Pyramids And Sphinx Should Be Destroyed, But It’s OK If You Can’t Do It Right Now

The fatwa issued from a Qatari-based cleric is several years old, but it is just now that it has been getting attention in Egypt, presumably because the destruction of so many pre-islamic cities by ISIS has made the topic timely. The fatwa-issuer explains that while such destruction is called for, if the conditions are not propitioous, as they are not in Egypt today, then Darura or Necessity may be invoked to explain the failure to act.

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