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Our Principles? The Libyan Insurrection and the Mohammed Cartoons
by John Rosenthal https://www.legal-project.org/1274/our-principles-the-libyan-insurrection-and Excerpt: "We must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles," President Obama said in his speech Monday night justifying American military intervention in Libya. But there is reason to doubt that the eastern Libyan forces opposed to the rule of Moammar al-Gaddafi do share our core principles — at any rate, if by "our" principles the president means American ones. This is not only because, as reported on PJM, the rebel forces contain al-Qaeda linked elements that have fought against America in both Afghanistan and Iraq. A look back at the origins of the eastern Libyan rebellion suggests that it has been an essentially Islamist rebellion from the start. Indeed, little known to most Americans, one of the principal sources of inspiration for the rebellion is to be found in that most Islamist of all sources of outrage: the famous "Mohammed cartoons" published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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