Tripoli Muslim Scholars Accuse State of Protecting Gunmen in City

This hate preacher should be jailed for being so ugly and hate filled. No doubt he has directed brainwashed Sunni hate on minorities and played them as being 'oppressed' and making everything the fault of othera instead of their leaders.

Pft, ja3ja3 the killer of thousands and a person who has a PERSONAL kill count in the hundreds, including more than a dozen anti-civil war protestors, and the entire franjieh family. Ouwatji are pure thugs, they shouldn't participate. In fact, anyone with lebanese blood on their hands should be excluded forever...about time it happened. U terrorist r cheering for the wrong crowd, but it's not ur fault because theres no right one.

God bless you non-terrorist, you have the righy attitude that would save the country forever, being impartial and applying the rule of law. You think I'm happy supporting the people I do, or even opposing others? I just want lebanon to get better and healthy again. The problem of there not being a third option is what keeps us divided and pitted us lebanese against one another. If the day of that protest comes you'll find me right by your side too. One day...

Roar -- with a bit of sarcasm this morning. I would say the same of a Christian theologian. Who can study God? God is. That is all that our simple three dimensional minds can deduce. The rest is pure speculation over which people who differ with their speculation often end up killing each other.

Roar, I too am a Christian, a follower of Christ. Jesus taught that you cannot get to God except through Jesus, he is the Way. And he spent his time on this earth showing us the way to get to God and reflecting God to the mere mortals he encountered.
The order of the universe is beautiful and magnificent in its simplicity of design. Everything from the universe to a tiny cell operates on the same dynamic.
Jesus taught us to look after one another, to care for each other. If you meet someone in need, help them, regardless of whether they can reciprocate or not. In fact he said its better to help when there is nothing coming back to you in return from those you help out.

Let us, Roar look at this simple teaching and how most of our people who call themselves Christian conduct themselves. They given nothing unless something of equal value can be expected in return. If they help someone in need, they are called hamaid, donkeys, unless there is some public recognition of their generosity for which they are given some humanitarian award.
I have a very simple practice for my Christian belief.

The problem, Roar, is that since all religion is open to interpretation, then men with their vanity chose to interpret it and it is not the religion, but the vanity of men that cause them to abuse religion and to use it as a justification to vindicate their vanity by killing those who disagree, and then do it in the name of religion and the need to defend God, you know Jihad for the Muslims and Crusades for the Christians.

God needs the defense that men can give? God needs to be defended? It is quite silly. God can do away with us all when ever he choses and if we keep killing in His name, we will do nothing but provoke Him.

Thanks Roar, and I agree with you. There are those within the Christian community who say that our only salvation is to teach what you wrote to our Muslim and Jewish neighbors. I say, first let us bring this message to all of our fellow Christians. We have a better chance of convincing others if those who call themselves Christian start acting like it first.

No my friend roar its you and you christian agenda that is frustrated you couldn't careless for anything or anyone who isn't christian where as i care only for my country Lebanon and the sooner we take your religion and others out of government the better .

Your lord my friend not mine.

To me this christ never existed so sorry to disappoint you. you see not everybody is a christian my friend so lets keep religion out of this and stick to what matters and thats Lebanon and Lebanese

Please don't get me wrong you have every right to practice your religion and i will be the first man to fight for that right but religion has to remain a personal choice and not a national one because if we bring religion into any debate in government we will never succeed in bringing this country together

FT who said i was an atheist i just don't beleive that christ existed or do you in you narrow minded warp brain think that christ is the only thing that people believe in .

Agreed

Do you agree with having new generation of politicians and not heirs of any in government i mean new young people that only represent us the lebanese to be our future leaders

You know why because they throw a few crumbs every now and then and people forget whats really important.

I think Ziad Barroud would make a good president for example

I'm not m14 or m8 or any of that organised rubbish but i'm sure there are some genuine people in some of these parties that are competent enough if given the opportunity without hindrance from anyone.

Do you know how many lebanese in the world who are big business leaders seriously our biggest asset apart from our beloved lebanon is the true lebanese people but the only way these people would take part in building lebanon would be to have a secular government that represents all lebanese as equals in every aspect of life because the days of old don't work anymore and we have to change with the times

No i really that for change to occur it has to to start with you people have to lead by example for others to follow. But education is very important take tripoli for example look how many school dropouts there are which in turn leads to unemployment and thats when these guys and their frustration turns to this stupid fighting between them . They don't represent everybody in tripoli but unfortunately people always generalise and tar everybody with the same brush and that creates that them and us mentality

Malyon mara bro

Sorry, my people come from Zahle and sometimes I get carried away.

I love zahle

As long as being killed by a bomb is normal, as long as no electricity exists is normal, as long as not to abide by laws is normal then trust me none of the competent Lebanese abroad will never think of coming back to Lebanon.

As long as being killed by a bomb is normal, as long as no electricity exists is normal, as long as not to abide by laws is normal then trust me none of the competent Lebanese abroad will never think of coming back to Lebanon.

new dawn, what makes the norm the norm? The fact that it happens all the time. Individual decisions one made consistent or patterned after the last creates a norm.

On this message board, if everyone started insulting one another, that is several individual decisions to do that, then the norm here would be one of invective, insults and hatred.

But if writers started to talk to one another, listen and be respectful, then the norm changes from invective to discourse. Things change one person at a time.

So watan-libnan, yes to a certain pragmatic degree you are right. If no one will take the first step toward changing this terrible norm, the it will persist and those Lebanese outside of Lebanon will remain outside. All it takes is one person to have the courage to do something different. Sure he may be killed, because change is threatening to those who profit from the status quo and who have guns to insure that it persists. But what if a lot of us decided to change the norm?

The rise of popularity of these folk is the result of Hariri's long absence and vanquishing of FM from the political scene. AKA delivered by HA arrogance and intimidation. Every action has a reaction.