ISIS says it is their 'religious duty' to destroy Egypt's pyramids and the Sphinx

From the Business Insider:

Britain’s The Telegraph reports members of ISIS have stated that objects shouldn’t be the subject of idolisation or worship. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly said destroying the monuments was a “religious duty”. 

British Muslim political activist Anjem Choudary told presenter Dan Cruickshank: “When Egypt comes under the auspices of the Khalifa (Caliphate), there will be no more Pyramids, no more Sphinx, no more idolatry. This will be just”. 

This week ISIS launched a wave of simultaneous attacks on Egyptian security forces. There were co-ordinated suicide attacks and ground assaults on the Egyptian military installations, which were eventually repelled with air support by Egypt’s F-16 fighter jets. 

But preacher Ibrahim Al Kandari said the monuments were cultural, not religious, and should be destroyed. 

A Kuwaiti Islamist preacher, he called for the destruction of the monuments, saying just because early Muslims didn’t destroy them, “does not mean that we shouldn’t”.