...politicians call things
divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never
divisive,they're
principled...
In a statement released on Tuesday, the government said that the holy man's most recent speech had been filled with inaccuracies and accusations, such as his assertion that the HoR was "scouring capitals of the world" with the goal of forming international alliances for military intervention in Libya.
Ghariani has also called for civil society organizations to join with the gangs and gunnies that have been operating outside the authority of the legitimate government, the statement said.
The Grand Mufti had been appointed by the government but now he was trying to undermine its authority, the statement went on to say. "We cannot continue to allow this divisive man to stay in his position,"
A religious leader had to be the first person to call for reconciliation, the statement added.
The National Commission for Human Rights (not the same as the National Council of Civil Liberties and Human Rights) has meanwhile also reissued a call for the HoR to sack Ghariani and for him to be put on trial by the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...."
as a war criminal for "inciting murder, torture and violation of human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
Ghariani has been increasingly belligerent in his opposition to the government, the HoR and the forces ranged against the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council in the east and Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
in the west, calling on the BRSC and Libya Dawn to smash them "with an iron fist".
Ghariani was summoned by the HoR for a hearing in August to explain himself but never showed up in Tobruk. There have been repeated reports that the HoR is ready to sack him and had agreed in principle to do so. However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
a number of HoR members are said to be worried about the consequences of doing so at this point in time.
Yesterday, in his latest foray into the political cauldron, Ghariani warned Egypt that it would face serious consequences as a result of bombing Libya. He was referring to the air strikes last week in Benghazi which were initially blamed by pro-Libya Dawn supporters on Egypt although photos of the aircraft in action subsequently showed them to be Libyan.