Pro-US Protests in Benghazi

[Pancho Villa]

Gratifying. Thought you guys might want a peek. Lots of signs in their weird script but a few signs in English (sometimes badly mangled english) seem to be making their way around:

[Sharpienads]

Good to see.

[Teufelhund]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Those folks holding the signs had better watch their backs before their countrymen starting beheading them in the town square.

[bryjcom]

Wait a minute. I thought all muslims hate us because we aren't muslim???

/sarcasm

[rockhound]

refreshing

[CrufflerSteve]

This article is by a reporter who has been in Libya several times and did a lot of reporting with the rebels during the civil war.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/b...embassy-attack

Her reading is that they are mostly pro-US and very anti-Islamist but it is hard to deal with with the hard code nutjobs since:
"..most of the Qaddafi-era police have not returned to work, the new internal security forces are still embryonic, and there is effectively no Libyan army at the moment."

Extremists can do very well when there is no central authority to squash them.

Steve

[Byte Stryke]

Buyers regret...

The marines and Drones are inbound and now they are sorry.

Sorry they did it or sorry they are about to be pounded for it?

Not believing it any more than I believe the "religion of peace" crap.

[Pancho Villa]

This article is by a reporter who has been in Libya several times and did a lot of reporting with the rebels during the civil war.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/b...embassy-attack

Her reading is that they are mostly pro-US and very anti-Islamist but it is hard to deal with with the hard code nutjobs since:
"..most of the Qaddafi-era police have not returned to work, the new internal security forces are still embryonic, and there is effectively no Libyan army at the moment."

Extremists can do very well when there is no central authority to squash them.

Steve

They said that about Egypt too...

I am skeptical. I view Islam today at barely past medieval Christianity - they need a seminal thinker such as Aquinas to drag them bodily out of their very backwards view of the world. Such Muslims exist, but I think we have learned through painful experience that they are a minority, and mostly live in the west already (why would you stay in the mideast if you were a modern-thinking Muslim?)

However, there is also the case of a small, ideologically consistent, determined minority triumphing over a fragmented majority that concedes a lot of moral idealism to that minority, which is what may have happened. If you study how the communists, though consistently a minority, consistently won fights to rule a country, you can get a sense of how a minority (a large minority, but still a minority) of Islamists can take over a country that really doesn't want them.

So, I dunno, is the bottom line.

[sneakerd]

That's so sweet..... but according to some reports, the Ambassador's body was dragged thru the streets of Benghazi after his death. Nuke 'em all.

[hatidua]

Such Muslims exist, but I think we have learned through painful experience that they are a minority, and mostly live in the west already (why would you stay in the mideast if you were a modern-thinking Muslim?)

Over 242,000,000 Muslims (more than Iran/Iraq/Syria/Saudi Arabia/Egypt combined) have yet to flee Indonesia for "The West" and aren't generally prone to flying planes into NY buildings... but that doesn't fit the narrative well.