Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilayhi Rajioon

Click on link to read an excellent balanced analyses of Qaddhafi, and the wahabbi fanatics in control of Libya now with the blessings of their NATO allies.

Apparently Colonel Muʿammar Qaddhafi is dead: ʿalayhi maa ʿalayhi! (Upon him be what is upon him!) He will meet his Cherisher-Lord and answer for his actions in this life, one of which was either the likely murder or the cover-up of the murder of Imam Sayyid Musa Sadr and his companions. For this he has received the opprobrium and even hatred of the Shīʿah around the world and most especially in Lebanon. Assuming his guilt, this was arguably the biggest mistake of his career, for it was the vote of Lebanon at the UN Security Council that tipped the balance against him so NATO could begin its onslaught against Qaddhafi and the Libyan people.

Yet the Qurʾān demands that we be just, even against a people who have incurred our opprobrium or hatred. Within his own country Qaddhafi’s record is mixed as a ruler: He was a dictator yet he followed his own ideological path independent of the Euro-American script. His initial popularity in Libya is unquestionable, but the exact degree of popular support he enjoyed or did not enjoy in recent times is harder to quantify.

There can be little doubt that he was as sincere in his original visionary and revolutionary spirit as a Lenin, Mao, or Castro. As an Arab nationalist he was more Nasserite than Nasser himself. And there can be little doubt that he truly believed in Islām. But without a righteous Imām (S) to guide him he went astray in his Islām and in his ideology — a curious mixture of Islam, socialism, and political anarchism rooted in the free bedouin spirit from which he sprang. Finally he fell victim to his own hubris and pride which, in perfect harmony with that famous law of life, was at its greatest just before his fall.

via MR Zine