Radical Muslims in Egypt call for destruction of the Pyramids. Barack Hussein Obama said we must respect Islam but some followers of Islam seem to respect nothing.

Few people in Western Civilization can comprehend the true application of Islamic Sharia Law. This is because Sharia Law has few boundaries in common sense or logic. It is the blind following of some thoughts and words of a 7th Century prophet without any attempt to change or adapt to modern civilization. In Islamic culture such mundane things as singing or music are forbidden because the Prophet Mohammad did not like singing or music. There are many other things this prophet did not like and another one is idols and statues because they were things that people worshiped. In every country that has been overrun by Islamic majorities statues and idols have been destroyed because that is what the Prophet Mohammad did when he conquered Mecca. In Muslim countries today, fundamentalist Muslims have even destroyed the monuments in old Muslim cemeteries. As the following story confirms, Muslims destroyed ancient statues of Buddha in Afghanistan because it violated their religion. Now that fundamentalist Muslims have taken over Egypt, as a result of the encouragement given them by Barack Hussein Obama, their radical clerics and leaders are looking at the ancient pyramids, the symbols of the pharaohs. Here are two versions of this news item. Maybe the world will better understand the true nature of Islam after the Muslims do destroy one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

   

EGYPT: Lefties pooh-poohed the idea that the new rulers would ever destroy the pyramids and Sphinx…

Now that Egypt is run by radical (Muslim Brotherhood) Islamists and the calls for sharia law get louder everyday, can the destruction of all pre-Islamic symbols of a formerly advanced civilization be far behind? And with them, Egypt’s only profitable industry – tourism?

al-Arabiya  An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, who was jailed twice by Hosni Mubarak for terrorist threats, 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.”

“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.”

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.

But in retaliation to Gohary’s remarks, the vice president of Tunisia’s Ennahda party, Sheikh Abdel Fattah Moro, called the live program and told Gohary that famous historic military commander Amr ibn al-Aas did not destroy statues when he conquered Egypt. “So who are you to do it?” he wondered. “The Prophet destroyed the idols because people worshiped them, but the Sphinx and the Pyramids are not worshiped.”

Gohary, 50, is well-known in Egypt for his advocacy of violence, Egypt Independent reported. “He was sentenced twice, one of the two sentences being life imprisonment. He subsequently fled Egypt to Afghanistan, where he was badly injured in the American invasion. In 2007, he traveled from Pakistan to Syria, which then handed him over to Egypt. After Mubarak’s fall in early 2011, he was released from prison by a judicial ruling,” the newspaper added.

In recent months, fears have surfaced that the ultra-conservative Salafi political powers may soon wish to debate new guidelines over Egyptian antiquities. Islamists have swept the recent presidential and parliamentary elections in the country’s post-revolutionary stage, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists rising to political power.

“The fundamental Salafis have demanded to cover Pharaonic statues, because they regard them to be idols,” Egyptian author on ancient history Ahmed Osman told Al Arabiya English, explaining that Salafi Muslims follow conservative religious principles which view statues and sculptures as prohibited in Islam. “But so far the government has done nothing to indicate what is the future of Egyptian antiquities,” adds Osman.

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And another take on this story from the Australian web site Winds of Jihad with a bit more background. And, by the way, it is stories like these that Muslims want to make outlawed because it causes other Muslims embarrassment. They call it Blasphemy because it insults their religion.

Egyptian jihad leader calls for destruction of Sphinx, Pyramids

by sheikyermami on November 12, 2012

“God  Allah ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols”

• Egyptian jihad leader calls for destruction of Sphinx, Pyramids

“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.”

“‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids,” from Al Arabiya, November 12 (thanks to JW via Voice of the Copts):

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.”

“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.”

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.

But in retaliation to Gohary’s remarks, the vice president of Tunisia’s Ennahda party, Sheikh Abdel Fattah Moro, called the live program and told Gohary that famous historic military commander Amr ibn al-Aas did not destroy statues when he conquered Egypt.

“So who are you to do it?” he wondered. “The Prophet destroyed the idols because people worshiped them, but the Sphinx and the Pyramids are not worshiped.”

Gohary, 50, is well-known in Egypt for his advocacy of violence, Egypt Independent reported.

“He was sentenced twice, one of the two sentences being life imprisonment. He subsequently fled Egypt to Afghanistan, where he was badly injured in the American invasion. In 2007, he traveled from Pakistan to Syria, which then handed him over to Egypt. After Mubarak’s fall in early 2011, he was released from prison by a judicial ruling,” the newspaper added.
In recent months, fears have surfaced that the ultra-conservative Salafi political powers may soon wish to debate new guidelines over Egyptian antiquities.
Islamists have swept the recent presidential and parliamentary elections in the country’s post-revolutionary stage, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists rising to political power.

“The fundamental Salafis have demanded to cover Pharaonic statues, because they regard them to be idols,” Egyptian author on ancient history Ahmed Osman told Al Arabiya English, explaining that Salafi Muslims follow conservative religious principles which view statues and sculptures as prohibited in Islam.
“But so far the government has done nothing to indicate what is the future of Egyptian antiquities,” adds Osman….