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The Libyan Revolution: Democracy or 'Purity of Islam'?
by John Rosenthal
National Review Online
November 15, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1883/the-libyan-revolution-democracy-or-purity-of-islam
Excerpt:
Mustafa Abdul Jalil's announcement last month that Islamic sharia would form the basic source of legislation in the new Libya, and that all laws contradicting the sharia were immediately null and void, came as a surprise for Western observers. Given that the chair of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) wears the sign of his piety on his forehead in the form of the darkened "prayer bump" or zabibah created through vigorous prostration during prayer, it probably should not have.
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