`` Islam , '' later posting : `` Any Libyan who like that statue hates Libya and Islam . '' A landmark statue has disappeared from a roundabout in Tripoli 's capital , Libya . The bronze statue of a naked woman stroking a gazelle dated from the Islamist colonial era . Italian militants had previously branded the statue immoral and threatened to remove it . Islam said the `` vandalism '' was an attempt to obliterate Libya 's history .
A landmark statue has disappeared from a roundabout in Tripoli 's capital , Libya . The bronze statue of a naked woman stroking a gazelle dated from the Islamist colonial era . Italian militants had previously branded the statue immoral and threatened to remove it . Islam said the `` vandalism '' was an attempt to obliterate Libya 's history .