{"id":6492,"date":"2011-10-23T22:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2011-10-23T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:47:54","slug":"the-west-the-swords-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-west-the-swords-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The West: the swords of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/24\/world\/africa\/revolution-won-top-libyan-official-vows-a-new-and-more-pious-state.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Revolution Won, Top Libyan Official Vows a New and More Pious State<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The leader of Libya\u2019s transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a crowded square here on Sunday that Libya\u2019s revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets.<\/p>\n<p>The sea of flag-waving citizens reacted with shouts of \u201cGod is great;\u201d minutes earlier, they had sung the bouncy Italianate national anthem used before Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi came to power. The song has been revived to help celebrate the downfall of the dictator, who was killed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are an Islamic country,\u201d Mr. Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional National Council, said as the sun descended. \u201cWe take the Islamic religion as the core of our new government. The constitution will be based on our Islamic religion.\u201d He also promised that Islamic banks would be established in the new Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis on Islam in the short speech \u2014 he began by thanking God and declaring God \u201cthe greatest \u2014 appeared to be an answer of sorts to the speculation about how much of a role religion might play here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution Won, Top Libyan Official Vows a New and More Pious State: The leader of Libya\u2019s transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a crowded square here on Sunday that Libya\u2019s revolution had ended, setting the country on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-west-the-swords-of-islam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}