Islamists gathered in Tahrir Square to call for the strict application of Sharia law in the new constitution.

[DogOnPorch]

Who needs tourism when you have the warmth of Allah? He might be in for a bit of a surprise as to how much TNT will be needed.

[Guest]

Sadly, they'll have enough. I'm sure the Saudis will have some left over when they're done razing Mecca.

[Moonlight Graham]

From that article:

“All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” he said on Saturday during a television interview on an Egyptian private channel, widely watched by Egyptian and Arab audiences.

“God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” he added. “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”

What a weirdo.

[Guest American Woman]

Unbelievable. At least there's a voice (or two) of reason:

The vice president of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, Sheikh Abdel Fattah Moro, called in to the station to challenge al-Gohary's interpretation of Islam. Moro said the famous military commander

Amr ibn al-Aas

did not destroy statues when he conquered Egypt. “So who are you to do it?” he asked. “The Prophet destroyed the idols because people worshiped them, but

the Sphinx and the Pyramids are not worshiped.”

Officials have “taken the necessary precautions to deal with any aggression” against the pyramids and Sphinx, as “[t]hey are a source of national income and they bring tourists to Egypt."

Let's just hope the fanatics never get their way. What a historical loss that would be!

[cybercoma]

Thankfully someone smacked that idiot over the head with the inconvenient truth about military commander.

[bush_cheney2004]

No worries, as there is a glass copy in 'Vegas:

[DogOnPorch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anM0Ud7Pq4

[wyly]

eygptians are very attached to their monuments and history that idiotic idea is dead in the water, it'll never happen...

Edited November 15, 2012 by wyly

[GostHacked]

The destruction of these historical landmarks are quite disturbing. The statues in Afghanistan, the temple in Libya, and now the pyramids.

How the hell would they even accomplish such task?