Anger grows over Benghazi entertainer arrest by Salafists
By Libya Herald reporters. Wissam Adel (Photo: Social media) Benghazi/Tunis, 23 December 2017: Public anger has been growing over the ...
Tag: Salafists
Still not known who wrecked Tripoli shrine
By Libya Herald reporters. Tripoli, 22 October 2017: It is still unclear who destroyed the Bugharara Sufi shrine in the ...
Sufi tomb destroyed in Brak Al-Shatti
By Jamal Adel. Tripoli, 29 March 2014: A 200-year old tomb of a prominent local Sufi teacher, . . .Sa’eed ...
UPDATE – Explosive disposal expert dies while defusing Benghazi cigarette kiosk bomb
By Ayman Amzein and Noora Ibrahim. Ragab Elabbar (Photo: Family of Ragab Elabbar) Benghazi, 17 January 2014: An explosives disposal ...
Prophet’s Birthday on Monday a public holiday
By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab. Tripoli, 10 January 2014: The government has announced that the Birthday of the Prophet, Mawlid Al-Nabi, which ...
Derna Sufi leader murdered
By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab and Hadi Fornaji. Sheikh Mustafa Rajab Al-Mahjoubi Tripoli, 22 September 2013: A prominent local Sufi cleric, Sheikh ...
Sebha Sufi shrine attacked
Tripoli, 10 May 2103: The Hamid Hudairi tomb in Sebha The Hamid Hudairi Sufi shrine in Sebha has been extensively damaged ...
Abdul Jalil accuses ‘Libyan Islamists’ of Younis’s death
By Sami Zaptia. Tripoli, 25 December: Former NTC head Mustafa Abdul Jalil accussed a group of ‘’Libyan Islamists’’ of being ...
League of Libyan Ulema draws links between Salafists, Saadi Qaddafi and SSC
Tripoli, 30 August 2012: In a wide-ranging statement condemning the recent desecration of Sufi shrines, the League also accused the ...
Why the Supreme Security Committee must be brought to heel – before it’s too late
By George Grant. The desecration of the shrines demonstrated that the Supreme Security Committee now has the strength to defy ...
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