We hear today that the last dictator (with God on his side) of the 60s has been killed. From the video I watched of his last moments it would appear that it was not a dignified death, that's a shame, it denies all those families who suffered under him a chance for their story to be told in a court of law and to participate in a justice process, however it was an understandable conclusion to 40 years of tyranny. As for the other bloke in this photo, he has God on his side too, I can't help but think it means as just much in his case as it did in Gaddaffi's.
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Would agree that "it means just as much" to both of them. Both were still fundamentally secular rulers though, whoever they called in as backup.
AE, I was really aiming this post at the hypocrisy of the individuals but since you mention their political landscapes. I think it would be fair to say that you and I may have a different definition of "secular". I agree some elements of their governments were secular others weren't, for example I still believe that we (UK) don't live in a properly secular society, it's certainly more secular than Libya was but there are still concessions to what I would call superstition camouflaged as tradition.
To be honest it's hard to say what Gaddafi was, he was a Pan-African, Arabist, "Socialist" - you're right in that he then went on to impose some strict Islamic rules.
Blair - "we don't do God".
You're right on the hypocrisy of course.
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