Report: Administrative, Legal Measures to Be Taken to Further Isolate Qabbani
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The Higher Islamic Council is expected to convene at the end of next week in order to follow up on the measures that have been taken in order to isolate Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily on Friday.
It said that the council will take “decisive” steps regarding the Dar al-Fatwa institutions after it was granted control over it by former prime ministers.
The premiership general secretariat, at caretaker Premier Najib Miqati and PM-designate Tammam Salam, had ordered that no decision issued by Qabbani would be approved or considered valid at any government institutions.
This decision is yet to be published in the official gazette.
Sources told the daily that should it be approved, Qabbani would effectively be isolated in the legal and administrative sense.
He would be entitled to remain in his post until the end of his tenure on September 14, 2014, but he will not be able to exercise any of his privileges.
They added that the failure so far to isolate the mufti can be attributed to the disputes within the electoral body over his successor.
Attempts to isolate Qabbani were demonstrated during last week's Eid al-Fitr holiday when a a memo that tasks a cabinet minister to represent Miqati at the Eid prayers was not sent.
A minister is traditionally present at the mosque where the mufti performs the Eid prayer.
Sources close to Miqati said that not sending the memo was a reflection of the deal reached between the former prime ministers to take measures against the Mufti over financial and legal violations.
Last month, the premiers discussed the Dar al-Fatwa crisis at ex-PM Omar Karami's residence in the northern city of Tripoli.
The Higher Islamic Council, which elects the mufti and organizes the affairs of Dar al-Fatwa, has been at the center of controversy after 21 of its members, who are close to ex-Premier Saad Hariri's al-Mustaqbal Movement, extended its term until the end of 2013 despite Qabbani's objection.
But the mufti considered the extension illegal and held council elections.
16 August 2013, 10:05
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Mafia Hariri has finally shown its true filthy face. The Haririans told us that the Syrians were going to destroy Lebanon if their word was not obeyed! Little did we know that when these scum bags blame the Syrians for something terrible done or will be done it is they who actually did or will be doing it. After all, they are Sannis by excellence.
16 August 2013, 13:47
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Question: Why has everyone turned against Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani?
If it was for something like his stance on civil marriage then fine, but apparently it's because he is involved in legal and financial violations/fraud, is it not? If that's the case, shouldn't every politician boycott the other? Or is there something I've looked over?
