Shiite Religious Leaders Urge Unity, End of Siege
Lebanon's Shiite religious leaders called on Friday for unity and urged the Lebanese to steer clear of strife and for officials to end the country's “siege.”
“We should open a new page … of cooperation and (rejection) of strife,” Deputy Head of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan said in his sermon on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
“We in Lebanon should be united and cooperative,” he said during prayers at the Council's headquarters.
Grand Jaafarite Shiite Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan appealed in his sermon during prayers at Imam al-Hussein mosque in Burj al-Barajneh for “Lebanese leaders to end the country's siege and turn the page on their rivalries and disputes.”
“We should together without preconditions find ways to come out of the danger zone,” he said.
Qabalan called for national reconciliation that would lead to a roadmap to rebuild the state and its institutions.
He also called for building the capabilities of the army to be able along with the resistance to confront challenges.
Qabalan warned against what he called security and economic “nightmares,” which he said that the Lebanese would overcome only through unity.
He called for the quick formation of an all-embracing government away from “ridiculous conditions.”
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