Libya is a country located in Africa. Most of the people in Libya practice Islam, a very strict way of life. Libya was under rule of Muammar al-Qaddafi for four decades. Qaddafi made his people not have many resources and turned Libya into turmoil. Although Qaddafi did a lot of damage to the people of Libya, Islam is one of the main reasons that Libya doesn’t have a sense of human rights.
Qaddafi ruled 42 years in Libya, beginning in 1969 and ending in 2011. He created his own way of government and had “North Africa’s most brutal regime”(Kafala). Qaddafi made Libya isolated from the rest of the world, banning trade with anyone else. He also banned private ownership and a free press. He made it so many things were scarce to citizens including simple things like resources to more important things like health care. This led people to start protests to overrule him and become a democracy. Lisa Anderson says “This lack of social and governmental cohesion will hamper any prospective transition to democracy” (Anderson 148). Qaddafi ruled a society that had no clue what the outside world was like and has no ability to even have an army that could protect their country. Many people are also poorly educated which makes it hard for Libya to even bounce back after Qaddafi’s rule ended (Anderson 148).
Islam is the main religion in Libya. Just like every other religion, Islam has rules that the followers must abide by. Islam’s “rights” as they call them are nowhere close to actually being rights. The rights are mainly duties for the followers of Islam. The only people that actually get rights are the people who “have full legal status or are a spiritual being” (Donnelly 73). This means that people don’t have rights just because they ar...
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...at everyone is treated equally and if not there are punishments. The law of Islam just punishes people for doing things that they should be able to don in the first place, like converting to another religion. For Islam to have any human rights means that Islam would have to change all of their ideas which will not happen (Donnelly 73-4).
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