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| Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani says the husband must accompany his wife to her sister's house if the sister's husband is a Madkhali |
| 2020-06-12 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Madkhali was not a term familiar to me, so I did a search. From the Economist last November: FOR MONTHS General Khalifa Haftar, Libya’s most powerful warlord, has besieged Tripoli, struggling to wrest control of the capital from the UN-backed “government of national accord” (GNA). More than 1,000 people have been killed. Mr Haftar is aided by Emirati and Egyptian air strikes. But the lines hardly move. A little-known group of Salafists (ultra-conservative Muslims) called the Madkhalists may yet tip the balance. Under orders from their leader, an octogenarian Saudi preacher named Rabee al-Madkhali, the Madkhalists outside the capital have joined Mr Haftar’s ranks, while those inside encourage fighters to give up. “Put down your weapons, go home, pray and read the Koran,” says Fahmy Naas, a follower in Tripoli. War is fitna (strife or sedition), he insists. International Policy Digest was alarmed by them at some length in 2017. BLUF: The Madkhali are anti-democratic Salafists who armed themselves to fight for the cause of the political strong man— Khalifa Hafter in the case of Libya, as governmental heir to Khadaffy, whom they supported in 2011 — who would take care of all that nasty political stuff as Allah intends, so they can live Salafist lives in piece. They are a significant force in Tripoli and Misrata, the latter being where the all-Madkhali 604th Battalion was based. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-12 13:50 |