Zwara

Libo's Essa El Hamisi says that Zwara's Salafis have grown to 300-400 from a handful, taking over a mosque and starting a madrasah where students are punished by beatings on the soles of their feet.

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In April 1973, having decided that the ASU had not generated adequate interest from the Libyan people, Gadhafi proclaimed "the popular revolution" in his famous Zwara speech.

Gadhafi's Utopian Ideology Jason Pack 2011

Islam is the issue, and even in Zwara, where the moderate Ibadi denomination prevailed before Col.

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Perhaps the best summary is from Munir Busoud, a Zwara businessman in the 800-strong "liberal" National Solidarity Party who wouldn't comment on Shariah.

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But Dr. Amal Hamoud, the sole woman on the Zwara municipal council, said she wouldn't want three other women living with her in the house.

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Here in Zwara, families enjoy the long sand beach and clear green water, and women are visibly freer than just about anywhere besides Tripoli and Benghazi.

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Dr. Tallue says he's not worried, and that Ibadism is making a comeback in Zwara.

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A resident of Zwara, a former rebel stronghold in the west, said the regime has the town firmly in its grip again.

Air raids force Gadhafi retreat, rebels seize east 2011

Rebab Haleb, 32, an activist lawyer representing 15 Zwara women who were raped by Gadhafi militia, says she has no problem with Shariah and wouldn't mind if her husband took a second wife.

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Finally, Dr. Tallue, like almost all of the residents of Zwara, is Berber, proud of his ancient, pre-Islamic roots.

Among Libya's Liberals Ann Marlowe 2011