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My concern with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood coming to power is worrisome because their Afghanistan counterparts in radical Islamists defaced giant statues carved into the cliffs of the Bamiyan Valley in 2001, and again in 2007, in Pakistan:
Someday, an Islamic holy man, wishing to make a name for himself or his cause, may decide to get attention by defacing everything in Egyptian museums, buildings, shrines, etc. People would starve who depend on trade with tourists.
Also, we know so little of the past, and often I think if the Egyptians, Sumerians, and others hadn't carved a little of their knowledge onto walls, we'd be in the dark as to what the experience of their culture was. What happened to the Sphynx' face? It was torn off, and nobody seems to know exactly who did it, when, or why.
So, I'm a little concerned that carrying religious extremism to the limit could be a threat to the world of history, recorded in stone, preserved by thoughtful men for centuries in museums so we would know of their many-thousands-of-years-old cultural details today.
My concern is what they will do to the Egyptian treasures that have long supported those 85 million Egyptians who depend on tourists wanting to see Heiroglyphs, Pyramids, and Ziggurats devoted to people who worshipped Ra, the Sun God.These pro-Taliban militants have used electric drills to chisel off the face of a massive 7th century Buddha sculpture, the Buddha of Jehanabad, which is considered the second in importance after those destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan. Corpus Christi Caller
Someday, an Islamic holy man, wishing to make a name for himself or his cause, may decide to get attention by defacing everything in Egyptian museums, buildings, shrines, etc. People would starve who depend on trade with tourists.
Also, we know so little of the past, and often I think if the Egyptians, Sumerians, and others hadn't carved a little of their knowledge onto walls, we'd be in the dark as to what the experience of their culture was. What happened to the Sphynx' face? It was torn off, and nobody seems to know exactly who did it, when, or why.
So, I'm a little concerned that carrying religious extremism to the limit could be a threat to the world of history, recorded in stone, preserved by thoughtful men for centuries in museums so we would know of their many-thousands-of-years-old cultural details today.
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