The “freedom fighters” that the U.S. launched to power in Libya after ousting former dictator Muammar Gadhafi are imposing, with the help of residual militias, a harsh brand of fundamentalist Islam which is helping to impoverish and subjugate the Libyan people. Salafis are attacking shop owners who sell alcohol and demolishing the tombs of saints where many local people worship. These are the same groups that hoisted the al-Qaeda flag in Benghazi after Gadhafi’s fall. They are now inflaming sectarian divides in Libya as many in America still manage to boast about bringing democracy to the country.
John Glaser, you need to send a personal letter to Hillary Clinton and her democratic friends from California to Boston thanking them for supporting the Libyan war and now they are doing exactly the same thing in Syria.., if you need their names ask people around or look at ABC, CNN, BBC, Swedish News paper Dagens Nyheter, the Monarch House of England, La French Kozi/Markel and the Turk diary, or simply call and ask.., they will tell you who these people are. But I give you a hint, start with Obama, Saudi Arabia, UAE, John Kerry (the Ketchup man), Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and many more.
The American plan in Libya (at least) is going according to plan. Let others think what they like.
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Thats not a Harsh brand of Islam. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam. It easy to recognize that Alcohol is a problem to society. Thats why America tried to ban early in the last century. Regarding demolishing tombs of Saints, Dont know whether that is true, Cant always trust news. And how does 'impoverish and subjugate' relate to alcohol and tombs???
Thats just a beginning, wait few more months then they come to your home and take away your freedom by sending you to war in other part of Africa, as they have started war with Mali.., Islam or for that matter any religious is a framed form of dictatorial concepts, is a dictatorship, democracy in the other hand is an open ended philosophy but that dose’nt mean that you can involve religion to rule a society and call it "religious democracy". There is no such thing as "Religious democracy”.., is a falsified democracy which played and orchestrated by the US and EU militarism regimes for stealing peoples wealth in middle east and now in Africa.
Not sure how you define dictatorship and democracy. If a democracy bans alcohol it becomes dictatorship? If it bans pot it continues to be a democracy?
The Military Industrial Complex, realizing the vital importance of a steady supply of adversaries to the maintenance of high levels of military activity and a robust revenue stream, has initiated the New Adversary Apprenticeship Program. Here comes the new Caliphate! courtesy of the US and NATO. Allah Akbar. Mission accomplished.
Bingo! While instability and chaos are not the CONSCIOUS objective of most interventionists, the MIC (and our political elite) is an evolving, self-organizing entity that finds its way to policies that perpetuate it and foster its own growth. Thus, those who oppose policies that foster its growth are automatically shunted aside or ignored like Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, who likely will be reapportioned into retirement this year. Astute observers like Noam Chomsky are ignored, while pundits like George Will or Chris Matthews who regularly support fiascoes like Libya are supported by the elites and MIC with long, lucrative careers.
When you understand the true goals of US policy, you realize it is wildly successful and entirely rational, but deeply depraved.
And here I thought that once Gadhaffi was removed, Tripoli would magically convert into wall street, the San Fernando Valley, and DC all rolled into one. Strange how that didn't happen. How is it that Muslim countries end up with Muslim governments once a secular strongman is removed. An impenetrable riddle to the geniuses in charge of Western foreign policy.
While the consuming of alcohol is forbidden to Muslims, its sale and consumption by non-Muslims is- or should be- a non-issue. The sale of alcohol by Muslims is not supported or recommended.
As for the destroying of the tombs of saints, I am assuming they are referring to Christian saints- and if this is the case, those responsible for committing the acts are wrong. Muslims do not recognize saints, nor do we worship at people's tombs, but if non-Muslims choose to do so that is their business, not ours.