Libya votes to adopt Sharia law

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Another foreign policy success. Freedom and democracy have won in Libya, now let's do the same in Syria.

[opebo]

Good god I miss Muammar Gaddafi (and Saddam Hussein).

[Mechaman]

Another foreign policy success. Freedom and democracy have won in Libya, now let's do the same in Syria.

I'd like to quote a part of the article here:

"Unlike codified Western law, Sharia is more loosely based on moral and legal guidelines of the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim traditions."

Emphasis on LOOSELY BASED.

For the record, I wasn't in favor of intervention in either Libya or Syria.  However, I had to say something in response to your joke Islamophobia.  The idea that Sharia Law stands for "kill all infidels and put women barefoot back into the kitchen with head coverings!" is a dishonest strawman put into place by western media that is along the same lines as people who think that in order to follow the bible you have to stone homosexuals and adulterers.  Very few Muslims in America genuinely want to put "infidels" to the sword.

And given some of the social justice tenets in Sharia Law, it'd be an improvement in some respects to what came before.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Good god I miss Muammar Gaddafi (and Saddam Hussein).

You do realize that certain elements of Sharia remained adopted as a law under both?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Good god I miss Muammar Gaddafi (and Saddam Hussein).

You just hate the bearded men.

[Lief 🗽]

Oh no a country is implementing laws loosely informed by its religious traditions and values??? This would never happen in the enlightened West.

[Beet]

Has anyone noticed that the arab spring targeted all of the republics (except for traumatised algeria - see 1992) and spared all of the monarchies?

[Deus Naturae]

Oh no a country is implementing laws loosely informed by its religious traditions and values??? This would never happen in the enlightened West.

I'm not very knowledgable about Sharia, so I'd be curious to know what else informs it.

[opebo]

Apparently it is 'hateful' to say anything against these sharia types (I just got 3 death points for it), so someone might as well lock this thread.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Points for speaking against them, no.  Speaking in favor of harm and death coming to them, yes.

[SPC]

Has anyone noticed that the arab spring targeted all of the republics (except for traumatised algeria - see 1992) and spared all of the monarchies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahraini_uprising_(2011%E2%80%93present)

Unless you are referring to the Arab spring only successfully toppling the republics, in which case such an outcome is hardly surprising since all but one of those were only successful due to Western intervention, and the Arab monarchies would not lobby for Western intervention in order to topple one of their own.

[Zioneer]

Apparently it is 'hateful' to say anything against these sharia types (I just got 3 death points for it), so someone might as well lock this thread.

That's because you're an absurd Gaddafi supporter; sharia law can mean many things, and does not always mean Taliban-esque government.

[Frodo]

Speaking of Gaddafi, whatever happened to his Amazon guards?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Considering they had no actual military experience or combat credentials and the rebel forces did they probably got gunned down pretty badly.

[opebo]

Considering they had no actual military experience or combat credentials and the rebel forces did they probably got gunned down pretty badly.

The sad stories from that terrible imperialism never end..

[Bacon King]

Speaking of Gaddafi, whatever happened to his Amazon guards?

it turns out he raped them a lot

[opebo]

it turns out he raped them a lot

Rape?! What the devil are you trying to get us to believe, BK?  That they had no idea of who they were working for or what the duties would be?  Bizarre.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

it turns out he raped them a lot

Rape?! What the devil are you trying to get us to believe, BK?  That they had no idea of who they were working for or what the duties would be?  Bizarre.

The notion that having sex with one's boss is somehow a 'duty' of employment as a bodyguard is, itself, rape, opebo.

[opebo]

The notion that having sex with one's boss is somehow a 'duty' of employment as a bodyguard is, itself, rape, opebo.

Pshaw, Nathan.  They weren't really bodyguards you know.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The notion that having sex with one's boss is somehow a 'duty' of employment as a bodyguard is, itself, rape, opebo.

Pshaw, Nathan.  They weren't really bodyguards you know.

Hence the problem.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Has anyone noticed that the arab spring targeted all of the republics (except for traumatised algeria - see 1992) and spared all of the monarchies?

Mhm, a monarchy is probably seen as a more legitimate form of authority as opposed to some some quasi-socialist semi-military junta. Especially since a lot of monarchies in the Muslim world claim Muhammad as direct forefather of their respective dynasty.

And provided the monarch is question is a Western-educated one, he seems to be more of the pragmatic type and more inclined to throw the protesters a bone or two. See Morocco where a new constitutional amendment mandates that the prime minister shall be a member of the majority party in parliament and Jordan where the cabinet got fired by the king and a new electoral law was passed as result of the Arab Spring.

[opebo]

The notion that having sex with one's boss is somehow a 'duty' of employment as a bodyguard is, itself, rape, opebo.

Pshaw, Nathan.  They weren't really bodyguards you know.

Hence the problem.

What problem?  They were concubines.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The notion that having sex with one's boss is somehow a 'duty' of employment as a bodyguard is, itself, rape, opebo.

Pshaw, Nathan.  They weren't really bodyguards you know.

Hence the problem.

What problem?  They were concubines.

Someone can cite if I'm wrong but didn't these women want the glory that came with being in this clan?  I mean he didn't hand pick them and then train them to do what he wanted.  Was it a secret to those who volunteered what this service consisted of?

[opebo]

Someone can cite if I'm wrong but didn't these women want the glory that came with being in this clan?  I mean he didn't hand pick them and then train them to do what he wanted.  Was it a secret to those who volunteered what this service consisted of?

No. Its perfectly obvious that powerful men are pursued a thousand times more than they 'rape'.  I'm not saying the latter doesn't ever happen (no doubt out of ennui), but its just a great rarity compared to the getting chased by thousands of ladies thing.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Many of them were hardly "volunteers". "Gaddafi's Harem" by Annick Cojean is a very good source on the subject.

I mean he didn't hand pick them and then train them to do what he wanted.  Was it a

You'd be surprised.