Following are excerpts
from an address by Libyan TV host Hala Al-Masrati, which aired on Al-Libiya
TV on March 1, 2011:
Hala Al-Masrati:
[The rebels] are living a great delusion, and they need all the psychiatrists
in the world to analyze their personalities and to draw them out of
the great delusion they live in. I am a pragmatic person, and I like
to talk to use pragmatic terms, but by God, these people are dreamers.
One feels as if they are talking from Wonderland and Alice is among
them, and she's the one who wrote the scenario for them.
[...]
Let's talk about our
good sheik again – the sheik of urgent and pressing fatwas,
which are meant to serve the interests of the sheiks and emirs of the
Gulf and Qatar. Al-Qaradhawi – when this man recently wanted to get
married, he married a girl 60 years younger than him.
[...]
This man sanctioned the
killing of the Leader. I hope that at the end of his days, he will repent
for his sins. The Prophet warned us against lying about Islam. He warned
us about politicized fatwas, issued for the sake of regimes or
governments. But as long as these fatwas suit the sexual desires
of the emir and sheiks of Qatar, it is not surprising that Al-Qaradhawi
is the sheik that Qatar promotes, giving him the pulpit of Al-Jazeera
TV.
[...]