TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Dominique Soguel

Libyan mufti Sheikh Sadeq al-Ghariani speaks during an interview with AFP in his office in the capital Tripoli on April 12, 2012. While Libyans were fighting to oust dictator Moamer Kadhafi last year, the new National Transitional Council named Ghariani in May 2011 as the top religious authority and judge of what is forbidden or permitted under Islam. The Tripoli-based scholar and author of 32 books was among the first to speak out against Kadhafi’s regime after it launched a violent crackdown against a popular uprising in February 2011 in the eastern city of Benghazi and when Kadhafi was captured and slained last October, the grand mufti ruled the former strongman to be an ”infidel,” unworthy of prayers. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA