Omar al-Mukhtar Quotes

Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)

Omar Ben Mokhtar bin Omar (20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was also a prominent figure of the Senussi movement, and he is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and, for nearly twenty years, led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the Pacification of Libya. After many attempts, the Italian Armed Forces managed to capture Al-Mukhtar near Solonta and hanged him in 1931.

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I took part in all battles. If sometimes I was not there, the operation was likewise carried out under my orders.

We do not surrender — we win or die. You've to fight the next generation and the next... and I'll live more than my hanger.

I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.

It is useless for you to ask me single facts. Whatever has been committed against Italy and the Italians for the past ten years was willed and permitted by me, whenever I did not personally take part in the acts themselves. … The raids, too, were ordered by me and some of them carried out by me.

From God we have come and to God we must return.

I will not leave this place until I achieve one of the two highest levels; martyrhood or victory.

I am not sorry for what I did because it was God's will.

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