October 23, 1983: Hezbollah truck-bombs US and French Marines in Beirut

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the twin suicide bombings by Hezbollah, Iran and Syria against the US Marine barracks (241 US servicemen) and the French Paratroopers compound (58 French soldiers) in Beirut on October 23, 1983. These two attacks were carried out against a peacekeeping multinational force that had come to Beirut, not as a crusading or occupation force, but to escort the Palestinian terrorists of the PLO out of their Israeli-besieged bunkers. This unprovoked attack by Syria, Iran and their appendage Hezbollah was, unfortunately, met with the cowardly retreat of the Republican US president Reagan who packed up what remained of his Marines, loaded them on their ships and withdrew in the face of Iran and Syria, betraying the mission and his own soldiers, and never ever sought any retribution against the killers of his own soldiers. His own Vice-President, George HW Bush, was a few years later to recruit the Syrian Assad regime (that had murdered the US Marines in Beirut) as an ally against the other Baathist dictator in Iraq, Saddam Hussein. To add insult to injury, Reagan ordered the invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada the very next day after the bombings in an attempt to deflect public attention from the disaster unfolding in Beirut. By retreating like a coward, Reagan abandoned the last bastion then still standing in the Arab world against the Islamic onslaught, namely Lebanon, to the Syrian occupation (that was to last till 2005). By so doing, the cowardly American retreat from Beirut after the slaughter of the Marines signaled the following message to future terrorists: If you bomb us, we will flee like rabbits. The bombing of the Multinational Force in October 1983 in Beirut, while being the first ever Islamic terrorism suicide bombing against a Western target, in effect was the inspiration for Osama bin Laden and drew a straight line to the 9-11-2001 bombings in the US. Abandoning Lebanon in 1983 to Syria and Iran was by far the gravest failure of US foreign policy in modern times for which we are - thirty years later - still paying the price around the globe. And there are those "patriotic" Republicans who have the gall to accuse President Obama of inaction in Syria, when their own fucking Republican hero Reagan is solely responsible for allowing, by his retreat from Beirut in 1983,  Islamic terrorism to gain so much ascendancy and cause so much havoc in our world.

Jihad Al-Nikaah or the Muslim Whore Brigades

It is now an undeniable fact that Muslim women, herded like chattel as they always have been, have now been mobilized as professional whores who provide their services to Muslim fighters around the world. After Muslim women from Chechnya, Germany, Morocco, France, Egypt, and Iraq have contributed their share to making God's rule on earth a reality, the latest evidence is pouring out of Tunisia these days, where hundreds of Tunisian girls have been repatriated from Syria, many pregnant, after serving their fellow Muslim men in the glorious Islamic uprising in Syria.

There are historical precedents, but usually the invader enslaves the enemy's women to serve its soldiers - Germany did it with Jewish women, Japan did with Korean women, and rape as a war instrument has been very common in a number of African conflicts in recent times. But to enlist your own females in the use of their expertise as whores to serve your own soldiers is a rarity. Generally, women are enlisted to serves as nurses or cooks on the war front, or as factory workers and male substitutes in all kinds of office-bound jobs. But Islam, this latest - and purpotedly the most magnificient and final prophecy of God to humans - of the monotheistic cults (Judaism, Christianism, and Islam) that have killed more people in their history than anyone can tally, is forging ahead with vanguard ideas.

I think all Muslim countries, all preparing and dreaming of the day that the Caliphate (which, by the way, disappeared 100 years ago at the onset of World War I) will rule the entire planet under the aegis of Islam, should establish formal female brigades in their armies. Such brigades would be set up for the specific purpose of providing sexual services to the Muslim fighters along the fault line of battles and hotspots around the world where Islam is trying to destroy or subjugate everyone else. These brigades would be named, for example, "The Muslim Whores Brigades" or the "Sluts for Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلّم) Brigades" or the "Umma Tramps Brigades" or "Islamic Harlots Brigades", etc... The possibilities are endless. To be sure, the enlistees into these brigades will not necessarily have a choice, since women in Islam have no real say in their lives, and families will be asked to volunteer one of their daughters or sisters, who will be subjected to intense professional training by internationally-reknowned prostitutes. This training would, in fact, be best conducted in Mecca itself under the supervision of the Ulemas and Sheikhs of the Saudi Kingdom, and where inspiration on the road to paradise will be entwined with orgasmic levitation to the heavens. There will be no need for any "safe sex" training because clearly the goal is to die while fighting for God and Muhammad. So dying from any sexually transmitted disease is a boon. Not to mention the windfall of millions of pregnancies that will obtain as a result of all this energy-consuming fornication, and the resulting addition of millions of future generations of Mulsim fighters and whores, thus ensuring the ultimate victory of Islam and its dominion over all the other lesser religions and cults.

Hanibaal Atheos

MY REASONS AGAINST A WESTERN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA

This site wholeheartedly supports President Obama's refusal to intervene in Syria. There has to be an end to the pathetic Arabs and Muslims - who otherwise spend all their energies at denouncing Western decadence, Western colonialism and interference in their affairs - begging the same West, the same Great Satan, to come and separate them from each other's throats, to rescue them from their own barbarity. Once the West intervenes and settles things as best as it can, the same people who begged it to intervene turn against it and accuse it of colonialism, of ulterior motives, of wanting to destroy Islam and all that garbage. Obama is very wise in his stance, and he is not falling for the fallacies of an America losing credibility or losing power. America's power is not in its only in its muscle and military prowess. America's power is in setting the stage for a world in which relationships between nations are on equal terms and on equal responsibilities. As such, the Arabs should themselves - if there is any truth to the fallacy of an "Arab world" - shoulder their responsibilities to 1) Not create by their barbaric ways of governing angry and frustrated societies always on the verge of exploding, 2) Not keep drilling in their people religious ideas from the Stone Age of humanity, but rather teach their people to use reason and move into the modern world, 3) When a crisis erupts, not to engage in the by now folkloric spectacle of Arab massacres, killings, beheadings, and other barbaric forms of human depravity, and 4) Not fall again and again on asking the West for help, for by doing so, they prove to the world that they are NOT the great nations they claim to be, and that they are not worthy to be countries that deserve respect from the international community.

Some Arabs and Muslims still hold a grudge at the Crusades, even though the Crusades were a direct reaction to the forcible conversion and conquest by Arab Muslims of what used to be Christian Roman Greek European lands in the Near East. The Arabic term that Arabs and Muslims use to describe the 100-year slaughter blitz that created today's Muslim world is "Al-Fath Al-Islami", the exact cognate of the Spanish term - La Conquista - used to describe the slaughter annihilation of all South American civilizations by the Catholic Church and the Spanish throne in the 16th century. The Arabic root "fataHa", from which the term comes, means to open, to conquer, to penetrate... You get the meaning.

NO TO ANY WESTERN INTERVENTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 

NO TO ANOTHER CRUSADE. 

NO TO NEO-COLONIALISM. 

YES TO SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE NATIONS OF THE REGION

YES TO SELF-RELIANCE ON THE DEEP-ROOTED MUSLIM AND ARAB TRADITIONS OF TOLERANCE AND PEACE (sic) TO BRING AN END TO THE SLAUGHTER IN SYRIA. 

ENOUGH HYPOCRISY BY ARABS AND MUSLIMS WHO CONTINUOUSLY ATTACK THE WEST FOR ITS SO-CALLED DECADENCE, YET THEY IMITATE IT LIKE MONKEYS, BUY EVERY LAST STUPID FAD FROM IT, AND THEN ASK IT FOR HELP WHEN ARABS AND MUSLIMS CAN NO LONGER GOVERN THEMSELVES LIKE DECENT COUNTRIES.

HANIBAAL-ATHEOS

The Medieval Chess Game in the Lemon Republic

Leaving the "banana" nomer to the Latin American realm, and remaining faithful to my Mediterranean - not Arab - identity, I proclaim Lebanon a LEMON REPUBLIC. Lemons are a staple of the Lebanese diet, and I also like the pejorative connotation borrowed from used car dealers' jargon. There are lemon laws out there that protect consumers against car dealers that sell them bad cars which are referred to as "lemons".

Right now in our much beloved Lemon Republic of Lebanon, there is an ongoing chess game in which certain pawns are gradually and slowly being replaced by other pawns.

The Druse are on their way to extinction - both demographically and politically. As heirs to the Mount Lebanon Emirates of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Druse have managed to hold on to political power in Lebanon that is out of proportion with their numbers. But this has now changed. After their "cowardly bravery" between the 1970s and 1990s - during which time they massacred and ethnically cleansed their fellow Christian villagers with whom they share the Lebanese heartland, but never fought any of the invading Syrian or Israeli armies - they were bludgeoned to death by the Shiites of Hezbollah in 2008. Walid Jumblatt's unprincipled and survivalist acrobatics made him walk the tightrope successfully for a couple of decades, changing political principles as if they were underwear. Yet he has now fallen back in the count, and the new powerful minority that is likely to move forcefully on the chessboard is the Alawite minority concentrated in the north and in Tripoli.

The Sunnis of Lebanon, meanwhile, are also losing political ground to the awakened Shiites. The Sunnis managed to wage a war against the Lebanese state between the 1960s and 1980s, using the Palestinian PLO as their militia and with the sedition of Lt. Ahmad Al-Khatib from the national army to start his own militia of the Arab Army of Lebanon. By 1990, they had succeeded in wrestling power from the Maronites, but still lacking a credible militia, they relied on the Shiite Hezbollah to bolster their power base, not realizing that this was a very dangerous strategic mistake. After destroying Lebanon by fighting the State via the PLO, Ahmad Al-Khatib's Arab Army of Lebanon, and Al-Mourabitoun, feu Rafik Hariri was made Prime Minister by the Syrian-Saudi-American alliance in reward for the Taif Accord. To maintain his power base, Hariri and his Sunnis gave Hezbollah the political cover it needed to remain the only operational militia in violation of the same Taif Accord that granted the Sunnis pre-eminence in the Lebanese political chess board.  Hariri kept defending Hezbollah as a legitimate "resistance", when we all knew it was a Syrian-Iranian mercenary tool created for the sole purpose of destabilizing Lebanon by "fighting the enemy" and "liberating occupied land" and all that Arabist Baathist jazz. The collaborator agent Rafik Hariri eventually paid the ultimate price of his collusion with the Syrian occupation and with the Shiite terrorist organization, when he decided to part ways with his former masters:  Hezbollah bombed him to shreds in downtown Beirut in 2005.

The strategic mistake was not to realize that by granting Hezbollah monopoly over the threat of violence, the Sunnis were nurturing a taste of power in the hands of the Shiites of Lebanon. Now the hens have come home to roost, and the Sunnis are paying the price. While pretending to have become moderates (because they hold the highest office in government), they still back fundamentalist Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia and Al-
Qaeda types and they will again pay another price. This time, the price will be the loss of their current position to the Shiites.

While the Maronites seem to have accepted their Dhimmi status with an emasculated castrated figurehead President, it is hard to imagine transferring power from the Prime Minister (a Sunni in the Executive) to the Speaker of Parliament (a Shiite in the Legislative). Therefore, I predict that within the next 3-5 years, the Shiites will demand the Premiership as the price for putting down their weapons. Therefore, the pecking order in the Lebanese political chessboard will look as follows:

- Shiite Prime Minister with all the powers of the Executive
- Sunni Speaker of Parliament with merely powers of obtsruction, no more
- Maronite President: An impotent figurehead in the Presidency
- An Alawite as Defense Minister or Foreign Minister or some other powerful ministry
- The Orthodox and the Druse will have to be content with lesser posts of some significance etc...

The one thing that will not change is that the Lemon Republic of Lebanon will remain a religious oligarchy, a vestige of its former self as a province of the Ottoman occupation, with all the corruption and dysfunctionality of a Lemon Republic, without any real identity of its own, occasionally Mediterranean, and at times Arab, a schizophrenic paranoid republic of medieval brutes who believe that the world is constantly conspiring against them to prevent them from achieving the self-declared megalomaniacal potential and genius.

Tffhhhh malla balad mehri...
The Lemon will soon sprout a fungus and begin liquifying from within...

Hanibaal Atheos

What "Lebanese" Identity of the Diaspora-Ightiraab-Mahjar?

There was a newspiece recently in the Lebanese online media about one Lebanese-American who announced he was renouncing his Lebanese citizenship as a means to protest the incompetence and corruption of the Lebanese government and administration. He also said, though, that he will continue to visit Lebanon using his US passport to visit relatives etc.

BIG DEAL: Millions of Lebanese expatriates do this and have been doing this for decades. The primary reason is the difficulty, the annoyance, the expense, the grief to have to deal with the incompetent political appointees who man our consulates and embassies abroad. If you've ever read "The Trial" by Franz Kafka, you would know what that experience is.

But there are other more deeply-imbedded reasons. One is that most of these Lebanese emigrants, who left the country reluctantly because of war, abysmal conditions, corruption, declining quality of human relations,  racism, stupid arrogance founded on some glory from the 8th century AD (for Muslims) or from 400 AD (for Christians), or 1100 BC (for non-religious nationalists), and the general sense that, despite all the promises and the bets placed in a revival of the Lebanon of the 1960s - banking platform, tolerance, openness, liberalism, tourism, beauty...have all failed to materialize. The Lebanon - largely created by an educated Christian middle class rising out the 1920s and 1930s - in which many of us grew up is gone forever and will never come back, regardless of how many skyscrappers and shiny buildings idiots like Hariri may build in downtown Beirut, including that ugly monstrous gigantic mosque he built right next to the diminutive Maronite Cathedral of St. Georges simply to spite his fellow Christian Lebanese that created his Beirut in the first place. Those who still latch on to this romantic idea are delusional fools because they do not understand that there are moments in the history of nations that are windows of opportunity which mst be used as foundations for future evolution. That window was opened in the Lebanon of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, and it showed us all the potential that the country had - despite its paucity of economic opportunity - to shine and prosper, not by money, but by ingenuity, by big hearts, by hospitality, by intellectual integrity, free from the religious dogmatism and radicalism of today.

But now that window has closed. Lebanon is no longer unique in these attributes, and the Lebanese communities refuse to evolve, refuse to build on that foudation from half a century ago. Instead, the Lebanese, mostly but not only the Muslims, have chosen to receed into backwardness, into third world apathy and fatalism, into submission to all manner of Islamic movements and Fascist regimes in the Arab world, out of this stupid solidarity of primitive Arabs whereby أنصر أخاك ظالماً او مظلوماً which translates into "Stand by your brother, oppressor or oppressed he might be". Meaning, because of Palestine, because of the Muslim Brotherhood, because of the Baath party, because of the Wahhabis and their filth in Saudi Arabia, because of the money the Saudis, Kuwaitis and others were buying us with, we abandoned our principles and ideals and became like prostitutes and indentured slaves. We let them use us to destroy our country and turn it into the sad filth it has become.

Lebanese emigrants abroad - and I have spoken to thousands of them - do not care for Lebanon. They care for an image they brought with them, an image from the 1960s that no longer exist. Many are those Lebanese emigrants who have never been back in 20 or 30 or 40 years. Many open businesses and are ashamed of advertising themselves as Lebanese restaurants or bakeries or whatever the business they engage in. They call themselves "Mediterranean", or "Middle Eastern"....

In conversations with each other, they always inevitably start by cursing Lebanon, cursing the Lebanese (because now they no longer see themselves as purely Lebanese) for their wayward corrupt disgusting ways, and saying things like "خلص، ما بقا في لبنان. لبنان ما بقا ينعرف..." etc... On the surface - when speaking to other Lebanese - they may still hold some endearing feelings for Lebanon, but deep in their psyche they harbor hatred and animosity to the country that forced them out and into a world of exile they never really adjust to. They live on the fence between the two cultures: They take what they need from their new country (which is not always the best they could take), and they keep what they need from their old country. So, instead of blending and adjusting to their new environment, they - like all other immigrant groups in fact - cloister and barricade themselves culturally in their churches and mosques - have a very hard time when their daughters and sons born in the new country want to marry outside the community. In the most advanced countries of their exile, the Lebanese remain basically tribal villagers transplanted into these new environments. They appear modern and adjusted, by they remain deeply conservatives. In the end, their relationship with their children begin to deteriorate as soon as the children grow and want to live as citizens of their own country, and not as citizens of the old country of their parents.

Many Lebanese emigrants live in these cultural ghettos, with a lot of racism against other immigrant groups, as if they see themselves at the top of the pecking order, imagining in their stupidity that they are up there with the dominant native culture, while all the other immigrants are subhuman creatures. One Lebanese-Canadian with a PhD in Education, mind you, once told me that he is not happy that his children might be taught Spanish in their school because, in his derogatory words, Spanish is the language of "maids and Mexicans".

I don't know why we have become like this, vulgar, uneducated, arrogant even as we swim in our excrement, why we are condescending to others who share with us our exile predicament. Perhaps we have always been like this, but I never noticed it before, in my own Lebanese way.

The other huge fallacy that we - all of us emigrants and natives alike - perpetuate is that the Lebanese government, state, administration... always talks about the Mahjar as this fine example of Lebanese ingenuity and survival and excellence because of a few famous emigrants who made it big. The fact is that it is ONLY WHEN THEY LEAVE LEBANON, THAT THE LEBANESE EXCEL. As long as they are in Lebanon, they are smothered and corrupted and prevented from acheiving their potential. Those of the Lebanese who do excel rarely do anything in fact to help their country of origin. If anything, they go back to the village, build a stupid church or a mosque, dole out money right and left, oftentimes to buy people's allegiance for notoriety, fame or, worse, for political office. Lebanon kills its own people's ingenuity and creativity by forcing them to live like caged animals who would sell their mothers and eat their children to make money. I have never heard of a world famous Lebanese (actor, scientist, poltiican...) who actually achieved his fame from Lebanon. This is why when he or she becomes famous, the Lebanese is so angry at his country of origin that he does everything in his/her power to distance him/herself from it.

We brag about Khalil Gibran. But go read what Gibran had to say about the Lebanese. We brag about Ralph Nader, but Ralph Nader has always refused to do or say anything to help Lebanon. We do not brag about Issam Fares because he contributed nothing of substance to Lebanon, but he's a billionaire (he made his billions picking and hauling American garbage and trash) who spent millions on American universities (Tufts University in Boston, for example), funding Israeli and Jewish academics and scholars, all the while proclaiming - as a collaborator Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon under the Syrian occupation - that he supports Hezbollah's right as a resistance movement and upholding the law of arresting any Lebanese with dual citizenship who traveled to Israel or who "dealt" in some fashion with the "Zionist enemy". The list of famous Lebanese emigrants is too long to list here. But all you need to do is dig a little deeper than the superficial drivel you hear about those great Lebanese expatriates to find out what they really think of Lebanon.

They think that Lebanon is a pile of badly built-up garbage with a few remaining trees, a couple of heavily polluted beaches exclusively accessible to the rich and powerful, hundreds of heavily armed maniacs who are bent on liberating some other country while their own is sinking in sewage, a corrupt administration, and from which all the good people ( "awaadim" ) have fled.

Why would an emigrant send money to Lebanon - other than to an ailing mother or a struggling cousin? No reason. Lebanese emigranst have every reason to reject their Lebanese identity, to deny having ever been Lebanese, to avoid being known as Lebanese...because of the sense of shame this brings to them. So, do not believe all the crap about the Lebanese government trying to build ties to the Mahjar, or trying to put to good use the enormous potential of the Diaspora to assist the country in standing on its feet. The Lebanon these emigrants left behind no longer exist. They no longer recognize it. They hate what they see, and mostly they hate being exploited like a cash cow for money, but treated like cattle when it comes to getting a birth certificate or a passport.

Enough lies. Enough illusions. The Mahjar hates Lebanon as it is today.

Hanibaal

Fares Khashan: Lebanese-Arab-Muslim Journalism at its Worst

Fares Khashan has been a commentator in the Lebanese progressive, left wing, pro-Arab, anti-West, pro-Hezbollah, pro-Iran, pro-Syria etc... newspaper AL-SAFIR for many years and decades.

He is the ultimate traitor whose ideas and positions change with the blowing winds.

Here is an example of what he used to write back around 2001, when his hero was Hezbollah, his cause was the so-called  "liberation" of south Lebanon and the Shebaa Farms, his idol was Bashar Assad and the Syrian regime..... and his enemies were everyone else: Michel Aoun, the US, Europe, the Lebanese Christians, etc... :

http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/ar/011107_khashan.html

and this is what he is writing today, in view of Hezbollah's intervention in the Syrian war and its plunging Lebanon into a new civil war. Khashan now rejects all his previous positions - without any acknowldegment of having made a mistake - and is now an ardent anti-Assad, anti-Hezbollah, pro-Sunni revolution in Syria... It may be because he is a Sunni (not sure?), or because the Qataris or Saudis have decided to pay him more than his Iranian clients... who knows? But this is typical journalism in the Arab-Muslim world:

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6621455900124875850#editor/target=post;postID=1257562388869667931

Today, Fares Khashan has turned against Hezbollah. There is nothing wrong with changing one's position on a given matter, but shouldn;t this jackass at least acknowldege having made a mistake? Or provide some explanation as to why Hezbollah the liberator, the resistance against the savage and imperial west was an act of heroism THEN? But NOW, those same acts and actors of Hezbollah have become crimes against Arabism and Islamism to the point of begging the West for help in defeating that same Hezbollah. I have more respect for prostitutes and mercenaries than for Khashan and his ilk.

Shouldn't these "elite" thinkers and pseudo-intellectuals be prosecuted for treason to their own ideas? For dragging the thinking of people behind them in the defense of criminals, then when the criminal turns his rifle on them, drag the people's thinking in exactly the opposite direction?

Hanibaal

CHRISTIAN LEBANESE ARE RE-ARMING: LEBANON IS NOT IRAQ

Events on the ground and information garnered from various sources confirm that the Christians of Lebanon have begun re-arming and training and re-building their militias. Some of the training is taking place in Israel and in Jordan, under the supervision of American and Australian military personnel.

Weapons caches that were sealed in 1990 following the signing of the Taef Accord and the supposed dismantling of all militias, have been reopened and re-stocked in the remote mountain highlands of the Christian hinterland, particularly in those areas where the Hezbollah terror organization has made inroads during the past two decades, such as the highlands of the Byblos and Batroun districts. The few Shiite pockets (in Shiite villages isolated among Christian villages) are under surveillance, and are said to be the first targets of a confrontation between Hezbollah on one hand, and the Lebanese Army and the Christian resistance on the other hand, in a scenario reminiscent of the events of the 1970s where the PLO was the foreign destabilizing element in lieu of the Iranian Hezbollah today.

The Taif Accord stipulated the disarming and disbanding of all militias. Everyone acquiesced and complied - at least to a substantial extent - with all Sunni, Christian, and Druse militias abolished and converted to political parties. Except, that is, the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal militias who were operating under Syrian and Iranian control. With the PLO annihilated and expelled from Lebanon, the Syrian-Iranian tandem needed a substitute proxy with which to continue destabilizing Lebanon, and they created Hezbollah which took over the terror mantle from the PLO and continued the torment of the country. Since the early 1980s, Hezbollah has waged a campaign of terror, domestically, regionally and internationally: Kidnappings, assassinations, bombings, hijackings, etc.... All the other sects in Lebanon have waited patiently for Hezbollah to reintegrate the democratic process and abandon its wayward mercenary ways. But things rached a climax over the past several months, as Hezbollah's enagagement in the Syrian war turned the tables on the remaining modicum of understanding. Hezbollah's indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Syrian collaborator Rafik Hariri has also raised the ire of the Sunni community which is now ready to engage Hezbollah in an open civil war.

The impending Shiite-Sunni bloodbath in Lebanon has raised questions as to the fate of the last free Christian community in the entire East: The Lebanese Christians. If Lebanon becomes the stage - like Iraq - of a bloodly Sunni-Shiite confrontation, will the Christians of Lebanon suffer the same fate as the Christians of Iraq whose numbers have dwindled dramatically by migration, forced exile, murder, bombings....? The short answer is probably no. The Christians of Lebanon are tougher, the terrain in Lebanon is much more difficult than in Iraq, and the Lebanese Christians have been tested before. Even though they lost the 1970s-1980s war, they managed to hold on to significant power in the new political structure that emerged from the Taif Accord.

Yet, one factor is unsettling enough to raise the anxiety level within the Christian community, and that is the Sunni fundamentalist movements (which were non-existent in the 1970s) and the Syrian civil war with its dispatch of up to one million Syrian refugees into Lebanon. All of this has ushered the re-arming and the re-forming of the Christian Lebanese militias, as a preemptive measure to deter any ideas that Islamic fundamentalists might be contemplating, namely to attack the Christian community.
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Signs of this Christian re-arming are becoming increasingly visible. A few days ago, a Hezbollah demonstration started out of the Shiite enclave of Fanar Zeaytriyeh nestled within the Christian northern suburbs of Beirut in Fanar and Jdeideh. As the loud and threatening demonstration was brandishing portraits of BAshar Assad and Iranian celrics, it walked into the Christian neighborhood and approached a Christian church. Whereas in the past, it would have made its way unhindered and unchallenged, this time, there was a sudden appearance of large numbers of military-dressed miltiamen standing guard in front of the church and blocking further access by the Hezbollah demonstrators. The militiamen appeared to be a professional group, rather than a band of local vigilantes, dressed in professional military garb and armed with combat weapons. This apparently had the effect of discouraging the Hezbollah demonstrators who returned to their enclave.

A telltale sign that Lebanon is on the verge of a repeat of the 1970s civil war, but this time it will be the final battle. Why? Beacuse the world today knows who its real enemy is, and it is not the Christians of Lebanon.

Hanibaal Atheos

From Israel with Love... to the Assad Regime

As has always been the case throughout the long Lebanese War of the past 4 decades or so, the recent Israeli incursions and attacks on weapons depot sites in Damascus, which it justifies by saying that these "arms potentially could end up in Hezbollah's hands," always raise unsettling questions about Israel's real intentions.

I am not one to immediately jump at conspiracy theories, but the Syrian-Israeli "partnership" has sustained hard times, has endured, and has kept peace on the Golan for 4 decades despite the fact that these two parties are sworn enemies on the surface or in theory. Israeli officials - who know that Syria is financing, arming and supporting all of Israel's other little enemies, from Hamas to Hezbollah and all the rogue Palestinian guerilla movements.... - have stated on many occasions that they prefer the Assad regime to any other alternative in Damascus because, apparently, Assad is more trustworthy, keeps his word, abides by agreements, is more amenable to a deal with Israel, etc... Yet 40 years of warfare in lebanon and the Palestinian territories, the hundreds of thousands of dead, the suicide bombings, the wars with Hezbollah, the occupations of lands and peoples, the proxy militias, the export of terrorism, the Iranian beachhead on the Mediterranean right at Israel's border, the hijackings, kidnappings, assassinations, etc... do not seem like a good price to pay for maintaining quiet on the Golan. Yet, this is what it all seems to be.

Now, assuming this theory has some traction, it implies that Israel will act in such a way as to protect or preserve the political order as has existed in Syria and Lebanon, for fear of a worse order should the Assad regime fall and, a fundamentalist Sunni government takes over in Damascus. In that same vein, one can view the recent attacks by Israel against Damascus-based weapons depot headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon as consistent with the consiparcy theory. Here's how:

By launching these strikes at a time when the US is beginning to edge close to some kind of increased intervention against Assad (e.g. by supplying lethal weapons to the Syrian opposition), Israel undermines the trajectory that such a policy might lead to. On one hand, it gives Assad some fresh breathing air to scream bloody murder, pose as the anti-Zionist enemy par excellence, rally the herd of Arab/Muslim nationalists around the regime, claim to be the victim of Zionist aggression, all of which turn the table on the equation inside Syria, namely that the Assad regime's enemies inside Syria (i.e the Syrian rebels) are friends of Israel, or at least are in the same trenches as Israel. Damascus and by extension Tehran regain a higher moral ground around the Arab and Muslim worlds, and so on and so forth.

However, just as this policy - still assumed under my conspiracy theory that Israel wants to protect the Assad regime - has kept peace on the Golan but wrecked havoc around the region and the world, its continuation is bound to perpetutate the violence and push peace even further back. In fact, if ISrael's fears are about some weapons falling into Hezbollah's hands, then let us consider whose hands these weapons might have stayed with if not with Hezbollah:
- The Syrian regime itself. That would be acceptable (under the conspiracy theory) because Damascus has always had these weapons and has never used them against Israel. BUT, everyone knows that Syria has been transferring similar weapons to hezbollah for 30 years across the porous Lebanese border, and ISrael has rarely, if ever, attacked such convoys or made a serious attempt at curtialing such a transfer. In other words, to allow the Syrian regime to hold on to these weapons is no guarantee of any sort for Israel that these weapons will not end up in hezbollah's hands.
- The Syrian opposition. Too many groups, ranging from the amicable perhaps to the hostile vis-a-vis Israel. Worst case scenario: These weapons might end up in the hands of Al-Qaeda affiliates or some other radical group with hatred toward Israel and with the potential of one day using them against Israel. But in such a case, these groups were the operatives of the Syrian regime for decades in the spread of terror in the region, and the fact that they split with the regime at the onset of the Syrian revolution does not change anything, because the Syrian regime could have at any other time provided these weapons to these operatives. Unless one invokes the conspiracy theory, namely that as long as the Assad regime has custody of these weapons, it will NEVER transfer them because it is in collusion with the Israelis and has given assurances to the Israelis that they will never allow these weapons to be used against Israel. Now that the Syrian regime is about to collapse, the deal between Assad and the Israelis is off, and Israel is cleaning house before it is too late.
- Hezbollah and other Iranian groups. These seem to be the immediate target of the interdiction attack. But aqgain Syria has been transferring weapons to Hezbollah for three decades and ferrying all kinds of dangerous missiles and drones from Iran to the South Lebanon-based terror organization. Sooner or later, in any hypothetical confrontation between Israel and Syria, the latter would not hesitate one second from handing these weapons to Hezbollah. So, it seems like a resonable argument for Israel to attack these weapons, just in case. But wait: Why hasn't Israel attacked these sites a month ago, 6 months ago, a year ago, 5 years ago...? Why now? Has the threat only now become a threat? The answer is Yes, because under the deal between Assad and the Israelis, only a certain level of armament is allowed to be transferred to Hezbollah, and these weapons cross the threshold of the deal between Israel and Assad.

The tightrope walking in all of this is mind bloggling, but the only one thing that is for certain is that the Assad regime has never attacked Israel in 40 years since the signing of the armistice on the Golan in 1974. Not one bullet was ever fired across the demarcation line, not by Israel, and certainly not by Syria, although both sides have engaged in bloody, mass-murder scale wars in Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories, with invasions and occupations, and all kinds of human rights abuses against Lebanese and Palestinians. Not once did the Syrian army during its 35 years of occupation of Lebanon seriously engaged the Israeli army's repeated invasions of Lebanon, event though Damascus always claimed to be in Lebanon to defend it against "Israeli aggression". Not once did Israel attack Syria proper in 40 years, even though Israel knew full well that Damascus was the mother of all terrorist groups operating from Lebanon and Palestine against Israel. Neither side ever violated the mutual red lines they drew for one another in the long torment they imposed on Lebanon.

The laundry list is too long to list here to buttress the conspiracy theory... but this reminds me of something Kurt Vonnegut once said about situations like these: It's as though you are at a party with lots of beautiful people, but there is a stench wafting around. Everyone smells it, but everyone ignores it, because to do otherwise would ruin the atmosphere. Tolerate a little foulness just to keep the party going. This is how best I can summarize the strange bedfellows that Israel and the Syrian regime have been over 4 decades, and the party they both enjoyed while the stench of the torment of Lebanon and the agony of Palestine went on and on and on....

Hanibaal

Boston and the Tsarnaev Brothers

There is nothing new to the story behind this newest Islamic terrorism episode. Boston is the latest victim of the deep scarring that Islam leaves in the brains of impressionable people.

Consider the fact that the two young men were practically well-assimilated American immigrants: They came to the country as young boys, went to school and college, had family and friends.... The fact that Islam as an ideology can twist such people to the point where they are capable of committing acts of untold violence against their own community is sufficient evidence of the constitutive, built-in, evil that is in that ideology. No other religion in our time is capable of such a transformation.

There is a lot of violence out there. People will argue that Americans bombing places around the world with remote technology is a similar act of cowardice, when you kill people without taking any risk to your own life. Some will argue that governments and regimes exact the same violence, sometimes on their own people. Some will say that rebels, freedom-fighters, and such revolutionaries justify violence in the name of a greater cause: Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s; Vietnam; Palestinians and Israelis; etc...

But there is something more sinister in the fact that - just as it was in the London subway bombings - young people who were born into a culture or a country, who were well assimilated, who had no obvious benefit from acts of violence (as would be the liberation of a country from an occupier or the lifting of an oppression,....), could suddenly be made to believe that slaughtering other innocent bystanders with their own hands would achieve some advantage to a religious ideology from the Stone Age of humanity.

Let us assume that for the Tsarnaev brothers everything went well, namely that they were not caught and, for the sake of argument, managed to kill and maim many more people in the Boston Marathon bombings, and that they went on to live normal lives. WHAT WOULD THE BENEFIT BE FROM SUCH AN ACTION? To themselves, to Islam, to Chechnya ??? There is no room for the revenge argument here. Revenge against Americans who are battling other Muslim fighters in Afghanistan or some other place? Perhaps, if the solidarity between Muslims is such that it transcends national boundaries.But this solidarity is a fallacy. It doesn't exist. Just look at how Muslims are killing one another in every other country: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan.... everywhere there are Muslim minorities under a Muslim majority (e.g. Shiite and Sunni), the killing goes on. Revenge by Chechens should be directed at Russia and Russians who - in the narrative of the Muslim Caucasus natives - occupy their countries of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ossetia, Abkhazia.... But revenge against Americans, against their own city, it just does not make sense, unless one invokes a deeply troubled narrative inside of Islam itself.

The culprit in this whole affair is ISLAM itself. The evil is in the claims that Islam makes and brainwahes its people to believe in. The evil is in the self-declared exclusivity of Islam, the very definition of Islam as the rejection of Judaism and Christianity.

Read the FATIHA of the Kuran, and witness with your own eyes how, in this very first page of the fucking Holy Toilet Paper of Islam, the writer attacks Jews and Christians as, respectively, those who "earned God's wrath" (Al Maghdoobi Alayhum), and those who "went astray" (Al-Daalleen). Islam is a religion of violence and will remain so, until it declares to the world and to itself - just like the other monotheistic pieces of garbage have done long ago - that it is NOT LITERAL. It is a metaphor of the human experience based on people knew several thousands of years ago. That it should no longer be believed literally..... That it is a piece of antique garbage, just like Christianity and Judaism.

Until Islam matures like the other two moniotheistic cults, the world will continue to witness acts of insanity and stupidity similar to the Boston Marathon bombings.

Hanibaal

THE FICTION OF GOD

There were smart people long time ago, much smarter that the millions of idiots out there who believe in religious fictions today.

This is how Epicurus, the Greek Philosopher (BC 341-270), summed up the fiction of the existence of God:

- If God is willing, but not able to prevent evil, then he is IMPOTENT

- If God is able but not willing to prevent evil, then he is MALEVOLENT

- If God is both able and willing, then why is there evil in the world?

- If God is neither able nor willing, then why do we call him God?

New F*&king Pope? So What?

The octagenarian cardinals who supposedly have never touched a woman and have never masturbated (all lies, of course, but that's the theory), are about to elect another octagenerian who might have had a "formidable" career so far, but who, once elected, becomes a senile hunchback who can barely lift his head to bless the faithful with a vague sign of the stupid cross.... and for years and decades therefater, that will be the image we will have of the Pope.

The fact is that Popes don't matter anymore. They used to matter when they had political power, when they had States across Italy and France, when they funded missionary expeditions to subjugate blacks, asians, american indians, and others forcibly into the fucking faith... They used to have power when they brought down kings and massed armies across borders....

But that is all gone now. The Church is now a relic of humanity's archaic past and defunct beliefs. The Church has become just like the English monarchy: A freak show for tourists who love stupid pagentry that God himself would find disgusting. The Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the industrial and scientific revolutions, the French and American revolutions, the discovery of the new world,...all of these have revealed to mankind the aboslute idiocy of religious beliefs, esepcially those of the three criminal monotheistic cults of Judaism, Christianity and Islam with all their genocidal barbaric tendencies.

Except for some schools and hospitals, the Catholic Church - like all religious organizations - has become an obstacle to the development and emancipation of people. By compelling their faithful to listen and never complain, religious organizations create a mass of people who are more likely to succumb to dictatorial political regimes and never rebel. To challenge existing dogma is a sin, and so it is to challenge the political order. Just look at Lebanon:

The reason why the Lebanese accept to live like animals under archaic feudal socio-political systems, and be led to massacres and pogroms every generation or so, and never rebel to free themselves from their predicament, is because of the religious underpinning of everything in Lebanon. The religious identities of the country's constitutive elements trump the national identity and trap the members of every community inside an intellectual ghetto. Nothing will improve in Lebanon as long as we define ourselves first by our religions. In order to be Lebanese, you have to first be defined as a Sunni, a druse, a Maronite, an Orthodox, etc.. You cannot be Lebanese without a religious identity.

So, as I watch the media crawl like dogs around the Vatican waiting for the next senile octagenerian to be elected, I wonder what is the relevance of this? Nothing in the election itself, and nothing in the inner dynamics of the church has any relevance whatsoever to my life, to my concerns, to my fears, to my hopes and aspirations. Only idiots think that their lives somehow will improve because some old man will soon get  a new hat, new shoes, etc... Idiots because they first believe in the myths and crappy primitive stories of splitting oceans, virgin births, immaculae conceptions, rising to heaven on winged horses, chosen people and such other inanities from the Stone Age. Idiots second because they believe that this has any relevance to their lives.

The sexual abuse and rape of children by priests. The hyporcisy of bishops and patriarchs of hiding the truth and protecting criminal priests. The hyprocrisy of adhering to asexual lives on the surface while engaging in all manner of sexual conduct with women, men, children, and with themselves by masturbating... all sins according to church law. If anyone remains blind enough to reject these facts, then they deserve these criminal religions as theirs.

I reject any authority by any religious cult of any brand it might be: From the Sunni Mufti to the Druze Sheikh al-Akl to the MAronite PAtriarch..... all of them run financial political empires first and foremost. They will resist any attempt at change because they will lose power and money. Anything that makes people's lives easier will clash with the grip on power that religious organizations have over these lives.

Sooner or later, the edifice will crumble because injustice and stupidity cannot last forever. The Lebanese are an educated bunch; they have traveled the world during their 40 year exile by war from a dysfunctional, cruel, corrupt country; they know now how much better life is in all the other civilized countries they have lived in, and they know that the solution is to remove the stranglehold of religions and religious cults, and they know that these cults will resist change..... The Lebanese are no longer the herd of imbecile villagers... they are no longer stupid. Therefore, injustice cannot last forever. The younger generation of Lebanese have not lived the ealy years of the war and do not understand why things should continue to be as bad as they are. One day, the wheels of change will turn and Lebanon will see upheavals in its social and politcal and religious status quo, and it won't be nice. Just like Egypt and elsewhere, the next war in Lebanon will not be between religious sects. It will be between modernizers and reformers on one side, and the fuedal-religious establishment on the other.

So, to the cardinals inside the fucking conclave: You can all go fuck yourselves and fuck the new pope you will elect. I don't give a damn. I am a free human being. Free from your chains. Free from your brainwashing. Free from your stupidity. I am an autonomous being that has no allegiance to anyone or to any god or to any prophet and such other fuckers invented by you. My only allegiance is to my conscience and my dignity as a human being. I was never lost to be saved by fucking Jesus. I never committed an original sin to need salvation. I do not need an explanation for my existence. I have no need for the metaphysical or the sipritual because neither of these dimensions do actually exist. They are inventions of overexcited sorcerers from our ancient past that some of us insist on dragging - against all reason - into our enlightened age. I do not need Moses or Jesus or Mary or Mohammad or any of their saints, prophets, disciples, mahdis, or whatever other titles primitive men have invented... And so, I don;t need their Pope, much as I don;t need a Messiah or a Caliph....

Hanibaal

Malla Balad Bahdalé

How can you tell a primitive backward country? It's very simple. It is NOT the fact that politicians are constantly fighting and arguing... this is normal. It is WHAT they argue and fight about.

Let us compare the big cesspool of individualism, consumerism, stupidity, racism, religious intolerance and ignorance called the UNITED STATES, with the small cesspool of individualism, consumerism, stupidity, religious intolerance and ignorance called LEBANON.

Everything you see in the US, you'll see in Lebanon: Poverty, stupid religious beliefs, ignorance of other cultures, racism, happiness found by consuming the latest flashy car, the sleaziest gadget, and looking good so the neighbors have proof of your success..... That is why the emigrant Lebanese who leave this country to go to America succeed very well. Nothing really changes for them. They generally settle in a community surrounding themselves by like-minded idiots; they rarely venture outside their communities to befriend people from other cultures and backgrounds; the Christians go to the local Maronite, Melkite, or Orthodox church or, for the Muslims, the local mosque, and these places of religious intolerance become their social lives. The Lebanese, as idiots as they are, look down with contempt and racism at all the other races and cultures - except the dominat white anglo-saxon one because they are used to kissing the ass of those more powerful than them; it's a survival instinct. Lebanese immigrants in the US see blacks, asians, hispanics and others with utter contempt as though they themselves hail from a superior race and all these other people were scummy worms crawling out of the earth. What they don't realize is that the white anglo-saxon protestants look down on them - the Lebanese - as the last scum on the earth as well. And so it goes.

You should also look at how Lebanese immigrants, who do everything under the table to cheat the US government like they do in Lebanon, treat their own fellow Lebanese whom they hire as employees: just like indentured slaves: underpaid, no benefits, work them weekdays ane weekends, no vacations..... And the employee will not disclose this situation to the authorities because he/she is happy making money under the table and not paying taxes. Gas stations, bakeries, "Middle East" or "Mediteranean" restaurants (the Lebanese are ashamed and afraid of calling their restaurants "Lebanese" because they fear they might lose business if their stupid clients found out they were "Arabs" or "Lebanese" (thanks largely to Hezbollah's runining the otherwise good reputation that the earlier Christian Lebanese immigrants built).

In other words, the two cultures, despite the superficial differences, are fundamentally alike. So, to go back to my introduction. Why is it then that, despite those similarities, I still find Lebanon a primitive and backward country? Because if you watch the political stage right now in both countries, you'll find the following:

- In the US, politicians are fighting over the budget deficit. It's a bitter and vicious battle in every way possible, except for one thing: US politicians NEVER fight over the process of government, they never fight over the RULES, over the LAW. Everyone knows what the rules and the laws are, and they just fight over substance and principles, but never fight over the operations of government. Why? Because in this sense Westerners and Americans in particular have constitutions and laws that they respect. Once it is written, you stop arguing and figthting over it every fucking day and at every turn. Maybe every generation or so there is enough critical mass to change one aspect or one article of the constitution or the law... but most years and decades go by without any political fights over HOW to run elections, or HOW to vote over the budget, etc....

- In Lebanon, on the other hand, the fights are never over ideas or principles; they are always about PROCESS. Nothing fundamentally changes in Lebanon in the established principles: All the religious bosses have their comfortable grip on their communities, all the religious orders and schools are raking money from exorbitant tuitions (absent a decent central government), the politicians are all beholden to the religious dinosaurs and engage in every corruption they can get their hands on, protected by the fact that they are the political representattives of the religious dinosaurs, and a life of corruption and dysfunctionality goes on unchallenged for decades and decades, intermittently separated by civil wars, massacres and killings when the religious dinosaurs disagree with one another.... The political fights in Lebanon are ALWAYS about PROCESS: The rules as written in the law and the constitution are constantly being challenged and changed and amended to suit the moment or the criminal in charge. Laws are changed for example for only a window of 24 hours to allow for a politician to purchase a track of public land on the ocean front so he can build his casino or hotel or resort right smack on property owned by the public. Right now, like they do at the elections charade every 4 years, the politicians are fighting over WHICH ELECTORAL LAW to use for the upcoming May 2013 elections. Think about it, we are 2 months aways from the constitutionally mandated elections, and the politicians are debating HOW TO RUN THE ELECTIONS, whether to use the 1960 elections law, or the 1994 elections law, or the Orthodox law, or the Shiite law and on and on... The politicians are NOT fighting over how to convince the electorate to vote for them because they take their electorates for granted. The idiot Lebanese will vote like sheep for the religious fucker that represent them. So if you are an Orthodox idiot from the cave-dwelling brutes of Bteghrine, you will vote for a criminal from the Murr clan regardless of what political program he may have. In fact, he will generally run unchallenged. Similarly, if you are a Shiite fucker from anywhere in Lebanon, you live under the stranglehold of the terror empire of Hezbollah, and you vote without thinking to any representative of Hezbollah they run for you... If you are Maronite retarded peasant from the Metn and Kesrwan you will vote for any idiot from the Gemayel tribe or the Aoun farm regardless of any political program they may have. And the Druse and the Sunnis, no need to repeat the litany... same thing. Jumblatt for the Druse and Hariri for the Sunnis, and the charade is repeated every 4 years at elections time.

That is why, my friends, despite the similarities between the two countries, Lebanon remains a primitive backward country because the written law and the constitution have no value whatsoever, and they are constantly been changed and amended to suit the current jostling of the politicians with complete disregard for the future or long term stability of the country, and in a complete vacuum of ideas and principles that might take the country out of the excrement of the past 50 years of wars, strife, and massacres. The US meanwhile remains a huge disgusting place of materialism where people are herded like "consuming" sheep whose existence is defined from birth to death by how much money they will make and how much of it they will spend buying stuff they don't need from companies that get richer and richer while people get poorer and poorer. Lebanon will remain this tiny asshole of a disgusting country where people are herded and held captive into religious enclaves like sheep led to the slaughter every 20-30 years in religious massacres, and whose lives are defined fom birth to death by which fucking god and which fucking prophet and which fucking saint or mahdi or sheikh or priest they should follow, regardless of whether they have food on their tables or have any stake at all in their future.

Thank you for your attention to this depressing view of things. Unfortunately it is our reality, and no amount of stupid طرب or silly programs on Lebanese TV (which are really disgusting clones of stupid American TV shows) or other entertainement will change that reality. Until we meet at the next religious massacre or bombing or civil war...I have to run switch the generator on (the government-provided 8 hours of electricity per day just went dead), I then have to drive 10 miles up the hills to fill my plastic jerrycans with water from a source which I suspect is as polluted as the water provide once a week by the government, I also have to hurry before the very slow Internet (for which I am paying a lot of money) dies on me....

Sincerely,

Hanibaal Atheos

The Failure of Muslim Lebanon

The Islamic Republic of Lebanon has become desgusting and boring to watch. Everything in it is now ruled by Muslim barbarians, some wearing their turbans but others wearing sharp suits with businesses in the US no less. Because of the transfer of power that has occurred in the past 40 so years from a Christian dominance to a Muslim one, Lebanon has been transformed from a jewel of tourism, tolerance, openness and liberalism to a cesspool of backwardness and Stone Age religious barbarism. This slide from civilization to barbarity was ushered by the rebellion of the Lebanese Sunnis against the State in the 1960s and 1970s, using for fighters the Palestinians of Yasser Arafat and the Druse barbarian mercenaries of Kamal and Walid Jumblatt, to gut down the state and its institutions, culminating in the Taif Agreement that castrated the Christians into their proper place as Dhimmis living off the benevolence of the ruling Muslims.

As a result, Lebanon is today stuck in the muck of religion, feudalism, and mercenary politics that only barbaric Islam can devise, as we see everywhere Islam is the ruling ideology, even in so-called secular Turkey where you will be asked at airports to remove crosses and other religious symbols seen as offensive to Islam. And we are talking about Turkey, European Turkey, the Turkey that was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. We are not talking about Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or Malaysia and such other toilets with flourishing Sharia Law.

And today, after the Muslims decimated everything that Christian Lebanon did to elevate the country between the 1920s and the 1960s to a respectable, civilized, prosperous, modern, mutlicultural oasis, the Muslism today continue to ransack the country for every last bit of decency in it. And to add insult to injury, the so-called enlightened Muslims - the Hariri brand of shiny urban Sunnis - claim they and their fat pig leader, feu Rafik Hariri and his billionaire progeny Saad are the ones to have saved and rebuilt Lebanon. With a few refurbished buildings in the downtown that this asshole pilfered from their rightful owners, he also built himself a gigantic fucking Mosque right next to the historic Christian Cathedral as if to spite the Christians and enshrine the switch to a Muslim Lebanon.

For not only did the Muslims of Lebanon claim the ascendancy, but they also are fighting their own barabric wars between Sunnis and Shiites as if to dig the final nail in the coffin of the pathertic religious republic they lord over. And in the process, they are now attacking the Lebanese army, the only remaining institution that has a chance at salvaging the few remaining pieces of the country. Even this otherwise mediocre Lebanese army is today the target of Hariri and his fundamentalist Salafists, thus joining every other jackass from every fundamentalist barbarian outlaw terrorist organization claiming allegiance only to God in desecrating the only multireligious institution in the country.

We all know about Hezbollah's curriculum vitae: Founded by Iran's Pasdaran, it continues its breach of the Taif Agreement by its very extant existence as an illegal paramilitary militia commanded by God and His Deputy in the shantytown of Dahiyeh - the mongrel Hassan Nasrallah - and let us not forget its terrorist network that began its infamous history by kidnapping every westerner in town, by bombing every western embassy and every foreign peacekeeping force, by hijacking a few planes, and by assassinating every other politician, and attacking Jewish targets abroad (Argentina, Bulgaria, etc), dragging Lebanon into devastating wars with Israel just to prove to its paymaster Iran that it is worth the money spent on it....

And now, the Lebanese have to watch the disgusting Sunni barbarians called Salafists and their assorted bearded unmustachioed neanderthals rise to prominence, attack isolated soldiers of the army, bash their skulls with axes, and then have the audacity to appear on television and blamer the army.

I am no religious person, and I hate Christianity as much as I do Islam and Judaism and every stupid cult. But there is no denying the fact that Lebanon in particular, and every other country in general, has a chance to escape the religious cesspool under a Christian dominance than under a Muslim one. The only chance that Lebanon had to secularize like any other civilized country was in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but that chance is now gone because under the barbaric Muslims of Hariri and Nasrallah we are headed further back into the Dark Ages of Salafism, both the Sunni brand the Shiite one.

Nothing will make Lebanon a modern covilized country without a demented drive by its young educated people to a secular revolution. A revolution against religions of all sorts. A revolution against the barbarian tyrants - Patriarchs and Muftis and such - who hold us captive in their little enclaves of privileges and wealth while we all struggle with every fiber of our beings and for every little crumb of decent dignity. We have to struggle to go to work. We have to struggle for water. We have to struggle for electricity. We have to struggle with the highest cell phone and internet rates in the world. We have to struggle through asphyxiating pollution....

These are the things we should be fighting for. We should not fight over Hassan and Saad, Michel and Amine, and their children and their political farms. We should be fighting and demanding our basic rights to be truly free from them, free from the fear they have instilled in us, free from their religious myths, free from their religious marriages and religious divorces in which they pilfer us of the little bit of human dignity left in us. This is how it is in truly democractic countries: The human being stands above all other considerations: Above God, above Jesus, above Mohammad, above Moses and Abraham, above priests, sheikhs, muftis, bishops, rabbis, and every fucking title they have invented for themselves, above every politician whether he was born in a shack or in castle in Moukhtara or Bickfaya.....Until the Lebanese understand this fundamental concept, their country is not a democracy and they are not free.

Hanibaal

المفتي راس أيري قباني بدأ العدالعكسي في الحرب بين التقدم والتمدن من جهة والجهالة الدينية الرجعية من جهة أخرى. ال

المفتي قباني حس بالسخن - متلو متل البطاركة والمطارنة والشيوخ والأسياد وما إلى هنالك من الخنازير والبجم والدينوزورات القابلة على الإنقراض. حربهم ضد الزواج المدني هي حرب الجاهلين والمجرمين بإسم الدين على العناصر المتمدنة والمثقفة في المجتمع اللبناني التي تعبت من حروبهم ومجازرهم وطائفيتهم وولعهم بالسيطرة على حياتنا.

أرفض الدين وارفض الله واكفر بكل الأديان وبكل الطوائف وبكل الانبياء وابناء الله وامهات الله والقديسين والمهديين و و و .... كلهم.

فليرحلوا إلى جهنم، هم وفتاويهم ومواعظهم المليئة بالكراهية والأحقاد المنقولة من غياهب الدهور ومجاهل العصور البربرية.

فليرحلوا ويحلوا عن طيزنا ويخلونا نعيش متل ما بدنا، ومش متل ما بدّن هني.

خلص. طفح الكيل وطلع دينّا منهم ومن الخرى تبعهم.

إلى الثورة أيها اللبنانوين واللبنانيات ضدهم. حرقوا البلد وقتلونا وهجرونا وما زالوا يتدخلوا في أصغر تفاصيل من حياتنا.  

هدفهم السيطرة والمحافظة على مواقعهم المالية والسياسية، ونحن الشعب اللبناني العادي آخر همومهم.

كس أم الإسلام والمسيحية واليهودية

كس ام ألله ومحمد والمسيح وموسى

كس أم كل الرسل والأصحاب والأنبياء والقديسين

كس أم الطائفية والرجعية والبربرية والسلفية والشعوذات الدينية المتخلفة على أشكالها

وايري بكل واحد متل قباني بيوقف ضد تحرر الشعب الببناني من مخالب رجال الدين والطوائف الدينية والمنظمات الدينية

أنا لبناني اولاً واخيراً، وعندي هويتين بس: هويتي اللبنانية وهويتي الإنسانية

أنا خلقت إنسان ولبناني قبل ما أخلق مسيحي او مسلم. التربية الدينية للي بغسلولنا دماغنا فيها هي اللي بتفرقنا وبتبعدنا عن بعضنا وبتجرّنا إلى حروب دينية وطائفية وهمجية واهلية.

خلص. إنتهى العهد البربري القديم وإجا وقت العهد المتنور الجديد.

هانيبعل

JESUS is a Anti-Lebanese RACIST SOB

Below is the reason why I abandoned my Christian faith long time ago. Not that I will embrace any other religion, because they are all trash and garbage from humanity's ancient past, especially the three so-called "montheistic" religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The fact that they pretend to worship one god does not make them any better than any other religion that worhips two, three or a thousand gods. The entire construct of religion is this human need to explain the world with stories, and is therefore no longer needed now that we understand how to explain the world with reason and science.

The particular story below is straight from the Gospels: It is about how Jesus refused to heal a Phoenician woman during a visit he made to Saida and Sour - because he says he did not come for the Lebanese he called "dogs", but only for the Jewish "masters" of these Lebanese dogs. If one takes the story for what it reallys says, without any convoluted acrobatics about what he might have "really" meant, one cannot but conclude that Jesus, like many fucking Jewish settlers of our time, was a racist son-of-a-bitch Jewish supremacist who wanted to continue the long-standing fallacy of a "chosen people". Worst than that is the attitude of the Phoenician bitch: Sure, she answers the SOB son of God, I am a dog to you Jewish master, as long as you heal my daughter, and that is precisely who, we the Lebanese, continue to be: We open our legs to anyone with a few dollars. Other than that, nothing matters: Dignity, principles...who cares?

Again, I am rejecting Jesus because he was a chauvinist Jewish pig who expressed his Jewish superiority over my Phoenician-Lebanese identity. This does not mean that I am now a fan of fucking Christianity or of fucking Islam, because both of these religions were a reaction to the first piece of trash called Judaism. Even Mohammad, the so-called "Last of the Prophets" who ascended to heaven on a winged horse (yeah, right!), was half-Jewish, half-animist, before he invented his brand of junkyard monotheism. All three religions are the scourge of humanity, having caused so many genocides, crimes, wars, conquests and utter mayhem, pillage and plunder in the name of God, Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, etc,....

The Lebanese Christians should, in particular, note that their own national identity - as Phoenicians - was abolished when they became Christians. Their own national language - Aramaic - is today a dead language because of Christianity first, and Islam second. Today - as I discuss in my previous post - the Lebanese have no national identity. It means nothing to be a Lebanese. As Lebanese, we are first Christians or Muslims, we speak the language of our invaders the Muslim Arabs, we are divided and have no idea who we are as a people and what is our place in the world. We live "PENDING" lives, waiting for the entire world to tell us what to do, when to do it, and how to do it: Arabs, Europeans, Americans.... they all know our interest better than we do.

Unless we rebel against our religions, our churches, our feudal bosses, and this entire primtive socio-political construct we call the Lebanese system, we are doomed to live eternally shoddy lives. Right now, we have been living such a shoddy and decrepit life since 1970... That's 40 years, two generations, and what have we got in return? The same criminals rule our political lives. The same criminals rule our religious lives. Our women continue to live like cattle. Our children continue to emigrate. The country is running out of air from the pollution, out of space from the cars and a fatal mecantilism and consumerism. We are ashamed of our traditions, and we crawl on our knees in our desperate attempts to imitate others in what we eat, what we drink, what we drive, how we think.  I told you, we have no identity. We don;t know who we are. We are the perfect prostitute: Holy and Pure and Virgin on one side. Filthy, Slutty and Whorish on the other. Ahlan wa sahlan to anyone who will throw a few dollars in our face. Pathetic. Fuck this country for what it has become, and fuck Jesus the Jewish racist son-of-a-bitch

Hanibaal
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Matthew – Matthieu – متّى  -   15:21-28

²¹ Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ²² And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.²⁴ But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.²⁵ Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.²⁶ But he answered and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. ²⁷ And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
²¹ En quittant cet endroit, Jésus se rendit dans la région de Tyr et de Sidon. ²² Et une femme cananéenne, qui venait de ces quartiers, s'écria, et lui dit: Seigneur, fils de David! aie pitié de moi! ma fille est misérablement tourmentée par le démon. ²³ Mais il ne lui répondit rien. Et ses disciples, s'étant approchés, le prièrent, en disant: Renvoie-la, car elle crie après nous. ²⁴ Et il répondit: Je ne suis envoyé qu'aux brebis perdues de la maison d'Israël. ²⁵ Mais elle vint, et se prosterna, en disant: Seigneur! aide-moi. ²⁶ Il lui répondit: Il n'est pas juste de prendre le pain des enfants pour le jeter aux chiens. ²⁷ Mais elle dit: Il est vrai, Seigneur! cependant les chiens mangent des miettes qui tombent de la table de leurs maîtres. ²⁸ Alors Jésus, répondant, lui dit: O femme! ta foi est grande; qu'il te soit fait comme tu le désires. Et à cette heure même sa fille fut guérie.

²¹ثُمَّ خَرَجَ يَسُوعُ مِنْ هُنَاكَ وَانْصَرَفَ إِلَى نَوَاحِي صُورَ وَصَيْدَا. ²²وَإِذَا امْرَأَةٌ كَنْعَانِيَّةٌ خَارِجَةٌ مِنْ تِلْكَ التُّخُومِ صَرَخَتْ إِلَيْهِ قَائِلَةً:«ارْحَمْنِي، يَا سَيِّدُ، يَا ابْنَ دَاوُدَ! اِبْنَتِي مَجْنُونَةٌ جِدًّا». ²³فَلَمْ يُجِبْهَا بِكَلِمَةٍ. فَتَقَدَّمَ تَلاَمِيذُهُ وَطَلَبُوا إِلَيْهِ قَائِلِينَ:«اصْرِفْهَا، لأَنَّهَا تَصِيحُ وَرَاءَنَا!» ²⁴فَأَجَابَ وَقَالَ:«لَمْ أُرْسَلْ إِلاَّ إِلَى خِرَافِ بَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الضَّالَّةِ». ²⁵فَأَتَتْ وَسَجَدَتْ لَهُ قَائِلَةً:«يَا سَيِّدُ، أَعِنِّي!» ²⁶فَأَجَابَ وَقَالَ:«لَيْسَ حَسَنًا أَنْ يُؤْخَذَ خُبْزُ الْبَنِينَ وَيُطْرَحَ لِلْكِلاَب». ²⁷فَقَالَتْ:«نَعَمْ، يَا سَيِّدُ! وَالْكِلاَبُ أَيْضًا تَأْكُلُ مِنَ الْفُتَاتِ الَّذِي يَسْقُطُ مِنْ مَائِدَةِ أَرْبَابِهَا!». ²⁸حِينَئِذٍ أَجَابَ يَسُوعُ وَقَالَ لَهَا: «يَا امْرَأَةُ، عَظِيمٌ إِيمَانُكِ! لِيَكُنْ لَكِ كَمَا تُرِيدِينَ». فَشُفِيَتِ ابْنَتُهَا مِنْ تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ.

Mark – Marc – مرقس  -   7: 24-30

²⁴ Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. ²⁵ In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But Jesus said unto her “Let the children eat first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” ²⁸ “But Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” ²⁹ Then he told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.” ³⁰ She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
²⁴ Jésus partit de là et se rendit dans la région de Tyr. Il entra dans une maison; il ne voulait pas qu'on sache qu'il était là, mais il ne put cacher sa présence. ²⁵ En effet, à peine était-il arrivé, qu'une femme, qui avait entendu parler de lui et dont la fillette était sous l'emprise d'un esprit mauvais, vint se jeter à ses pieds. ²⁶ C'était une femme païenne, originaire de Syro-Phénicie. Elle le supplia de chasser le démon qui tourmentait sa fille. ²⁷ Jésus lui dit: Laisse d'abord se rassasier les enfants de la maison. Car il ne serait pas convenable de prendre le pain des enfants pour le jeter aux chiens. ²⁸ Sans doute, Seigneur, reprit-elle, mais les chiens qui sont sous la table mangent les miettes que laissent tomber les enfants. ²⁹ Et Jésus de répondre: A cause de cette parole, va, retourne chez toi, le démon vient de sortir de ta fille. ³⁰ Elle rentra chez elle et trouva son enfant couchée sur le lit: le démon était parti.

²⁴ثُمَّ قَامَ مِنْ هُنَاكَ وَمَضَى إِلَى تُخُومِ صُورََ، وَدَخَلَ بَيْتًا وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ لاَ يَعْلَمَ أَحَدٌ، فَلَمْ يَقْدِرْ أَنْ يَخْتَفِيَ، ²⁵لأَنَّ امْرَأَةً كَانَ بِابْنَتِهَا رُوحٌ نَجِسٌ سَمِعَتْ بِهِ، فَأَتَتْ وَخَرَّتْ عِنْدَ قَدَمَيْهِ. ²⁶وَكَانَتْ الامْرَأَةُ أُمَمِيَّةً، وَفِي جِنْسِهَا فِينِيقِيَّةً سُورِيَّةً. فَسَأَلَتْهُ أَنْ يُخْرِجَ الشَّيْطَانَ مِنِ ابْنَتِهَا. ²⁷وَأَمَّا يَسُوعُ فَقَالَ لَهَا:«دَعِي الْبَنِينَ أَوَّلاً يَشْبَعُونَ، لأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ حَسَنًا أَنْ يُؤْخَذَ خُبْزُ الْبَنِينَ وَيُطْرَحَ لِلْكِلاَبِ». ²⁸فَأَجَابَتْ وَقَالَتْ لَهُ:«نَعَمْ، يَا سَيِّدُ! وَالْكِلاَبُ أَيْضًا تَحْتَ الْمَائِدَةِ تَأْكُلُ مِنْ فُتَاتِ الْبَنِينَ!». ²⁹فَقَالَ لَهَا:«لأَجْلِ هذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ، اذْهَبِي. قَدْ خَرَجَ الشَّيْطَانُ مِنِ ابْنَتِكِ». ³⁰فَذَهَبَتْ إِلَى بَيْتِهَا وَوَجَدَتِ الشَّيْطَانَ قَدْ خَرَجَ، وَالابْنَةَ مَطْرُوحَةً عَلَى الْفِرَاشِ.