Loyalists of the retired Libyan brigade Khalifa Hafer use religious justification to justify the months-long attack on the capital Tripoli, and reached the point of expiation of the people and considered as "Khawarij and the evangelism" and preaching the deployment of "true religion of Muhammad."
Calls for the killing of the people of Tripoli in the name of jihad and the fight against the Kharijis are no longer limited to the sheikhs of the nomadic movement who support the Haftar project. They are now issued by some aspiring politicians to lead Libya with the support of regional powers.
Haftar himself unleashed the use of religious slogans as a cover for a war he hopes will result in the extension of his control over all of Libya by force of arms.
When he announced on April 4 that the attack on Tripoli had started, he called it the "open conquest," and used phrases that symbolized the opening of Mecca, such as "whoever needs his home is safe." He also described those in power in the capital Tripoli as oppressors.
In a speech a few days ago in the town of Abyar near Benghazi (east of Libya), the former Libyan ambassador to the UAE Aref al-Nayad joined a long list of instigators to fight the people of Tripoli and shed their blood, using religious slogans.
"We are all fighting for the support of the homeland and for the right to be right and to nullify the falsehood and to spread the religion of our true master, Muhammad, peace be upon him," he said in a speech at the funeral of the mother of one of the deputies of the eastern region.
Nayyad echoed these statements in front of a group of tribesmen in the context of the attack by the Haftar forces on Tripoli for more than a hundred days, which has not yet resulted in the "open conquest" promised by Hafter supporters.
The former diplomat, who stepped down as UAE ambassador in 2015, has become one of the biggest aspiring to lead Libya, observers say.
In the past few days, it has been reported that Abu Dhabi is pushing for Arif al-Nadim to form a new parallel government to replace the internationally recognized government of Abdullah al-Thani, who was quoted by local media as saying he is ready for such a scenario and has a program of government.
In an interview with an Egyptian newspaper last year, al-Nayyad said he was ready to run if the presidential elections, scheduled to be held in late 2018, were held, according to the United Nations.
Scientists condemn
The statements made by the former Libyan ambassador to the UAE in the town of Al-Abayar have been criticized, especially by Libyan clerics who responded to his statements, which appeared to be a disbelief for the people of Tripoli.
In a statement published Tuesday, the National Rally of Libya's scientists and sheikhs said it confirmed to the Libyans the innocence of the Libyan scientists of Aref al-Naïd, accusing him of expelling the people of Tripoli by claiming that he and the Haftar militias would spread the true religion of Muhammad in the capital.
The gathering - which includes scholars of the two sects Maliki and Ibadi - that what he said Nayif recalls the expiation of "Wahhabism Wahhabism" all Muslims, and atonement "Wahhabi intervention" sons of the Ibadi doctrine.
He added that the people of Tripoli in particular and Libya in general condemn the religion of Islam since the conquest and left the country of thousands of scientists and preservers of the Koran, and said he did not expect them to teach them, "who is a student in the schools of the Vatican," their true religion, referring to the study of theology in the Vatican.
The Supreme Council of Islamic Sufism in Libya also published a statement renewing the innocence of Aref al-Naif, who said he did not represent the Sufis, in reference to the fact that Hafer's ally is being presented as a Sufi leader in Libya.
The Council described the former ambassador as an agent of the UAE sold his homeland for the implementation of foreign agendas, accusing him of incitement to murder, and atone for the people of Tawhid and deny the status of Islam for them, as he put it.
Nayyad was not the first to say that the people of Tripoli need a "visible opening". Many of the elders of the current in Libya and abroad denounced Hafter's forces with jihad, describing them as Kharijites in the capital. Some of these sheikhs appeared with the forces attacking Tripoli.
Among these are my Libyan interlocutors, Abdel Fattah Ben-Ghalbon, who called on the Salafis in Tripoli to join what he called the army (Hafar forces) to purge the country of what he called the "vicious schism, the Kharijites and the Brotherhood."
Libya's human rights organization, Human Rights Victims, says dozens of young men are being assembled in camps in Benghazi without the consent of their parents. They are convinced that the jihad in Tripoli is mandatory and that obedience to parents is not required.
Hafar's forces, called the Libyan National Army, are trying to seize the capital, including several Salafist battalions, some of which follow the lightning forces.
Media induction
In the media loyal to Hafter, there are frequent and equally dangerous positions for the atoning of the people of Tripoli and the desecration of their blood, where media platforms broadcast speeches that involve explicit incitement to murder.
A few days ago the media reporter Mohammed Mutallal appeared on a channel in support of Hafter who vows Tripoli residents to "the Great Flood" and calls them to store the flour in their homes because the zero hour to enter Tripoli has dawned after 100 days of "war of attrition," while all the zero hours identified Previously the invasion of Tripoli did not ratify.