Attached to Islam
"The Libyan people are attached to Islam, as a religion and legislation.... As such the National Transitional Council recommends that the [next] congress make shariah the main source of legislation." Saleh Daroub, spokesman, National Transition CouncilThere we are, another revelation about the huge success of the Arab Spring. A revolutionary upheaval of the status quo, where the people took up arms in outrage over the protracted and indefensible totalitarian style of governance that kept them enslaved to the personal ambition of someone like Moammar Ghadafi. Who, while aggrandizing himself, his family, cronies and tribe, also maintained a distinct order that kept tribal antipathy in check in a society and a culture that thrives on violent assaults reflecting sectarian and tribal diversities.
That problem was solved when the disorganized, but determined tribes, each with their own armed militias, earned the sympathy of the West which had previously courted their dictator for the oil riches that Libya offered to a world hungry for energy sources. The United Nations and NATO suddenly viewed
the rapacious, terrorist-inspiring and -supporting Ghadafi as an affliction to be removed. Ostensibly to enable justice to prevail.
Justice is now prevailing. The interim government of Libya, portraying itself as a federal response to a tribal society, has been incapable of restoring any kind of lasting peace in the country. With the death of their one-time dictator, the tribes refused to surrender their arms. And the Islamist sects have been able to prey on those whose belief in Islam does not reflect their own. Destroying the sacred shrines of the Sufis, and declaring the need for pure Islam to prevail.
Justice now prevails because the Muslim Brotherhood is set to dominate the election now taking place, alongside its Islamist allies. In true reflection of the Arab Spring that brought a similar correction to both Tunisia and Egypt, each now facing rule by the Muslim Brotherhood, supported by Islamists. And don't all Muslim Brotherhood groups established in various countries of the Middle East support justice? The Libyan party is named the Justice & Construction Party.
"That is what Libyans want - more security and stability and progress being made to improve their day-to-day lives. They don't want deadlock. We need to ensure stronger and more capable leadership soon after the elections", assured a senior official in the Justice & Construction Party. Speaking of the coalition certain to devolve with the Islamist al-Watan party supporting the Brotherhood.
Just as in Egypt, with the liberal-minded initiators of the Tahrir Square protests looking on in dismay at their liberation from tyranny being high-jacked by the Muslim Brotherhood, the originators of the push for freedom from the Ghadafi regime, in Benghazi have threatened to shun the polls to undermine the election legitimacy. And true to form, some of the polling stations have come under attack. And clashes between tribes continue.
And so there it is. The legitimacy of Islamic law in Libya. It will be, by decree and popular acclaim, the "main" source of legislation in the country. Sharia law will be the order of the day, every day. Not everyone appears to have bought into this new Libya. While some declare that 'the people have spoken', others have set fire to the main storage centre for election materials in eastern Libya.
Labels: Islamism, Libya, Political Realities, Traditions, Values
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, July 07, 2012
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