http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/in-egypt-rumor-of-pyramids-demise-proves-flimsy.html
New
York Times
24
July 2012
By
ROD NORDLAND and MAYY EL SHEIKH
CAIRO - What's this? Egypt's new Islamist leaders want
to raze the Great Pyramids, scratch away the images on the death masks of the
pharaohs, maybe even wipe the grin off what is left of the face of the Sphinx?
Someone
who reads a lot of right-wing blogs in the United
States these days might be forgiven for thinking so,
though there is no sign here that any such Islamist clamor to destroy the
monuments of ancient Egypt
has actually arisen.
The
fear that it has, though, is a textbook example of how a rumor, especially
about a place as tumultuous as Egypt these days, can take on a life of its own
- fed by a kernel of fact, a dash of Twitter, and a convenient coincidence or
two. [...]
