Libya: Testing tolerance

By: Larbi Sadiki, Al Jazeera, September 4, 2012 Attacks on mosques in Libya test not only the country's promising democratic debut, but also the nation's value of tolerance. For a police force to stand idle when public property and a space of worship is under attack undermines above all else not just an act of religious faith stressed in Islam, but also the principle of plurality within unity in Libya and all emerging democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. This is one reason why democratic transition calls for a new policing philosophy in Libya, as in Egypt and Tunisia.

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Libya Middle East and North Africa religious freedom Mohamed al-Magariaf