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Khadaffy saw himself as a pan-African leader. That might or might not have gone over with the Libyan Arabs, but that didn’t mean they wanted to see a great influx of black Africans into their country. Sure, they’re racist. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a legitimate grievance about their leader inviting in foreigners.

In Bahrain, the Shi’ite majority do not like the ruling Sunni minority importing more Sunnis.

Anger at population replacement was not a factor in most of the Arab countries where there was unrest, but it was big in two of them. But let’s just blur the line between that and plain old bigotry and tribal rivalry, so the peons of the West don’t think about what’s being done to them.

It would do the West good to take in Iraqi and Egyptian Christians - and send Iraqi and Egyptian Muslims home in exchange.

Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born - Analysis
11 hours ago by B. Raman
Gaddafi suppressed his people. He used brutal force against them. He funded, trained and armed many of the West Asian terrorist organisations, that claimed to be fighting for the Palestinian cause against Israel and the West.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/22102011-libya-an-old-evil-is-dead-a-new-evil-is-born-analysis/

Muammar Qaddafi
With respect to Libya’s neighbors, Gaddafi followed Nasser’s ideas of pan- Arabism and became a fervent advocate of the unity of all Arab states into one Arab
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Qaddafi.html

Libya’s Gaddafi turns attention to black Africa
Sep 16, 1998
By Abdelaziz Barrouhi

TUNIS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - FEATURE - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, for long the self-appointed defender of the Arab nation, is turning his attention to black Africa. For many years Gaddafi, who took power in a coup that overthrew the monarchy in 1969, espoused Pan-Arabism, doctrinaire socialism and anti-western agitation financed by his country’s oil wealth.

But Arab unity and pan-Arabism is no longer in official favour in Libya and has disappeared from state-run media, Tripoli residents contacted from Tunis say. State television news now longer carries a map of the “Arab Nation” on its backdrop-it has been replaced by the African continent.

Middle Eastern soap operas have disappeared from the television schedules, and have been replaced by programmes on black issues such as slavery.

The Foreign Ministry said this month the Pan-Arab Affairs Ministry, charged with promoting the unity of the Arab world, would be scrapped at the next session of the People’s Congress, Libya’s equivalent of a parliament.

ARAB NATIONALISM HAS FAILED, GADDAFI SAYS
Tripoli also announced that it had already scrapped the department in charge of promoting Gaddafi’s Pan-Arab ideas from “the Gulf to the (Atlantic) Ocean.”

In a U-turn, Gaddafi admits now that his ideology of Arab nationalism, inherited from late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, has failed.

“I had been crying slogans of Arab Unity and brandishing standard of Arab nationalism for 40 years, but it was not realised. That means that I was talking in the desert,” Gaddafi told the Arab satellite television channel ANN this month. “I have no more time to lose talking with Arabs...I am returning back to realism...I now talk about Pan-Africanism and African Unity,” he added.

“The Arab world is finished...Africa is a paradise...and it is full of natural resources like water, uranium, cobalt, iron, manganese,” Gaddafi said in an apparent attempt to convince his compatriots.

“If Africa is a paradise, we would have heard about that much earlier. But as far as I know, Africa is better known for its ethnic wars, drought and starvation,” one Libyan traveller in Tunis commented.

“If Gaddafi is serious in what he says, this would be a crucial shift in the history of the Arab world, because we would no more have an Arab state whose ideology is namely based on Pan-Arabism,” a senior Arab diplomat based in Tripoli said.

“This might not be a bad thing for the Arab world because Gaddafi had been giving a wrong image to the external world about closer ties between Arabs,” another North Africa-based diplomat said.
http://www.geocities.com/~dagmawi/News/News_Sep17_Gadhafi.html

Gaddafi: the man Gaddafi: the man who would be king of Africa
Aug 26, 2011 – ... who would be king of Africa. Gaddafi swapped his pan-Arab robes for pan- African ones, but he was viewed with suspicion in the continent ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/gaddafi-legacy-meddling-africa

Colonel Khaddafy and his Libyan army have carried out numerous military excursions into neighboring Chad. Even Egypt’s Christian Coptic community (less than 10% of the population) walks a fine line between tolerance and oppression.
http://falangist.net/islam12.htm