Category Archives: Libya

Al Queda flag atop state buildings in Libya

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Below a tiny excerpt from what may be a highly significant article linked here. Please click through and read. Not only is Libya well adorned with the most extreme symbols of Islamic dominance but any attempt to show that this is the case is met with force. Classic Islam…

‘We rule you, and you may not speak about it’.

From Vice.com

  According to one Benghazi resident, Islamists driving brand-new SUVs and waving the black al Qaeda flag drive the city’s streets at night shouting, “Islamiya, Islamiya! No East, nor West,” a reference to previous worries that the country would be bifurcated between Gaddafi opponents in the east and the pro-Gaddafi elements in the west.

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Andrew Bostom has an article on this issue here

 

Andrew Bostom on the events in Libya

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Please click through to Dr. Bostom's site     
to hear this radio-interview with him here.

Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law

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Woops. We did it again.

The Telegraph

Libya’s interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.

Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council Photo: AP

8:15PM BST 23 Oct 2011

 Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source”.

But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways – it was also the basis of Egypt’s largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.

Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi’s era that he said was in conflict with Sharia – that banning polygamy.

In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya’s economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. “Interest creates disease and hatred among people,” he said.

Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslim countries, have pioneered the development of Sharia-compliant banks which charge fees rather than interest for loans but they normally run alongside western-style banks. Continue Reading →

Libya.

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I have, up till now, not posted anything on Libya. This is because I do not see any point in competing with major news sources. I see my role as filling important gaps in news we aren’t typically allowed to see, and-or interpretation of events in a way that political correctness forbids the major media sources from doing. The news out of Libya has been ubiquitous. So no need to reproduce here what you can see everywhere.

It is comforting to note that the kinds of news stories which until recently have only appeared on sites like mine are now becoming more and more available from places like SUN NEWS NETWORK. Ezra Levant, Michael Coren, Charles Adler and others are finally doing what news services were initially meant to do in a democracy. Granted they are only three but still, three on TV is worth an awful lot of blogs.

I can say this however.

What I have seen taking place in Libya, is not what I would call an auspicious start to a modern liberal democracy. I don’t know exactly what Kaddafi did to his own people but from what reading I have done, on the standards of modern dictators, he was a lot better to Libyans than he was to the rest of the world. I can understand relatives and friends of the Lockerbie bombing wanting to sodomize him with sticks and kill him, but is this really the way a secular liberal democracy starts out? Or is this just the next block of the new Caliphate, run by Islamic conquerors intending to set the stage for WW3.

Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt

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WAPO

h/t Richard

By , Wednesday, October 12, 5:06 PM

EL ARISH, Egypt — Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military officials and arms traders in the Sinai.

Surface-to-air missiles, most of them shoulder-launched, have been intercepted by Egyptian security officials on the road to Sinai and in the smuggling tunnels that connect Egypt to the Gaza Strip since Libyan autocrat Moammar Gaddafi fell from power in Tripoli in August, a military official in Cairo said. Arms traders said the weapons available on the clandestine market in Sinai also include rockets and antiaircraft guns.

The seizures raise fresh concerns about security along the sensitive area that borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, at a time when unrest is roiling the region. The addition of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to arsenals of Palestinian fighters in Gaza could add significantly to the threat against Israel, whose helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft frequently patrol the zone, which is controlled by the militant Islamist group Hamas.

“We don’t want to see Egypt as a pathway to smuggle weapons,” said Sameh Seif el-Yazal, a retired Egyptian general in military intelligence who said several surface-to-air missiles have been intercepted on the desert road from Libya to the Egyptian city of Alexandria and on their way north toward Gaza. “We believe some Palestinian groups made a deal with Libyans to get special weapons such as shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.” Continue Reading →

Libya’s Interim Leader Calls for State Based on Rule of Law, Islam

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From Voice of America news:

Posted Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 8:05 pm

The head of Libya’s interim government urged thousands of cheering supporters in the capital, Tripoli, late Monday to support a civil, democratic state that incorporates Islamic law into its principal legislation.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil called on Libyans to build a state based on the rule of law and avoid reprisal attacks against holdouts of former leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government.

In his first speech in Tripoli, the chairman of the National Transitional Council said his provisional administration seeks “a state of law, prosperity and one where Islamic Sharia law is the basis for legislation.”

Jalil arrived in Tripoli Saturday for the first time since his allies chased Mr. Gadhafi out of the city. He addressed the rowdy crowd in Martyrs’ Square, a site that until recently was used for pro-Gadhafi rallies. He had been running the provisional government from the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the revolt that overthrew Mr. Gadhafi last month. Continue Reading →