On the statues

Pharaonic statues have withstood over 1,000 years of Islamic rule -- from the Ummayad Caliphate to the Ottoman Empire -- and now the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa suggests that they should be banned. Doesn't this seem to run contrary to tradition? Could this really be Islam, or have its religious leaders strayed from the true faith towards something entirely different? Islamofascism, perhaps?