Sharia to Become the ‘Main Source of Law’ in Post-Revolutionary Libya
- Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:03pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, has a message for Libyans: Fear not, Sharia law is on the way.
There’s no telling how this prospect, which is a horrifying one for nations that see Islamic law as both repressive and un-democratic, will take shape. After all, Sharia‘s interpretation and legal structure can differ greatly depending on a nation’s interpretation of Islam.
As the war-tattered country seeks stability, it’s leaders will be deliberating to find the best path forward. In a speech on Monday evening in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square, Jalil told a large audience:
“We are seeking to establish a state government by law and welfare — and Sharia, Islamic law, should be the main source of law.”
“We must be united and not divided. We must condemn hatred and envy,” he said. Al Jazera claims that Jalil’s reinforcement that Sharia is going to be instituted may be rooted in an effort to brush off criticism, as some have dubbed Libya’s new leadership as liberal and secular — charges that could hurt leaders’ prospects of setting up a viable governing structure.
In a statement that seems to temper resulting fears from the Sharia pledge, Jalil continued:
“We will not accept any extremist ideology, on the right or the left. We are a Muslim people, for a moderate Islam, and will stay on this road.”
In his speech, the leader surprised those in attendance when he rebuked revolutionary forces for seeking vengeance on Gaddafi and his loyalists. In addition to railing against extremism, Jalil urged fighters to spare women and children.
The Guardian has more regarding the nation’s internal leadership struggles:
Agostino Miozzo, an Italian doctor and veteran of humanitarian emergencies who is the EU’s international crisis manager, emphasised that the leaders of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) were determined to resist international pressure and to decide the fate of their country themselves.
“Tripoli seems to be moving fast towards normality, but they [the NTC] need time to fight the internal political struggle,” Agostino said, after spending more than a week in Tripoli establishing contact with the new rulers. “We have no idea of the southern part of the country. That will be most problematic in the coming months. This part is totally out of control.”
Below, watch a news report that provides translated portions of Jalil’s speech calling for a “civil state” in Libya (via Al Jazeera):
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Comments (137)
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:54pmROSE-ELLEN,
hey, you ever watch a person buried up to their neck and stoned to death?
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:15pmMan, I never saw islamic religious law as a possibility in Libya!!!
Er, wait, yep, I did… YOu would have to have been a complete idiot to not expect militant islam to take over. Note for the politicians, every power vacuum in the mid east will be replaced with radicalized islam. When will you idiots figure that out?
Report Post »Seamus236
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 3:11pmWOW! Who in the State Department would have EVER seen this one coming? Oh my goodness! We have been duped! I “thought” the Obamafurher had this one wired in for democracy instead of a despotic cabal? Hey Barack? What the heck happened to your statesmanship?
Yet again, we see our peaceful loving congregants of Islaam returning to their barbaric roots of theologically inspired violence and depravity. Too bad the idiots in D.C. will never ‘get it”.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 3:44pmGlenn Beck was right again and Hilary was well, wrong as usual.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:49pm.
Report Post »In ten years, we’ll be going in to unseat these a$$ clowns too.
Ron Paul is right (I’m not a Paul voter) we should stay out.
How many millions did we already spend to overthrow one set of loons for another?
Okie from Muskogee
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:14pmI thought Ghaddafi was a Muslim and devout follower of Islam…..
What is not talked about is how Ghaddafi was head of the group who calling for oil to be traded in a new Arab currency, Gold Dinars, and not the dollar. Considering Libya had 100‘s of ton of Gold and many Arab neighbors were agreeing with him the USA and Europe couldn’t have that.
What is not talked about even more is in 2000 Saddam was head of a group, in which Ghaddafi attended, calling for oil to be traded in a new Arab Currency, Gold Dinars, not the dollar. Sanctions were issued against Iraq and soon after we went to war.
It‘s all about the Benjamin’s……Wake up America!
Report Post »stormcrow53
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 4:32amWhat did you expect? This is the Muslim Spring. A perfect example of moving the Overton Window. Shari’a is moderate? There is no moderate Islam. Submit or die. We will fight them now or we will fight them later but we will have to fight them. There is more than a financial deficit in the West. There is a deficit of the will we are passing on to our children and grandchildren. A poverty of cultural fortitude. We must not allow the destruction of our history and traditions. The West formally abolished slavery. The West distibuted more wealth worldwide than any other system in the history of humanity. The West fostered an enlightened, compassionate society that eventually weeded out the more virulent strains of political and religious dogma through trial and error in order to form a more perfect union in an imperfect world. And now will we stand, mute and feckless, fettered by the bonds of self agrandizement as this last, great hope of humanity suffers the assaults of tyrants, foreign dictators and the evil machinations of those captains of finance it once welcomed as allies in the struggle to uplift and empower the human condition? The West must prevail else our legacy to the future be a fruitless tale of what might have been. We can find the will and the way. I regret the lack of brevity.
Report Post »Islam delendum est!
rangerp
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 6:58amGhaddafi was similar to Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein was really an athiest. Pre first Gulf War, Iraq was one of the freest nations in the middle east, with some of the most lax laws concerning personal freedoms. Iraq had nightclubs, women could drive, and other freedoms not seen in countries like Saudi Arabia.
When Saddam had to give up Kuwait, he began to lose a little control from within, to inlcude the kurds revolting. Thus the need to pull out the quran, reestablish Islam, jerk a knot in the peoples butt with the religion of power, and get things back in line.
Islam is a means to govern, and control people. The religion portion is a false vaneer on the cover.
When the Afghani freedom fighters won out against the russians, they did the same. They control the population through the mosque.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 8:40amYes it is very moderate!
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 8:16pm@Ranger P
Yes, some try to use the Mosque as a Government just as some try and want to use the Church as Government. No difference……
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:53pmDoes that mean the now limited boots on the ground will be beheaded?
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:00pmThe people of Libya will do and accept what they want to do and accept.
Report Post »Why is it anyone else’s business?
stormcrow53
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 5:08amBecause my grandchildren’s liberty hangs in the balance. Because Western Civilization hangs in the balance. Because tyranny in its manifold forms must always be opposed. Because authority must always be questioned with unbridled scepticism. Because it is my duty and obligation to leave this world a better place than I found it. But maybe most of all so that complacency, which is the first, slight chain of slavery may never rule the soul of humanity. Because first they came for the Jews and I am not a Jew. Because of enlightened self interest! Because, because, because! Get it?
Report Post »hud
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 7:09pmOld Tr—– Yeah like the Czech’s & Pole‘s accepted Communism at the end of the barrels of tanks and AK’s. The reason we must never give up our gun’s is so we can die like men killin commies. A dead commie is the most moral thing on the face of this earth.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:48pmSo, where are our genius movie makers – hey – take some episodes of good, real America and show what people would be living in if the Islam folks take over.
Wake up soccer moms and dads. Wake up grandparents, aunties and uncles. Here you go – a trip back to the Stone Age. All that progress humankind has made – shot to he…
Brainwash the kids into hatred, abuse children and women and call it part of your religion.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:00pmWhat is the main religion in max security prisons? You know the ones with all the worst dregs of society.
Report Post »stevoschmidt
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:47pmRon Paul is so correct everytime he talks. Everything we do to help and change these governments we will only regret it in the long term. They will never adopt democracy or republicanism of any sort. Its Sharia law foreveyone and forever, no matter what. We create one beaurocracy to make up for the mistakes of the former agencies that were inadequately ran. So, we surrender our freedoms, liberties, and basic fifth amendment rights. We should all be ashamed of our electorate
Report Post »“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
Tx Spud Bar
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:58pmThe 5th?? Are you guilty.I don’t believe we have gone far enough.The last time we practiced isolationism we had Hitler and Imperial Japan knocking on our leave me alone , i’ll leave you alone appeasement Chamberlin attitude . We should have sent all the combatant countries back to the stone age.We cannot win a war unless we fight a war.We have not fought a war since WW11,unless we fight with the same conviction and tenasticy we will not win.It is an injustice to send our young people into harms way with one hand tied behind their backs.Either turn them loose and let them do their job which is to kill the enemy and win the war,or bring them home.The bible says in the last days we will use our power in-vane.I believe this is whats been happening since our national sin became great,abortion,no prayer in school,now even worse with gay marriage becoming the norm.God has removed the blessings of Abraham to the curse in Lev. of the old testament,please wake up America.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 3:14pmstevoschmidt
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:47pm
Ron Paul is so correct everytime he talks
ehhhhh NO!
“After 9/11, (people said) ‘Oh yeah, it’s those very bad people who hate us,’ but 15 of (the hijackers) came from Saudi Arabia,” said Paul. “One of the reasons they attacked us, is we propped up this Sharia government and the fundamentalists hated us for it.”
Paul is totally clueless. They attacked us because we were propping up a “Sharia government” and “the fundamentalists hated us for it”? Since when do Islamic “fundamentalists” disapprove of Sharia governments? They attacked us, according to Osama bin Laden, because, among other reasons, we were in his view “prevent[ing] our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah,” not propping up a Sharia state.
Paul cited a University of Chicago professor, Robert Pape, whose research argues that most of the suicide terrorism in the past 30 years was caused by military occupation. Pape’s research, funded by the Defense Department, shows that suicide bombings in Afghanistan went up one third after the Obama administration surged 30,000 troops into the country.
Report Post »Not only is Pape wrong; he’s on the dole of Hamas-linked CAIR.
Cruzan
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:46pmLibya, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Syria…..All Obama wars, but he celebrates the Muslin Brotherhood taking over the so-called governments. I guess BamBam does have an inbred need to support any Muslim nation that promises to destroy a western nation. Islamists are ruining England, have taken over Belgium, have a lot of control of the youth in France, ans are trying to gain a strong foothold in Germany. Then they have Indonesia. Most of Africa. BamBam is helping them along, or maybe he is trying to destroy Americo so Islamists won’t bother with us. LOL
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:31pmHe is trying everything he can from his Muslim upbringing to carry out the destruction of the West. He is just another Islam extremist pretending to be a what ever it is this week. They are taught to lie when necessary to destroy those that do not believe as they do.
Report Post »mcbruce
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:58pmThe muslem brotherhood has most of the top positions within the muslem plant obama adm . do we wont to become europ like this.http://youtu.be/o2gbWU8L2Yk .
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:45pmReally? Who saw this coming?
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:35pmBeck!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:55pmYes……Glenn Beck.
;8^>and without a crystal ball.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:44pmYou can bet that if he could this is what the SOB in the White House would do here. And he knew it would happe there when it started..
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:50pmMustafa Abdul Jalil will eventually turn up face down in a gutter.
Report Post »Watchingtheweasels
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:43pmOnce again reality proves that the ideological right is correct, the ideological left is is not.
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:41pmWe must condemn hatred and envy,” he said.
and they think Sharia is a good way to achieve this????
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:40pmMore 1000 year old barbarian laws…
Report Post »euragone
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:39pmObama isn’t a President, He’s a Cleric of Islam…He had to help defend his Mooslim Brothers…We should ship him to Lybia….
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:37pmThere is only one person on the planet who didn’t see this coming and he will soon be booted from office! And somewhere Jimmy Carter smiles from ear to ear…
Nope, Nobama Nope!
Report Post »stevoschmidt
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:37pmI haven’t seen a single female the whole time during the Libyan conflict, unless they were journalists from other nations ie. Fox news, CNN, and BBC.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:36pmObama Stands with the Muslims against Americans.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:34pmObama’s New Sharia Compliant Army right here in America. Get ready for Total Global War. Obama is the New Caliphate waiting for the Word.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:34pm.
Report Post »If that‘s the case then Rock’s and Sword’s should be a good investment in the New and Improved Libya……….
stevoschmidt
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:33pmI was wondering if they’re were any females in Libya, I‘m assuming they weren’t allowed out during the celebration of thier freedom. Just a bunch of men that’ll be the future funded Hezzbollah nation.
Report Post »Good job Obama with the support of McCain to help another oppressed people striving for free democratic elections. MORONS!
TomFerrari
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:29pmThanks, obama.
Now we have ANOTHER terrorist state to contend with.
YEP ! Couldn’t keep our nose out of even ONE conflict when islamics were involved, could you, obama?
4 more years of obama would spell sharia law in at least part of These United States… except for the resistance of patriotic Americans.
GOD bless America… Again !
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buckster6.0
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:45pmJust what he wanted,its goin down right now.this is very bad news and we had a major hand in it.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:46pmWhat is William Kristol doing these days?
Report Post »WhatsYerProblem
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:27pm“We will not accept any extremist ideology” except, of course, the Islamic extremist ideology of Sharia.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:20pmDoes anyone in this administration have a clue? Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of late twentieth century history saw this coming. We should start calling this guy Barry Carter.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:32pmSo much for Arab Spring or was that Irish Spring?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:46pmThey have a clue indeed, there are Islamic Extremist advisors in the White House; and many of the departments as well. Mr Obama wants the radicals to destabalize the area, to bring down Israel and allow him one more means to pressure the collapse of America as well.
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 11:03pmDon’t kid yourself – Obama knew what he was doing when he got on National TV and stated Mubarak must go. Then Chris Mathew got all goo goo with another one of those creepy trills down his leg thing he does. Now, we all can sit back and watch as Millions will be tried under Sharia Law. The Devil is at work and those that supported this have claimed their place in Eternity.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:20pmand they can all thank obama, their buddy. no wonder they cheer him as The 20th Terrorist, destroying America from within.
obama is bombing Yemen and Somali too, as well as obama is heavily importing thousands of somali sharia muslim BLACKHAWK DOWN street-soldiers to the US as “immigrants” too. and being they are brought here by obama legally, we have no clue where they have gone from like Minnesotastan and Dearbornistan…….. to go to build more sharia mosques in our states and to become more sleeper cells, WAITING.
Report Post »azjeff1963
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:25pmbring it on ….my wife and i are ready to defend……as we are both Vet’s….not going quietly into that good night.
Report Post »neubienose
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 4:59pmbooga booga, look another one over there!! Booga, there coming to take you away a-ha, …
Report Post »ho-ho, hey-hey to the funny farm …..
Nanner-SW
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:19pmWow, Sharia’s a hot topic today. “We will not accept any extremist ideology, on the right or the left. We are a Muslim people, for a moderate Islam, and will stay on this road.” So they are going to institute a legal system that treats individuals differently depending on what race, religion, gender, etc, they are. I wonder what is an extremist to an extremist. Well good thing the United States still exists as a safe haven for refugees fleeing Sharia Law, right?
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:44pmNo!! Let them defend their own land from terrine!!! I’m sick and tired of the idea that we are to be the sanctuary and defender for the whole world if they like our system so much let them build their own REPUBLIC!!!
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:49pmAt least for a couple more minutes.
Report Post »Nanner-SW
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 2:23pmI meant safe haven as in place of freedom and opportunities, not that we should police the world. Quite the opposite, I believe in letting sovereign nations be sovereign nations and handle their own affairs. . . and if they hurt us end their existence swiftly and decisively. Back to point, the Great Potato famine, the Acadian expulsion, and pretty much all major wars caused a great influx of immigration. . . when crap hits the fan the US has been there. I just think we should be their for the women, non-Muslim, etc people who are fix’n to be treated like second-rate citizens, or worse.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 3:44pmWhat exactly is a moderate Muslim..Do you subscribe to 60% of the Koran?
naskh
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:17pmJust as was stated many weeks ago here on the Blaze, Sharia law and the radicals and terrorists will arise and take power now in the nation. Mr Obama has aided once again his radicial Islamist Extremist allies and cronies towards the Caliphate.
Watch next for a move to consolidate and coordinate the govenerments of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt into a religious and ideological alliance with two goals:
A. Caliphate restoration
Report Post »B. Ending of Israel.
stealthyk9
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:16pmThank you President zerO for encouraging and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood; the people of Libya, especially any non-muslims that may still live there, are doomed.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 1:15pmGood thing Obama rushed in to help these oppressive Sharia Law loving Muslims.
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