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Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin
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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.
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?
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