Murgan Salem al-Gohary, today called for the destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt according the local media reports.
Murgan sentences twice under Hosni Mubarak for advocating Jihad, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”
“All Muslims should apply the teachings of Islam to remove such idols, as we did in Afghanistan when we destroyed the Buddha statues,” he said on Saturday during a television interview on an Egyptian private channel.
He further said that “God ordered Prophet Mohammed to destroy idols,” . “When I was with the Taliban we destroyed the statue of Buddha, something the government failed to do.”
According to a report publish in the Al-Arabiya, his comments came a day after thousands of ultraconservative Islamists gathered in Tahrir Square to call for the strict application of Sharia law in the new constitution.