Egypt’s Threatened Treasures

The Sphinx is missing its nose, and not because of millennia of exposure to the elements. In 1378, a passing Sufi fanatic, Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr, was appalled to see this huge stone face rising out of the sand in defiance of Islam's ban on graven images. When he noticed that the local peasants were making offerings to the Sphinx in the hopes of reaping a bountiful harvest, he was so outraged that he got a ladder and some chisels and pried off the nose. The peasants, furious at this desecration, lynched al-Dahr on the spot and buried him in the sand before the Sphinx as their next offering. He got his just deserts, but his spirit lives on in legions of 21^st century fanatics who wish to purge Egypt of everything un-Islamic. And the descendants of those peasants are voting by the millions for these madmen, and putting them in charge of Egypt's destiny.

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