Libyan Salafist-led force breaks up comic festival for "indecency"

 

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan force that acts as an anti-crime unit in Tripoli said it had arrested the organisers of a comic festival for "acts of indecency and against public morals".

 

The arrests were carried out by the Special Deterrence Force (Rada), a Salafist-led armed group that has expanded its power under Libya's U.N.-backed Government of National Accord.

 

Salafists are ultra-conservatives whose influence has grown across Libya in recent years.

 

The arrests cut short the second three-day annual Comic Con festival of arts, comics, anime and gaming to be held in the capital. The arrests were made on Friday, the second day of the event.

 

Some Libyans had attacked Comic Con organisers on social media for holding the event, saying it was un-Islamic and resembled a Halloween party.

 

The organisers said on their Facebook page that the festival had nothing to do with Halloween. They posted no immediate comment on the arrests.

 

Rada said in its statement that festivals like Comic Con were "derived from abroad and exploit weakness of religious faith and fascination with foreign cultures".

 

"The organisers and supervisors of the event were arrested and will be presented for public prosecution for acts of indecency and against public morals," it said in a statement.

 

"It is necessary to address these destructive phenomena and fight them, which drive the dissemination of pornography and feed the minds of teenagers and motivate them to kill and mutilate through well-known cartoons."

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-05

Religion.  One of the biggest problems in the world today.

16 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Religion.  One of the biggest problems in the world today.

As religion is both a control system and a power system, it is inevitable they will butt heads. When you study the big three objectively they are all based on misunderstanding, misinterpretation or just pure nonsense. None teach what their later adopted "founders" did.

 

The great irony being that original Judaism (on which the others are based) had a different view of the universe to the latter adopted notion of Jehovah. Moses era initiated Jews would have regarded Jehovah as a minor deity and not the actual creator, they were closer then to a Buddhist type philosophy.

It is understandable, for it was supposed to be a comic festival but it was not funny at all, no beheading of anyone, not a single hostage, it was for sure against Islam public morals Pfffff

I worked there for a while , I must say the Libyans were never noted for their comic sense of humour ......

1 hour ago, Tchooptip said:

It is understandable, for it was supposed to be a comic festival but it was not funny at all, no beheading of anyone, not a single hostage, it was for sure against Islam public morals Pfffff

 

Correct. even not a chopping of a hand, foot, or whipping

Libyan humor:
. . . . . . .Three Arabs walk into a bar.  One orders a beer.  The other two beat him up.

8 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

Religion.  One of the biggest problems in the world today.

 

some religions more than others, me thinks

34 minutes ago, siam2007 said:

some religions more than others, me thinks

And within one of those religions some sects more than others.

 

And who gives Salafi groups inspiration and support?

 

And who was the inspiration behind ISIS and Al-Quaeda?

 

All roads lead to Riyadh and Wahhabism it seems.

 

Reminds me of the mythical Hydra. Like hard-line Sunni Islam it possessed many heads. And for every head chopped off (think ISIS and Al-Quaeda) the Hydra would regrow two more. And like the baleful influence these groups exude wherever they spring up, the Hydra had poisonous breath and blood so virulent that even its scent was deadly.

On ‎11‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 9:03 PM, nausea said:

And within one of those religions some sects more than others.

 

And who gives Salafi groups inspiration and support?

 

And who was the inspiration behind ISIS and Al-Quaeda?

 

All roads lead to Riyadh and Wahhabism it seems.

 

Not all roads nausea  , a side road   was via the House of Saud and the  sympathetic Bush oil  dynasties who turned a very not very blind  eye to all that Al Qaeda and Bin Laden  nonsense -  until it hit them in the form  of a few rouge  planes flying towards the World Trade Centre ....

On 11/5/2017 at 9:03 PM, nausea said:

And within one of those religions some sects more than others.

 

And who gives Salafi groups inspiration and support?

 

And who was the inspiration behind ISIS and Al-Quaeda?

 

All roads lead to Riyadh and Wahhabism it seems.

 

 

That is 100% true, and a reason why formerly relaxed and quite liberal Indonesia is becoming an extremist and hardliner state. The Saudis pour Millions and Millions of $$$ into the country to promote Wahabbism and flood the country with hardline-preachers

17 minutes ago, siam2007 said:

 

That is 100% true, and a reason why formerly relaxed and quite liberal Indonesia is becoming an extremist and hardliner state. The Saudis pour Millions and Millions of $$$ into the country to promote Wahabbism and flood the country with hardline-preachers

Saudi Arabia is building mosques in many countries now to promote their bizarre form of islam. And radicalizing many along the way. Big problems in the Balkans due to this.

11 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Saudi Arabia is building mosques in many countries now to promote their bizarre form of islam.

 

As can be seen along the motorway between Suvarnabhumi and BKK downtown.....

On 11/5/2017 at 9:03 PM, nausea said:

And who was the inspiration behind ISIS and Al-Quaeda?

Mormons?

2 minutes ago, siam2007 said:

As can be seen along the motorway between Suvarnabhumi and BKK downtown.....

that's terrible!

Libyan comic con?  Sounds like a joke in itself!

 

Why did the camel cross the wadi?

 

Did you hear the one about the pilgrim who went to Mecca and didn't know in which direction to pray?

 

 

30 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Did you hear the one about the pilgrim who went to Mecca and didn't know in which direction to pray?

that must have been a real stupid pilgrim.