Richard Spencer
London Telegraph
October 24, 2011
Libya’s interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source”.
But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways – it was also the basis of Egypt’s largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall.
Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi’s era that he said was in conflict with Sharia – that banning polygamy.
In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya’s economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. “Interest creates disease and hatred among people,” he said.
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Witnesses to the massacre at Sirte will never be heard, residents were raped and tortured while their screams were muffled by cries of god is great. Fifty were found in hotel room by human rights workers, murdered by the freedom fighters. Thousands more met a horrible death, god has become a war criminal.
Yep, they are bringing Obamaism to Libya
Dictionary definition of Obamaism:
absolute rule of a country by a dick
We urge all Muslims to convert to Christianity before they all end up in hell