Libya's Brotherhood calling for preventing presidential vote by force of arms
The branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya incites Libyans to carry arms, in its bid to sabotage the presidential elections that are slated for December 24.
Rumbling of arms
Libya's sacked mufti, top religious
authority, al-Sadek al-Gheriani, who lives in Turkey, has called on what he
described as 'revolutionaries' and 'patriots' to stand united and carry arms.
During a recent appearance on
al-Tanasuh, a television channel he owns and is broadcast from Turkey,
al-Gheriani said Libya's 'free people' should not allow the elections to be
held.
Notorious for issuing religious
edicts in support of Turkish presence in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood,
al-Gheriani also criticized Libyan National Army Commander, Field Marshal
Khalifa Haftar, and other high-ranking officials in eastern Libya.
"These people have to be
prevented from entering the elections," al-Gheriani said.
Incitement
Earlier this month, al-Gheriani
called on Libyans to take to the streets to reject the elections.
This came hard on the heels of his
calls for abolishing the Election Commission which will oversee the electoral
process in Libya.
He accused the commission of
bringing all contradictions together in ways that violate the law.
"They [the members of the
commission] are now hatching plots against you," al-Gheriani said.
He claimed that the commission was
making these so-called 'plots' only to serve the interests of Field Marshal
Haftar.
He even accused the LNA commander of
conspiring to steal billions of dollars and pay the hirelings he brought into
Libya from other countries.
"They are making preparations
to launch another war," al-Gheriani said of Haftar.
He also asked Libyan voters to prevent
the elections, if Haftar runs for president.
He asked Libyans to take to the
streets and the squares to prevent the elections from being held.
He also called for closing the
offices of the Election Commission across Libya and preventing the commission
from performing its tasks.
In July this year, al-Ghariani
incited western Libya militias to do everything possible to prevent the
elections.
