Libya: The Mythical Moderate Moslem Militant

[rangerrebew]

 Libya: The Mythical Moderate Moslem Militant


July 22, 2019: Turkey is becoming more involved with the fighting in Libya and that is not going to end well. Turkey is bringing the same rivalry to Libya it has with most Arab states in Syria. Turkey is allied with Iran and Qatar against the rest of the Moslem world, especially Egypt and the Gulf Arab oil states. Turkey is also allied with Russia, but so is the LNA (Libyan National Army) that is seeking to shut down the militias in Tripoli and finally reunite the country. Why is Turkey getting involved with Libya? It’s mainly about local politics in Turkey and fond memories of an empire that failed and fell apart a century ago. Libya was, for centuries, part of that empire and because of that Turks are not remembered fondly in Libya.

The Turks first showed up in the 1550s as the Ottoman Empire conquered the coastal towns and cities of what is now Libya. Eventually, the Turks advanced inland but there was no real incentive to because south of the coast it was mainly desert and, before oil was discovered and developed in the 1960s, there was little of economic value down there. Empires have bills to pay and tend to keep their soldiers where the money is.

https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/libya/articles/20190722.aspx

[Sanguine]

"Moderate militant"?  Who believed in that?

[Fishrrman]

Sanguine asks:
"Moderate militant"?  Who believed in that?

Plenty still do.
Hundreds of millions.
A huge part of them right here in America.
Many more in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.

And of course, the "mainstream" [but militant] media screams this lie from their megaphones all day long.

[Sanguine]

Sanguine asks:
"Moderate militant"?  Who believed in that?

Plenty still do.
Hundreds of millions.
A huge part of them right here in America.
Many more in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.

And of course, the "mainstream" [but militant] media screams this lie from their megaphones all day long.

I've heard of moderate islamists, but moderate militant is an oxymoron.