I'm amazed at the liberals who are shocked or surprised that Gaddafi was executed. It shows that they really don't understand arab culture at all. And the fact that the President of the United States has the gall to stand up in front of the nation and announce that we're ushering in "freedom" to Lybia is disgusting. He knows damn well we just ushered in sharia law and an almost certain death sentence to non-muslims in those countries. Egypt is a fine example of the arab version of "democracy" - complete with a renewed oppression of non-muslims.
Obama seems to think that the American people will support him in this because we're helping other human beings to have what we have - freedom. This just isn't the case at all. We spent $1 billion taking out Gaddafi and the people that take over Lybia will still hate the US, perhaps even more than they do now. They will not thank us for the aid, they will simply see our weakness and demand more aid while still hating us and perhaps even sponsoring more terrorism. Obama seems to have already committed to throwing more money at Lybia.
The head of Lybia's National Transitional Council on Monday night delivered his first public speech in central Tripoli. Speaking to thousands of supporters in Martyr's Square, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Lybia would adopt sharia law.
LINKUnlike US or other western law, sharia law is not implemented with freedom or equality in mind.
The same is occurring in Egypt:
In the current turmoil in Egypt, one of the oldest and biggest opposition parties, the Muslim Brotherhood, has kept a low profile.
Banned in the past, it is now keen to play a greater political role in a post-Mubarak Egypt.
HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi speaks to Kamal El-Helbawy, a member and former spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood, about whether the party will attempt to implement Islamic law in Egypt.
Watch the
interview to see that Kamal says that indeed, that is their goal.
I'm hard pressed to think that this is a good thing for the US or for Christians and Jews in the mid-east. It seems the mid-east is regressing 1,200 years or so.
