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What’s it all about? Take it or leave it: here are some explanations

After 42 years of Gaddafi, the people of Libya are now entering Day 14 of the march towards the end of his era/ epoch of power.

Meanwhile, a few people , who may not be fully acquainted with all of the facts, and think that al-Gaddafi is going to come back, appear to be jumping on Carl Bildt for not joining the chorus line that’s giving Gaddafi marching orders.

Obama says that “Gaddafi must step down immediately” ( you can imagine how this must be irritating Herr Gaddafi, to the liver) and Cameron’s  order is that Gaddafi must step down and “ go now”…

How do you reason with a man who is insane? Will he listen to reason? There’s no telling what he could and could not do. Perhaps if he had the power to blow up the whole world and take us all ( along with all the Libyans and the Arab League & Iran to hell with him) perhaps he would like to do so.

Or if he could use European and American hostages as negotiable material , he could also do so.

There’s no telling what the man could not do. He’s already said that he’s going to fight to the last drop of blood….and that he is ready for martyrdom. Nor should he rule out the possibility of military action against him.

I suppose that the only reason why a no-fly zone has not been imposed yet, is to give him an exit option, by air, because otherwise he is easily surrounded by a naval blockade , and at the moment it does not appear that he is the King of Kings or even the Commander-in-Chief of Libya, outside of the Tripoli bunker where he is hiding. In any case, that’s better than Saddam….

Here in Sweden, if THIS is true then it’s not at all surprising that Malmö has increasingly become the hotbed of anti-Semitism, because nowadays some of those who found or fund mosques usually have their own agendas – beyond merely giving dawah

You may well ask, why did Gaddafi donate one billion dollars to his protege Louis Farrakhan one of the chief purveyors of anti-Semitism in the United States of America, today ?

It would appear that Farrakhan is presently a little quiet (quite unlike him not to be singing his usual calypso) but on the other hand you can bet that he would not like to bite the hand that feeds him.

Gaddafi also tried to extend his influence South of the Sahara and beyond the pale of the Arab League, by all kinds of dubious means. For greater clarity , take a look at this. Just one example. I’m sure that chief Prosecutor David Crane would like to take a shot at this if necessary. But Colonel G is  in enough trouble already. Enough for him to want to want to “take up arms against a sea of troubles” and to swim all the way to Italy…

Here was an invitation to discuss ( around the periphery of that United States of Africa Dream.)

The discussion, still at its very beginning, continues ….and hopefully will continue without too much vanity….

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Getting the record straight. Some aspects of the man and his promised bloodbath:

Gaddafi and Israel

Gaddafi and the Jewish people

Gaddafi’s relationship with Idi Amin

In Libya, things got worse, overnight.

Al-jazeera turns the searchlight on Libya

Sky news’ spotlight on Libya

Just now it looks as if the whole world of foreigners in Libya is being evacuated from Libya, for their own safety.

And what do you know? These dictators are all the same.

Well, “money doesn’t talk it swears” and as they say, “one good turn deserves another” so like Johnny Walker, still going strong, Gaddafi’s 87-year-old-revolutionary comrade Roberto Mugabe of Zimbabwe ( also known as “King Bob” to the local Brits) is sending crack troops from his presidential guard to fight for his colonel Gaddafi

If only Gaddafi’s dear friend Idi Amin Dada were also alive today! His dear friend who was better known as “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al-Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”.

No doubt if still alive and killing in Uganda, Commander- in-Chief, His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular would also be committing some ( if not all) of his elite troops to the revolutionary cause of saving his colonel’s not so colourful ass.

Not that such a contribution would help save Colonel Gaddafi. Those troops would probably help kill a few thousand more Libyan people, but that would in itself in no way save Gaddafi or his ass and his cash from facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity

The relationship between Gaddafi and Idi Amin goes back a long ways. Wasn’t it Gaddafi who granted asylum to Amin after he was toppled in Uganda?

And when the dust of battle settles on the desert sands, who is going to grant asylum to Gaddafi?

As history has it, Dada Idi Amin had been travelling unsuccessfully around the world, in search of weapons that would increase his glory in this world and his stature in the universe of human affairs – and I heard this unembellished history from one of Gaddafi’s men – that when Amin got to Tripoli and told Gaddafi of his mission in life,

Gaddafi asked him, “ Is it weapons that you need?”

Amin answered, “ Yes. Weapons.”

Gaddafi then told Amin: “ No problem. I will give you all the weapons that you need, but on one condition.”

Amin grinned: “ What condition Bwana Gaddafi , O Lion of di desert?”

Gaddafi told him: “ When you get back to Kampala, I want you to fuck up all the Jews in your Kingdom”

Amin told him “For your weapons, I will do anything for you boss !”

And so when a happy Idi Amin returned to Kampala, which is the capital of Uganda, he gave the order that all Jews within his Kingdom had 48 hours within which to leave his dominions, after which time , he would not be responsible for their safety and that they could find themselves “sitting on the fire.”

Not long after it came to pass, that which we now read in history books, that “on June 27, 1976, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and supporters and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released.”

Of course, everybody has heard about “Operation Entebbe.”

Less well known aspects of Amin’s history.

Idi Amin tells Jews to leave Uganda

Idi Amin Dada and The Jewish people

Idi Amin and Jews

A very short history of Jews in Uganda

To prevent foreign nationals being held as hostages,  it’s a priority that all foreign nationals and guest workers who want to leave Libya can be evacuated before there can be any talk of UN-sponsored military action to stop Gaddafi’s bloodshed and to take him to the Hague for the judgement.

This is the real Gaddafi and the real Gaddafi the mighty, is showing the whole world that he does not believe in the pikuach nefesh of his own people and that he believes only in the glory of his so called Revolution . But what is such a revolution without the backing of his people?

Gaddafi the mighty revolutionary Bedouin Arab leader of Libya, Africa, South America and Europe is said to have chemical and biological weapons at his disposal and as he says, when he gives the command “everything will burn.”

Unless one of his own men puts him out of his misery before then , hopefully, he will go down like this , the only difference being that whereas at his trial Saddam held the Koran in his left hand, Gaddafi (if not already put out of his misery) will probably be holding that which he so strongly believes in and wants his people to submit to ( politically speaking) his Green Book in his left hand and the Quran with “Qul “ still written in it, in his right hand, begging for Allah’s mercy, the mercy which he himself is not guilty of extending to his own people today or even yesterday.

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Professor Kissi,

Please bear with me putting it straight. If only I could, I would be much more clear and concise about the good, the bad and the d-evil.

Soon after my hero Jerry Rawlings took over on New Year’s Eve of 1981, it seems that he had taken cover under the ideological umbrella of the Lion of Libya as he started to implement what seemed to be perilously close to one of the Green Book essentials that Gaddafi is now claiming is the organ through which he has been ruling Libya and that all power is not in his hands but in the hands of his people, the people of “The People’s Committees” – which JJ called “The People’s Defence Committees.”

I was in Rivers State, Nigeria at the time and working with a community of Ghanaians who were evenly divided about Jerry’s second coming, but at the same time – perhaps because they were academics, were against the idea of for instance a lowly illiterate messenger being elected as head of one of those people’s committees, and  their having to take orders / advice from such a one.

It is also an argument of Shia Islam, this idea of meritocracy which says those who don’t know are not qualified to lead those who know. However, from time to time we find exceptions to this rule e.g. in the extraordinary example of the late Chief Michael Imoudu, of Nigeria.

Kwame Nkrumah was not a racist. I intuit that you are touched by the symbolism and political significance of Kwame Nkrumah’s marriage with Lady Fathia, an Egyptian -  and their worthy progeny. Gammal Nkrumah is active in African affairs, even if , in my opinion too strident in his anti-Americanisms – I’ve been reading his columns regularly in al-Ahram – and his sister Samia Nkrumah is an MP in the Ghanaian Parliament.

So, I know where you are coming from, when you say that you have dedicated one of your books to Gaddafi’s idol, Gamal Abdel Nasser – the godfather of Pan-Arabism. There are  many differing perspectives on him of whom we read, “After the war, a member of Young Egypt named Gamal Abdul Nasser was among the officers who led the July 1952 revolution in Egypt. Their first act – following in Hitler’s footsteps – was to outlaw all other parties. Nasser’s Egypt became a safe haven for Nazi war criminals, among them the SS General in charge of the murder of Ukrainian Jewry; he became Nasser’s bodyguard and close comrade. Alois Brunner, another senior Nazi war criminal, found shelter in Damascus, where he served for many years as senior adviser to the Syrian general staff and still resides today. “

Except that Gaddafi has been a tragic failure with Pan-Arabism . Hasn’t he just been expelled from the Arab League? Yet, had he ever fulfilled his dream of becoming the first democratically elected or appointed president of Africa ( and therefore the most powerful Arab in the world) in no time at all his centre of gravity in Tripoli would suddenly extend to the rest of the Arab world and along with the rapid ( and costly) Islamization of the Continent South of the Sahara, we would be part of the Arab League, ( perhaps in exchange for some free oil, whilst the oil lasted?

And if someone like Yoweri Museveni can see this clearly, then why not you and me?

So, there’s a further point that I want to make about Gaddafi, in the light of what you and Jaye Gaskia ( (with whom I agree completely) have said about him and it is this: that he considers himself a revolutionary even when he has no intention of renewing the revolution. Today it is those who are protesting against both his “Green Book “ theory and the implementation of that theory into practice, they are in a sense the real revolutionaries and he is the dinosaur. He and his marauding gangs of state-sponsored mercenary-murderers, now murdering women at home, whilst their men are out demonstrating and now fighting against  Gaddafi’s personal tyranny.

One has no recourse but to be left with the very uncomfortable feeling that should the African heads of states on whom he has sprayed so much money, have eventually ratified a United States of Africa Constitution which would crown Gaddafi King ( “of Kings”) or President of Africa  he would  of course have thus  been given the green light to extend or impose his Green Book ideology on all of us and most probably want us to believe what he said to his people just the other day, that Libya is the leader of Africa, South America and Europe and that he is  ” the revolutionary leader of Africa for all eternity.”

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In our august discussion USA-Africa dialogue series forum there’s this very relevant on-going discussion of What says the African Union about Colonel al-Gaddafi and current events in Libya?

Till now, I’ve only got this far

Dear Kofi Kissi Dompere,

After the interview with this guy on CNN last night, this calls for taking a closer look into:

Ian Bremmer : the J curve

And, this too

And just in case you missed this news item which goes to show that it’s not only the Libyan people who would like to have a piece of Gaddafi’s liver

I mostly read the Jewish and the Swedish media, the US; UK, Nigerian,Iranian and South African press and to some extent my views must be coloured by what I read.

I’m ever so grateful for your open-ended question ”What do you think?”

What do I think ? Well, what do you think would have happened if Muammar al-Gaddafi had not got to the point of giving up his ambition to be in lethal possession of weapons of mass destruction?

When he now says that when he gives the order “ everything will burn”, doesn’t that bother you?

And if he can do that to his own people, what would the rabid anti-Semite not do to his enemies?

What I think is of a pretty tall order :Like the Ides of March, February 23^rd has come and gone and so I think that instead of wishing or waiting for Kotoh Bangura’s dream of ousting President Professor Gbagbo to come true, we should round up all the available mercenaries from the ECOWAS countries, plus the full military glory (Land, Sea & Air ) of the ECOMORG forces, and the military forces from all the other African Union countries and despatch them all to dislodge al-Gaddafi from his tribal headquarters in Tripoli, Libya, where a Democratic election has not been held for the last 42 years since Colonel Gaddafi deposed King Idriss by a coup d’etat and imposed himself as being in power over the people of Libya . In that his latest speech to the Libyan nation, he says that he cannot be deposed and describes himself as “the Revolutionary Leader of the Libyan people for all eternity.”

So the Super Pan-African force should be assembled to dislodge this self-proclaimed “ King of Kings “ ( like Ozymandias ) or to force him to hold democratic elections that are free and fair, so that the people can decide through the ballot box and not through his executioners’ bombs and bullets.

I’m serious, I’m not kidding. I’m angry with Gaddafi for opening fire on his people – as you would be too if Barack Obama or Fredrik Reinfeldt ordered the military to open fire on anyone who was opposed to their politics or policies. Or to the ideology of the Green Book. If I believed in book- burning, I would like to have all copies of the Green Book brought together  and to make a big bonfire out of the collection. But I don’t believe in book-burning or in forbidding the contents of a book being discussed or disparaged by someone’s critical faculties.

And after he is deposed ( it will surely happen soon) he can then seek political asylum in Burkina Faso or Kenya – if this “ Satan’s murderer” has not descended into hell, as a “martyr”, by that time. Preferably sooner than later. He will probably be in good company and very popular there.

I’m happy that Iran and HAMAS have condemned Gaddafi’s treachery to his people and let me hasten to add that I first met the Shia, here in Stockholm, at a demonstration organised by them, against Reagan and Thatcher’s bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986.

A while back, I had thought that his crown Prince Saif must have been recruited by MI5 ( or is it MI6?) as their man, since he’s got a Ph.D from the London School of Economics, especially since he was acting like such a good boy and saying all the pretty & nice things as one of the Young Global Leaders in the World Economic Forum at Davos. But after his horrifying address to the nation on behalf of his father ( not the One in Heaven) it was clear to see that he is indeed a chip off the old block, the son of a gun.

N.B. He has now been thrown out of the World Economic Forum.

And yesterday, I read this little piece of gossip in Dagens Industri, that according to Daniel Sachs ( also a Young Global Leader)  in 2008, he attended some leadership training with Saif- al-Islam at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA, and that Saif had not uttered a word, during the two week long course.

Obviously, he knows when and where and to whom he would bark : his own people.

Finally, I do have good friends from North Africa and the Kingdom of Jordan, and they are genuine people and good Muslims. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. With Muammar al-Gaddafi priding himself so much on being a Bedouin Arab whilst waving his “The Green Book” to which he accords so much authority and expects so much compliance, I just want to say this, that according to the Qur’an, not my authority or the authority of the Green Book, but according to the Quran:

Qur’an : 9:97 : “The Bedouin Arabs surpass all in unbelief and hypocrisy and are most likely to be unaware of the limits prescribed by Allah in what He has revealed “

And that is my irritation with Gaddafi – the place that he accords the Green Book – the high status accorded to that book , and his denigration of those he calls “Islamists”, in soliciting approval from the West, borders on HYPOCRISY

I should like to add that in my opinion of all the affected states, so far it is King Abdullah of Jordan ( 70% of whose subjects are Palestinians) who is the one who has treated his subjects with the greatest respect and understanding and acted most wisely when he became aware of their demands.

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Everyone is worried about the safety and the lives of Libyans and of foreign guests workers in Sheikh Gaddafi’s Kingdom.

In yesterdays TV interview Carl Bildt was all for democracy and totally against tyranny.

This unconfirmed report says that Gaddafi has imported mercenaries from faraway places such as Chad and Nigeria. There are other rumours that since he cannot trust his own people – and doesn’t have his own trustworthy “Libyan revolutionaries” in sufficient numbers, he hired mercenaries from elsewhere including Eastern Europe, and is paying them $30,000 apiece to kill his own people.

He would like us to believe that Gaddafi is Libya and that Libya is synonymous with Gaddafi. But Libya is bigger and greater than Gaddafi and Libya will have a future after Gaddafi himself has gone to face the music & the Sharia Judgement of his Allah, in the hereafter.

Here he is pontificating in his Green Book on the subject of “How can society redirect its course when deviations from its laws occur?”

It’s clear that so far with unrestrained impunity, the brute is now directing extreme violence against the Libyan people and like a criminal, violating the very tenets that he himself wrote, with his own hand, and as if there in no higher power to whom he himself will have to give an accounting, not least of all for all the innocent lives that he has translated from life to death.

How will Gaddafi go down in history? That when his long-suffering people deprived of civic rights and liberties for more than 42 years, held demonstrations requesting that he reform his dictatorial ways, he turned his guns against them?

Should Gaddafi go down the path that he outlined last night in his address to his nation, that he would exterminate his enemies – my very fallible prediction is that, like his predecessor Saddam Hussein who also said that his enemies would “ swim in their own blood” Gaddafi will either wind up being hanged as a war criminal (and if not careful his crown prince will accompany him to the gallows) or they will both go, as martyrs, if not done in by one of their closest and most trusted of “The Revolution”

Gaddafi the gadfly and anathema to all that’s known as Human Rights and Democracy has many enemies: the ghosts of his Lockerbie victims are against him and must be haunting him and like the survivors in their families must be crying for revenge.

There are many other ghosts in the many other parts of the world in which he has promoted terror, war and destruction. So he cannot be too popular in the spirit world of the good jinns either.

If Gaddafi decides to chase his people in the East, right into Egypt, I hope (and pray) that the Egyptian army goes in and kicks his ass.

Good thing that he’s been expelled from the Arab League. Better still they should have invited him to a meeting and then arrested him there. – for Crimes against Humanity…

Yesterday, I asked an Eritrean friend whether the revolutionary wind blowing across North Africa, could extend down to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, the rest of East, Central and Southern Africa and possibly also blow across to West Africa?

His reply was that in Eritrea at least, such resistance would be met with brutality….

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Gaddafi and Pan-Africanism

( from Wikipedia:

” Pan-Africanism : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_al-Gaddafi

“Gaddafi has also emerged as a controversial African leader. As one of the continent’s longest-serving post-colonial heads of state, the Libyan leader enjoys a reputation among many Africans as a maverick statesman. In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the African Union in Ethiopia, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: “I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa.”[72] Gaddafi is also seen by many Africans as a humanitarian, pouring large amounts of money into sub-Saharan states. Large numbers of Africans have come to Libya to take advantage of the availability of jobs there, despite the weak private sector.

His views on African political and military unification have received a relatively lukewarm response from other African governments. On 29 August 2008, Gaddafi held a public ceremony in Benghazi in which he was self-handed the title “King of Kings of Africa” with over 200 African traditional rulers and kings as part of a grassroots effort to encourage African heads of state and government to join with Gaddafi toward a greater political cohesion;[73] this was followed on 1 February 2009 by a coronation ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia simultaneous with the 53rd African Union Summit, at which he was elected head of the African Union for the year.[74] His January 2009 forum for African kings, however, was cancelled by the Ugandan government (Uganda was to host the forum), since the invitation of traditional rulers to discussion of political affairs contravened Uganda’s current constitution, and according to Ugandan foreign ministry spokesperson James Mugume, could have led to instability.[75]

The title of “King of Kings” was reiterated by Gaddafi at the 2009 Arab League Summit, at which he claimed to be the King of Kings, “leader of the Arab leaders” and “imam of the Muslims” in his criticism of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia prior to storming out of the summit.[76]

Notwithstanding his claims of concern for his African roots, Gaddafi has often expressed an overt contempt for the Berbers, a non-Arab people of North Africa, and for their language, maintaining that the very existence of Berbers in North Africa is a myth created by colonialists. He adopted several measures forbidding the use of Berber, and often attacks this language in official speeches, with statements like: “If your mother transmits you this language, she nourishes you with the milk of the colonialist, she feeds you their poison” (1985).[77]

Gaddafi has defended the actions of Somalian pirates, “It is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia’s water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence… If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet.”[78] ”

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To fight who? His people? His people have become his enemy and he has become their enemy?

Is that what his peoples’ revolution and his personal rule has come to after 42 years ?

He could at least be thinking :

” The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,…”

And he should know all about that by now, “Because revolution is nothing but change”

The end is nigh…

It was a pathetic performance. Honestly, I was expecting at least some kind of Fidel Castro type of oratory or rhetoric from Qaddafi but was again disappointed. Even Saddam could have done better. Muammar Gaddafi’s rambling speech was unimpressive, lacked balagha and at the same time he was deadly ominous to say the least. There he was waving his Green Book, a book that he has written with his own hand and reading from it a list of punishments  his own Muammar’s personal Sharia (mostly execution) for all sorts of crimes of insubordination to his power as “leader of the revolution”– as if his Green Book is of equal significance to his people, as the Quran, a book which I did not hear him quote from, not even once. He goes as far as using the idea of the Islamic State as the bogeyman. That the protesters want to establish an Islamic State (to strike terror into the heart of the West?) But the people of Libya want freedom. That’s the issue. The sort of freedoms that he has denied them during the past 42 years of his reign.

He said that he has not yet used any force but threatened to do so do so if called upon to do so : “I have not yet ordered the use of force, not yet ordered one bullet to be fired … when I do, everything will burn.” If they don’t stop him before that.

Let’s see what the Security Council has been saying behind closed doors.

And also what the Arab League and what Gaddafi’s friends in the African Union, those on whom he has showered so much of the Libyan people’s money, have to say about him today.

Whilst Brother Obama is keeping mum, John Kerry is not mincing his words and what he’s saying to the old lion of the desert is that the Libyan people do not seem to be behind Brer Gaddafi and that his time is up.

Soon our Carl Bildt will also be joining the chorus, when it is most helpful to do so.

Brer Gaddafi is threatening to be violent to his people, just because his people don’t want him any more. They are fed up with him.

News Africa

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Just in case we still have any illusions , in yesterday’s Financial Times

“A grubby Libyan lesson in realpolitik”, Gideon Rachman writes

“Freedom House, which monitors political and civil liberties across the world, recently ranked Libya as the most despotic country in the Middle East. It was the only country to get the worst mark (a seven) for both political and civil liberties: it is worse than Syria, worse than Iran, much worse than Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. According to the Freedom House rankings, Libya ranks alongside the world’s worst dictatorships – North Korea and Burma.”

As my favourite Bob sings,

“ If dogs run free, then why not we
Across the swooping plain?

…..If dogs run free, then what must be
Must be, and that is all “

For periods of time, I have lived under the same roof, with Algerians, Egyptians, Moroccans and Libyans. I just want to say that I really admire the Algerians and their fight for their independence and that in all my time of associating with North African Muslim Arabs & Berbers, it is the Algerians that I have met that understand the situation of Africa South of the Sahara, more than the Egyptians, more than the Moroccans (even the curly haired ones from Agadir) or the Tunisians (the most Europeanised of the North Africans) or even the dark skinned Libyans among my friends and acquaintances.

The Algerian understanding must be based on their country’s history of having fought for their independence.

In more ways than one the impact of life in Algeria contributed a lot to the development of Frantz Fanon and his perceptions.

Here’s a lil biti about Fanon and Algeria

Libya too has had its own heroes, sung and unsung, famous and not so famous. Anthony Quinn ( who later became a Muslim) starred in the film Lion of the Desert about the Libyan hero Omar Mukhtar

With no uncertain words, the EU has condemned Gaddafi the Desert Lion’s excessive use of force. against his own people .

The Arab League is supposed to do ditto today, to roundly condemn the Colonel for all the evil that he has committed and continues to commit against his people, in his own name.

N.B. I call he who dwells in his tent “Desert Lion” not “desert rat” – he was after all a friend of Madiba Nelson Mandela and once gave him essential support. But what he’s doing to his own people, hiring black African mercenary soldiers to gun down his own people in cold blood, is an abomination. I’m not sure that Allah subhan t’ala thinks that colonel Qadhafi is on the right path in doing that.

If we want to talk about his, call it arrogance if you like, or extreme self-assurance, or it could even be a flash or illumination of divine intelligence, but what to say about Mr. Gaddafi who thinks that certain parts of the Qur’an should be expunged or excised – the parts in which Allah Subhan t’ala says to his Prophet Muhammad – salallahu alaihi wa salaam , “ Qul “ ( Say to them)? On what authority other than his own would he like to subtract the occurrences of “Qul” from the final edition of the Quran.? I don’t know what the Sheikhs of the Arab League say about this, but this is a question to which I have still not got a satisfactory answer. The only tenable answer could be that he (Gaddafi) was only expressing an opinion. But an opinion based on what?

Gaddafi is down but not yet out. Although he’s holding his umbrella to shield his head from raindrops falling on his head and although it’s raining blood and tears in Tripoli and everywhere else his men have been shedding the people’s blood, he’s down but not out. He’s not the sort to flee to safety with his tail between his legs – and where would he go? Indonesia? Malaysia? Certainly not to Iran , Egypt or Saudi Arabia. The Shah of Iran who was more popular than him, is buried in Egypt.

The Arab League may have as its motto, ” all for one and one for all”, but there have always been rifts within that fold, and there are surely some who would like to see the demise of desert Sheikh Gaddafi. The desert lion has not been too close to the Arab League folks for quite some time now, since he has been more ambitious about being the first democratically elected executive president of his proposed United States of Africa – and of course the dream that such a president would wield real power – just imagine the president of the United States of Africa, president Muammer al-Gaddafi! He has been more interested in being that than in the more unlikely possibility of being the first democratically elected president of the United States of Arabia.

Now what we don’t know and will never know is that should Colonel Qadhafi’s dream ever have come true of being President of all Africa (- which includes Black Africa ( South of the Sahara) president of the Tuaregs of Mali, all the people of Chad, of Sudan, of the British Zimbabweans , the Bwanas and Wazungus in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Boers and Brits of South Africa – then the next thing I suspect that could have happened would be for the old lion of Libya to invite Africa South of the Sahara to join the Arab League, in the name of al- Islam and the notion that “ We are all one.” – and he has already said that that’s the fate of Europe

From dream of the future to present-day reality:

There is a news blackout in the Old Lion’s Libya right now, however, here’s some of the latest

But there’s nothing to beat the two contrasting views in last night’s BBC Hardtalk with Zeinab Badawi, the difference of opinion being not on the fact that Gaddafi is finished, but about how long Gaddafi will survive.. Fawaz Gerges thinks that Gaddafi is a nasty piece of goods and could have a bloody bag of dirty tricks up his sleeve. Guma El-Gamaty, thinks that it’s the people , all the people on one side and against Gaddafi and Gaddafi and some of his mostly foreign hirelings on his side.

After Gaddafi the oil will still be the Libyan people’s- oil, not just Gaddafi’s. So why the fear of a regime change?

My conclusion is that since “money doesn’t talk, it swears”, what el-Gaddafi has for himself is cash – the people’s money….

There is a one percent chance that Gaddafi’s son Saif could pull off a Mark Anthony of this sort, on the people of Libya, to stem the tide:

“Antony

Here is the will, and under Caesar’s seal.
To every Roman citizen he gives,
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.

Second Citizen

Most noble Caesar! We’ll revenge his death.

Third Citizen

O royal Caesar!

ANTONY

Hear me with patience.

All

Peace, ho!

ANTONY

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
His private arbours and new-planted orchards,
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

First Citizen

Never, never. Come, away, away!
We’ll burn his body in the holy place,
And with the brands fire the traitors’ houses.
Take up the body.

Second Citizen

Go fetch fire.

Third Citizen

Pluck down benches.

Fourth Citizen

Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.

Exeunt Citizens with the body”

But too late to declare that all the citizens of Libya are now going to share the petro-dollars. That too is not going to happen. However he could offer the loyalists in the army a bigger share of the people ’s oil revenue – the revenues that he has been spreading around, to gain more popularity in Africa….

Surprisingly, there’s no talk from any quarter whatsoever, about rounding up some African troops to go and dislodge Brer Gaddafi who up to now has never won or lost an election…..

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From Stockholm.

With all that oil & petro-dollars:

Updates

Libya today

“Gaddafi flees Tripoli”

More news about Libya

Libya was at position 146 out of 178 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption index for 2010.

And here is Libya’s Human Rights record which is in urgent need of reform:

Qadhafi gave him $ 1 billion . Now that his best friend is in trouble, what does Louis Farrakhan , (who is Muammer al Qadhafi’s best friend in the US ) have to say about Libya today ?

I have followed Colonel Qadhafi’s chequered career since his overthrowing of King Idriss, the King of Libya in 1969. Today, I am disappointed

Whilst incensed by Dr. Aliya Tilde’s Discourse on alleged Arab racism,I still recall a time (1982-3) when all of Jerry Rawlings’ bodyguards were Libyan (till they were decimated by others in Ghanaian Security who thought that it was a national affront, for a Ghanaian president to be body-guarded by Libyans.

It also got to a point when Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings himself flew over to Libya in 2000, to take back home some of his Ghanaian countrymen who had been the victims of xenophobia, unlawful imprisonment and because of rat race conditions in that country, alleged racism in Libya

True : when not sponsoring war in Sierra Leone and Liberia, or the desecration and destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Benghazi and Tripoli by purposefully constructing a road right through those Jewish cemeteries in those cities, the by now reformed Arab revolutionary – and so we thought, ( after Reagan’s and Thatcher’s bombings) the by now rehabilitated Colonel Qadhafi having spent billions of dollars in Africa outside of Libya, for example – admirably, among other things, donating a billion dollars worth of food aid to Zimbabwe when that country was in dire straits and facing famine, many thought that Colonel Qadhafi had truly turned a new leaf and was now a new man.

Now, like other people in that region, the Libyan people want change, political reform and better living standards, for which purpose peaceful demonstrations started in Benghazi (different tribe from his) and have since spread to his headquarters in Tripoli.

The Sunday Observer headline for yesterday best expresses what I feel about Qadhafi’s “Green Book” ideology in action : “Revulsion as Gaddafi sets his army on Libyan people.”

One is left wondering, is this how Colonel Qadhafi upon obtaining what would have been the final glory of being the first elected president of the United States of Africa would put down a peaceful demonstration against tyranny in say one of his states, Nigeria?

“We are not Egypt “ he says , ”We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet “

( Crown Prince al-Qadhafi Jnr.)

Question is, does Qadhafi senior  have a future after this?

Where?

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One thing I believe is that in the end the Jewish people will be victorious and we will all know Who the Almighty Is.

I should like to say to one and all that today, Israel is the buffer zone so to speak against the Islamization of the West.

Unlike the Rev.Jeremiah Wright, the President of the United States of America usually rounds off a national rally with the prayer, God Bless America.

To be thanked right now, for using its veto: The US vetoes anti-Israel UN resolution

Meanwhile, back home in peaceful Sweden, Urban Ahlin opines that Sweden should recognise the non-existent Palestinian state. He wants Sweden to support Mahmoud Abbas’ attempt at a unliateral declaration of a Palestinian State and to join people like Chavez his socialist friend from Venezuela in supporting the corrupt Abbas & his co-operators

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=q=Wikileaks+%3A+The+corrupt+Abbas

Iran of course is not in favour of a two-state solution. All their billions of dollars worth of efforts to obtain The Bomb would then be superfluous.(They would then have to threaten someone else – maybe their Sunni friends or the Kuffar in Europe & America?) They do not have a border with Israel, they are not even Arabs, although it’s basically an Arab – Israeli problem, but they (Iran) want to play the role of Supreme Leader of the Worldwide Muslims and to be popular with the Arabs they say that they want all of Israel , every centimetre of the Holy Land and that they & Hamas want to baptise the territory as the Islamic Republic of the Palestinians and would like the Jewish people to live as honourable Dhimmis – as a protected minority. Qadhafi has already invited Israel to join The Arab League and Urban Ahlin is more anxious about creating the 23^rd Arab state out of the threatened state of Israel than about establishing Human rights and Democracy in the already existing 22 Arab States

N.B Hamas does not recognize Israel  or ever intend to ever recognize Israel – it’s there in The Hamas Charter

How does he ( Urban Ahlin)  want to justify his urgency and lack of faith in democracy? (For starters Hamas say they will not participate in the next Palestinian elections and that those elections will therefore be meaningless)

And I suppose that all the Urban Grapes are wondering how the world could change if at all, if Sweden were a permanent member of the Security Council?

Alas, these are the signs of the times, and some of the doomsday prophets say it’s the fire next time and that we ( including We Sweden) are living in The Last Days.

But that’s what they always say, that’s what they said a thousand years ago.That’s what they said in 2000 C.E. that it was the beginning of the Millennium and that Jesus was going to appear to begin his 1,000 reign on blessed mother earth.

Some of the Islamicists really don’t care: they say what they believe, that come what may the Mahdi ( a.s.) is about to appear to lead the Muslims to victory in the final Battle of Armageddon and yet others who believe anything, believe that the world as we now know it is going to end next year anyway, in 2012 whether Jesus has come back before that date or is late and has not come back by a few days before Christmas, on 21^st December 2012.

2012? That these convulsions of the earth, the earthquakes, floods, famines, revolts, revolutions, mini-wars are the signs of these last times.

Unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State? More confusion? Less confusion?

Others among the Muslims say nice try , but no cigar, but that she should be of good cheer, that we will all have to wait till the year 2280 for the grand finale.

But, say what you may like to say about Emperor Hosni Mubarak, this sort of thing – that could precipitate a major escalation in these very unsettled times, in that unsettled area did not happen during his watch. For starters, the Muslim Brotherhood has not taken over yet in Egypt, and they will do so eventually, even if surreptitiously or by remaining in the background whilst fielding candidates through other parties – for the simple reason that Egypt is mainly Muslim territory – and Israel has no claims on the territory of Egypt or Iran but just look at what’s happening: Iranian warships heading for Syria are being let through the Suez Canal, by the current Egyptian Military authorities !

The various religious eschatologies nothwithstanding , it is one of the ironies of fate that even as the Revolutionary Tsunami of resistance by Muslims being oppressed by their various Muslim governments and eternal presidents is blowing with full force across Islamized North Africa, the Hijaz peninsular which houses Yemen, blowing across the Middle East neighbourhoods of Jordan, Hezbollah’s Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and the corrupt & unpopular Afghanistan Government is still unsteady, it is at this very time that the Arab leaders whose establishments are being threatened and rocked by the uprisings of the masses, have all banded together (ganged up) to present their urgent Security Council Resolution about Israel building in the Promised Land – not about declaring an emergency about the blood being spilled by Muslims in the streets of Libyan cities, and for over a week now in Yemen or about the military opening fire on unarmed civilian crowds of Shia Muslims in Bahrain mourning their loved ones & walking in peaceful funeral processions to bury their dead – being shot at and murdered by Bahraini security forces – in cold blood.

What the Palestinians don’t want right now or any time in the near future is civil war.

If we are not careful, what’s happening now in North Africa and the rest of the adjacent Muslim countries is but the beginning of internal civil strife that could go on for another hundred years…..

……( to be continued)

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Q: In the future, before or after Eurabia, Sweden to become an Islamic State or live under the Muslim Caliphate?

Is it possible: The Islamization of the whole of Sweden?

Yesterday, at the Medborgarplatsen station, I met an ignoramus Muslim with full talibanic beard, but he was not from Taliban Land, he was from Kenya.

I greeted him politely and he told me in return, “You are lost”and started a long discourse about who wrote the Torah and the Talmud as if I had solicited any teachings from him. I was beautifully polite. I could have told him that he should take his arguments to his Brother-in-Islam Osama Bin Ladin and his terrorist ilk or to His Holiness the Pope or to the Archbishop of Canterbury or better still to the great rabbis, but not to me. I could have even told him to make sure that when he approached the rabbis he also made sure that he was accompanied by other learned followers of “the ummi prophet” salallahu alaihi wa salaam – and my understanding of “ummi” , is not that the prophet of Islam – salallahu alaihi wa salaam was illiterate, but that he was not familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures.

That’s the problem with Muslims: they go around with the ambition of wanting to convert everybody – including everybody in Sweden, to al-Islam.

But I did not and do not want to upset his applecart.

The least I could have done : I could have recited to him from the Yigdal, that, “In Israel none like Moses arose again” or quoted The blessings before the reading of the haftarah

I could have brought to his attention, the Siddur note on “good prophets” which reads:

“The theme of the Haftarah blessings is the integrity of the prophets and their teachings.Even when it is their mission to criticize and threaten, they are good to the Jewish people. Also, they are chosen because they are good people: learned, righteous, impressive etc. Our tradition does not accept prophets who are lacking in any of the attributes of Jewish greatness.”

About the difference between the Hebrew prophet Moses and Muhammad the prophet of Islam, this illustration comes to mind:

Numbers 12: 1-14

Parashat Behaalotecha

The explanation of Miriam’s hullabaloo is as follows:

“ Moses uniqueness is challenged and affirmed:

Since Moses had to be ready to hear God’s word at any moment, he had to be ritually pure at all times, which meant that he had to refrain from marital relations with his wife Zipporah. This intimate matter remained their private affair, until Miriam learned of it from a chance remark by Zipporah. Not realising that God had instructed Moses to do so, and feeling that it was an unjustifiable affront to Zipporah, Miriam shared the news with Aaron , who agreed with her. They were critical of Moses, contending that since the two of them were also prophets , but were not required to withdraw from normal life, neither was Moses. God Himself appeared to them to chastise them , and to testify that Moses’ prophecy was of a higher order than anyone else’s , and therefore he had to remain ritually pure at all times.

God punished Miriam for instigating this criticism of Moses, even though she did it out of a sincere desire to correct what she was convinced was his error, and spoke out only privately to Aaron who shared her devotion to Moses. Thus her own mistake became an eternal teaching to the Jewish people of the gravity of the sin of slander.( See Ramban on Deuteronomy 24.9)”

Another little point to be cleared up here : “ The Cushite (literally Ethiopian ) woman. Zipporah was from Midian, not Ethiopia. The description of her as Cushite was a euphemistic reference to her great beauty. It is common in Scripture and in Talmudic literature to attach a derogatory epithet to a loved one in order to prevent the “ evil eye”…. ( some gematria is used ) to suggest that Zipporah’s physical beauty was matched by her character.”

( From pages 794 – 795 of the Stone Chumash)

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