{"id":9544,"date":"2012-07-19T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/are-the-pyramids-of-egypt-slated-for-destruction\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T13:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:50:58","slug":"are-the-pyramids-of-egypt-slated-for-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/are-the-pyramids-of-egypt-slated-for-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Pyramids of Egypt Slated for Destruction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This is one of the statues of Buddha that the Taliban dynamited in 2001:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01761691b340970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bamiyan-buddha2\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01761691b340970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01761691b340970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Bamiyan-buddha2\" \/><\/a>Will the Pyramids of Egypt meet the same fate at the hands of similar miscreants?&#0160; See Victor Davis Hanson, <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/victordavishanson\/2012\/07\/19\/blowing_up_history\/page\/full\/\" target=\"_self\">Blowing Up History<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Of the world religions, &quot;the religion of peace&quot; is uniquely violent.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Having said that, I must be an &#39;Islamophobe&#39; right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Wrong.&#0160; My fear of radical Islam is entirely rational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A phobia is by definition an irrational fear.&#0160; Leftists introduced &#39;Islamophobia&#39; as a semantic bludgeon to silence their opponents and&#0160;prevent honest debate.&#0160; That is why it is utterly stupid for any conservative to use this word.&#0160; If you are a conservative, don&#39;t talk like a liberal!&#0160; Language matters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the statues of Buddha that the Taliban dynamited in 2001: Will the Pyramids of Egypt meet the same fate at the hands of similar miscreants?&#0160; See Victor Davis Hanson, Blowing Up History. Of the world religions, &quot;the religion of peace&quot; is uniquely violent.&#0160; Having said that, I must be an &#39;Islamophobe&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/19\/are-the-pyramids-of-egypt-slated-for-destruction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are the Pyramids of Egypt Slated for Destruction?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}