Actually, oddly enough, it was Sunni Muslim “hardliners” who did the deed, as they consider Sufis heretical. And Jihad Watch reader Maxwell commented: “Why wasn’t there a Rachel Corrie to stop the bulldozer?”
“Sufi shrines attacked ‘by Islamist hardliners’ in Libya,” from Malta Today, August 26 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A Sufi Muslim shrine in the Libyan capital partly destroyed following a series of attacks blamed on ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists.
People in Tripoli saw bulldozers destroy part of the al-Shaab al-Dahmani mosque.
A shrine in the Libyan capital Tripoli venerating a Sufi Muslim saint has been partly destroyed – the latest in a series of attacks blamed on ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists.
Tripoli residents said men with bulldozers attacked the shrine of al-Shaab al-Dahmani, unimpeded by police.
The attack came a day after hardliners were accused of damaging the tomb of a Sufi scholar in the city of Zlitan.
Hardline Salafists regard the shrines as idolatrous.
On Friday, a group attacked the tomb of 15th-Century scholar Abdel Salam al-Asmar in Zlitan, about 160km south-east of Tripoli.
Video footage showed chunks of masonry littering the floor, bullet holes pockmarking the walls and ornate Islamic tiling destroyed.
People in Tripoli say they saw bulldozers destroy part of the al-Shaab al-Dahmani mosque and Sufi shrine.
The destruction in Zlitan follows two days of clashes between rival local tribes which left at least three people dead.
Libya’s Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur tweeted: “The destruction of shrines and mosques is a crime. Those who commit these crimes will be held responsible.”
In November last year, the bodies of two Muslim clerics were removed from the Sidi Nasr shrine and mosque in Tripoli and reburied according to the principles of the hardline Wahabi school of Islam.
There has recently been an international outcry over the destruction of centuries-old shrines in Timbuktu, Mali.
The Sufi sites were attacked by the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine group which seized the city in April…..