Al-Rahi Slams Ad-Diyar Report, Denies he Visited Anjar
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Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi slammed on Saturday a report published in ad-Diya newspaper, describing it as a “false” report aimed at misleading the public opinion.
Al-Rahi wondered during a meeting with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun how a newspaper would “publish such a false report?”
Ad-Diya newspaper published on Saturday a report about a French book entitled “The Arabian Tsunami, Le Tsunami Arabe” stating the reasons behind al-Rahi’s opposing position on the Arab spring in general and the Syrian revolution in particular.
Author Antoine Basbous, who is from Lebanese origins, wrote in two pages about the relations that linked the patriarch with the late Syrian Interior Minister General Ghazi Kanaan, where Kanaan had planted espionage devices at the Archbishop of Jbeil.
Al-Rahi said that he held a meeting with Kanaan at the Archbishop of Jbeil, however “I informed Patriarch (Nasrallah)Sfeir, the bishops and then President, PM and Speaker about the nature of his visit.”
The Author wrote that before the patriarch headed to Paris on an official visit, Syria summoned over a bishop close to the patriarch to Damascus, where the authorities allegedly asked him to warn al-Rahi against any negative statements in Paris.
According to the book, the relations between al-Rahi and Kanaan go back to 1998 when then Patriarch Sfeir began his battle against the Syrian domination over Lebanon, where Kanaan tried to break into Bkirki by using three bishops: Emile Saade, Youssef Beshara and Beshara al-Rahi.
The author states that bishops “ Emile Saade and Youssef Beshara revealed to Patriarch Sfeir the scheme of Kanaan, but al-Rahi didn’t stop meeting Kanaan.”
Al-Rahi denied that he had visited Anjar, noting that a “person is accused when he’s innocent. I’m not targeting the media, but the newspaper that published this false report.”
He added: “How can we read a newspaper like this after today.”
12 November 2011, 20:31
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Bishops “ Emile Saade and Youssef Beshara, and not: Patriarchs “ Emile Saade and Youssef Beshara
12 November 2011, 21:05
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I am a Maronite and I am ashamed of this Batrak. If Syria has dirt on him, he should resign and not take the whole Maronite nation down with him. He is even acting as Aoun (the crazy loon) agent. I would have never imagined the day, that we will be in such a weakened state. All the sacrifices of LF martyrs have gone down the drain.
12 November 2011, 22:50
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You have chosen the dirty game called "politics" instead of the house of god teaching. Anyone who deals with politics and politicians is going to pay the price of politics. People and citizens should be visiting you and there is no need for you to travel to this place or another if the scope of the visit is outside the church. When you start making statements about Assad and other dirty politicians then there are consequences.
13 November 2011, 11:22
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your excellence where there is smoke there is fire , this could not be fabricated out of nothing . and your recent words and actions indicate that al dyar is correct . I'M A MARONITE and i disagree with your recent statements
13 November 2011, 14:56
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1) antoine basbous has a lebanese passport but from syrian origin
2) the dyar report if not 100 pct correct , at least it is 80...85 pct true.
3)it is well known in all the maronite clerge that monseigneur rahi is a strong backer of "tahaluf el aqualliyat", the basic doctrine of the syrian regime... that's why he is siding with aoun against FL.
his future as a respectable batrak depends on the bright future of bashar, if u believe sfeir was dividing the christians , rahi is sinking them.
13 November 2011, 17:26
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Unfortunately Al Rahi has missed on the main pillar of humankind...humanity..he failed his people and allowed himself to display none human attitude..its a piity when it comes from a clergy man not to witness humanity
