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Libya Will Be a ‘Moderate Muslim Nation,’ NTC Chairman Says →

“Libyans are Muslims, but we are moderate Muslims,” Abdel Jalil said in the eastern city of Benghazi today, following his vow to scrap statutes that don’t conform to Islamic law. The changes would include the banning of interest on housing loans and the application of the Islamic legal code to marriage and divorce…

“We, as an Islamic state, have adopted the Islamic Shariah as the main source of legislation,” he said. “Any law that runs contrary to the Islamic principles of the Islamic Shariah is legally void…” Libya’s banking industry will be Shariah-compliant because interest “brings about diseases and creates hatred…”

That sound you heard was thousands of right-wing heads exploding, because they don’t know anything about sharia. Mali, Kazakhstan and Turkey are secular nations that use sharia law “for personal or family matters,” Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sudan “have legal systems strongly influenced by sharia, but also cede ultimate authority to their constitutions and the rule of law.” Then of course, there’s a country that has no constitution or legislature, a theocracy based on sharia that happens to be America’s arch enemy: Saudi Arabia. Oh no, wait… Saudi Arabia is one of our most important allies, like Egypt and Pakistan.