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ouffff im relieved, the godfather is satisfied!!!!

This has nothing to do with dignity. This has to do about convergence of entitlement, fear, political brinkmanship, narrow political interest. Passing a law that further enforce different cLasses of Lebanese is disastrous. If you start talking today about "true voice of Christian," you will hear tomorrow about the "true electoral weight of the muslims" and demands that the number of such and such sect members of parliament reflect its demographic weight: 1975 deja vue.

Are the Christian political elites going to accept a formula where the "true weight and voice" of Christians reflected? Are we going to count every election cycle the number of this sect and that sect. The true christian voice is nothing but a big fraud. As muslims vote for christians, christians vote for muslims and cross confessional, ideological and political alliances are necessary. The orthodox proposal is a disaster as it not only create classes of citizens, further aggregate inequality, it further put the Lebanese further into their sectarian cocoons.

Rafehh you know i just wish it was the case. Unfortunately we live in a very complex and hostile environment.Our fabric is not that of the United States or Canada. I mean what you ask for is probably the ideal, however this is not going to happen in a country like Lebanon where extremism in certain religions has been intensifying. I am sorry but i do understand where Christians come from and their fear for their existence and identity. I also agree with you that we need to overcome this division and i tell you it is possible maybe in Canada but not in the middle east. I mean it would be rediculous to say that blacks can only vote for blacks and caucasians for caucasians in the United States. It sounds so backwards but it is different in Lebanon that's why you´re not there.