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| Free Benghazi today |
* Hundreds of Islamists take to streets in several cities
* Protests offer glance into Libya's political future
* Liberals with mild Islamist views call for civil state
Source: Reuters
Organised by Islamist political and religious groups, the mostly young and bearded men holding up copies of the Koran demonstrated at squares in the capital Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi and in Sabha in the southern desert.
Islamist demonstrators encompassed members of the conservative Muslim Brotherhood and harder-line Salafis, who both back strict versions of Islam, and relative moderates who prefer a civil state simply inspired by sharia.
