WaPo Sees 'Liberation with an Islamic Tone' in Transitional Libyan Government's 'Islamic State' Pronouncement
"Libya’s top leader declared the country officially 'liberated' Sunday from the four-decade rule of Moammar Gaddafi, pledging to replace his dictatorship with a more democratic but also a more strictly Islamic system," Washington Post staff writer Mary Beth Sheridan noted in the lead paragraph of her October 24 front-page article, "Libya declares liberation days after Gaddafi death."
"Interim leader's speech hints at greater role for Islam in public life," the article's subheadline added. An online headline took a rosy view of the Islamic state, noting that "Libya declares liberation with an Islamic tone."
Sheridan noted two possible significant policy changes that transitional leaders are examining: banning interest on housing loans and loosening the existing restrictions on Libyan men taking more than one wife.
"A lot of young ladies lost their husbands in the battle," lamented Farage Sayeh, the outgoing "minister of capacity-building."
"Under current Libyan law, a man seeking a second wife must receive his first wife's permission and appear before a judge," Sheridan noted.
Ugh! Such liberty-strangling bureaucracy!
"We are an Islamic state," Sheridan quoted Abdel Jalil, later insisting he is "considered religious but not an extremist" and whose rhetoric may be amped up slightly to "win support from Islamists within the military command."
Even so, Sheridan failed to explore what protections, if any, Abdel Jalil foresees being extended to religious minorities such as Catholics or Coptic Christians.
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Will the Feminist Elite remain silent over the . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:43pm.
. . . plight of Libyan women in an "Islamic state?"
The real question for the US is: Will the new regime be better or worse for US security?
Men are now free from onerous rape laws
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:47pm.
Plight of women?? There is no plight, rape doesn't exist in an Islamic state. At least, it doesn't exist as a crime.
Libyan women
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:54pm.
I don't think the Libyan women even care. This is apparently what they've been brainwashed into thinking is best for them. Or if they do care, they know better than to say anything lest they be stoned to death.
→ Islamic tone
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:44pm.
See also Slave Trade.
orwellian contest!
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:10pm.
Hitler announces new Jewish 'holiday camps' with a Nazi tone
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Revealing pictures
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:45pm.
So the picture that came with that article showed the women who appeared to be jubilant about being freed from Khadafy. That's all well and good, but do they know what's in store for them when Sharia becomes the way of life there? Is that how they want to live? Are there any Libyan women who are coming out and saying they are looking forward to living under Sharia? And don't tell me that's ALL they are looking at changing with regards to bank interests and taking on more than one wife. That's not all Sharia does.
I'm just beyond sickened with disgust on how they paint Islam as all rosy and all that crap.
-Jon
When exactly will they pump more oil?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:11pm.
As if one can get a refinery, up and running by throwing stones.
A Somalia like country is what's awaiting the Libyans..
Less worry on the international stage, for the moment.
You Didn't Build That.
Amazing
Submitted by ant on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:13pm.
They look at Libya and see an 'Islamic tone', they look at Michele Bachmann and see a tyrannical Theocratic Dominion. Orwell strikes again.
These people seriously need
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:26pm.
These people seriously need to get a dictionary.
And look up the word "oxymoron."
If they can't figure out the whole word, they can just concentrate on the last two syllables.
I've been 'doin' the math' in
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:31pm.
I've been 'doin' the math' in my little peabrain, and it seems that EVERY moooooooooooooooooooooooslem country that the Obama REGIME, under the guise of the USA, has supported in this so-call 'Arab Spring' has gone the 'liberation with an Islamic tone' route. And it doesnt' appear to me that this is going to be good or advantageous for the USA, and probably quite the opposite. Same for other western infidel nations. Double same for Israel. We might be able to leave China out of this list, since they don't mess around when dealing with moooooooooooooooooooooooslems.
But it will be called 'self-determination' by the MSM and Boy BlahBlah.
Iran, part deux
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 2:05pm.
Is anyone else notice the similarity of what is happening in Libya and what happened 40 years ago in Iran? The only real difference in what is happening in Libya is now the President actually wants credit! At least Jimmy Carter opposed that civil war in Iran. Obama stared the one in Libya! The results, of course, are basically the same. Bad move on your part, Obama!
By the way when will Obama announce the end of the US involvement in Libya? The war is supposedly over, yet the US is still involved militarily.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I still believe it.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:04pm.
Obama is craftier than any of His fellow dumbocrats and most of the republican party. He is doing EXACTLY what He wants to do.
He and His happy little band of revolutionaries in the White House are bringing chaos to every country that they can because that is the way to take over the whole damned mess.
Never doubt that this crazy RBFSOB is on a mission, and he will get it done unless someone steps up and calls Bull Shiite on Him, and soon. We may not be able to wait until after the election. He seems to be accelerating His plans. Now He's making plans to totally bypass congress to get His agenda in place, and I see not one Republican stepping up and stopping Him.
People didn't believe it
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:40pm.
You're right, he has been accellarating his plans, hell, I've said that a few times back.
What makes me madder than a hornets' nest is that there were people so freaking willing to give this poser the benefit of the doubt despite all evidence to the contrary that this manchild is as you say on a mission. WHY?? The evidence was there from the beginning!!!
But no, people had their heads in the sand, wanted to be PC, and could never believe that this country got infiltrated from within, "Oh, it could never happen here!"
Here we are, three years later, everyone and their brother should know this manchurian candidate is bad news, and they STILL don't get it?!?
What the hell does it take???
-Jon
MSM's soft sell of Islamic law in Libya's future
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:17pm.
For now, it's imposing limits on interest rates and the lifting of the multi-wife restrictions.
Hmm. Anything going on here in the like-mind think machine of our national MSM, in their rather communal rush to present this to the US public? I see that the LAT's used the same reporting skill set on the issue today, here.
OWS - interest rates/fees from banks. Hmm.
Multi - wives. Mormonism - Romney? I can see it now, "Romney's Mormonism shares a few common tenets with Shari law."
OK, if that's not what they're up to, then it's simply the soft sell of what may occur next in Libya, in the effort to portray Obama's effort here as successful - for now.
After a few months, perhaps this same MSM will decide not to tell us about death sentences being issued against gays, or stoning of woman who are raped by other men - other than their husband (as they are their property - and there is no rape at home), as well as the future pronouncement calling for the pushing of all the Jews into the sea.
These things take time - and could wait until after the elections here.
(;~> gary
Only the old corrupt media
Submitted by TerryWest on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:30pm.
Only the old corrupt media would have no issue with using the words "liberation" and "a more strictly Islamic system" together as if they run hand in hand.
Bad Blood
Submitted by morris wise on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 7:25pm.
Arab armies of the 7th Century often sodomized their enemies. They believed that through sodomy the evil spirits were destroyed and a prisoner of war made harmless.The sodomy of Qaddafi was an often used attempt to destroy evil spirits and at the same time release bad blood.
So what you're saying is,
Submitted by ant on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 7:41pm.
So what you're saying is, they've come a long way since the 7th Century./sarc.