Raymond Ibrahim
Front Page Mag
July 10, 2012
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.
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