Here We Go Again - Destroying Un-Islamic Tresures....

[Revoltingest]

Don'tcha just hate religious fanatics who must destroy artifacts of others?

Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin | FrontPage Magazine

Mali Islamists destroy tombs at famous Timbuktu mosque | Reuters

[Iti oj]

Wow. Well if they tried to destroy the pyramids i could see the rest of the world invading to protect them

[Gjallarhorn]

Somewhere a New Ager is cheering that we will soon discover the hidden alien spaceship under the pyramids and the akashic records under the sphinx.

[Egyptian Phoenix]

Destroy the pyramids? (Keels over)

[Revoltingest]

Originally Posted by Egyptian Phoenix

Destroy the pyramids? (Keels over)

I know....how can anyone be so short-sighted & fanatical?
It's astounding & horrifying.

[Wirey]

Man, I don't want to poop on your source, but Front Page Magazine is something Dick Cheney would masturbate to. There's a book ad on the sidebar for an interesting title called "Obama and Islam", and an ad for a Ronald Regan themed e-mail service. It sounds like right-wing pandering to their fringe elements.

[Revoltingest]

Originally Posted by Wirey

Man, I don't want to poop on your source, but Front Page Magazine is something Dick Cheney would masturbate to.

I must ask.....how on Earth did that image pop into your brain?

There's a book ad on the sidebar for an interesting title called "Obama and Islam", and an ad for a Ronald Regan themed e-mail service. It sounds like right-wing pandering to their fringe elements.

Hmmm....I guess it can't be true that Islamic extremists would want to purge pagan & heathen art & architecture.
Oh, wait! They've done it before.....
Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I suppose that this didn't happen either cuz Wikipedia is another right wing conspiratorial group.
Ansar Dine fighters destroy Timbuktu shrines - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Aljazeera is one of my favorite right wingers.....I think they're a splinter group from the Tea Party.

I happen to really like history, art & architecture.
I hate seeing our past erased from our memories, as is often done when too much Kool Aid is consumed, eg, Mao's purges.
I wonder what Caladan thinks & knows about these goings on?

[Caladan]

I'll give the same answer I gave on FB's archaeology group when this came up:

Originally Posted by Caladan

Egyptian economy is largely based on tourism, I think the day the Egyptian desert freezes over is sooner to appear than the destruction of the pyramids by Egyptian hands. As for Binyan and what currently happens in Timbuktu, these are the actions of radicals who may be at odds with a Muslim mainstream. And please note that I am not a fan of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a concerned neighbour of Egypt. I'm simply trying to bring some objectivity here. I visited in Egypt shortly before the Arab Spring, and I hope to do so again in the future and get my impressions of the changes after their first democratic election in Egyptian history.

[Wirey]

Originally Posted by Revoltingest

I must ask.....how on Earth did that image pop into your brain?

Hmmm....I guess it can't be true that Islamic extremists would want to purge pagan & heathen art & architecture.
Oh, wait! They've done it before.....
Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I suppose that this didn't happen either cuz Wikipedia is another right wing conspiratorial group.
Ansar Dine fighters destroy Timbuktu shrines - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Aljazeera is one of my favorite right wingers.....I think they're a splinter group from the Tea Party.

I happen to really like history, art & architecture.
I hate seeing our past erased from our memories, as is often done when too much Kool Aid is consumed, eg, Mao's purges.
I wonder what Caladan thinks & knows about these goings on?

I'm not saying that there aren't people saying 'blow up the pyramids'. There are people right here in Canada who burn books. I'm saying that source seems, well, biased.

[Revoltingest]

Originally Posted by Wirey

I'm not saying that there aren't people saying 'blow up the pyramids'. There are people right here in Canada who burn books.

You have books?

I'm saying that source seems, well, biased.

Aren't all sources biased?