/// Islamic Sharia law will be the ‘basic source’ of legislation in free Libya, its new leader has proclaimed. ///
/// It could also prove deeply embarrassing to David Cameron as he ordered the £1billion mission to back the rebels despite advice from all sides urging caution. ///
// Glad you are convinced the Libyan rebels are better than the other lot. As hardly anypne knows anything about them, I will wait and see before they get my vote. //
Gromit - 02:57 Fri 16th Sep 2011
// We do not really know our new friends yet, and there behaviour and actions over the next few months need to closely watched before we can say they are acting democratically. My guess is they won't be. //
I said as much before, when this was all kicking off, that no one would know how this would pan out, or end, and if they impose Sharia law, why does it come as a surprise, because someone says, lets have a democratic country, doesn't mean they will. And it's not a case of i told you so. They have a long way to go, and who knows the country could still fall into anarchy, if the many don't want sharia law, or indeed the kind of leader they have currently.
Brenden, i think it was you and i, and i'm sure naomi, who said this from the off, but there was a lot of no that won't happen, i remember it well, as the saying goes.
libyan law already derives from sharia, so i can't see much of a change. as claimed by the transition leader, perhaps these will be a more moderate type.
i wasn't - plenty of people travel to muslim countries for their holidays, to countries which operate a moderate law based on shariah without even noticing.