We’ve made it worse

First published Monday 16 July 2012 in Letters

RECENTLY the Taliban executed a young woman for adultery in line with the strict Sharia law in Afghanistan.

Ironically, Sharia Law is now prevalent in Libya thanks to the monumental incompetence of our Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Under the democratic regime of deposed Gadaffi, Libya had exemplary rights for women.

Indeed I would go as far to say that Colonel Gadaffi was a good leader.
Under his rule, Libyans had free university education and free electricity.
Even the unemployed were entitled to receive a comparable wage as that of a working person. Women had full and equal rights.

Gadaffi was correct in saying that the rebels were Al Qaeda.

William Hague was the prime instigator of the military action. He fancies himself as a Rambo action man.

There are those who believe that Gadaffi was behind Lockerbie or the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.

There is no proper forensic proof to corroborate either of these theories.

The shots that killed the WPC could not possibly have come from the Libyan embassy.

Gadaffi was smeared and used as a fall guy.

His son also gave millions of pounds to the LSE.

Our Government has cocked up by killing Gadaffi and enabling repressive Sharia law to take the place of the democracy.

Libya is a mess now thanks to William Hague.

Well done idiots in the Foreign Office. You have excelled yourselves again.

SUSAN THOMAS,
Magdalen Road,
Oxford

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11:52am Tue 17 Jul 12

Zaxharias Ziegla says...

Though time prevents menton of them all, I should have thought Gaddafi's choice of friends rather gave his game away.

Back in the 1960s there was Jean-Bedel Bokasser 1 of Central Africa; later Charles Taylor of Liberia (tried and convicted for crimes against humanity at the Hague); and more recently that charming fellow 'Bob' Mugabe.

Perhaps Susan is hoping for a script witer's job with The Now Show?

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7:16pm Tue 17 Jul 12

Fantomas says...

"The shots that killed the WPC could not possibly have come from the Libyan embassy"

If you have any new evidence, (not conspiracy theories) pertaining to this then I hope that you'll bring them to the proper authorities.

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10:51am Wed 18 Jul 12

Megs says...

I worked, on women's issues, during the 1990s, in countries where there was Sharia Law. Some have recently seen revolutions and some military action from foreign organisations and countries. I can assure Susan Thomas that extreme, unacceptable behaviour towards women, for which Sharia law may have been used as the excuse, existed in many of these countries and certainly predates the UK's & it's allies interventions in the cases she mentions, of Afghanistan and Libya. Further, the women I have worked with in such countries know that freedom from dictatorship is a fundamental aspect of human dignity. They have not been ignorant the fate they might face if dictatorship is removed and tentative democracy introduced; but is it not perhaps conceivable that they might like to engage in the battle for their own rights in their own nation rather than have some Susan Thomas blethering on about how much better it all was before, under the old regime?