Fearmongering serves no purpose

Never mind Save the Whales. Quit your Occupy movements. it’s time to band together to preserve the pyramids at Giza which, if you believe Stanford University’s Pulitzer prize-winning professor Joel Brinkley writing in the San Franciso Chronicle, are in danger of being demolished by Islamists as dastardly symbols of paganism. “Mohammad Mursi has been Egypt’s President for less than a month and already senior clerics in his country and around the Islamic world are loudly calling for the demolition of the pyramids, Egypt’s most important tourist attraction and among the Seven Wonders of the World,” he writes. Brinkley cites a tweet, purportedly written by a Bahraini shaikh, for hyping the ante and blames President Mursi for his silence on the topic.