Libya: The Islamization of Universities

[Sally]

Before long it looks like the entire Arab world will be run by the Islamists.

Libya: The Islamization of Universities
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
May 14, 2014 at 4:30 am

The new prime minister of Libya, Ahmed Maiteeg, is supported not only by the Muslim Brotherhood, but also by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State.

Islamist militias are now dictating their agenda to the academic authorities in Libya.

Under the monarchy and the former Gaddafi regime, university courses were attended jointly by male and female students. Now, however, things are changing, as the "new Libya" moves backwards.

Recently, the academic authorities of the University of Omar al-Mokhtar, in Derna, a terrorist stronghold in eastern Libya, signed an agreement with a local Islamist militia aimed at the construction of a wall meant to segregate male from female students within the campus. The agreement also calls for the introduction of a strict dress code for female students, including the loose abaya over-garment and the hijab, covering the head and chest.

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Things gettin' hot in Libya again...

Americans Urged to Leave Libya After Group Linked to Benghazi Attack Threatens U.S.
May 27, 2014 – The State Department on Tuesday warned American citizens not to travel to Libya and urged those there to leave immediately.

The embassy in Tripoli has not been evacuated, although the administration began positioning military assets in Sicily last week to carry out a potential emergency extraction if deemed necessary. The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan moved into the Mediterranean Sea. “This is a portion of a special purpose Marine Air-Guard task force crisis response that’s moved to a naval air station in Sicily,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a briefing. “This positioning was done in the event these resources are needed in the future.” “We continue to review the situation and address embassy security needs,” Psaki said.

In this image made from video provided by the Libyan national army via AP Television, vehicles with heavy artillery of the Tripoli joint security forces move closer to the parliament building after troops of Gen. Khalifa Hifter targeted Islamist lawmakers and officials at the parliament in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, May 18, 2014.

The travel warning said the staffing at the embassy has been limited, “due to security concerns,” and that the mission could offer only “very limited emergency services to U.S. citizens.” Several other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Jordan, have closed their diplomatic missions in Libya and evacuated staff in recent weeks. The advisory to U.S. citizens was issued after a terrorist group implicated in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Ansar al-Shariah, declared war against a renegade general who has been fighting Islamists, accusing him of being backed by the United States.

Ansar al-Shariah leader Mohammed al-Zahawi in a televised press conference called Gen. Khalifa Hifter an “American agent.” According to the Associated Press, Zahawi said if the U.S. continued to back him it would face a “shameful defeat.” He also accused Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of supporting Hifter. Ansar al-Shariah, which has ties to al-Qaeda, is suspected of having played a key role in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, which cost the lives of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The State Department says there has been no contact with Hifter, and that the U.S. is giving him neither “implicit” nor “explicit” support.

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Extremist group vows to fight Libyan general
May 27, 2014 — An Al-Qaida-inspired group on Tuesday vowed to fight a Libyan renegade general who is waging an offensive against Islamists, accusing him of being an "American agent" who wants to replicate last year's military overthrow of an elected government in neighboring Egypt.

Mohammed al-Zahawi, the leader of Ansar al-Shariah, said in a televised press conference that his group would combat Gen. Khalifa Hifter's so-called "Dignity Operation," which began more than 10 days ago and is aimed at crushing Islamist militias and their political backers. Hifter has won the support of politicians, diplomats, army units and tribes who want him to impose order and rein in the country's unruly militias three years after the toppling and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Al-Zahawi, speaking in front of the black flag of his group, warned Hifter against opening the "doors of hell" to a conflict similar to Syria's civil war. He warned the United States against backing Hifter, saying it would face a "shameful defeat" and drawing comparisons with the U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Somalia. Ansar al-Shariah is believed to have played a role in the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, which led to killing of the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Al-Zahawi also accused Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt of supporting Hifter in a war against "Shariah," or Islamic law. His remarks came as Egyptians voted in an election almost certain to vault former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to power less than a year after he overthrew that country's first elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi. The leader of Ansar al-Shariah made no mention of the string of assassinations of journalists, judges and members of security forces in Benghazi, which have been blamed on Islamist militias. On Monday, the chief editor of a Libyan newspaper who had criticized Islamists was assassinated in Benghazi.

Earlier on Tuesday, the new Islamist-backed prime minister Ahmed Maiteg was unharmed in an attack on his home that set off a gunbattle with guards, a government official said. The official said four attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the house of Maiteg, sparking clashes with security guards. One of the assailants was killed and another was arrested while the rest fled, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. Maiteg was named premier in a vote deemed illegitimate by non-Islamist lawmakers. Thousands of Libyans have held demonstrations in recent days demanding the elected assembly halt sessions and accusing it of financing Islamist militias and acting as their political wing. Islamists have condemned the offensive launched earlier this month as a "coup."

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[I.P.Freely]

Before long it looks like the entire Arab world will be run by the Islamists.

Libya: The Islamization of Universities
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci
May 14, 2014 at 4:30 am

The new prime minister of Libya, Ahmed Maiteeg, is supported not only by the Muslim Brotherhood, but also by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State.

Islamist militias are now dictating their agenda to the academic authorities in Libya.

Under the monarchy and the former Gaddafi regime, university courses were attended jointly by male and female students. Now, however, things are changing, as the "new Libya" moves backwards.

Recently, the academic authorities of the University of Omar al-Mokhtar, in Derna, a terrorist stronghold in eastern Libya, signed an agreement with a local Islamist militia aimed at the construction of a wall meant to segregate male from female students within the campus. The agreement also calls for the introduction of a strict dress code for female students, including the loose abaya over-garment and the hijab, covering the head and chest.

Read more at:

Libya: The Islamization of Universities

MoMo will be turning in his grave.
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[Sunni Man]

Before long it looks like the entire Arab world will be run by the Islamists.

Sounds good to me!! ...

 

[ScienceRocks]

How is it good if they hate science, education, infrastructure and r&d. Sounds like failure.

 

[Sunni Man]

How is it good if they hate science, education, infrastructure and r&d. Sounds like failure.

Muslims do not have anything against science, education, infrastructure, and R&D.

They just want their country/society based on Islamic values and morals.

And not on foreign Western norms. ...