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BBC News Africa
25 August 2012 Last updated at 17:52 GMT
Libya Sufi shrines attacked 'by Islamist hardliners'
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.
Residents of Tripoli said men with bulldozers attacked the shrine on Saturday,
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 (100 miles) south-east of Tripoli. The Reuters
news agency said its dome had collapsed.
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.
One, a student named Abdurrahman, told the BBC: "There's a large group of
Salafists - they are the one with the bulldozers, and some military police are
also present.
They seem to be overseeing the process, rather than preventing it... There are
some bystanders who seem to approve."
He said the Salafists were also handing out pamphlets issued by a Saudi Arabian
mufti from the hardline Wahhabi school of Islam.
'A crime'
The destruction in Zlitan follows two days of clashes between rival local
tribes which left at least three people dead.
Omar Ali, an official from the Zlitan military council, told Reuters: "The
extremist Salafis took advantage [of the fact] that security officials were
busy calming down the clashes and they desecrated the shrine."
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 shrines, revered by Sufi Muslims, were attacked by the al-Qaeda-linked
Ansar Dine group which seized the city in April.
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