Aoun: Arab Events a Leap Backwards, Fundamentalists to Assume Power
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Friday described the progress of the so-called Arab Spring as a “leap backwards,” warning that “some movements will install new dictatorships when they assume power.”
“The events in the Arab countries are a leap backwards and the real revolution happens in one’s own mind and against obsolete traditions,” Aoun said in an interview on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television.
“Democracy cannot be created suddenly; it is rather a culture and an ability to live freely without crossing the limits of this freedom,” Aoun noted.
“The upcoming regimes will not be new and I foresee the rise of (Islamic) fundamentalism to power, the same as I had predicted 17 years ago,” he said.
Aoun stressed that he was not calling on the Christians of Lebanon and the region to isolate themselves or stand by idly amid the rapid developments.
“The Christians in the Orient are the children of this land and they have existed here before Islam. I’m not calling for neutralism, but rather for participation,” he clarified.
“The Christians should be at the core of the events and must choose what’s best for them. There are Christian dissidents in Syria, but the majority supports the regime’s reforms,” Aoun added.
He described the Syrian society as “among the most socially liberal Arab societies,” reassuring that “democracy will come to Syria.”
Voicing concerns over the repercussions of a possible rise to power by Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, Aoun said: “The Islamists in (northern Lebanese city of) Tripoli do not acknowledge any borders and they are waiting for the Islamic revolution to sweep Beirut.”
“I’m calling for democracy and this is what the Syrian president (Bashar al-Assad) is seeking by forming reform committees,” he declared.
“I’m with the revolutions if the outcome is positive … but I’m against them if the outcome will be negative.”
The FPM leader described Syria as “the Orient’s beating heart.”
Syria “has persevered because its people are united as they seek reform and stability and reject violence,” said Aoun.
“It is the only state whose army has stood in the face of the Israeli-imposed solutions. They have unsuccessfully tried to create ‘many Benghazis.’ Haven’t you paid attention to the international developments accompanying the events in Syria? Syria is steadfast and we won’t allow any spark of a civil war in Lebanon, such as (the clashes of) Nahr al-Bared and May 7” he added.
Addressing the domestic situations in Lebanon, Aoun said Premier Najib Miqati has “turned a blind eye to all the violators belonging to his sect.”
“We might become anyone’s rivals” over corruption, Aoun pledged.
“We’re not in agreement with the premier over the scientific standards, so how would we agree on other issues?”
“I’m not targeting Miqati, he’s the one targeting me. I’m telling him about the wrongdoings and he’s not addressing them. How does he want to gain popularity? By protecting violations?” Aoun went on to say.
“I have called for holding accountable those who are illegally assuming certain positions and I have called for the sacking of others who are facing lawsuits. Let them win the cases and return to power,” Aoun explained.
On the relation with Druze leader Walid Jumblat, which is growing increasingly tense over mutual accusations of corruption, Aoun said: “Let he (Jumblat) announce our misdemeanors. We have been submitting bills and documents. We have been exposing the hotbeds of corruption.”
Asked about the controversial issue of financing the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, Aoun said that “the premiers and the ministers who had financed the STL in the past should be referred to the judiciary.”
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28 October 2011, 22:06
Aoun: The premiers and the ministers who had financed the STL in the past should be referred to the judiciary.
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28 October 2011, 21:51
Aoun: I’m not targeting Miqati, he’s the one targeting me. I’m telling him about the wrongdoings and he’s not addressing them. How does he want to gain popularity? By protecting violations? I have called for holding accountable those who are illegally assuming certain positions and I have called for the sacking of others who are facing lawsuits. Let them win the cases and return to power.
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28 October 2011, 21:49
Aoun: We’re not in agreement with the premier over the scientific standards, so how would we agree on other issues? Let he (Jumblat) announce our misdemeanors. We have been submitting bills and documents. We have been exposing the hotbeds of corruption.
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28 October 2011, 21:39
Aoun: I call on everyone to abide by the laws and tackle corruption ... Miqati has turned a blind eye to all the violators belonging to his sect.
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28 October 2011, 21:30
Aoun: Syria is the Orient’s beating heart and it has persevered because its people are united as they seek reform and stability and reject violence. It is the only state whose army has stood in the face of the Israeli-imposed solutions. They have unsuccessfully tried to create “many Benghazis.” Haven’t you paid attention to the international developments accompanying the events in Syria? Syria is steadfast and we won’t allow any spark of a civil war in Lebanon, such as Nahr al-Bared and May 7.
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28 October 2011, 21:21
Aoun: I’m with the revolutions if the outcome is positive … but I’m against them if the outcome will be negative.
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28 October 2011, 21:13
Aoun: I’m not playing certain cards, I have my relations with the regime. The Islamists in Tripoli do not acknowledge any borders and they are waiting for the Islamic revolution to sweep Beirut. I’m calling for democracy and this is what the Syrian president is seeking by forming reform committees.
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28 October 2011, 21:09
Aoun: The Syrian society is among the most socially liberal Arab societies. Democracy will come to Syria.
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28 October 2011, 21:06
Aoun: The Christians should be at the core of the events and must choose what’s best for them. There are Christian dissidents in Syria, but the majority supports the regime’s reforms.
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28 October 2011, 21:04
Aoun: The Christians in the Orient are the children of this land and they have existed here before Islam. I’m not calling for neutralism, but rather for participation.
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28 October 2011, 21:01
Aoun: The upcoming regimes will not be new and I foresee the rise of fundamentalism to power, the same as I had predicted 17 years ago.
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28 October 2011, 21:00
Aoun: Some movements will install new dictatorships when they assume power and democracy cannot be created suddenly, it is rather a culture and an ability to live freely without crossing the limits of this freedom.
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28 October 2011, 20:59
FPM leader MP Michel Aoun in an interview on Al-Manar: The events in the Arab countries are a leap backwards and the real revolution happens in one’s own mind and against obsolete traditions.
28 October 2011, 21:46
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It is funny to hear him speak about fundamentalism on the IRANIAN mouthpiece AlManar lol Another thing...her predicted something "17 years ago" and it still hasn't happened...that means he lost credibility.
28 October 2011, 23:02
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In other words you are with the strong and will dump the losers. This is your agenda from the beginning. You are another Jumblat. So long as the stron g man in Lebanon exists you will approve of their lawbraking. Why dont you change your diapers and douche because whats coming to you is huge. You hate the Americans yet you meet with their ambassador every week. You have so many faces and are lost now. Your last days are coming soon. it will take a while but by March 2012 Lebanon will rid of you and your allies. Lebanon will spit you out of its guts like puke. The people are not stupid and every body is fed up with you and your allies. At the end the free lebanese people will breath the freedom air. After you and your allies are burried or hung. tyrants and liars will never ever survive. there allways be the day of judgement. History books are available on the internet. Every tyrant that cared only about himself and forgot about the people ended up with a horrible death
28 October 2011, 23:34
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do not judge them before you see any results, if you think syria is the best example then go and live in damascus with your family please
28 October 2011, 23:34
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“The upcoming regimes will not be new and I foresee the rise of Islamic fundamentalism to power, the same as I had predicted 17 years ago,”
of course the Islamic fundamentalists he warned about 17 years ago was the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon or as he calls them today Money bags.
Long live the Free Pathetic Moron .
28 October 2011, 23:37
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Blame the gullible and politically primitive followers of Aoun for perpetuating his ever evolving sellout of every one of the principles that he was supposed to be fighting for!
28 October 2011, 23:43
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Aoun: The Christians in the Orient are the children of this land and they have existed here before Islam.
Nasrallah: This is Muslim land and the Christians were brought in by the Byzantine empire to be a thorn in the side of Muslims.
29 October 2011, 00:32
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we know that the uprising is a leap backward for the dictators and people like u
29 October 2011, 00:59
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Why was he let out on Friday? His day is Tuesday! Aoun just thinks that the Arab Spring is a "great leap backwards" because he is the one going backwards while the rest of the world is moving forward.
Aoun justifies himself as warding off the dangers of the onset of fundamentalism to the region when he, on his own, has been more responsible than anyone else for the introduction of fundamentalism to the beating heart of Arab democracy, Lebanon.
29 October 2011, 01:04
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This lunatic will never understand how the world works and is never humbled by events always going against his predictions. Anyways, i will become aounist when this moron makes public all information on his (and his extended family) bank accounts and proposes that every public servant does the same.
29 October 2011, 01:08
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No deja de ser curioso como el General Aoun continua en la línea de Assad. Es verdad, un cambio político perjudicaría a los cristianos en Síria, seguramente. Pero los derechos humanos se deben garantizar. Actualmente Síria no puede garantizar los derechos humanos. Aoun, que es cristiano, no debe seguir de forma ciega a los chiitas. Es un laberinto en el que se ha metido desde hace años.
29 October 2011, 02:50
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""He described the Syrian society as “among the most socially liberal Arab societies,” reassuring that “democracy will come to Syria.”""
TAKE YOUR PILLS !!! Not even the best psychaitrist can understand the extreme level of schysophrenie you have reached!
r u watching what is happening now in Syria? have you forgotten the massacre of Bachar's dad 30 years ago! What where you saying in 1990? what did u say in front of TF1 in 2005? Aren't the legendary general that was supposed to free lebanon in 1988 but did not free an inch! instead attacked his own brothers! and now they are planting mines and invading your borders, kidnapping people, and NOT FORGETTING ordered the killing our Martyrs! (Hariri, Gebran, Samir, Pierre, Walid .. )
I still and never will understand people that follow you
29 October 2011, 03:39
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I am going to wikipedia to write down what he just said so that his positions go down on record in history.
This guy is such a fool
29 October 2011, 05:36
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“I’m with the revolutions if the outcome is positive … but I’m against them if the outcome will be negative.”
What is that supposed to mean???????? are we to understand for the sake of example that you are not with the syrian revolution up until now, but will be if the revolution succeeds?
29 October 2011, 05:39
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is this guy for real? gimme a break..... he has attacked every single prime minister from Harriri to Hoss to Karami to Miqati.... what does he really want?
29 October 2011, 05:44
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one can sit and pull his hair out at what this so called leader politician says and does.... One can write facts, dates, speeches, etc. about this man's contradictions..... but, it is no use. He is enjoying his time in the limelight and he has supporters who think the sun shines from his backside. So, congratulations to Lebanon on such an astute statesman.
29 October 2011, 05:51
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FPM leader MP Michel Aoun in an interview on Al-Manar: The events in the Arab countries are a leap backwards and the real revolution happens in one’s own mind and against obsolete traditions.
Yeah..... I guess the real revolution also happened in your own mind since you came back to Lebanon. You made a pact with the devil and now you support syria, iran, and the illegal party of weapons. You have betrayed all the things that you once supposedly stood for and have let down oh so many lebanese. History will never forgive you ex-general.......
29 October 2011, 08:25
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It's beyond irony that the person who is allied to a Muslim fundamentalist group - if ever there was one - goes around telling the world that the Arab revolutions are a step backwards because they will bring Islamic fundamentalists to power.
Being credible implies that one practices what one preaches. So Aoun should start by ditching his alliance with the party that is the product of the granddaddy of contemporary Islamic fundamentalism, the Iranian regime. The Iranian regime has been quite active on the Islamic fundamentalist circuit from the very first moment that it took power in Iran in 1979, long before anyone else. One of its achievements was the creation of Hezbollah, a group that has a stated aim of creating an Islamic state in Lebanon in the image of the one that is in Iran. I that is not Islamic fundamentalism, what is?
Unless, Aoun does not consider the Shiites as being part of Islam.
29 October 2011, 10:39
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“There are Christian dissidents in Syria, but the majority supports the regime’s reforms,”
Huh? Reforms?? What reforms???
He described the Syrian society as “among the most socially liberal Arab societies”
OMG… he’s high again…
“I’m calling for democracy and this is what the Syrian president (Bashar al-Assad) is seeking by forming reform committees,”
Crap! Bashar is seeking to keep his power. He’s had 11 years to make reforms and he did NONE!
All the rest is the same, lame, old broken record, blab la bla corruption, blabla bla…the more he talks about corruption, the more he can corrupt…
29 October 2011, 11:05
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is this guy for real?! what drugs he is on ? he sounds so out of touch with reality to the point of has no clue and does not make any sense,,, and he is one of Lebanon;s Leaders ? wow i feel really bad for Lebanon
29 October 2011, 12:19
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don t worry guys, in a few years when the regime will change in syria he will say that he always was against the assad regime... and he predicted its fall!
29 October 2011, 13:28
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waynak ya Le Phenicien ou ya mowaten ou all other M8 ? where are your bullshit crap comments of Zionist Information and its all because of the US and general is the rock of lebanon (this is the best one of all by the way) ) ?
plz hit us with one so we can laugh, cos everything i ve been reading so far is very true and reflects excellent reflection and thinking ! something u guys will one day develop hopefully !
29 October 2011, 14:30
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I agree that democracy cannot be established suddenly and the culture of the people have to change first but I ask Aoun, how do you start? Is giving your political cover to an Iranian islamic extremist movement the road to democracy?
The Islamists in tripoli are trained and armed by hezbollah and Syria, your allies!!! Scaring people from one threat while ignoring the other shows how low your credibility has always been!
29 October 2011, 15:48
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LOL this guy makes me laugh , how he defends Syria while his men are still in there prisions getting tortured.He is neither are full blow dope or he is getting high on the crap Hesballah sells.Praise Be To God For Civil War in Syria.Thank you
29 October 2011, 16:26
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"أرجو أن يعتبرني القائد الكبير حافظ الأسد جندياً صغيراً في جيشه".
29 October 2011, 17:07
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17 years ago Aoun bet the welfare of this country on another Baathist dictator Saddam and we all remember the ramification of that bet on Lebanon.
29 October 2011, 18:56
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GMA , you are the king of Lebanon . Thank you mon general for the one way ticket to Hariri & co .
30 October 2011, 03:37
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Dictatorships are falling left and right but Aoun claims this is undemocratic. He supports the dictatorships in Syria and Iran. He doesn't give a damn about democracy, he's trying to protect his masters that pay him and protect him. Who's more of a Muslim fundamentalist than the party that was founded to spread the Iranian Islamic revolution to Lebanon (Huzb Allah).
30 October 2011, 10:05
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"...the real revolution happens in one’s own mind"
all that has happened in GMA's mind is a complete surrender.
