In a series of speech and celebrations that were careful to avoid direct mention of the dubious method of execution of their predecessor, Libya’s National Transitional Council ushered in their new regime with an announcement of the “liberation” of Libya from Moammar Gadhafi. To choruses of Allahu Akbar they sought to make it clear the liberation came with a decidedly Islamic flavor, including promises to center the new legal system around Sharia law.
Though Gadhafi loyalists remain in the country it no longer appears likely they will mount a comeback. Even with NTC chair Mustafa Abdul-Jalil vowing the new government’s legal system would center around Sharia, Libya is far from stable.
That’s because the NTC was an alliance of disparate interests brought together by a common enemy, and with him gone the already splintered faction looks prepared to rip itself apart, with regional rivalries and religious differences serving as the lines of demarcation.
Even the promise of Sharia is a vague one, as it could mean very different things to the different groups in the NTC. Abdul-Jalil’s promise to ban the charging of interest and to legalize polygamy were the only specifics given. Libya is increasingly not one nation, but many.
Far from the recent fighting all is calm in eastern Benghazi, while Misrata in the west appears to have gone down an extremely dark path, destroying a neighboring town of 10,000 people because their skin color was presumed to mean loyalty to the old regime, and where the major new industry appears to be commemorative photographs with Gadhafi’s increasingly desecrated corpse.
The Libyans are Muslim – what should their laws be based on if not Islam? Where does antiwar.com get off with this sarcastic attitude towards them?
Where was the sarcasm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsKx7kbvkJA
Reporter of globalresearch.ca who was in Libya two months from July-August 2011:
13:06/ 13:30 transitional council people said to me, it was the USA who brought in Al Qaida. Libyans do not want the islamists, but the US wants them and is controlling them.
Eric Denécé, -Interview Officier-analyste à la direction de l'Evaluation et de la Documentation Stratégique du Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (SGDN).
in the interview
West Pays: 'Libyans bribed to forget Gaddafi'
says at 3:50:
USA, they "have a secret agreement with the Jihadists: YOU GET THE SHARIA AND WE GET THE OIL"
I guess USA knows that Islam is the best brainwash for this region and the most repressive system.
Arming the oil rich is a good business too, and when all arab/islamists unite, the defense sales will grow even bigger.
They do not fear war – the love it and are preparing it!
At least we know that the crackpot ruler was not a racist, while the new — former king's loyalists — are. We will in a short time see the heir of king Idriz come to visit from London, and in the end, the deal will be cut with the tribal leaders. People will not count, they will be given large dozes of Wahabi islam from Saudi Arabia, to crush their minds. Oil will flow, and Libyans return to their stone-age roots. They will soon be asked to forget free education and health care, as the unbecoming projects of a dictator, and will be convinced that the freedom from such earthly cares is better. Country will be buying weapons to match Saudi appetite. And all will be well.