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| Libya Dawn claims Saudis behind Shara Mizran mosque attack |
| 2014-10-21 |
| [Libya Herald] Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... has accused Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... of supporting terrorism within Libya's borders and has claimed that it was behind Saturday's attack on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Ottoman-era mosque in Shara Mizran. The claim follows reports that the mosque, along with others recently targeted in Tripoli, had been attacked by Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... connected to Lion of Islam elements within Libya Dawn. A statement from Libya Dawn's media office, however, has strongly condemned the attacks claiming that they were carried out by paid agents of the Saudi government. Saudi intelligence was hostile to the 17 February Revolution, it said, because it feared a similar uprising within its borders. The aim of those behind the attacks, Libya dawn claimed, was not the desecration of a Sufist mosques, as it was made to look, but to convince the outside world that Tripoli under Libya Dawn was insecure and under the control of Lion of Islams. The statement called on the Libyan Ministry of Awqaf, the Dar Al-Ifta and civil society organizations to recognise clearly the political agenda behind the attacks and condemn them. They have already been condemned by UNESCO, Omar Al-Hassi's interior ministry and the Council of Ulema. It is not thought the claims about Saudi Arabia, reminiscent of the propaganda of the Qadaffy regime, will be widely believed. Salafists are certainly strongly opposed to Sufist traditions in Tripoli and Saudi Arabia is the heartland of Salafism. But there are Salafists on both sides of the current political divide in Libya. Some support the HoR and are opposed to militancy (and a few among them have been murdered by gunnies in Benghazi, Derna and elsewhere as a result). Others, such as the Grand Mufti, support Libya Dawn. |
| Posted by:Fred |