Libyan Islamists rally to demand sharia-based law
 Golly, was it Friday again? | Rooters - Hundreds of Libyan Islamists rallied on Friday to demand that Mohammedan sharia law inspire legislation in what organizers called a response to the emergence of secular political parties after the fall of Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards , and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
's dictatorship last year.
Assembled by Islamist political and religious groups, mostly young and bearded men holding up copies of the Koran demonstrated in squares in the capital Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi and in Sabha in the southern desert.
In Tripoli's Algeria Square, Islamists burned copies of the Green Book, Qadaffy's eccentric handbook on politics, economics and everyday life, to underline that the Koran should be the country's main source of legislation.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-22 |