OMG, he’s a Tea Partier!*

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Senior Al-Qaeda militant Abu Yahya al-Libi urged Libyans who defeated the regime of Muammar Gaddafi to hold on to their weapons and implement sharia law, in a video released Monday.

In the October 29 video, Libi praised Libyan rebels for the fall of Gaddafi’s “ruined regime,” urging them not to heed Western calls to put down their weapons, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said.

“Abandoning the weapons that were one of the reasons of your liberation from a deadly slavery that lasted for more than four decades during which Gaddafi was torturing you severely, means simply returning to slavery in a new garment and surrendering to arrogant tyrants, domestic or foreign, who will rob you of your will and control your freedom,” he said, according to a SITE translation.

Libi noted that in America weapons are sold “like watermelons,” and Americans consider possessing weapons an untouchable right.

“Why does America and her sisters from among the Western countries seek to prevent and deprive our people from this right, which our Islamic religion granted us before America and its laws existed?”

He urged Libyans to use their weapons to “defend their religion, lives, honor, and money under the limitations of the sharia.”

*My interpretation of your average brain-dead lefty reacting to this.