Some liberation.
Almost makes you feel all the dead people was worth it.
"Libyan women relish freedom they helped win, with a way to go" November 13, 2011|By Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post
TRIPOLI, Libya - Siham el-Zentani is part of a vast network of Libyan women who played an under-the-radar role in the war, running weapons, gathering intelligence and smuggling medicine. Now, with the fall of Khadafy, they are savoring a new freedom to move about the country and organize.
Although many foreign observers have focused on the new Libyan leader’s recent vow to lift restrictions on polygamy - and the negative implications for women of such a change - the role of women actually appears to have expanded here, with large numbers joining nongovernmental groups.
Unreal!!! They are going to be under Sharia Law!!
So you see what liberation is, don't you? It's not a better life, it is simply the right to join a globalist NGO, drink, and use cosmetics.
That's western liberation when it comes to women when you really think about it. Never mind your flattened and polluted nation due to the bombs.
The male-dominated, tribally based society is not being completely transformed. Already there are signs of the difficulties women face in gaining more political representation: The 51-member Transitional National Council has just one female member. But the revolution has raised women’s expectations and changed some of the dynamics of everyday life.
This is sickening stuff.
“Libyan women have become very strong,’’ said Sonia al-Shagruni, 42, a teacher who smuggled explosives to rebels during the war. “Since we struggled so hard during the revolution, we will definitely not sit around now. We will not sit in the back seat, as in the past.’’
During his 42-year rule, Khadafy sent contradictory messages on women’s rights. His Green Book of political philosophy decreed that a woman’s place was in the home. Yet he expanded educational and employment opportunities for women and signaled a commitment to gender equality by traveling with a contingent of gun-toting female bodyguards.
Yes, but THOSE THINGS are NOT IMPORTANT to WOMEN!!
In reality, though, women were constrained - not so much by laws as by the perceived brutality of his government. Many Libyans saw Khadafy’s security forces as bullies who could mistreat women with impunity. Rumors flew that pretty young women were vulnerable to being yanked away from a restaurant or university for sexual abuse by the leader or his sons.
Did they take the Saddam script and just insert Khadafy's name or what?
As a result, men limited their wives’ and daughters’ movements, especially discouraging them from taking part in activities related to Khadafy and his official Revolutionary Committees.
“The Revolutionary Committees were very violent and scary people. They were in every city and government space,’’ said Amira Alshokri, 25, a computer engineer in Tripoli. “Everyone didn’t want women to get involved in such a dirty sphere.’’
Now, though, her father is comfortable with her moving around freely. “He knows I won’t be in a position where I can be abused,’’ she said.
The most obvious sign of women’s growing role is the blossoming of hundreds of female-led nongovernmental groups. With her friends, Alshokri has launched an organization called Phoenix to promote women’s rights.
“The revolution gave us a chance to show who we really are,’’ said Alshokri, who also helped Libyan refugees during the war. “Before, we didn’t have a chance. We used to put all our creative energy into our homes.’’
Under Khadafy, independent civic organizations were banned.
But women’s groups, inspired by the changes they have already seen, say they are eager for female citizens to use their votes to expand their political power and guarantee their legal rights. The lack of women in the interim government has been a particular source of disappointment.
What a moody MSM with its mixed messages.
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"Libyan leader promises elections, Islamic law" October 24, 2011|By Adam Nossiter, New York Times
BENGHAZI, Libya - Two strands - a new piety and all-purpose, free-wheeling euphoria - dominated the hastily improvised ceremony, which was intended to put a cap on Libya’s bloody upheaval and mark the beginning of the country’s transition to something approaching normalcy.
Laws, institutions, civic life - all must be built from scratch after four decades of Khadafy’s personality-cult dictatorship....
And because NATO flattened the place.
The transitional government’s leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, stooping humbly to shake hands in the crowd and embracing the elderly relative of a fallen rebel, made clear that personality would have nothing to do with the new order here.
“We are an Islamic country,’’ said Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, as the sun descended. “We take the Islamic religion as the core of our new government. The constitution will be based on our Islamic religion.’’
Abdul-Jalil also promised that Islamic banks would be established in the new Libya, and said the new government would lift restrictions on the number of wives Libyan men can take. The Koran, the Muslim holy book, allows men up to four wives.
Now THAT COULD NOT HAVE MADE the BANKERS and their servant governments very happy!!
See: The World's Best Banking System
NO USURY!!
That's another reason Muslims are under attack all over the place.
The emphasis on Islam in the short speech - he began by thanking God and declaring God “the greatest’’ - appeared to be an answer of sorts to the speculation about how much of a role religion might play here.
And though Abdul-Jalil’s religion-edged speech was met with enthusiasm, the crowd’s focus was on freedom, and the pride over how the country had acquired it. Several people suggested that Libya had been virtually imprisoned for 42 years, the length of Khadafy’s reign....
You ain't seen nothing yet, girls -- or so I've been told by my mouthpiece media.
The leaders of the NATO campaign that helped the Libyan rebellion succeed continued to press the new leaders to investigate the circumstances of Khadafy’s death, and whether he was executed by the captors after being dragged wounded but alive out of a drainage ditch last week.
Not much coming out of that 'investigation."
Two Libyan fighters said in interviews with the Associated Press yesterday that Khadafy was hurt after being captured but was able to stand. One said that when he and others placed Khadafy in an ambulance, the former Libyan leader had not yet suffered what Libya’s chief pathologist said was a fatal gunshot to the head.
Libyan leaders have said Khadafy was killed in crossfire during battles for Surt, his hometown, but revolutionaries who were present for his capture - and even one who was in the ambulance with him - said nothing about additional fighting during the AP interviews.
Khadafy’s body was laid out in a commercial freezer in Misurata for a third day of public viewing yesterday, a spectacle that critics say tests the new leaders’ promises that they are committed to the rule of law.
Related: New York Times Eulogizes Khadafy
Britain’s defense secretary, Philip Hammond, said the Libyan revolutionaries’ image had been “a little bit stained’’ by Khadafy’s violent death. Both he and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said a full investigation is necessary.
President Obama congratulated Libyans on the declaration yesterday.
“After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise,’’ he said.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the declaration and said NATO’s mission in Libya “is very close to completion,’’ referring to the alliance’s decision to end air patrols on Oct. 31.
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"Libya agrees to investigate how Khadafy was killed" October 25, 2011|By Mary Beth Sheridan and William Branigin, Washington Post
BENGHAZI, Libya - Abdel Jalil, a former justice minister under Khadafy who is now effectively Libya’s interim president, also assured the international community that “we are moderate Muslims.’’ But he refused to back down from his surprise announcement Sunday that the country’s new laws will permit polygamy and ban the charging of interest on loans.
Then he has got to go!!
That declaration signaled that the anti-Khadafy forces may steer their new democracy toward stricter Islamic rule. Such a move may cause concern in the NATO countries whose air campaign crippled Khadafy’s forces and facilitated the revolutionaries’ victory....
Sometimes the devil you know.... sigh.
Abdel Jalil reiterated yesterday that banks will no longer be permitted to charge interest, because “Islam bans and forbids interest.’’ The Islamic banking system regards such payments as usury....
That's a word you do not often see in AmeriKa because it happens all the time.
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And what did I tell you?
"Libyans pick professor as leader; US-educated Keib to appoint interim government" November 02, 2011|By Rami Al-Shaheibi, Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya - A US-educated engineering professor with little political experience is Libya’s new prime minister, a choice that could reassure Western nations that helped topple Moammar Khadafy....
Abdurrahim el-Keib replaces outgoing interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril....
Jibril, also a US-educated technocrat, came under attack in his last months in office by Libya’s Islamists as too secular and by others as a former regime adviser who spent most of the country’s eight-month civil war outside Libya.
Oh, so EITHER WAY WE GOT OUR GUY -- or Jibril strayed and actually believed the US bullshit, didn't he?
Jibril won credit for his role in helping secure international support for the revolution, including from France and Britain, which led the push to give the uprising the NATO air support that played a key role in Khadafy’s defeat.
The previous interim government was a hastily selected group of activists and former regime officials who defected after the uprising against Khadafy erupted in mid-February.
The transition council appointed an “Executive Office’’ that served as a de facto Cabinet. Even before Khadafy’s fall, the council said that after the war, a more carefully selected government would oversee an eight-month transition period.
Keib, a council member from Tripoli, is free of some of Jibril’s liabilities. Unlike Jibril, who was an economic adviser under the former regime, Keib spent most of his professional career outside Libya and appears untainted by ties to Khadafy.
Mohammed al-Harizi, a council member from Tripoli, welcomed Keib’s selection, and said he, unlike Jibril, spent the war in Libya and “knows what is happening on the ground.’’
“He has been around long enough to know what needs to be improved, unlike Mahmoud Jibril, who only comes to Libya as a visitor and never stays for long,’’ Harizi said. Jibril spent much of the revolution abroad, consulting with foreign leaders and drumming up support.
Libya's Chalabi.
Keib could also appeal to the West at a time when some of the gloss has come off of Libya’s revolution due to reports of human rights abuses by revolutionary militias and the videotaped abuse of a captured Khadafy before his death.
Pledges by transition council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil to Islamize Libyan laws have also raised concerns in the West.
Especially that BANKING thing!
Online documents show Keib was at the University of Alabama for 20 years, becoming involved with the Faculty Senate and serving as a speaker representing Muslims to other faith communities in the city after the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
He's a US agent!
He spoke at a Christian church in Tuscaloosa about the beliefs of Muslims in January 2002, and longtime friend Mirza Beg said Keib helped raise money for a new Islamic center that opened in Tuscaloosa more than a decade ago near the university’s football stadium.
“He was the leading force behind it,’’ said Beg, a chemist with the groundwater assessment program at the Geological Survey of Alabama. “Some people have a knack for management. He collected money for it from friends, from people here, from people in the Mideast, from all over.’’
Beg, a native of India, said he knew that Keib had “political abilities,’’ but that his friend rarely discussed Libya.
“It was a dictatorship, and it was not comfortable for him to talk about because his extended family lived there,’’ Beg said.
The two men had little contact after Keib left the university in 2005. Keib later served as a professor and chairman of the electrical engineering department at the Petroleum Institute, according to the resume posted by the school.
He knows oil!
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland praised Keib’s selection and called on Libya to support human rights and establish a unified command for the scores of armed militias still operating in the country.
Of course she would.
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"Libyan official criticizes new leaders" November 26, 2011|By Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya - A senior official in Libya’s outgoing transitional government has sharply criticized the country’s new leadership as an unrepresentative “elite’’ supported by outside powers.
Former oil and finance minister Ali Tarhouni also suggested in a press conference late Thursday that at least one of those foreign powers is meddling excessively in Libya’s affairs - an apparent reference to Qatar.
Tarhouni, a former professor of economics and finance at the University of Washington, was one of the most visible and internationally respected faces of the Libyan revolutionary leadership that presided over the ouster of Moammar Khadafy’s regime.
Another one of our guys -- and he doesn't like the new man?
But he said he refused an offer to join Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib’s transitional Cabinet, because he believes that those now in power are not representative. He accused them of being “supported from the outside by money, arms, and PR.’’
“The voices that we see now are the voices of the elite,’’ he said.
The US-educated Tarhouni, who managed the rebel government’s financial system, is one of the first senior Libyan politicians to openly question the new government’s legitimacy.
He said the countries who backed the rebellion have interests in Libya, “some which we know and some which we don’t know.’’ While he didn’t elaborate, Tarhouni did not object when a journalist suggested that he was speaking about Qatar.
The Gulf state was a leading Arab backer of the uprising that toppled Khadafy’s regime, providing warplanes to the NATO-led air campaign as well as help to the revolutionaries with arms and equipment.
Tarhouni, who spoke several hours after Keib’s new government was sworn in, said he felt relieved at finally being able to speak freely.
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