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Originally Posted by Ataraxia  WTF ?
For all those attacking sects here. I would like to remind you that it was the christian street who was decisive. Yes the opposition list won the Christian street but it was by a very close margin. In Zahle there were around 10,000 expats at least so if you want to express your anger express it on Hariri himself only. So stop bringing up this Zahle became Sunni speech. It's getting flat-out immature and disgusting. If you thought anyway that Zahle was going to remain with its majority Christian for more than a few years, then you're wrong, so just break out of it. |
Unfortunately when you have a whole sect that goes by emotions and sectarianism, then anyone will come and use this tool with it, be it hariri or other. And with the contorted demographic divisions we have now in Zahle, it is this sect that will decide Zahle's MPs. If among Chiites and Sunnis we had the democracy that is there among Christians when it comes to voting, then the numbers of people in each sect would not make any difference, it will be a political battle rather than a sectarian one. Unfortunately in Lebanon we do not have one, and this is why there were no battles in areas where the Chiite or the Sunni vote is the leading one.