Will the pyramids of Egypt go the way of the bamiyan statues?

[Sunni Man]

I still don't know so many people got all worked up over the Taliban destroying a couple of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan?

There are no Buddhists in that country to worship them.

So why have them cluttering up the landscape?

 

[strollingbones]

I still don't know so many people got all worked up over the Taliban destroying a couple of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan?

There are no Buddhists in that country to worship them.

So why have them cluttering up the landscape?

and sometimes you are just cluttering up the board?


really......works of art.....antiquity......but lets just blow them up.....no one wants to keep them for future generations?

 

[Sunni Man]

In my opinion, they should have held the statues for ransom instead of blowing them up..

And waited for an offer from a Buddhist country who would pay them millions to buy and move them.

That would have been a Win-Win for everyone.

 

[Douger]

Fatwa this meathead while they're at it.
Oh WAIT !
He was one of them !

 

[JStone]

In my opinion, they should have held the statues for ransom instead of blowing them up..

And waited for an offer from a Buddhist country who would pay them millions to buy and move them.

That would have been a Win-Win for everyone.

The children of satan are losers losers, like you you

The Economist Magazine: Arab World Self-Doomed To Failure

WHAT went wrong with the Arab world? Why is it so stuck behind the times? It is not an obviously unlucky region. Fatly endowed with oil, and with its people sharing a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, it is faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflict. But, with barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.

One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And, over the past 20 years, growth in income per head, at an annual rate of 0.5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than ten years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. Around 12m people, or 15% of the labour force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.

Freedom. This deficit explains many of the fundamental things that are wrong with the Arab world: the survival of absolute autocracies; the holding of bogus elections; confusion between the executive and the judiciary (the report points out the close linguistic link between the two in Arabic); constraints on the media and on civil society; and a patriarchal, intolerant, sometimes suffocating social environment. The great wave of democratisation that has opened up so much of the world over the past 15 years seems to have left the Arabs untouched. Democracy is occasionally offered, but as a concession, not as a right. Freedom of expression and freedom of association are both sharply limited. Freedom House, an American-based monitor of political and civil rights, records that no Arab country has genuinely free media, and only three have “partly free”. The rest are not free

Knowledge. “If God were to humiliate a human being,” wrote Imam Ali bin abi Taleb in the sixth century, “He would deny him knowledge.” Although the Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, it is not, it seems, well spent. The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully, and there is a severe mismatch between the labour market and the education system. Adult illiteracy rates have declined but are still very high: 65m adults are illiterate, almost two-thirds of them women. Some 10m children still have no schooling at all. One of the gravest results of their poor education is that the Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping ever further behind in scientific research and in information technology. Investment in research and development is less than one-seventh of the world average. Only 0.6% of the population uses the Internet, and 1.2% have personal computers.

Women's status. The one thing that every outsider knows about the Arab world is that it does not treat its women as full citizens. How can a society prosper when it stifles half its productive potential? After all, even though women's literacy rates have trebled in the past 30 years, one in every two Arab women still can neither read nor write. Their participation in their countries' political and economic life is the lowest in the world.

Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist

 

[Katzndogz]

The pyramids are nothing but a huge pile of hewn stones.

So what's the big loss if they are torn down?

If the Egyptian people decide to destroy them so be it.

Their country and their land.

Who are we to say any different?

That's democracy isn't it! If the Egyptian people want to strip women in the street and beat them for being naked they should do it. If the Egyptian people want to slaughter what few Coptic Egyptians remain in the country, they should do it.

 

[Sunni Man]

That's democracy isn't it! If the Egyptian people want to strip women in the street and beat them for being naked they should do it. If the Egyptian people want to slaughter what few Coptic Egyptians remain in the country, they should do it.

Get a grip son!!

We are only talking about stone statues and not people.

Afghanistan is 100% muslim.

So these stone idols were seen as a blight on the landscape and needed to be removed.

I see no problem with that.

 

[Katzndogz]

That's democracy isn't it! If the Egyptian people want to strip women in the street and beat them for being naked they should do it. If the Egyptian people want to slaughter what few Coptic Egyptians remain in the country, they should do it.

Get a grip son!!

We are only talking about stone statues and not people.

Afghanistan is 100% muslim.

So these stone idols were seen as a blight on the landscape and needed to be removed.

I see no problem with that.

Should there be limits on democracy or a vote democratically given? Is there truly power to the people for self-determination, or does it apply only to objects?

 

[Unkotare]

I still don't know so many people got all worked up over the Taliban destroying a couple of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan?

There are no Buddhists in that country to worship them.

So why have them cluttering up the landscape?

You're a fucking moron.

 

[Sunni Man]

Is there truly power to the people for self-determination, or does it apply only to objects?

Correct me if I am wrong; but inanimate objects can't vote.

 

[JStone]

That's democracy isn't it! If the Egyptian people want to strip women in the street and beat them for being naked they should do it. If the Egyptian people want to slaughter what few Coptic Egyptians remain in the country, they should do it.

Get a grip son!!

We are only talking about stone statues and not people.

Afghanistan is 100% muslim.

So these stone idols were seen as a blight on the landscape and needed to be removed.

I see no problem with that.

Great civilizations like the ancient egyptians build great things.

Failed civilizations like islime destroy them.

Not one good thing has originated from the muslime shitholes

Arab Author Anwar Malek...

The Arabs are afflicted with fantasies and obsolete bravado. False, empty bravado, which does no good to anybody. The Arabs invented or discovered the zero--but what did they do with it? Some of them sat on it, some put it on their heads, while others wore it around their waists and began shaking their hips, their belies, and their breasts in order to sell to the world the idea that modern Arabs are doing something

Today, the Arabs constitute nothing but thousands of zeros to the left. The Arabs have lost their worth, their humanity, their culture, and everything. There is nothing to suggest that the Arabs can be relied upon to produce anything. This false bravado is deeply rooted in the Arabs to an unimaginable degree. It is so deeply rooted that the Arabs believe they can go to the moon. If you asked your viewers whether the Arabs would be able to reach the moon by 2015, they would say, "Yes, the Arabs will get to the moon" By Allah, the Arabs will not go more than a few hundred kilometers from their doorsteps.

In all honesty, the Arabs are backward and are not fit for civilization at all. I am talking about the Arabs of today who have begun to export shawarma, falafel and lupin beans to Europe and they purport to be bringing something Arab to Europe

the reality of the Arabs is one of defeat, hitting rock bottom We are defeated, politically and militarily and economically, socially, and even psychologically. We have a discourse of conspiracy, and we blame everything on others. Take Egypt--What does Egypt--that superpower--have to offer? Nothing, it is incapable of doing anything. It has nothing but lupin beans. It is incapable of anything.

Look at how the Arabs live in the West. By Allah, they are a bad example. If you hear about thieves, they are always Arabs. Whenever a young man harasses a girl on the streets of London or Paris, he turns out to be an Arab. All the negative moral values are to be found in the Arab individual

 

[The Infidel]

Wonder if the pyramids will survive the Islamists... Wonder if tourism is over in Egypt.


Sucks... I would love to have seen it.

 

[High_Gravity]

Wonder if the pyramids will survive the Islamists... Wonder if tourism is over in Egypt.


Sucks... I would love to have seen it.

I think Brotherhood will keep the Pyramids they need the cash, but if I were you I would NOT got there now, I don't want Americans going anywhere near the Muslim Brotherhood, with them running the country you will have to abide by strict Islamic laws.

 

[Katzndogz]

Since the pyramids don't depict a living thing, there's no reason to destroy them. The art, the statues, the walls of the tombs that's what may be destroyed.

I don't see islam allowing depictions of Isis, the fertility Goddess, to remain.

 

[High_Gravity]

Since the pyramids don't depict a living thing, there's no reason to destroy them. The art, the statues, the walls of the tombs that's what may be destroyed.

I don't see islam allowing depictions of Isis, the fertility Goddess, to remain.

I don't think the Brotherhood will touch any of that, at least not right now. They are trying to trick the rest of the world into thinking they are "secular" and "moderate", can't really do that if you are blowing up Pyramids.

 

[The Infidel]

Wonder if the pyramids will survive the Islamists... Wonder if tourism is over in Egypt.


Sucks... I would love to have seen it.

I think Brotherhood will keep the Pyramids they need the cash, but if I were you I would NOT got there now, I don't want Americans going anywhere near the Muslim Brotherhood, with them running the country you will have to abide by strict Islamic laws.

Im not going near the middle east anytime soon, but would have loved to.

Believe it or not.... I have always been fascinated with that region of the world. Just not to crazy about getting my head lopped off

 

[High_Gravity]

Wonder if the pyramids will survive the Islamists... Wonder if tourism is over in Egypt.


Sucks... I would love to have seen it.

I think Brotherhood will keep the Pyramids they need the cash, but if I were you I would NOT got there now, I don't want Americans going anywhere near the Muslim Brotherhood, with them running the country you will have to abide by strict Islamic laws.

Im not going near the middle east anytime soon, but would have loved to.

Believe it or not.... I have always been fascinated with that region of the world. Just not to crazy about getting my head lopped off

Just go to Israel.