Zitate von Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Geburtstag: 7. Juni 1942
Todesdatum: 20. Oktober 2011
Muammar Muhammad Abdassalam Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi oder Muʿammar Muhammad Abdassalam Abu Minyar al-Qaddhafi war seit einem unblutigen Militärputsch vom 1. September 1969 bis 1979 das Staatsoberhaupt von Libyen. Als Revolutionsführer bestimmte er von 1979 bis 2011 diktatorisch die Politik Libyens. 1975 veröffentlichte Gaddafi Das Grüne Buch, in dem er seine politischen Ziele darstellte, ein Eklektizismus aus Sozialismus, Anarchismus, Naturrecht und Nationalismus.Gaddafi war der am längsten regierende Herrscher Libyens und einer der am längsten herrschenden Machthaber außerhalb von Monarchien überhaupt; etwa 80 Prozent der zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes lebenden Libyer waren unter seiner Herrschaft geboren worden. Gaddafi sicherte seine Macht auch durch ein rentenökonomisches, auf den Exporterlösen von Erdöl und -gas beruhendes Verteilungssystem nach innen ab. Außerdem instrumentalisierte und politisierte er die Stämme nach dem Prinzip Teile und herrsche.Im Februar 2011 kam es in Libyen zu landesweiten Aufständen, gegen Ende des Monats verlor Gaddafi die Kontrolle über weite Teile des libyschen Ostens an Rebellen. Im März begannen, auf der Basis einer UN-Resolution, die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada und mehrere westeuropäische Staaten mit Luftangriffen auf Libyen mit dem Ziel, eine Flugverbotszone durchzusetzen . Ab dem 27. Juni 2011 wurde Gaddafi als mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrecher und wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit per Haftbefehl weltweit gesucht. Er galt ab dem 22. August 2011 als abgesetzt und wurde von der neuen Regierung polizeilich gesucht, am 20. Oktober 2011 wurde er getötet. Die genauen Todesumstände wurden nicht aufgedeckt und bleiben ungeklärt. Wikipedia
Zitate Muammar al-Gaddafi
„Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.“
Interview (2001), quoted in BBC News (6 February 2001) "Analysis: Gaddafi's revolution" by Gerald Butt
Interviews
„Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975)
The Green Book (1975)
Kontext: Any class which becomes heir to a society, inherits, at the same time, its characteristics. That is to say that if the working class crushes all other classes, for instance, it becomes heir of the society, that is, it becomes the material and social base of the society. The heir bears the traits of the one he inherits from, though they may not be evident at once. As time passes, attributes of other eliminated classes emerge in the very ranks of the working class. And the possessors of those characteristics take the attitudes and points of view appropriate to their characteristics. Thus the working class turns out to be a separate society, showing the same contradictions as the old society.
„There are serious mistakes, among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel.… Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion.… It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed.… All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers.“
Sermon to a prayer meeting in Niger (30 March 2007), quoted in Reuters UK (30 March 2007) "Gaddafi says only Islam a universal religion" by Salah Sarrar
Speeches
„Women must be trained to fight in houses, prepare explosive belts and blow themselves up alongside enemy soldiers. Anyone with a car must prepare it and know how to install explosives and turn it into a car-bomb. We must train women to place explosives in cars and blow them up in the midst of enemies, and blow up houses so that they can collapse on enemy soldiers. Traps must be prepared. You have seen how the enemy checks baggage: we must fix these suitcases in order for them to explode when they open them. Women must be taught to place mines in cupboards, bags, shoes, children's toys so that they explode on enemy soldiers.“
Speech to the women of Sabha, October 4 2003; cited in ilfoglio.it http://www.ilfoglio.it/zakor/82
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Variante: The woman must be trained to fight inside the houses, to prepare an explosive belt and to blow herself up with the enemy soldiers. Anyone with a car has to prepare it and know how to fix the explosive and turn it into a car bomb. We have to train women to dispose of explosives in cars and make them explode in the midst of the enemy, to blow up the houses to make them collapse on enemy soldiers. You have to prepare traps. You have seen how the enemy controls the baggage: you have to manipulate these suitcases to make them explode when they open them. Women must be taught to undermine the cabinets, bags, shoes, children's toys, so that they burst on enemy soldiers.
„Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975)
The Green Book (1975)
„During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to another planet.“
Remarks at African Union headquarters, quoted in Daily Nation (5 February 2009) " Gaddafi defends Somali pirates http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/525348/-/13rtrgiz/-/index.html" by Argaw Ahine
„My brother! You are my brother for the rest of my life!“
Gaddafi expressing his gratitude to Nicolae Ceauşescu after receiving a Romanian translation of the Koran, quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 101
„Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.“
Response to a question on expelling Americans from Libya (March 1973), quoted in Time (2 April 1973) " The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907040-6,00.html"
„Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.“
— Muammar Gaddafi, buch The Green Book
The Green Book (1975)
The Green Book (1975)
„Your armed forces have toppled the reactionary, backward and corrupt regime. With one strike your heroic army has toppled idols and destroyed them in one of Providence's fateful moments. As of now Libya shall be free and sovereign, a republic under the name of the Libyan Arab Republic. No oppressed or deceived or wronged, no master and no slave; but free brothers in a society over which, God willing, shall flutter the banner of brotherhood and equality. And thus shall we build glory, revive heritage and avenge a wounded dignity. Sons of the Bedouins, sons of the desert, sons of the ancient cities, sons of the countryside, sons of the villages, the hour of work has struck and so let us forge ahead.“
Radio broadcast from Benghazi (1 September 1969), quoted in The Libyan Revolution: Its Origins and Legacy (2009) by Nicholas Hagger
Speeches
„Libya is an African country. May Allah help the Arabs and keep them away from us. We don't want anything to do with them. They did not fight with us against the Italians, and they did not fight with us against the Americans. They did not lift the sanctions and siege from us. On the contrary, they gloated at us, and benefited from our hardship….“
Interview with Al Jazeera (27 March 2007)
Interviews
„It was our hope that Libya with its revolution would become a model of freedom, popular democracy and a state free from oppression and injustice. However Libya became another conventional state, even a dictatorial or police state. This is deeply regrettable. We are not like that, nor do we want to be like that.“
Speech to heads of justice of the Jamahiriya (20 May 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rM64DYglBk
Speeches
„I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.“
Interview with Marie Colvin, 20 June 1986. Sun-Sentinel http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-06-20/news/8602060350_1_moammar-gadhafi-white-house-wife
„I call on the Libyan people, men and women, to go out into the squares and the streets in all the cities in their millions. … Go peacefully… be courageous, rise up, go to the streets, raise our green flags to the skies. … Don't be afraid of anyone. You are the people. You have right on your side. You are the rightful people of this land.“
Audio message broadcast on the pro-Gaddafi Syrian Al Rai TV on 20 September 2011, as quoted in Libya conflict: Muammar Gaddafi urges mass protests http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15206478, BBC World News, 6 October 2011
Speeches
„Libya lived for 5000 years without oil and it is ready to live another 5000 years without it.“
Quote from oil fields nationalisation speech.
Quelle: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12688033
„Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.… I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.“
The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
