مفتي سوريا يدعو سياسيي لبنان "للتعلم" من الراعي: سأزور لبنان حين أريد

well, we know who's paying him off...

"Syria's Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddine Hassoun on Friday called on the Lebanese politicians to visit his country similar to Syrians' move towards Lebanon during its war"

Time to send the Lebanese army and intelligence Syria, take over and run the place!!! We would need to vet all of the candidates to make sure they adopt a proper nationalist line.

FT - You are wrong. I happen to know few of the opposition people in Vancouver. They have been oppressed and victimized by the regime as much as we have.

FT - I do not disagree with you that Lebanon highest priority should be to protect its interest. The problem in this post is that we spend so much time arguing about things and not trying to articulate what Lebanese wants. If we can all agree that we want a strong democratic pluralistic state, then we can go about talking how this can be achieved.

Habibi - There is a minimum level of acceptable discourse in our culture and "mothers" are red line. We should never stoop so low.

Regime appointed.

This a does not have an ounce of faith just have a look at that head. If he wishes to break away from Islam and form a quasi-Pseudo Muslim sect with Assad (Kalb) as its head feel free, but someone already beat him to it the Alawis,

And he has no problem with a regime that kills tens of thousands and torture many more? I grant you that in a choice between a Takfiri and sheik hassoun, I would pick the latter. However, he should also have made a stand and condemn the regime's killings, torture and inhumanity.

FT - Please study in depth the theories of political, religious and social pluralism. It is an essential part of having a healthy democracy. All attempts at creating homogeneous societies have ended up in disaster as it is the antithesis of liberty.

actually it is more typical for political leaders to have religious leaders at their back to legitimize their rule. As a religious leader, he should be against the shedding of blood and innocent lives, ON ALL SIDES. This guy has said that only the rebels are responsible for the bloodshed.

I guess this guy didn't want to bring up how many deaths and "disappearances" that this regime has brought on its own, even before this uprising. He is a hypocrite, which probably feels dear to the feelings of M8 anyway.

FT deserves every possible insult available in any encyclopedia. of others are offended tell them it's his father instead of his mother.

Al Rai was simply attending a religious ceremony in Syria and his visit should not misconstrued. He’s never expressed support for neither Assad nor the FSA. He always wanted the Syrian to peaceful solve their problems. The Syrian and Lebanese are one family and what affect us affect them and vice versa. Our hearts goes to the Syrian people who are facing hard time with the cold and displacement. I hope their struggle finishes soon. In Lebanon, we know how hard civil war is. I hope theirs is not as long as ours was. It destroyed the hopes of many people in Lebanon.