According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypts Great Pyramidsor, in the words of Saudi
Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabii, those symbols of paganism, which Egypts Salafi party has long planned to
cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrains Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs and President of National Unity,
Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypts 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 Muhammads 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 itselfdeemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koranwas destroyed under bin al-Ass reign and in
compliance with Caliph Omars command.
However, while book-burning was an easy activity in the 7[SUP]th[/SUP] century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was noteven if Egypts Medieval Mamluk rulers
de-nosed the latter during target practice (though popular legend still attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon).
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