Indonesian visit the Great Pyramid, built by Cheops, known locally as Khufu in Giza, Egypt, Thursday, June 2, 2016. A scientific team scanning the Great Pyramid aimed at discovering the famed pharaonic monument's secrets including possible hidden burial chambers. (AP)
Egypt’s Islamic authority downplays ISIS threat to destroy pyramids
ISIS made the threat in a 10-minute video it released showing its militants blowing up a 2,500-year-old temple in Iraq
Egypt’s Islamic authority has downplayed recent threats by ISIS that the militant group could destroy the Giza pyramids, the state-owned Ahram Online reported Friday.
“This is unlikely in Egypt in light of a strong state and deterrent institutions,” Dar Al-Ifta, the Egyptian state body that issues Islamic edicts, said in a statement.
Dar Al-Ifta said such threats are “unrealistic” amid what it described as series of successful security blows that led to a “decline in terrorist attacks” in Egypt.
ISIS made the threat in a 10-minute video it released showing its militants blowing up a 2,500-year-old temple in Iraq.
Demolishing the temple of Nabu - the Babylonian god of wisdom - in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is the latest of ISIS attacks against historic sites in the country and its neighboring Syria.
