Nazim Baksh
Guyana born Nazim Baksh is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has worked extensively in Afghanistan, Pakistan and most recently reported from Guantanamo Bay.
Muammar! Who is the Iblis now?
- By Nazim Baksh
- Published 03/1/2011
There are two pictures on this page. Both are Libyans but a world of
difference separates them. I believe one is the image of piety, the
other, despicable evil. The image on the right is Sayyid Muhammad Idris
Al-Mahdi As-Sanusi. He was born circa 1889 in Jaghbub when Libya was
part of the Ottaman Khilafah. He was the first and only King of Libya.
Those who knew him said he prayed Tahajjud every night and was outwardly
pious. In 1969 the man on the left, Muammar Al-Gadafi, who has over 200
spelling of his name and whom the world will soon forget, staged a
military coup and toppled Sidi Muhammad Idris. At this time Sidi
Muhammad was in Turkey seeking medical treatment. After the coup the
King was granted asylum in Egypt. He died on May 25, 1983 at the age of
94. He was buried in Madina Al-Munawwarah in the company of the be
st of
God's creation.
His grandfather was the founder of the Sanusiyah
Brotherhood (Tariqa). After Sidi Muhammad's father died in 1902, he
became the leader of the Sanusiyah Tariqa and its active leader when he
16. Following the Italian invasion of Libya in 1922 he was forced into
exile in Egypt where he continued to lead his people. During WWII the
exiled King recruited Libyan fighters to aid the Allied
forces against Nazi Germany and the Axis. In 1947 he returned home and
in 1949 the United Nations determined that representatives of three
provinces should meet in a national assembly to decide their future. The
assembly met and decided on a constitutional monarchy and offered the
reign to Sidi Muhammad. In 1951 Libya declared its independence. The
army rose up against the King dubbing him "Idris Iblis."
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