Why didn't Muslims in Egypt practice iconoclasm against temples, the Sphinx and the Pyramids which were all symbols of cult following and paganism? I thought Islam hated Idoltry.
Why didn't Muslims in Egypt practice iconoclasm against temples...
Zachary Young
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Cameron Gray
I'd like to see you try to disassemble the pyramids
Landon Reed
Show me.
Benjamin Rivera
Some muslims do advocate for it (like the guy in pic related in fact) but the tourist money, Egyptian cultural concern, and the cost involved in destroying them. There are other places where monuments on a similar scale were destroyed by iconoclastic kebabs though, like the Buddhist temples in Afghanistan.
Landon Turner
*cost involved in destroying them prevents it.
Alexander Diaz
They did. That's why the Sphinx misses a nose.
Luke Wood
Hating idolatry =/= blowing up everything that's Paganistic.
ISIS/Taliban ideas of idolatry are extreme even among Wahhabis. While a couple kooky Egyptian mullahs have talked about destroying the pyramids everybody tells them to fuck off.
For most observant Muslims, you only need to worry about idols if Muslims are treating an object like an idol. Nobody ever prayed to the Buddhas at Bamiyan, which is why they stayed perfectly intact for 1000 years of Muslim rule until the Taliban took over.
Liam Rogers
A lot of faces were chipped off I think and they tried to damage the sphinx once.
But its all pretty massive, rather pretty and needs time and labour to destroy so why bother? The Taliban only blew the bhuddas up as a fuck you to the west when they heard people were concerned about them while their own lifes were in danger fighting other factions which made them pretty butthurt..
Levi Hughes
THEY MAKE ME SO GODDAMN MAD HOW DARE THEY TOUCH BUDDHA STATUES REEEEEE
Jaxson Gomez
They did and they do, you're just too stupid to know about it.
>At the end of the twelfth century al-Malek al-Aziz Othman ben Yusuf, Saladin's son and heir, attempted to demolish the pyramids, starting with Menkaure's. The workmen whom Al-Aziz had recruited to demolish the pyramid found it almost as expensive to destroy as to build. They stayed at their job for eight months. They were not able to remove more than one or two stones each day at a cost of tiring themselves out utterly. Some used wedges and levers to move the stones, while others used ropes to pull them down. When a stone fell, it would bury itself in the sand, requiring extraordinary efforts to free it. Wedges were used to split the stones into several pieces, and a cart was used to carry it to the foot of the escarpment, where it was left. Far from accomplishing what they intended to do, they merely spoiled the pyramid by leaving a large vertical gash in its north face.
They also tried to destroy the acropolis for lead and were using the Rosetta stone as a fucking paving slab before the French gave them what they deserved, filthy desert rats.
Thankfully their stupidity surpasses even their impulse to destroy civilization so there were still concealed artifacts for the white man to uncover and demystify.
Gavin Peterson
depends on the subjetc who idolizing it
>muslim idolizing other god
ban it
>non-muslim idolizing it
let it, cna't enforce it
>none idolizing it as praying shits
keep it as a wonderful view or destroy it if necessary
Adrian Gomez
looks like someone tried to grief something in minecraft then gave up lel
Carson Cook
>blaming arabs to what a filthy kurd did
The vast majority of Egyptians are proud of their heritage. Why do you think they place such heavy security on artifacts and tombs?
Tyler Roberts
Most Muslims aren't Wahhabi extremists who think that it's their duty to destroy global heritage sites.
Nicholas Baker
>their heritage
You mean the heritage they stole from Africans? Arabs are not indigenous to Egypt.
Samuel Richardson
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Joseph Nguyen
It would make japan extremely pissed.
Grayson Anderson
Too add, Greeks are easily the most terrible at protecting and preserving their heritage:
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Aiden Barnes
Reminder of how times have changed.
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Blake Gomez
That's just natural wear over time user.
Sebastian Harris
And yet these fuckers were salty Disney made a Hercules film
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Easton Martinez
No.
>The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr—a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada—in AD 1378, upon finding the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest. Enraged, he destroyed the nose, and was later hanged for vandalism.[44] Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the "talisman of the Nile" on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended
Daniel Foster
>ISIS/Taliban ideas of idolatry are extreme even among Wahhabis.
So why did the Saudis blow up almost anything with history in Arabia?
Nathaniel Anderson
You get whipped if you piss on the pyramids
Daniel Bennett
Not suprising. When I was in Greece there was literally trash on the ground everywhere I went. Even out in nature. Everything was covered in grafiti too, even some old medieval structures. I am not suprised they neglect their ancient heritage aswell.
Brayden Miller
Oh, there were also half-complete houses everywhere, left abandoned to be reclaimed by nature. Source: I went to Crete
Luke Jenkins
Stuff like that was common during the middle ages, europeans would also destroy ancient roman monuments too
Levi Nguyen
Because they are Wahhabis too.
Sunni not even once.
Jaxson Reyes
Wahhabis are less than 0.5 of total Sunni population. They are a minority even among Sunnis living in the Gulf states.
Jacob Ross
Just like Persian culture and Islamic culture clash & balance, so did Egyptian culture and Islamic culture, even though Egyptians have mostly Arabized by now. Egyptian antiquity is a great source of pride for Egyptian Arabs.
James Jenkins
mmm, kind of.
The point of these threads is usually "see dumb anons Islam is civilized"
>I thought Islam hated Idoltry.
with that pic.
They do hate idolatry and they're the worst iconoclasts in human history. If they only don't look so appalling when compared to medieval Christendom, then that speaks volumes.
Western Europe has moved on, why haven't they.
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