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Kuwaiti Muslim preacher, Islamic State call for demolition of Sphinx, pyramids

Mar 11, 2015 2:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Great_Sphinx_of_Giza“Attacks on the Sphinx date back centuries. Despite many legends surrounding the monument’s missing nose – with harm from Napoleon’s cannon being among the most popular myths – historians believe it was actually destroyed by Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr in the 14th century, after he learned that some peasants worshipped the Sphinx.”

Many of the incidents of Muslim destruction of artifacts are ascribed to Infidels, in keeping with the general tendency of Islamic supremacists to blame everyone but themselves for their own wrongdoing. In Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, Robert D. Kaplan repeats uncritically what he probably heard from local Muslims: that the icons in the local churches had their eyes scraped off because the superstitious local Christians had taken them to mix in health potions. It is, however, virtually inconceivable that Orthodox believers, even the most ignorant and superstitious, would desecrate icons in this way. It is much more likely that the icons had no eyes because Islamic authorities consider that it is sufficient to destroy the representation of the face in order to ruin the image as a representation of the human form. And that’s why the nose of the Sphinx was gone long before Napoleon’s troops ever had target practice.

“Kuwaiti preacher, ISIS call for demolition of Egypt’s Sphinx, pyramids,” RT, March 9, 2015:

An Islamist preacher from Kuwait has called to destroy Egypt’s Sphinx and pyramids, stating it is time for Muslims to erase the pharaohs’ heritage. The alleged call comes as Islamic State jihadists ramp up their attacks against historic sites.

Although the ancient monuments are not religious – but rather cultural and historic sites – they should still be “destroyed” by Muslims, putting an end to the worship of images, preacher Ibrahim Al Kandari said, according to Al-Watan daily.

“The fact that early Muslims who were among prophet Mohammed’s followers did not destroy the pharaohs’ monuments upon entering the Egyptian soil, does not mean that we shouldn’t do it now,” Al Kandari said.

Another call for the destruction of Egypt’s main symbols comes from Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who suggested the demolition of the historic monuments is a “religious duty,” Al Alam news reported on Sunday. In the extreme interpretations of Islam, no material objects should be idolized or worshiped.

It comes amid growing concerns over the safety of many other historic and architectural monuments in the region, where militants continue to destroy ancient cities and artifacts.

Only last week, the Islamic State reportedly destroyed and looted the ancient Assyrian city of Dur Sharrukin in northern Iraq, demolished the remains of the ancient city of Hatra, and bulldozed the city of Nimrud near Mosul. The assault on the latter has already been compared by archaeologists to the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.

In 2012, an Egyptian cleric also issued a fatwa calling to rid the country of its pyramids and the Sphinx. The member of the radical Salafi movement said he wanted the antiquities demolished, as Prophet Mohammed destroyed the idols in Mecca, and demanded Egypt’s tourism ministry be abolished, comparing the industry to “prostitution and debauchery.”

The religious ruling was denounced by Egypt’s officials and scholars, who claimed the site was part of the country’s cultural – not religious – heritage.

Attacks on the Sphinx date back centuries. Despite many legends surrounding the monument’s missing nose – with harm from Napoleon’s cannon being among the most popular myths – historians believe it was actually destroyed by Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr in the 14th century, after he learned that some peasants worshipped the Sphinx.

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  1. Chabuco says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Robert, you forgot to mention the Library of Alexandria, also destroyed by Pedohammedans and blamed on non-Pedohammedans.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    These barbarians only know how to destroy – they cannot construct anything. Of course pyramids and Sphinx are pre-Islamic and that’s why they have to go. Ever since the arrival of Islam in Egypt, nothing cultural of value has been constructed in Egypt. Islam bring only darkness and turns human beings into brain dead zombies!! Egyptians should ask themselves what happened to them and how did they forget their heritage and turned into barbarians!

  3. Mo says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    No, not the Sphinx! I’ve wanted to see that thing since I was a little kid!

    Ugh, these Muslims savages only know how destroy!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 10:06 am

      My mother-in-law is a docent at a well-known collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts here in the States. She visited Egypt about fifteen years ago; even then we were worried about her.

      • Rezali Mehil says

        Mar 12, 2015 at 4:16 pm

        Graven – She visited Egypt about fifteen years ago; even then we were worried about her.

        Why has she not converted yet then? You are failing her …

        Tell her to get on with it …she will be completeley safe.

        More Later….

        Rezali

        • Mo says

          Mar 12, 2015 at 6:30 pm

          @ Rezali Mehil

          “Why has she not converted yet then? You are failing her …
          Tell her to get on with it …she will be completeley safe.
          More Later….
          Rezali”

          Your vile threat comes through loudly and clearly. Thank you for once again demonstrating the intolerant, hatred and murderous intent of Islam.

          Know that I loathe your death cult with all my soul. Know that I will NEVER bow to it.

      • Mo says

        Mar 12, 2015 at 6:27 pm

        @ Gravenimage

        “My mother-in-law is a docent at a well-known collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts here in the States. She visited Egypt about fifteen years ago; even then we were worried about her.”

        I don’t blame you for worrying! (Glad she made it back safely.)

  4. Don McKellar says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    And don’t forget that the savages also stripped the pyramids of their white polished limestone outer layer. Many of them were cut loose and carried off to be used on various other structures, such as when Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan used the polished stones from the Great Pyramid in building mosques in Cairo, some of which are still standing with these stones still intact.

    The destruction to the history and culture of the world done by moslem savages is at this point is almost incalculable.

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    Kuwaiti Muslim preacher, Islamic State call for demolition of Sphinx, pyramids
    ………………………….

    These pious thugs are emboldened by the destruction by their coreligionists in the Islamic State, in Afghanistan, in Mali, in the Maldives, and so many other parts of Dar-al-Islam.

    Here are other, previous calls from Muslim clerics:

    “Raymond Ibrahim: Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/raymond-ibrahim-calls-to-destroy-egypts-great-pyramids-begin

    And Jihadists have already wrecked destruction in Egypt itself, in the Luxor Massacre, and the post-“Arab Spring” sack of the Cairo Museum and the burning of the Library of Egypt.

    They consider these priceless antiquities just more examples of worthless “Jahillya”.

    God, I hate Islam.

  6. Richie says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    Muslims boast about their fantasies of invading Rme- how will the west react if Muslims start smashing Roman statues and temples? I suspect socialist Europeans will do nothing at all. Muslims are now a protected class- they can kill and destroy, but they are always the victim. Protest, and YOU are the bigot

    • matt says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 5:10 am

      Spot on. They criminalize the crusades. but I think they’re gonna have to call another one anyway. Because mostly religious people will answer such a call, not the the apathetic anti-God gang that is now the political class

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 10:21 am

      Richie wrote:

      Muslims boast about their fantasies of invading Rme- how will the west react if Muslims start smashing Roman statues and temples?
      ………………………

      When Muslims boast of invading Rome, they won’t just target ancient Roman artifacts, but also everything from St. Peters to Macro, the modern art museum.

      And further, “Rome” doesn’t just mean Rome or even Italy, but the whole of the free West.

  7. pumbar says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 12:09 am

    I have a settee, an old mattress and a broken washing machine that pre-date the islamic state. I wonder if IS could take these and destroy them? I am willing to pay up to twenty quid toward the cost of a van and petrol.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 12, 2015 at 10:24 am

      Thank you, Pumbar—that was hilarious!

      • pumbar says

        Mar 12, 2015 at 3:47 pm

        🙂 jahilliyah refuse disposal. “If Mo says no, it’s gotta go:!

  8. katnis says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 12:11 am

    Short list of things destroyed by muslims…

    Hatra
    Twin Towers in NYC
    Buddha statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
    “end of the world” gate in the ancient city of Timbuktu
    2,000 manuscripts at Mali’s Ahmed Baba Institute (like the Dead Sea Scrolls)
    300+ buildings in Mecca and Medina

    Now go back a few thousand years and see what can be added to this list.

    What will be next?

  9. Louise from Canada says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Those serpents muslims remind me of The Planet of the Apes. Apes did not want to admit that humans were there before them and therefore destroyed everything that human had built.

  10. Marc says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 8:48 am

    If you visit the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt the first thing that you notice is all of the cops and soldiers with AK-47’s. These are serious threats by these clowns. If you remember in 1997 62 tourists were SLAUGHTERED in Luxor, Egypt at an ancient temple site. The threats are REAL and they mean it.

  11. Gene says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    This is why Muslim countries are backward hell holes. Islam is a parasite on the civilizations it conquers. It benefits for a time from the previous culture (i.e. Islam’s “golden age”), but ultimately the parasite kills the hast. Islam then proceeds to destroy everything that remains to remind people that the non-Muslim cultures were better than the Islamic one.

    The pyramids have survived Islam to this point because they were too big for Muslims to destroy, but thanks to western technology that won’t be the case for long.

  12. Elise says

    Mar 12, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    The I in Islam and the I’s in ISIS really stand for Idiots and the Ignorant, because that’s what they are. In any country where religious leaders and corrupt dictators control all day to day life, ignorance and illiteracy are required for total control. The idea of being able to self govern and the freedom to think or question are not allowed. Those who question may be arrested and killed for blasphemy or anything, like we see in Iran and Saudi Arabia daily.

  13. Rajiv Das says

    Mar 13, 2015 at 9:05 am

    Right from the first muslim invader Mohammed-Bin-Qasim in 712 A.D., all muslim invaders have destroyed thousands of Hindu and Buddhist temples, monasteries, Libraries and other religious structures in India.
    http://www.stephen-knapp.com/islamic_destruction_of_hindu_temples.htm

  14. Been There Got the Tee Shirt says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 8:34 am

    Muslims have already partially destroyed the great pyramid in Egypt, as they used the pyramid as a quarry for the polished high-quality limestone facing on it for building, among other things, mosques during the 12 century. The stones were used to build, as I understand it, the Citadel with its mosque, various public works projects like bridges, and the mosque in downtown Cairo.

    The original limestone face remains only at the top of the great pyramid, and we can only imagine what the original pyramid looked like.

    This is another example of the desecration and demolition of historical buildings done by Muslims through the centuries, and in this case, done to one of the most famous, if not the most famous build in the world.

    On a related note, for years I bought into the story of the Sphinx being damaged by the French using it for target practice, and am surprised but not shocked to find that the damage to the face of the Sphinx was most likely done by the Muslims centuries earlier.

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