The last great hope of the West here is that Libya will be a “moderate” Islamic regime. In Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, Western governments have kept hoping to see the emergence of a model Sharia regime that will operate as Sharia has been advertised to them — not what Sharia is, but what it could, would, should be according to academic exercises removed from how Sharia has been practiced and enforced for over a millennium.
The motto of Western governments in their policy toward the Muslim world could well be the words of the woman at the end of the article: “We all want Sharia, but not the one they’re talking about.”
Accordingly, Sharia never works as advertised, but it does work according to its design. Unfortunately, it is a politically correct article of faith that the publicity and substance are one and the same. Caveat emptor: “war is deceit.”
We tried to tell you. “Libyan Islamists rally to demand sharia-based law,” fromReuters, January 20:
(Reuters) – Hundreds of Libyan Islamists rallied on Friday to demand that Muslim sharia law inspire legislation in what organizers called a response to the emergence of secular political parties after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship last year.Assembled by Islamist political and religious groups, mostly young and bearded men holding up copies of the Koran demonstrated in squares in the capital Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi and in Sabha in the southern desert.
That poor woman who said, “We all want Sharia, but not the one they’re talking about.”
Sharia is a sliding scale.
Like liberalism, there is never any end to how far the leaders can take enforcing your life.
The more threatened the leaders are, the stricter their interpretation of Sharia becomes.
And there will always be a large crowd of those close enough to the seat of power to look like a great mob is demanding more of it.
The head of Libya’s transitional government on Sunday suspended delegates from Benghazi, the city that kicked off the movement that toppled ruler Muammar Gaddafi last year.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Libya-suspends-Benghazi-NTC-members-20120122
The purge.
It begins.