Reply #29: One relic of old regime likely to haunt many Libyans for years to come

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From AJE Live Blog:

Tripoli – Muammar Gaddafi’s portrait may have all but disappeared from public view in Tripoli, there is one relic of the old regime that is likely to haunt many Libyans for years to come.

Part political rant, part ‘how-to screed' for dictators, Gaddafi's controversial and sometimes comical al-Kitab al-Akhdar, or The Green Book, has been taught in schools and touted in speeches since the first chapter was published in 1975. Two hours per week, starting at the age of eight, school children were ‘force fed’ Gaddafi’s ideas on a wide array of topics, ranging from his views on breastfeeding to why man and woman are both in fact ‘human beings’.

Many copies of the book were burned during the now six-month-long civil war in Libya, but some bookstores in Tripoli still have stacks of them, albeit not on display or for sale.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-sep-14-2011-1432