Posted on 10/23/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by tobyhill
The National Transitional Council (NTC) has declared the liberation of Libya eight-months after the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule began.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the leader of the NTC, kneeled in prayer after taking the stand in a celebration in Benghazi on Sunday and promised to uphold Islamic law.
Thousands of people in Kish Square sang the national anthem and waved flags, both of which date back to the monarchy which Gaddafi overthrew in a 1969 coup.
"We as a Muslim nation have taken Islamic sharia (law) as the source of legislation, therefore any law that contradicts the principles of Islam is legally nullified," Jalil told the crowd.
The NTC leader thanked the Arab League, the United Nations, and the European Union for supporting the uprising which ended with Gaddafi's death on Thursday.
"All the martyrs, the civilians and the army had waited for this moment. But now they are in the best of places ... eternal heaven," he said, shaking hands with supporters.
"The revolution began as a peaceful one. But it was faced with violence," he told the tens of thousands of Libyans gathered in the city, where fighting against Gaddafi erupted in February.
An NTC official who opened the ceremony, said: "We declare to the whole world that we have liberated our beloved country, with its cities, villages, hill-tops, mountains, deserts and skies."
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Another victory for Obama and al Qaeda.
Don’t worry! At this very moment the 0bama brain trust is springing into action...to figure out how to blame this on George W. Bush.
It's the plan and has been since waaaayyy back in pre-college days.
The only ones that really tried to vet ozero were here in FreeRepublic and we just couldn't be loud enough.
The solution is unspeakable and unprintable.
His nametag now reads “Ayatollah-elect”.
Once again, how many new Abrams tanks and shoulder launched SAMs are we now providing the new leaders in N Africa???? ( more than he’s giving the USMC)
Seems Obama is shaping up to be something of a bit of prophecy.
You’ve got that right. He is quite a revelation. :(
About all that can be positively stated about American state making is the fact that we are keeping the Near Easterners so busy handling internal chaos that they cannot effectively attack the United States.
The ideal outcome of Obama’s “Arab Spring” is a “Mullah Fall.”
So when will the ‘non-racist because I love Obama’ media will report on the Black African genocide the “Rebels” have taken on?
Theocracy and Democracy cannot and do not mix, I don’t care who is trying to spin it otherwise.
well, maybe the left was correct when they said our fighting over there creates more terroists
Removing one tyrant at a time to be replaced by a tyrannical regimes. An American president helping terrorists.
Obama is working diligently to recreate the caliphate.
There's no need for anyone to do that. The only difference between an Islamic state under sharia law in Libya and an Islamic state under sharia law in Iraq is that it didn't cost thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to get to the same point in Libya.
All that "war on terror" nonsense was exposed as a complete fraud about 5-6 years ago when the Iraqi government ratified a new constitution under which Islam was formally established as the official state religion.
".... NATO and our allies should look at establishing a no-fly zone so Libyan air forces cannot continue slaughtering the Libyan people. We should not be afraid of freedom..."
- Sarah Palin
President Obama should establish a no-fly zone over Libya “this evening,” he said on Fox News. “All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes,”
- Newt Gingrich
”I support military action in Libya. I support our troops there and the mission that they’ve been given.”
- Mitt Romney
- Herman Cain, March 7, 2011 RepublianDebate
Later, in a brief interview, Bachmann said she would not have intervened in Libya "primarily because we don't know who the opposition forces are."
- Michele Bachmann
The United States should declare war on the world, excluding Israel and England, and maybe Switzerland.
We could beat them all. Then pacify the terrorist nations. Disband the United Nations and rent out their office space. The General Assembly hall could be used for community presentaions, theater events and graduations.
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