Gaddafi's philosophy
is like a reading list of failed third world ideas:
"Islamic Socialism" and pan-Arabism.
In reality, what Libya needs is democracy, capitalism and a free society.
Libyan dictator
Gaddafi
was Head of the
African Union
2009-10
(which shows exactly what the African Union is).
Rebels destroy a monument to Gaddafi's "Green Book", Eastern Libya, Feb 2011.
Children were forced to study this ridiculous
book in school every day.
From crethiplethi.com.
The dictator Gaddafi
Libya
under Gaddafi was ranked "Not Free" by Freedom House.
The mass murderer
Muammar al-Gaddafi
(also spelt Gadhafi
or Qaddafi
or Qadhafi),
unelected dictator of Libya from 1969 to 2011,
sponsor of international terrorism.
At the time of his fall in 2011,
Gaddafi (in power since 1969)
was the
2nd longest ruling tyrant on earth, after the
Sultan of Brunei (1967).
He was the longest ruling non-royal tyrant.
The "secular"
Muammar Qaddafi
calls for Islam to conquer the world, starting with Europe,
which he predicts will be Islamic soon,
in a 2006 speech full of religious fanaticism.
Gaddafi state sponsorship of terrorism
In the 1980s, Libya was a leading sponsor of
international terrorism.
Libya assisted the PLO, Abu Nidal, the IRA
and left-wing terror groups
in their attacks on western targets.
The disgraceful, pro-PLO, pro-Arab dictator,
Italian Prime Minister
Bettino Craxi
apparently tipped off Gaddafi
about the bombing, saving his life
and leaving him free to bomb Lockerbie.
Gaddafi claimed his "adopted daughter" was killed in the raid.
However there is no proof of this.
There are claims that
a civilian girl was killed, who Gaddafi then
"adopted" posthumously.
It was also said that Hana was the name of the adopted daughter killed.
However in Aug 2011 it was discovered that
Hana Gaddafi is alive today
(and here).
The confusion of the "adopted daughter" story illustrates wonderfully
that Libya had no free press under Gaddafi.
Because Libya had no free press, no one could find out if this story was true from 1986 to 2011.
Any Libyan journalist investigating this story would have been jailed or killed.
Kadafi killed my child
by Daniel Cohen.
"The U.S. has forgiven him, but we'll never forget who bombed Pan Am Flight 103"
Dhimmitude on stilts.
Libya kills 270 innocents in Britain, 1988.
Britain helps train Libyan troops of the same regime, 2009.
"The SAS has been ordered by the Government to train Libyan special forces despite the country having armed the IRA ...
For the past six months Britain's elite troops have been schooling soldiers working for Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime, which for years provided Republican terrorists with the Semtex explosive, machine-guns and anti-aircraft missiles used against British troops during the Troubles in Northern Ireland."
Disgusting.
Perhaps the sickest thing New Labour has ever done.
Tony Allwright, 13 Sept 2009, asks: "Has Gordon Brown Become Anti-British?"
On Brown's training of Libyan terrorists:
"he has become a menace to the security of Britain and therefore the free world.
The sooner the British people eject Prime Minister Brown the better for everyone."
The patsy:
A Libyan intelligence officer,
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi,
was convicted and jailed for the bombing,
and yet absurdly, his boss, the dictator of Libya,
Muammar al-Gaddafi,
who ordered the bombing,
got away scot free,
and the UK even assisted him and his regime.
As if Libyan intelligence officers bomb airplanes
without permission (indeed, orders) from the Libyan dictator!
The patsy was shamefully released by the UK in 2009
to return home in triumph.
It is claimed that he is terminally ill, but he seems
alive and well in Oct 2011.
The Benghazi Six
- 5 innocent Bulgarian nurses and
1 innocent Palestinian doctor, beaten, raped, tortured
with electricity to the genitals,
and imprisoned for 8 years by the primitive state of Libya,
in a cynical move to get money and to get one of the Lockerbie bombers released.
Disgusting: The terrorist Gaddafi is allowed visit New York and speak at the UN, Sept 2009.
He is not attacked with a drone,
or captured
and put in
Guantanamo.
In 1988 his regime bombed a flight to New York, killing 270 innocent men, women and children.
His victims
included:
Flannigan, Joanne, age 10 years
Owen, Bryony Elise, 1 year
Owens, Laura Abigail, 8 years
Rattan, Anmol, 2 years
Rattan, Suruchi, 3 years
Roller, Edina, 5 years
Somerville, Lyndsey Ann, 10 years
Stevenson, Hannah Louise, 10 years
Stevenson, Rachael, 8 years
Stinnett, Stacey Leanne, 9 years
Thomas, Jonathan Ryan, 2 months
Williams, Brittany Leigh, 2 months
Williams, Stephanie Leigh, 1 year
Woods, Chelsea Marie, 10 months
Woods, Joe Nathan, Jr., 2 years
Speaking to the UN in Sept 2009. Shot by a mob in Oct 2011.
Arab Countries and Yugoslavia
by Liam O Ruairc
- SFIRA's support for Libya.
In 1976, An Phoblacht praised:
"Gaddafi's attempt to put into concrete terms the dreams of man since the very beginning - to live in freedom, to have his destiny in his own hands, to be his own master and never again experience humiliation and servitude".
The Colonel And His Third Way, Anthony Giddens, 28 August 2006.
He meets Gaddafi in Libya:
"You usually get about half an hour when meeting a political leader. My conversation with Gaddafi lasts for more than three.
Gaddafi is relaxed and he clearly enjoys intellectual conversation.
...
Gaddafi is interested in the debates and policies involved in social democracy in Europe, which is the reason he has invited me. He likes the term "third way", because his own political philosophy, developed in the late 1960s, was a version of this idea.
It has been written up in the form of The Green Book, authored by Gaddafi, on display almost everywhere in Libya.
...
Our conversation is wide-ranging and "The Leader", as he is universally known in Libya, makes many intelligent and perceptive points."
It goes on like this.
He treats the dictator and butcher as if he is some interesting alternative form of democrat.
The Monitor Group organised
"Libya in the Global Age",
a "debate" held in Libya in 2007
with Gaddafi,
Anthony Giddens,
the
broadcaster
David Frost
and
Ben Barber
(of "Jihad vs. McWorld").
David Frost's opening question to the unelected dictator since 1969
pretends that he runs some kind of "alternative" democracy,
in which, oddly enough, no one else gets to be in charge:
"Well, now let’s turn to the leader, as he’s known here in Libya, and ask
first of all a historic question about direct democracy, which is obviously
at the heart of your policies. Was the inspiration for that Athens and the
Athenians, or did you get the idea somewhere else?"
And this panderer to dictators
is meant to be the brave truth-teller of
Frost/Nixon!
They describe
the dictator as:
"this captivating man",
and say:
"He was and is an immensely seductive person, who isn't really a fundamentalist,
conservative or a socialist but is taken for all those things."
Instead of stamping his boot on the Libyan people for 35 years,
they say Qaddafi created
"an idealistic revolution".
Allies bomb Libya, Mar 2011.
The West steps up and helps the rebels.
It's a risk, but it's the right thing to do.
Time to kill Gaddafi.
David Cameron drives it. Obama eventually agrees.
Good for both of them.
And good for Sarkozy.
Conrad Black, 24 Mar 2011, describes this as:
"France's finest hour since it vitally assisted newly liberated Poland to repulse Trotsky's Red Army
on the Vistula in 1920.
...
France redefined a no-fly zone as meaning, not what the Arabs and much of the U.N. thought it meant, but the pulverization of Libyan forces, the massive supply of the arms-starved rebels, and the expulsion of Qaddafi.
...
all indications are that Sarkozy will surge to the fore, ... [and] will lead us away from what impended, under the delusional inertia of America's hibernation: the utter humiliation of Western civilization by a psychotic, mountebank nomad. Vive la France."
In Sept 2009,
Gaddafi said:
"You are the beginning of a change. ... Obama is a glimpse in the dark for the four years or the next eight years
... We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as the president of the United States of America."
In
Apr 2010,
Gaddafi praised Obama:
"Now, ruling America is a black man from our continent, an African from Arab descent, from Muslim descent,
and this is something we never imagined - that from Reagan we would get to Barakeh Obama."
He said Obama's presidency is "a major historical gain"
and
"He is someone I consider a friend. He knows he is a son of Africa.
... he is of Arab Sudanese descent, or of Muslim descent.
He is a man whose policy should be supported, and he should be assisted in implementing it in any way possible".
In Mar 2011, Obama started trying to kill Gaddafi. In Oct 2011 he did kill him.
In 2011,
Libyans were no longer afraid of this buffoon.
"Zenga Zenga",
the Israeli parody
of Gaddafi's ridiculous speech,
which became a popular Libyan revolution song.
Girl from here.
The brutal dictator
Gaddafi is captured
and killed by a mob in sordid scenes, Oct 2011.
It appears that he was attacked and
sodomized with a knife
before being shot.
He deserved to be executed for his crimes
- but this is sadistic and disgusting.
Let's hope the West helping the rebels is not a mistake.
Will the new Libya be more, rather than less, free?
Will it be less, rather than more, anti-Israel?
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links, report, 25 Mar 2011.
Jihadists who fought against the allies in Iraq and Afghanistan
are now fighting Gaddafi.
The allies are indirectly helping them.
Let us hope this is not a terrible error.
Suicide bomber against Libyan troops.
"What Ah Mehdi did was pack his car full of plastic car fuel containers and cooking gas cylinders. ... and prayed and read the Koran for about 30 minutes, and then he sped towards the main gate where he blew himself and his car up."
Of course it's worrying.
There is a risk of an Islamist state (as there is with all the Arab revolutions).
But the chance to get rid of Gaddafi!
The chance to see Gaddafi pay for what he has done!
How can the West decline the chance to destroy this butcher of Americans and Britons?
The Onion, 26 Aug 2011, sadly probably nails it:
"We’ve got a nice four weeks of thinking Libya represents a triumph of liberty before the situation begins to deteriorate and some new form of authoritarianism inevitably asserts itself. ... We should all enjoy this stirring image of Libya as a beacon of democracy before Islamists or a new military strongman moves in to fill the power vacuum."
Everyone expects that The Onion is correct.
But maybe the Libyans will surprise us.
And anyway, it is still wonderful to see the end of Gaddafi.
Will the new Libya be a sharia tyranny?
Jihad Watch
asks the questions that everyone should be (but aren't) asking about the Libyan revolution.
When it is all over, in the new Libya:
"Can a Libyan leave Islam? Can a Christian propagate the Gospel or build a new church? Can a Muslim eat in daytime during Ramadan? All of these remain to be seen."
The rebels say Libyan law will be based on sharia:
Head of Libya’s interim government is
regime lackey
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who
was Minister of "Justice"
in Gaddafi's brutal dictatorship.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, 12 Sept 2011, threatens Libyans with sharia:
"We strive for a state of the law, for a state of prosperity, for a state that will have Islamic sharia law as the main basis of legislation".
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, 23 Oct 2011, declares:
"We as a Muslim nation have taken Islamic sharia as the source of legislation, therefore any law that contradicts the principles of Islam is legally nullified."
No Jews in the new Libya:
A lone Libyan Jew returns to Libya after the revolution in 2011.
(All
Libyan Jews
were expelled years ago.)
He dreams that the new Libya will be a place for all creeds.
He attempts to restore Tripoli's old synagogue.
He meets with
death threats and
protests calling for him to be deported.
The protesters carry signs reading:
"LIBYA FOR THE LIBYANS - NOT FOR THE JEWS"
and:
"THERE'S NO PLACE FOR JEWS IN LIBYA".
They try to attack his hotel.
He gives up and leaves Libya again in sadness.
Nice to see the end of Gaddafi.
Shame about the Libya that comes next.
Photo from here.
Welcome to the new Libya:
Muslim mob attacks and desecrates Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Libya, Feb 2012.
This is
Benghazi War Cemetery
(a WW2 cemetery).
One smashed grave
identifiable
in the photos
is that of
Martin Palmer Northmore
of the Royal Canadian Air Force (died
1943).
See
1943 poem in his honour
written by his aunt:
"Did Heaven's beam, among the stars that swing,
Lead safely to a welcome, glowing hearth?
Skies there are free from evil birds that prey;
On lives so young and lovely in our sight".
Another smashed grave
is identifiable as that of
Rev. Geoffrey Bond,
Chaplain 4th Class
(died 1941).
His father was killed in action in WWI in 1916.
The Islamic maniacs attacking these graves
disgrace only themselves.
"We consider ourselves comrades in arms.
...
Your readiness to provide us with the facilities of forming an army of liberation
indicated your commitment to the fight for peace and human rights in the world."
- Nelson Mandela, 1990,
thanks Gaddafi for supporting the ANC.
He absurdly claims that Gaddafi believes in "human rights".
"Libya’s Revolution brought free health care and education to the people and subsidized housing.
...
Now, as for democracy,
..
Libyans govern themselves by The Green Book, a form of direct democracy based on the African Constitution concept that the people are the first and final source of all power.
...
Muammar Qaddafi has long been a friend to African people.
...
Mr. Qaddafi to this day continues to assist Black political organizations in an effort to keep people of African descent able to exercise their right of self-determination.
...
The Hugo Chavez Foundation communiqué concludes: Long live Muammar Al-Qathafi! Long live the African Union! Long live Pan-Africanism! Solidarity with Blacks everywhere!"
-
"Ghaddafi a Hero for African Rights and Liberation"
by
Cynthia McKinney,
March 27, 2011.
"How did it [the NTC] get its legitimacy? Did the Libyan people elect them? Did the Libyan people appoint them?"
-
Hilarious quote by the unelected dictator Gaddafi, Oct 2011, questioning the legitimacy of the National Transitional Council (NTC) that overthrew him.
So now, after 42 years without elections, elections are suddenly important?
Speaking to the UN in Sept 2009. Shot by a mob in Oct 2011.
a "debate" held in Libya in 2007
with Gaddafi,
Anthony Giddens,
the
broadcaster
David Frost
and
Ben Barber
(of "Jihad vs. McWorld").
Since 1995.
