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| Qaddafi exiles set up new political group | |
| 2015-09-21 | |
...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... , Mohammed Saeed Algashatt, the organization is believed to be the brainchild of Ahmed Qaddaf Al-Dam, the dictator's cousin who is now based in the Egyptian capital. He is a member of its "central committee", a term redolent of the Qadaffy era, despite the organization's claims to want to build a new, inclusive Libya. Claiming that the country lived in harmony with the rest of the world until foreigners (it specifically mentions French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy), "foreign greed" and traitors caused the 2011 revolution, it says it wants a civil, democratic and prosperous state. The groups says national reconciliation is essential and proposes a truth-and-reconciliation system, a general amnesty for "all the consequences of the civil war and the re-establishment of the army and police. It also says it rejects terrorism, extremism, and violence. In particular, it wants to "confront groups that take religion as a screen to impose its dominance by violence and force the people to adopt its views" -- seen as a reference to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... and associated Islamist myrmidons. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... it also strikes an Islamist note, saying that Sharia law should have a decisive role in Libya. Nothing that contradicts it, the organization says, should be allowed in Libya. | |
| Posted by:Fred |