quite true for those particular males, i would say... those males were from the ikhwaan mullah movement or admirers of abdul hakim belhaj who was formerly chief of cia-created lifg group... in effect, those libyan "soldiers" in britain are all opposed to the liberation of libyan ( and muslim ) ladies brought by muammar gaddafi through his revolution of 1969.
in recent years, libya seems to have seen a revival of the burqa culture that existed before 1969... the british socialist and writer, tariq ali, wrote of this when he visited libya some years ago... maybe
@mike2000 will have seen this.
but libyan ladies were generally quite liberated and fierce about their freedoms...
below is the famous libyan jamahiriya-times tv presenter, hala misrati... she became well known for threatening on tv the "rebels" in 2011... she waved a pistol on live tv, threatening the ikhwaan/taliban/qaeda criminals who now form those libyan "soldiers" in britain...
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below is a lady whose video i have linked earlier in this page... it is a famous video from 2011... she is fanatically defending muammar gaddafi and the jamahiriya system...
below is ayesha gaddafi, daughter of muammar... ayesha was one of the lawyers in the defense team of saddam hussain during that fake-court... first two photos are from 2011...
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below is mutassim gaddafi, the model-looking son of muammar... the photo is i think from 2009...
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and then of course the famous female guards of muammar... all know about them...
i am from india but i am in the "international jamahiriya movement", the socialist movement which propagates the jamahiriya direct-democracy system from libya... so i know a good amount about libya... not like the natives but enough... i think
@Ceylal and
@mike2000 can contribute even more, but as you can see above, libyans were not like the typical muslims found in iran, saudia, india and indonesia.
You are indeed correct bro. Gadaffi indeed help elevate Libyan womens role in life to a very great extent, unlike most Arab/mulsim countries leader/monarchies who suppress their women rights to work, divorce,be independent, equal rights with men etc.
When i was in Libya in summer 2009, i heard there that employment for Libyan women was estimated at over 30-35%, a relatively high percentage for an Arab nation. Also Working mothers enjoyed a range of benefits designed to encourage them to continue working even after marriage and childbirth, including cash bonuses for the first child and free day care centres(something even we in most European countries dont have). A woman in Libya could retire at the age of 55, and she was entitled to a pension and Under Jamahiriya government child marriages were banned(somnething that is still acceptable in most other conservative middle eastern countries) and the minimum legal age to marry placed at 18, and Libyan women had equal rights in obtaining a divorce. The man did a great deal to improve women's rights and situation in Libya, actions that no doubt raised the ire of the more traditional Muslim leaders, especially those of the Wahhabi persuasion or of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I will like to put/summarize it in points(since i tend to write too much.lool), as follows(Note: these are things you will never/hardly ever see in almost all other muslim/arab countries out there, even though our governments still hail them as models/allies, for me its more like puppets..lol):
In Libya under Kadaffi
• Women were never confined to their homes while their husbands, fathers and brothers go to work. Gaddafi forbade restricting women's mobility.
• Women had full rights to drive cars (unlike their sisters in Saudi Arabia). Women also keep their passports. In several Arab countries, a woman’s husband holds her passport so she cannot travel outside of the country without his permission.
• No person can force a Libyan woman to marry any man.
• The Imams are expected to protect the woman from abuse by relatives.
• A Libyan woman can leave a marriage any time she chooses(i dont needto say more for you to know most arab/muslim countries forbade this and will even kill a woman if she ever tries this).
• If a woman enters a marriage with her own assets and the marriage ends, her husband cannot touch her assets. The same is true of the man's assets.
These are just a few examples of what i not only red, but witnessed during my own stay in Libya.Its anybody's guess how these women are now faring under the freedom fighters alias jihadists/islamists scums who now rule libya, with each imposing his own version of islam/shariah etc under which region they cotrol. I even red how when Gaddafi fled, his female bodyguards ["The Revolutionary Nuns" or "Amazonian Guard"] also disbanded, but still many of them were tracked down by the islamists/jihadists
According to information organized by a Middle Eastern website, the first fled with her boyfriend but was caught by the opposition and shot dead, the two of them dying together.
The second was identified despite her makeup/disguise and was beaten to death.
The third was kidnapped by the opposition’s soldiers, viciously tortured and gang-raped for days before being strangled to death with the words “the fate for Gaddafi’s whores” beside her, her body rotting when discovered. I have saw some oics of their bodies online, but share them here because of their graphic nature.
Libya is now almost a lost cause, thanks to the traitors/naive people who let themselves be used/deceived by foreign powers. This should be a lesson to all people in other developing countries in Africa and Middle east. Nobody will ever help you if you dont help yourselves, and you have to always be aware that if you give foreign powers(be it western or Arab/mulism countries) an openning to intervene in your country, then dont expect much in return, since is out for his/her interests not yours. Today im sure they are all crying for Gadaffi, but unfortunately its too late. Hopefully Libya will serve as an example to other countries out there(though i doubt it, judging by how naive some people can be about 'freedom,democracy' bla bla bla. lol). Anyway all we can do is wait to see if this also happen to more countries in the region. But as far as i know, having visited/stayed in libya for a while, i can attest personally that Politics is indeed a dirty/immoral game. You just have to know how to play it well, if not you are done with/death.