November 12, 2012

The Religion of Peace

From Al Arabiya News:
�Destroy the idols,� Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids
An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the �destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,� drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.

Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such �idols.�

�All Muslims are charged with applying the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,� he said on Saturday during a television interview on an Egyptian private channel, widely watched by Egyptian and Arab audiences.

�God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,� he added. �When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.�
A royal prince of a guy:
Gohary, 50, is well-known in Egypt for his advocacy of violence, Egypt Independent reported.

�He was sentenced twice, one of the two sentences being life imprisonment. He subsequently fled Egypt to Afghanistan, where he was badly injured in the American invasion. In 2007, he traveled from Pakistan to Syria, which then handed him over to Egypt. After Mubarak's fall in early 2011, he was released from prison by a judicial ruling,� the newspaper added.
I hope there is a special circle of hell for people like this -- so willingly filled with ignorance and hate. The very idea that he thinks that he speaks for any manifestation of God is pure hubris. Posted by DaveH at November 12, 2012 5:31 PM
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