Phalange Warns against Repeating Antonine Incident in Other Universities
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The Phalange Party on Monday condemned a recent incident at the Antonine University, where 37 students performed Muslim prayer outside the administration’s offices in protest at its refusal to provide them with a private prayer room.
In a statement issued after its weekly meeting the party’s politburo condemned “what happened on the campus of the Antonine University, when a number of students of well-known affiliation violated the institution’s bylaws,” warning against “repeating this approach in universities affiliated with Christian religious foundations, especially after the surfacing of attempts to perform similar steps in other universities.”
The political bureau also lauded “the Antonine University’s decision and measures taken against the violators,” saying it tackled the incident in a “wise manner.”
Addressing the recent busting of an extremist Islamist cell plotting attacks against the army, the Phalange Party urged the government “not to waver in its pursuing of the Takfiri cell.”
The party also slammed the parliament’s approval of a law slashing prison year from 12 to nine months, saying it was influenced by “riots in Roumieh prison, the sit-in of the prisoners’ relatives outside it, and after a number of prison guards were taken hostage.”
The politburo reiterated the objections voiced by the party’s MPs during the session, expressing concerns over the security situation in the country.
26 March 2012, 22:08
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What happened in the end to the 37 troublemakers? Any follow-up?
26 March 2012, 22:17
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you can have it in iran.
the antonine is not iran, so go and practice your extrmism in iran :)
26 March 2012, 22:45
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There are Churches and Synagogoes in Iran and also Christian and Jewish Members of Parliament.
There are also women ministers.
Can the same be said of saudi arabia the people who have the kateb, lebanese forces and the feb14 criminals in their pockets?
27 March 2012, 05:53
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And anyone who wants to open a liquor store is Sour should also be able to do it.
27 March 2012, 08:09
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Tyrian: helicopter is right, 100%. There used to be liquor shops but people were intimidated and were forced to shut down. If the hezbollahi mercenaries don't want to drink, it's their problem. They're shouldn't impose their limitations onto other people. I'm sure thigh, that those who kill and terrorize in th name of Allah do drink from time to time. Lebanon is regressing... It's scary.
27 March 2012, 16:20
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I know Benzona but if you want to drink in "muslim" areas, you should be able to pray, without disturbing anyone in christian areas. That is what I meant. You cant have one of those.
27 March 2012, 11:20
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Oh! Then churches should be alloud in Islamic universities... bigot!
27 March 2012, 17:05
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Of course there should be praying rooms for christians if they ask for it in muslim universities.
26 March 2012, 23:28
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libnani take your islamic filth out of our country.Is that what you want don't forget the past 30 years because we will NEVER FORGET.
26 March 2012, 23:44
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this is the only way to go for a forget about the rest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_QLhLEMks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zF_QLhLEMks#t=301s
26 March 2012, 23:52
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listen and learn from the master you fools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ1K2wo9JxE
27 March 2012, 00:19
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Ya luxembourg...
Do they have a church in tehran muslim university ya tachmeh??!!!!!!!
27 March 2012, 05:07
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Lebanese people are proud of renovating the old synagogue in Beirut, yet when a group of their Muslim brethren want to pray in school they are considered to be extremists? Too funny. I'm flattered you're learning some of our tricks, though. ;)
27 March 2012, 08:19
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What do you do to help the 100 Lebanese Jews that stil live in Lebanon? Isn't this synagogue useless if there isn't the minimum requirement for the minyan? I strongly encourage Lebanese Jews to return to Lebanon. They belong to here, to our culture, to our people. They founded le commerce du levant among otther things that still remain until today. For more about the history of our lebanese Jews. Read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Lebanon
27 March 2012, 16:24
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There is a ctually an organization started by Lebanese students a couple of years ago trying to "bring back" the Lebanese jews to Lebanon.
Hopefully they will, as we wish for every Lebanese.
27 March 2012, 17:40
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The so called lebanese jews are of yemenite origin, not lebanese. If they chose to be part of israel then this means they didnt value neither lebanon nor yemen. Rather they are a bunch of racists who took it upon themselves to join zionism instead of stay in their original countries with their christian and muslim fellow ethnic people. They chose the european racist zionist movement, this prooves that jewishness is more important to them than roots. Both arab christians, jews and muslims have suffered tuff times in the middle east but we didnt betray our roots and people by changing our identity like these arab jews did. Imagine if a christian state would be put in the majority muslim iraq, the arab christians would not go there to live at the expense of the other religions, nor would the arab muslims go to live in some majority christian country turned muslim by force, yet this is exactly what most arab jews did.
27 March 2012, 08:02
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Antoine University means Antoine University. It is a University that has Christian Values. I am not sure about the identity of the Muslims. If they are Sunnis, let them go to Makka and pray there. If they are Shiaas, let them go to Qum or to Ali Khameni's palace and pray at his feats.
I believe that that these 37 students were politically driven to show that their affiliation have some Balls. Yaaaah, They got Balls alright. What a bunch of morons. Are we suppose to believe that the Lebanese people are so faithful that they have to fight endlessly for the sake of Jesus or Allah? Wake up Lebeees for Jesus and Allah have forsaken you long time ago, when you have chosen to mix Politics and Religion. What a bunch of Hippocrates.
27 March 2012, 08:51
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BenoZa, I totally agree with you. But my friend we live in Lebanon. Jews will be massacred if they ever show their identity. Being blinded by Religious fanaticism, the Lebanese will surely declare a Holy War or a Crusade on the Lebanese Jews. Their justification is their sweat Palestine. For everyone's info, Jews lived there before the Muslims and before Jews' conversion to Christianity. So Oh you who believe in the Day of Judgment and in God's Messengers and all of His Holly books, treat thy Semitic Jew brother as an equal or you will all burn in Hell. Well same goes to the Israelis who discriminate against their Palestinian Brothers. Wallah shee bedda7ik.
27 March 2012, 17:23
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Non-believer-edy, you are completly wrong. Before jews ie the ancient israelites lived in Palestine, the Canaanite-Philistines-Phoenicians did and they were pagans. If we are to go by your logic then all pagans should be allowed to take over Palestine because their faith was there first! Thats idiotic thinking. Palestinians are descended from the ancient people who lived in Palestine since thousands of years, meanwhile the jewish immigrants who immigrated under the banner of zionism are not, they arent even israelites, they are ashkenazis (khazars) or sephardi (spaniard origin) or mizrahi (oriental origin). Very few of them have anything to do with the ancient israelites. If everyone were to go by such logic then the world would be turned upside down and the only ones who would be left with land would be the pagans since they were the majority in the past.
27 March 2012, 17:24
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Zionists are not our semitic brothers, they are invaders and murderers who have stolen and comitted endless of crimes against the natives in Palestine and Lebanon, they are foreigners and colonializers who have no common history with us, they did not come from neither palestine nor lebanon but they came from outside the levant to occupy and terrorize. So who are you to come claim that we will be sent to hell for not accepting them as our brothers? Especially when you got your information all wrong!
27 March 2012, 08:52
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They worship God's Religions, yet they kill and butcher each other in HIS HOLLY name. Jerusalem or the City of Peace has always been a place of Massacres and Blood shedding. There is anything but Peace between the Monotheistic Brothers. What a BIG LIE.
27 March 2012, 09:11
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Luxemburg BOB- In what planet do you live in? Iran has a shameful record of discrimination against its minorities. Just look at the region of Ahwaz where the population is being ethnically cleansed because they speak Arabic, despite the fact that they are Shias. This raises the question about the real motive behind Iran's obsession to protect the Shias in the region!!!!. If they persecute their own Shia Citizens, just because they speak Arabic, then how could any Shia believe that Iran is their savior? I am going off topic here, but to say that Iran respect Multiculturalism is just being insane.
27 March 2012, 11:47
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No denying this was a political act maybe testing the waters and see how ppl would react to it .. having said that i believe that there is a chance to show how Lebanon is different than the other countries in the region, more open than western countries, and the answer is easy, just open churches so that Muslims can pray in it and let Christian pray in mosques
27 March 2012, 14:22
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SO what will these callers for the respect of the "governmental institutions" do now? Start a new civil war? la t3allamo wall bi 3omron ra7 yet3allamo. ortet mjedib dejjelin kezzebin feshlin
27 March 2012, 15:17
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Le Dude. Dude in your dreams:). As long as Muslims do not accept Jesus as the God of Christians, and as long as Christians do not accept Mohammad as a Messenger of God, your wish will always be a dream. Dude, why don't we just ignore Religions and live in Peace once and for all.
27 March 2012, 16:51
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Ulpianus> Holly Books should inspire their readers to be Holly. I don't see it anywhere. As time goes by and as Science progress, people will stop believing in such primitive explanation of the world : IE Religions.
27 March 2012, 21:21
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Holy books are read and explained by unholy men. That is the problem.
Then, religions does not interfere with Science. Religon does not tell you whether you can cure cancer or not for example. Its more like a philosophy.
you can believe in Science, and in a secular state, while at home between you and yourself, you have your own "Life philosophy" believing in a creator.
Some people read about, and abide by some great philosophers views. Some just live.
27 March 2012, 17:27
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This is a private university. Whether it is Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, the rules of the PRIVATE institution must be respected. And, first and foremost, youre not required to attend it. If you want to pray in a prayer room, and did not like the rules of the university, why do you attend it? I dont care if Islamic universities allow Christian prayer rooms or not, its not a religious question, it is a respect for private institutions regardless of their affiliation. ANybody here making it a religious thing is a sectarian cancer who are the reason for Lebanon's fractured and disastrous society.
