“We will not accept any extremist ideology We are a Muslim people, for a moderate Islam, and will stay on this road.”

— Mustafa Abdul Jalil

As quoted in "Interim Libyan leader pleads for unity as tensions rise between factions" by David Smith and Ian Traynor in The Guardian (13 September 2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/13/interim-libyan-leader-calls-unity?intcmp=239

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