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Originally Posted by SeekNirvana  Watani,
The posts I was referring to are a collection of fear-mongering ideas that only connect to reality in the minds of sectarian haters. In some sense, I agree with you, this seems to be the Lebanese "nationalist" spirit so many brag about.
You might be miffing these posts as a mere sarcastic reply to an unrealistic post, but clearly, this is not the case. Without singling out the poster in this thread, the forum is full of anti-Sunni and anti-Islamic rhetoric that resembles the "fascist" stamp many forumers like to stamp on the forehead of LFers.
To get to the heart of the subject, and that is Wilayat Al Faqih and HA in general, it is amazing how "much" of a blind eye one can turn towards his allies. Wilayat Al Faqih and HA's ideology have become the right framework for the secular society nowadays. Doesn't that make you wonder what these international scholars are talking about when they speak of Islam and secularism? Why all the fuss, one wonders.
HA's ideology is a problem for a secular state, as much as any hardliner Sunni ideology is. Nobody is criticizing the approach FPM took with HA through focused dialogue and incremental approach. However, post-MoU, HA's actions have been very shy, and it might be that political rivalries ended up putting FPM in such a delicate position, but that does not negate the fact that HA has hardly made any step forward post-MoU while FPM has done nothing but offer freebies. The only disagreement the two parties had was regarding the army in Nahr-el-Bared, and that's hardly an ideological debate. In short, HA's behavior post-MoU has not been collaborative, whether with FPM or with other Lebanese factions.
Moreover, if HA's ideology were a scarecrow, and so many voted in favor of those basing their whole campaign on this scarecrow, this ought to tell you, and tell HA most importantly, that this is an important issue for many Lebanese. In this post of yours, you insulted about 45% percent, if not more, of the Lebanese voters. You are not much into democracy, are you? |
Although I completely agree with you, you have the other side of the coin which you did not tackle concerning the fear mongering regarding radical Sunnite and the extreme power greed especially after Taef which gives me the impression that Kissinger;s plan is being applied.
Hence you have two camps here acting radically, one carrying guns and having a twisted ideology (not conform with the national status) and the other is also armed but certainly has the cash and backing even from Israel and is applying a totalitarian Sunnite agenda in this country.
Our dilemma is the "good" intention and the false planning of Christian fractions which were unable to change anything about the above mentioned fact, so we are by no means able to talk about secularism as long as the field is not ready, but at least talk about talking together and not implying any foreigners in our talks, this would be the least.