Muslim Brotherhood: The genie is unleashed

FrontPage Magazine is reporting: Calls to destroy Egypt’s great pyramids begin. Following the election of Egypt’s new Prime Minister Mohammed Morsi, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s “pagan” monuments—including the Great Pyramids. Will Morsi complete the Islamization process that multiple past Muslim rulers were unable to?

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, Mohammed Morsi, to “destroy the pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.”This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Mohammed’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. … [A]ccording 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 seventh 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 ….

With the invention of dynamite, nitroglycerine, bunker busters and other modern explosives, the pyramids can now be destroyed.

If you think that such action is farfetched, consider that this is exactly what is happening in Mali, where today Islamist insurgents destroyed two tombs at the famous 14th-century world heritage Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu. Islamists said the centuries-old shrines of a version of Islam were idolatrous. Reuters reports:

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. …The new destruction comes after attacks last week on other historic and religious landmarks in Timbuktu that unesco called “wanton destruction.”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, in their campaign to erase traces of what they regard as un-Islamic idolatry.

Actually, history is filled with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage. The prophet Mohammed himself was known for destroying temples to build mosques. More recently, the Taliban destroyed dozens of massive Buddha that were carved into the sides of mountains in Afghanistan.

It is very telling that the calls for the destruction of the pyramids come so shortly after the election of Mohammed Morsi. As was reported in a separate piece today, Morsi’s call for America to release the sheikh terrorist who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombings in New York City is just one of the first signs of Egypt’s turn toward radicalism. FrontPage Magazine sums up:

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.

The genie is out of the bottle and, as we reported yesterday, astoundingly, America has no interest in putting him back in. In this video, Gerald Flurry explains why America should not have toppled Mubarak.