According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Mohammedan holy men 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 Mohammedan Prophet Muhammad's companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian rustics, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Mohammedan rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Mohammedan 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,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
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).