The lost Libyan identity between Arabia and Numidia

The consequences of the Libyan revolution have brought to light a hidden but an important matter the appearance of the so called the Berber flag and the argument between the Libyans about the Berber future intentions.

Libya as a  north African country located between the Maghreb countries and Egypt have suffered the middle eastern ideology of the pan Arabism launched by Nasser and others in the 50 s, and imposed by Gheddafi during his years of rule, where the Arab culture was considered the golden  past identity and the key to the brilliant future.

 So what is the Libyan identity?

Ahmed Fergiani writes:

 What I see that Libyans, both Arabs and Berbers, have mislead the right path of  their definition of the Libyan identity, The forgotten fact that,  both Libyan parties Arabs and Berbers fight for a culture  that cheat the Libya History !

 Libya is neither   real Arab nor Berber, Libya is just Libya that obtained its name from the Greeks who called the whole north Africa as Libya except Egypt, Herodotus had dedicated his fourth book to Libya and its inhabitants ,Those Libyans who have left their traces on the whole Mediterranean civilizations, Sheshnok was the first non Egyptian Pharaoh, Eratosthenes of Cyrene(Shahhat) was the first to measure the circumference of the ground, Septimius Severus was the first African emperor to rule Rome for two decades and all of them would have admitted strongly that they are Libyan! The Libyans in the course of the history had adopted their religious life, as Pagans initially, then Jewish, Christians (saint Marks of Cyrene) and later as Muslims.

The Libyan Arabs with the Arabia as their reference line are mistaken in their Arabization of Libya , simple because the Libyan history is older than the arrival of the Arabs as I have mentioned above,the Arabs themselves have considered Libya as transit land between the eastern and the western part of their Empire.

 Although that the Libyan Berber Activists have reached a part of the truth of the Libyan identity ,but they are  still mistaken when they refer to Numidia as  their lost Berber Kingdom in which just the Numidians(Algerians) were the masters.

 The word Berber was given by the Romans who could not understand the Libyan Language, whose its alphabet dates back to four millenniums, the rock paintings of the Tadrart Akakus in southern Libya are the evidence of that hypothesis, the Berber activists would have better used the word Libyans rather than Amazight(the free men) cause this word for the non Berber speaking communities (Arabs) might mean future movement for a new Numidia!

 Personally I see no reason to use both words as the word Berbers referred to Barbary according to the foreigners, while Amazieght was used by Libyans to distinguish themselves from the foreigners during the oppression times which must not exist in the future free Libya!

Meshwesh, Berbers of Libya ,and had no connection with that battle of Tlemcen…. As it was mentioned by the so called Académie Berbère or the Berber academy based in Paris.

 For the same purpose,  I strongly criticize the Arab activists of Libya as well of their ideology, they would better be proud of  Sheshnoq,Septimius Severus as they were Libyans, rather than the  pre Islamic Albasus war in  Arabia, I might be more severe when I say that we Libyans  both the Arabs and Berbers have fallen in the external  trap of the Académie Berbère Du paris  and the pan Arabism of Cairo which its target to make us cultureless people and   followers ,while our Libyan history is superior to their history!

 In few words I strongly believe that Libya is just Libya, with its current beautiful mosaic of different cultures, languages and religions, where being Libyan means being proud of the history of our Libyan ancestors.