Qabbani Rejects Bickering with International Community, Slams Divisions
Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani said Sunday that Lebanon should improve its relations with the international community and rejected any deal that would divide the region.
“We should hold onto each other amid attempts to redraw the map of the world particularly in our Arab region,” Qabbani said in his Eid al-Adha sermon.
“We won’t allow for a new Sykes-Picot agreement in the Arab region that comes in Israel’s interest,” he said in reference to the 1916 deal that divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French influence.
“We as Lebanese should preserve our friendship with abroad and work on improving our ties with the international community and avoid bickering with it,” he said.
“Our only enemy is the Zionist entity which has usurped the land of Palestine, Lebanon and the Arabs,” he added.
Turning to the bickering between the March 8 and 14 forces, Qabbani said in his sermon that the word “minority” should be limited to the parliamentary representation.
“Minority should be dropped from our public, social and national lives,” he said.
“We are all majorities and there are no differences between us,” Qabbani added.
He stressed that “Lebanon does not belong to anyone,” saying it neither belongs “to any sect nor to any party or movement or politician.”
Lebanon is for all its citizens who should reject its division, Qabbani told worshippers, asking them “do you want to break your country?”
“We should hold onto our nation … reject differences and walk hand in hand towards a strong and fair state in which the Lebanese race towards serving each other,” he said.
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Insecurity creates struggles and divisions. Parliament should pass a law that the only source/destination of ANY arms and ammunition should be the LEBANESE ARMY.
There is nothing wrong with socialists/republicans/democratic as long as there is not a state within a state, once money and arms source/destination is not thru the LEBANESE ARMY then everything else falls apart and there is no country. There is not a single country in the world that enjoys two layers or state within another state, accepting donations from any Country to non-state pockets should be illegal and undermining the foundation of Lebanon because nothing is free and there is a price for the donations. Building bridges and paying families for their martyrs should be coming from the state ONLY under the constitution. The state should be the owner of the south and north, stronger army will rebuild this state.
you are brave, hassouni will try to kill you!