I.Doubt.It is pleased to announce that we for one will not be showing you pictures of Muammar Gaddafi’s damaged corpse. Why so squeamish, some ask. Are we too sheltered from death? I think not. We all come across plenty real death in our lives, not least our own, and we are saturated with incredible amounts of fake death in the guise of entertainment.
It’s just decency. I think all humans feel that the dead deserve a measure of respect. As far as we can tell even our closest relatives like homo erectus, who used tools and fire and probably spoke, did not do anything with the bodies of their dead. Nomads, they simply moved on, leaving corpses where they lay. With sadness no doubt, but without ceremony. By contrast all humans, even those who have no belief in an afterlife, treat the bodies of the dead with a special respect – when they can. It appears to be an instinct, one unique to our species.
So when we turn images of real dead people into a lurid form of quasi-entertainment, parading them for shock, sales, or triumphalism, it is quite literally dehumanising.
I’m not surprised that they killed him of course. It’s a war. Should we care that they did? Yes. We should always care that the right thing is done. And I don’t think it was here. Gaddafi died in custody. According to the BBC, acting Prime Minister Mahmoud…
…confirmed that Col Gaddafi had been taken alive, but died of bullet wounds minutes before reaching hospital.
It remains unclear just how and when Gaddafi got those bullet wounds.
Nonetheless this is good news for Libya, and I hope an example for the rest of the Middle East. In Tunisia and Egypt, leaders stepped down in the face of mass protest and are alive to this day. Gaddafi clung to power, and was shot in the belly and head. That may give other dictators – like, say, Syria‘s Assad – something to sleep on.
Related articles
- Gaddafi’s Burial Delayed for Further Investigation (time.com)
- Global reaction to Gaddafi’s death: Justice or Danse Macabre? (rt.com)
- Gaddafi’s murky death: summary execution suspected (rt.com)
- Libya after Gaddafi – live updates (guardian.co.uk)
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(Minor quibble: grief, mourning and respect for dead bodies are not unique to our species.)
I didn’t say grief or mourning were unique to humans. Respectful treatment of dead bodies though I think is.
The only thing I know of in nature that even humans see as analogous to our ceremonious treatment of the dead is the way elephants treat the bones of other elephants. They definitely seem to relate to them – they are much more interested in elephant bones than other kinds – but it’s pretty contentious to say that what they’re showing is respect rather than say curiosity or stress.
(Minor quibble: grief, mourning and respect for dead bodies are not unique to our species.)
Libyan Constitution Between Policy and Sophistry:
About The new Constitution and Articles provided by, the persistent
attempts of some to influence the general public opinion, either by
using religion from some Clergymen or the exploitation of the
ignorance of some people about general concept of democracy and the
right of choice to get what their goal, in addition to the issue that
Qur’an is the source of legislation in the Libyan Constitution, As
they are the guardians with their ignorance on us and our religion, if
we did not build on the experiences of others “developed countries” to
create the new Constitution of our state, it means we are not aware of
our reality, namely what the criminal tyrant did; the destruction of
the minds and souls, we must be aware of our reality very well today,
going through the weakness, but tomorrow will be better through taking
advantage of other developed countries, those established their
constitution after suffering and hard work, we do not have to start
from scratch or making new silly experience, it is not logical to make
a new Machine now without the experiences of other advanced countries
in this field because there is no market for it, the insertion of
religion in politics is the source of real danger, we’ve to take an
example of the experiences of nations, all advanced countries now
adopt a secular constitution because it guarantees the rights of all
without religious distinction, and to block those who try to exploit
religion in order to influence the public for their own interests, of
course this taking into account the respect for the official state
religion “Islam”, so that new constitution should not incompatible
with the official religion, so clergymen when they no longer have room
for logical controversy, they do put religion in front of them and say
things like God said; Do you want to challenge the word of God?!
“warding off the others”, of course, interpretation of the religion is
loose “Multi-interpretation”, this gonna opens the door for the
exploitation of ordinary people, some of the Clergymen giving an
examples of false that countries established on the basis of a
religious system are a democratic countries and developed, of course
this is something flawed completely, regarding some of the so-called
fallacy of Islamic countries; the formers, such as the Omayyad and
Abbasid The Mogul later,,, their rulers were using Islamic religion
system only when the others try to touch their rule, they said you’ve
to obey the Ruler, not to mention their corruption and evildoing,
truth is not applied to all Muslims only to those simple, modern
states such as Malaysia and Turkey are secular states, has
multi-religions, despite the majority of them are Muslims. The idea
here is that there is no a successful religious state, because it is
not possible for the applying of utopia on earth “there is human
characters like: selfishness, bias,,, no room for the loose laws,
although the example of Iran: the oppressive theocracy that exploits
the ordinary people, the so-called men of religion, the religion of
them is only whims and their interests,
For those who speak of history; should be conscious of what they say first.
The dilemma is that the mere entering of religion in any way
prejudice the Constitution, the fact that civil constitution should be
without wrap or turn.
the idea is Establishing a Constitution which does not prejudice the
principles of the religious community, but incorporating the
constitution is something else different.
We should know very well that there is no successful religious state
throughout the ages, this is fallacy, the interpretation of loose
religion system makes tyrants giving them the opportunity to use it
for their own purposes and to suppress their opponents later.
I have noticed covering and exploitation of God’s religion to appeal
the feelings of ordinary Muslim people, as well as exploitation of the
events of the revolution as it’s an entry phase of armament for
self-defense and right, knowing that some of them were engaged what
so-called the Islamists whom had participated the “Mukatila” fighting
group in Afghanistan, including the knowledge of how to use weapons,
especially most of Them are a Russian-made weapons, and so they got
the opportunity in Libya, especially that most people here do not have
experience with it, some of them managed to leading positions taken it
easily, taking in account almost Libyans have good intent and already
Muslims, although most of them do not deserve it because they do not
have leadership at all.
We are at stake, Patriotism is above everything else, the extent of
this simple and good people such as those will facilitate climbing,
religion of God is not supposed to be seized on by others.
Conclusion: We are a human beings we are sinners and we have our
prejudice, will never protect us only a strict law does not give the
opportunity to exploit the gaps into it, strange that when so-called
Islamists were seek for a refugee they found it only at shelter of law
and freedoms Land, namely the Western countries with a secular
constitution, this is Islamist’s hypocrisy they try to bring the law
into a loose to exploit it later, this is a risk on the progress of
any country, we say that we strive for a advanced modern country!, how
to establish the Constitution on the basis of religion this gonna make
many gaps within it, the developed and modern state will have a
secularists and Christians, Buddhists,,, how will they be treated,
when the Constitution does not take into account the rest of the
religions and ethnicity,,, , we must note the contrast between
Articles 05,11 and 21 in the old constitution: Loos constitution we
should bridge these gaps, so it will be easier to make a good Lows
later , we must learn from the experiences and mistakes of developed
societies for the establishment of a strict Constitution not loose
one, if we didn’t, then the culture of tyrants and vampires will
prevail they are larking for Usurp of our children’s future, culture
of respect for the scientific capability and the granting of having
them is better than leave room for bluffing or who have only
sophistry, only it will lead to the abyss, we are now in a position
likely it will be a knockout blow may be fatal, being we’re moderate
religious people, does not mean to leave the area to exploit the
future of our children, or promote the idea of covering the
genitalia!, such as drunkenness and adultery : hiding and covering
them up does not work, covering dirty will make it worse, the
hypocrisy of sick people does not solve the problem but exacerbated
by, we’ve to face the world with our open minds not with weak souls
and covering up grappling problems, trying to find solutions is better
than hiding “the doctrine of covering the genitalia”, the truth is
there is no escape from the fact that no way to apply the religion on
earth means utopian does not exist and is not applicable on the
ground, otherwise there will be no punishment and reward in the
reckoning day.
Also we should not forget to be careful of the Iraqi experience, the
Abuse of power “abuses of bad government” and lack of respect for the
suffering of the Iraqi people destinies, one example is the failure of
solving the problem of electricity there so far, despite the
disbursement of billions of dollars, we must be aware of criminals
their appearances and scientific Certificates are not enough to make a
straight men, Patriotism is essential, based on the original culture
and psychological characters sound from incurable diseases, we should
know that the high certificates does not mean high scientific ability
to think and solve problems or straight man, not all human beings have
the appropriate logic to solve problems or leadership,
Do you know the reason behind underdevelopment countries like Africa;
Although it is a continent full of natural resources that allow to
rise a developed countries, due to the psychological character first
of all, if we compare the African man for example with the Western man
we find that the Western man cares about the future of his children
for hundreds of years to the contrary from the African who care about
the only himself and his low instinct, this is worse than level of
irrational animals, not to mention that the concept of humanity is
very weak, that is why human should care about the future of his
children away from dirty emotions to be a real human.
we should know the extent of the destruction and the deliberated
ignorance inflicted by that criminal tyrant will make it easier for us
to get out of the danger zone, we must be careful of whom play on the
patriotism string in addition to the exploitation of religion, but our
choice will determine how our children will respect and look to us in
the future.
about the Islamic banks: some people do not want to understand the fact of the exploitation of religion and the ignorance of the public: The Western Financial experts studied Islamic banks, especially after the global financial crisis, where many lost confidence in the financial system except Islamic Bank, they were wondering what’s abnormal about Islamic Banks!: This is an example in England after extensive study; the surprise was what is happening even though their banks offer low interest rate less than the Islamic banks, which pretend not taking the benefits!!! How they conduct Islamic banks! They should be on place except earth! They found that Islamic banks in the process of beating around the bush and ugly exploitation in the name of religion, the interest ratio is pretty high on some loans to 40%, which is very high, so why the Muslims accept it and leave the five percent! They said (Islamic Banks) we do not deliver it directly by hand “this is the Sharia”! And other strange things which indicative of the foolish people and the exploitation of religion, “Exploitation is exploitation, regardless of the means” so I can bring someone else with me to take low rate Loan instead of me from non-Islamic Bank, that made the British to open Islamic banks under management of Men of religion for Muslim Clients! It’s very Lucrative Banks! Not only this there were a debate between financial economists and experts from Jordan and the UAE on the one hand against the Secretary-General of the Islamic banks and Egyptian economist from Muslim Brotherhood supports the idea of Islamic Banks: this is documented by video and audio to found the limit of ugly exploitation of religion, not only this but there is theft, what Secretary-General replied: some of the brothers did, may God forgive them, they steal! It’s documented, and about The extent of exploitation he did not find an answer! Economy has it’s rules!!!, what’s the story! There is only exploit of the foolishness!!! this World has it’s rules. no one did apply religion Laws on earth before why we should? we’re very weak now we can’t bear another stroke it could destroy us! we are not on place of trial and false!!!!!!!!
Also, everyone should realize that Libya is for all Libyans and that
most Libyans took a part in this revolution by any means, this is
blessed revolution and no one to boast or claim to be more deserving
than others, as the crazy tyrant previously said: I took it by my
rifle, if it’s a matter of booty as if they raided a foreign
aggressor’s Land, If this is the logic of the ignorant people then
NATO alliance has the right too! because they played a key role!!, we
have to respect the souls of the martyrs and whom suffered harm from
that dirty tyrant so enough ignorance, but all unite for free and
civilized Libya, and we should recover what we lost, with Solidarity,
tolerance and love for our country that will determine the fate and
future of our children.
Regards.
Libyan Constitution Between Policy and Sophistry:
About The new Constitution and Articles provided by, the persistent
attempts of some to influence the general public opinion, either by
using religion from some Clergymen or the exploitation of the
ignorance of some people about general concept of democracy and the
right of choice to get what their goal, in addition to the issue that
Qur’an is the source of legislation in the Libyan Constitution, As
they are the guardians with their ignorance on us and our religion, if
we did not build on the experiences of others “developed countries” to
create the new Constitution of our state, it means we are not aware of
our reality, namely what the criminal tyrant did; the destruction of
the minds and souls, we must be aware of our reality very well today,
going through the weakness, but tomorrow will be better through taking
advantage of other developed countries, those established their
constitution after suffering and hard work, we do not have to start
from scratch or making new silly experience, it is not logical to make
a new Machine now without the experiences of other advanced countries
in this field because there is no market for it, the insertion of
religion in politics is the source of real danger, we’ve to take an
example of the experiences of nations, all advanced countries now
adopt a secular constitution because it guarantees the rights of all
without religious distinction, and to block those who try to exploit
religion in order to influence the public for their own interests, of
course this taking into account the respect for the official state
religion “Islam”, so that new constitution should not incompatible
with the official religion, so clergymen when they no longer have room
for logical controversy, they do put religion in front of them and say
things like God said; Do you want to challenge the word of God?!
“warding off the others”, of course, interpretation of the religion is
loose “Multi-interpretation”, this gonna opens the door for the
exploitation of ordinary people, some of the Clergymen giving an
examples of false that countries established on the basis of a
religious system are a democratic countries and developed, of course
this is something flawed completely, regarding some of the so-called
fallacy of Islamic countries; the formers, such as the Omayyad and
Abbasid The Mogul later,,, their rulers were using Islamic religion
system only when the others try to touch their rule, they said you’ve
to obey the Ruler, not to mention their corruption and evildoing,
truth is not applied to all Muslims only to those simple, modern
states such as Malaysia and Turkey are secular states, has
multi-religions, despite the majority of them are Muslims. The idea
here is that there is no a successful religious state, because it is
not possible for the applying of utopia on earth “there is human
characters like: selfishness, bias,,, no room for the loose laws,
although the example of Iran: the oppressive theocracy that exploits
the ordinary people, the so-called men of religion, the religion of
them is only whims and their interests,
For those who speak of history; should be conscious of what they say first.
The dilemma is that the mere entering of religion in any way
prejudice the Constitution, the fact that civil constitution should be
without wrap or turn.
the idea is Establishing a Constitution which does not prejudice the
principles of the religious community, but incorporating the
constitution is something else different.
We should know very well that there is no successful religious state
throughout the ages, this is fallacy, the interpretation of loose
religion system makes tyrants giving them the opportunity to use it
for their own purposes and to suppress their opponents later.
I have noticed covering and exploitation of God’s religion to appeal
the feelings of ordinary Muslim people, as well as exploitation of the
events of the revolution as it’s an entry phase of armament for
self-defense and right, knowing that some of them were engaged what
so-called the Islamists whom had participated the “Mukatila” fighting
group in Afghanistan, including the knowledge of how to use weapons,
especially most of Them are a Russian-made weapons, and so they got
the opportunity in Libya, especially that most people here do not have
experience with it, some of them managed to leading positions taken it
easily, taking in account almost Libyans have good intent and already
Muslims, although most of them do not deserve it because they do not
have leadership at all.
We are at stake, Patriotism is above everything else, the extent of
this simple and good people such as those will facilitate climbing,
religion of God is not supposed to be seized on by others.
Conclusion: We are a human beings we are sinners and we have our
prejudice, will never protect us only a strict law does not give the
opportunity to exploit the gaps into it, strange that when so-called
Islamists were seek for a refugee they found it only at shelter of law
and freedoms Land, namely the Western countries with a secular
constitution, this is Islamist’s hypocrisy they try to bring the law
into a loose to exploit it later, this is a risk on the progress of
any country, we say that we strive for a advanced modern country!, how
to establish the Constitution on the basis of religion this gonna make
many gaps within it, the developed and modern state will have a
secularists and Christians, Buddhists,,, how will they be treated,
when the Constitution does not take into account the rest of the
religions and ethnicity,,, , we must note the contrast between
Articles 05,11 and 21 in the old constitution: Loos constitution we
should bridge these gaps, so it will be easier to make a good Lows
later , we must learn from the experiences and mistakes of developed
societies for the establishment of a strict Constitution not loose
one, if we didn’t, then the culture of tyrants and vampires will
prevail they are larking for Usurp of our children’s future, culture
of respect for the scientific capability and the granting of having
them is better than leave room for bluffing or who have only
sophistry, only it will lead to the abyss, we are now in a position
likely it will be a knockout blow may be fatal, being we’re moderate
religious people, does not mean to leave the area to exploit the
future of our children, or promote the idea of covering the
genitalia!, such as drunkenness and adultery : hiding and covering
them up does not work, covering dirty will make it worse, the
hypocrisy of sick people does not solve the problem but exacerbated
by, we’ve to face the world with our open minds not with weak souls
and covering up grappling problems, trying to find solutions is better
than hiding “the doctrine of covering the genitalia”, the truth is
there is no escape from the fact that no way to apply the religion on
earth means utopian does not exist and is not applicable on the
ground, otherwise there will be no punishment and reward in the
reckoning day.
Also we should not forget to be careful of the Iraqi experience, the
Abuse of power “abuses of bad government” and lack of respect for the
suffering of the Iraqi people destinies, one example is the failure of
solving the problem of electricity there so far, despite the
disbursement of billions of dollars, we must be aware of criminals
their appearances and scientific Certificates are not enough to make a
straight men, Patriotism is essential, based on the original culture
and psychological characters sound from incurable diseases, we should
know that the high certificates does not mean high scientific ability
to think and solve problems or straight man, not all human beings have
the appropriate logic to solve problems or leadership,
Do you know the reason behind underdevelopment countries like Africa;
Although it is a continent full of natural resources that allow to
rise a developed countries, due to the psychological character first
of all, if we compare the African man for example with the Western man
we find that the Western man cares about the future of his children
for hundreds of years to the contrary from the African who care about
the only himself and his low instinct, this is worse than level of
irrational animals, not to mention that the concept of humanity is
very weak, that is why human should care about the future of his
children away from dirty emotions to be a real human.
we should know the extent of the destruction and the deliberated
ignorance inflicted by that criminal tyrant will make it easier for us
to get out of the danger zone, we must be careful of whom play on the
patriotism string in addition to the exploitation of religion, but our
choice will determine how our children will respect and look to us in
the future.
about the Islamic banks: some people do not want to understand the fact of the exploitation of religion and the ignorance of the public: The Western Financial experts studied Islamic banks, especially after the global financial crisis, where many lost confidence in the financial system except Islamic Bank, they were wondering what’s abnormal about Islamic Banks!: This is an example in England after extensive study; the surprise was what is happening even though their banks offer low interest rate less than the Islamic banks, which pretend not taking the benefits!!! How they conduct Islamic banks! They should be on place except earth! They found that Islamic banks in the process of beating around the bush and ugly exploitation in the name of religion, the interest ratio is pretty high on some loans to 40%, which is very high, so why the Muslims accept it and leave the five percent! They said (Islamic Banks) we do not deliver it directly by hand “this is the Sharia”! And other strange things which indicative of the foolish people and the exploitation of religion, “Exploitation is exploitation, regardless of the means” so I can bring someone else with me to take low rate Loan instead of me from non-Islamic Bank, that made the British to open Islamic banks under management of Men of religion for Muslim Clients! It’s very Lucrative Banks! Not only this there were a debate between financial economists and experts from Jordan and the UAE on the one hand against the Secretary-General of the Islamic banks and Egyptian economist from Muslim Brotherhood supports the idea of Islamic Banks: this is documented by video and audio to found the limit of ugly exploitation of religion, not only this but there is theft, what Secretary-General replied: some of the brothers did, may God forgive them, they steal! It’s documented, and about The extent of exploitation he did not find an answer! Economy has it’s rules!!!, what’s the story! There is only exploit of the foolishness!!! this World has it’s rules. no one did apply religion Laws on earth before why we should? we’re very weak now we can’t bear another stroke it could destroy us! we are not on place of trial and false!!!!!!!!
Also, everyone should realize that Libya is for all Libyans and that
most Libyans took a part in this revolution by any means, this is
blessed revolution and no one to boast or claim to be more deserving
than others, as the crazy tyrant previously said: I took it by my
rifle, if it’s a matter of booty as if they raided a foreign
aggressor’s Land, If this is the logic of the ignorant people then
NATO alliance has the right too! because they played a key role!!, we
have to respect the souls of the martyrs and whom suffered harm from
that dirty tyrant so enough ignorance, but all unite for free and
civilized Libya, and we should recover what we lost, with Solidarity,
tolerance and love for our country that will determine the fate and
future of our children.
Regards.