Here we go again, the Great Maronite Dhimmi Idiot squatting in Baabda is still kissing ass to Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, even as the Arab revolutions are simmering all around his stupid head.
As he marked "Divine Liberation Day" today Tuesday to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from the Lebanese south in 2000, the Great Maronite Idiot in Baabda said, in the Baathist language so dear to his masters in Damascus: "Israel continues in... committing its massacres, the most recent of which was the Maroun al-Ras massacre,” in reference to the Palestinian hoodlums he himself dispatched (under orders from Syria and Hezbollah) to his own country's border to harass Israel and violate international law, and 10 of whom were killed when Israeli soldiers fired on them.
Never mind the 1,500 Syrians so far killed by his dictator buddy in Damascus, Bashar Assad, as they demonstrate in their own country against their own dictator... According to Michel Khara Suleiman, this is not a massacre... This is restoring stability and, in Michel Ibn Ash-sharmouta Suleiman's own words of encouragement to Assad to keep killing his own people, "...I am confident that Bashar Assad will overcome this crisis."
The Ahbal in Baabda goes on to say: “Lebanon can unite these capabilities [i.e. Hezbollah terror organization] to fortify its impregnability, resist the enemy's plots, and build a modern state of citizenship and justice that is suitable for the Lebanese.” You've got to laugh at these last words.... Modern State? Justice?... Michel Khara Suleiman runs, according to international organizations, one of the most BACKWARD, CORRUPT, UNDERDEVELOPED, countries in the world. One of the most POLLUTED, LEAST ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY country in the world. One of the MOST POLICE-LIKE STATES in the world, where Security Services run everything, including TORTURE OF PRISONERS, ARBITRARY DETENTIONS, SELECTIVE JUSTICE, REPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH in the world.
And all of this, thanks to Michel Khara Suleiman's alliance and subservience to Syria, Iran and Hezbollah. Michel Suleiman - like Michel Aoun - brings shame on the Maronite community and on the Lebanese in general. He is yet another coward Christian, who finds the Dhimmi posture the best way to move forward (i.e. to bend one's Christian minority ass to one's Muslim majority enemy in order to survive, then turn around and thank one's enemy for protecting you by fucking you in the ass.
That is exactly what the Syrian Christians are doing in Syria itself: They love Bashar Assad because, as Dhimmis, he protects them by "not killing them"; they are so thankful that he does not kill or imprison them, that they are willing to abandon all their rights, as long as he lets them toll that stupid church bell on Sunday. That is their definition of freedom: "Thank you, Mr. Assad, for letting me toll my church bell on Sunday. In exchange, I will let you run my life, I will not criticize you. I will not challenge you on any of your multitude of human rights violations. I will not say a word about your corruption, your incompetence, and you absolute power and control over Syria and the Syrian people... Thank you Mr. Assad, for letting me be alive.... That is all I ask of life: to breathe, eat, reproduce, then die. I do not care about ideas, hopes, change, freedom, justice, etc... " That is what a Dhimmi is.
The Lebanese Christians, as represented by Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun, have become like the Syrian Christians, pure Dhimmis to the Islamo-Iranian-Arab-Hezbollah tyranny: Dogs on a leash, who get their daily food, are taken out to shit, then are brought back to their cage, and know well that they bark only when prompted.
That is what Michel Suleiman was doing today Tuesday in celebrating "Liberation Day": He was barking under prompt by his Syrian masters.
Hanibaal
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President Michel Sleiman on Tuesday marked Liberation Day by “congratulating the Lebanese people and Resistance on the liberation of southern Lebanon and inflicting defeat on the Israeli enemy.”
Israel continues to “reject the implementation of international resolutions and continues committing its massacres, the most recent of which was the Maroun al-Ras massacre."
Lebanon has proved that it possesses the “national capabilities that allowed it to liberate [its land] and repeal aggression,” he said. “[Lebanon] can unite these capabilities to fortify its impregnability, resist the enemy’s plots, and build a modern state of citizenship and justice that is suitable for the Lebanese.”
Liberation Day, celebrated on May 25, marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000.
[Lebanon Now]
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It seems like Sleiman is on the foot steps of the Scum bag Lahoud. These Maronite ASS Whole Generals are so Retarted. Their Dream is to become servants of the Bararic regime in Syria, for a small piece of steak. Now for the past 40 years, the Controlling and most powerful force in Lebanon is Hezbollah and the Backers of the insane Syrian regime. They are trying to create a clone of the Baathist murderess regime in Syria with an Islamic finatic twist. My question is why are the lebanese people so helpless and blind, they vote and support these idiots and allow them to run the country? In my opininon a new civil war is inevitable and it may cause the rest of the real lebanese people to migrate. I think they are breeding us out like they are doing in Palestine breeding the jews out. They are multiplying in millions. They are brain washing the children as they are born to become their supports, they blind them with traditions, Schools, mosques or churches and they create hezbollah warriors or supporters of Islamic finnatiscism. All I can Say is Good Luck!!!!
Absolutely.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Lebanese Christians have lost their will to fight, for a number of reasons:
- Their "Christian" platform is an obsolete brand of nationalism that is, in many ways, primitive and similar to the "Muslim" platform of their enemies.
- Because of the above reason, they are unable to muster any support from the secular West. The West is not interested in creating another "minority" island based on religion. They can barely manage the "Jewish" island they created in Israel. They will never support a "Christian" one.
- As a result of this dead-end, the Christians of Lebanon (instead of modernizing and secularizing and moving away from the religious identity of their nationalism), know one thing, which they have done through history: Keep a low profile, kiss the ass of the Muslims, play the Dhimmis, and wait. Not very creative, but arguably one way to survive difficult times, except it is done at the cost of their dignity, their principles, and their supposed freedoms.
The only forward, that is different from the archaic Dhimmitude reaction to Islam, is to reject religion altogether as a basis of national identity: To secularize, and declare themselves to the world as a secular nation, a nation that descends directly from the great Phoenician heritage, and a nation that wants universal freedom and rights for its people, regardless of ethnicity, religion, sect, color,...
In other words, they have to fully embrace Western values, and not a half-ass, half this and half that, adherence to a narrow and archaic concept of national identity. Only then, perhaps, they might gain some sympathy and support from anyone in their fight to remain alive, let alone relevant.
Hanibaal
Whilst I agree that some Christian leaders play the role of dhimmi quite well, I do not think you can lump all Christian leaders in the same category.
Regardless of what you think of a man like Abu Arz (his actions, that of the party he led, or its chief slogan), he never was never a dhimmi.
Joseph,
Yes. I agree.
Abu Arz and the Guardians are excepted from the qualification of Dhimmis. His positions continue to be the most exemplary and principled.
But he has been ineffectual at re-imposing himself as a relevant player, perhaps arguably due to no fault of his own.
And he maintains a somewhat obsolete political platform (not in the content, but in the form) that - to vindicate all my points - smacks of 19th century "divine destiny" type of past and future for the Maronite nation. It is very romantic and seductive, but it just isn't of our time anymore.
I respect the man and all that he has done. Yet, given his situation as persona non grata, his age, and his exile, why doesn't he "surrender" his position in the party to a younger generation that may, perhaps, be more in tune with the time, that can speak more convincingly to today's international community? In this, unfortunately, he resembles most, if not all, leaders in our tormented region: They hang on to their positions as if they are indispensable, while the cause they espouse deteriorates.
Hanibaal
The reason as to why he hangs on is something I would not have a clue about. Maybe it has to do with pride?
Come to think of it, the only leader who has gracefully stepped down from power would have to Batrak Sfeir.
Was the GOTC steeped in a 'divine destiny' Maronite narrative? I have heard that initially they had several Shia members. Don't know how true this to be though.
Pride is possible. But the man is very humble. Doesn't make sense.
Batrak Sfeir stepped down because he is old and senile... This has nothing to do with a graceful handover of power. It is said that integrity is what you do when no one is watching. I extrapolate that political modesty is to step down when there is no reason to do so. Most Lebanese leaders wait till they die, get assassinated, or the like before their "progeny" takes over. Finally, Batrak Sfeir is not a politician... his power stems from a tradition based on fabrications, myths, and stories form the Dark Ages, and as such I believe he is - or should be made - irrelevant to the issues at hand.
You are right. There were many Muslims in the GOTC. But the underlying "ideology" (have you read the founding papers/charter of the party?) is based on the 1920s-1930s narrative of Charles Corm, Saiid Akl, and others who connected the Maronite destiny (as vanguards of western civilization in this otherwise savage East) to their Phoenician ancestors and their former glories, and hence provided a raison d'etre for a Maronite-dominated Lebanon. This is what I refer to as a "romantic" view, and it is also a counterpart to a horde of similar movements in the post WWI era that were imitating the Nazis and the Mussolini Fascists... and I mean the Kataeb, the SSNP (Al-Hizb Al-Qaoumi Al-Suri, the Najjadeh, the Baath, etc...). All were nationalist movements imitating western movements that appealed to superiority, destiny of mission with a people and a land...
The GOTC, though, claims to be secular and wants to abolish sectarianism in the political process in Lebanon, and in this, they are to be commended. But if you speak to individual members, they are basically "slightly evolved" Kataeb, perhaps one rung up on the evolutionary scale, since the underlying and undeclared ideology remains a narrow religious sectarian framework.
While Europe is much beyond these ideas, we in Lebanon and the Middle East are stuck in them, and can;t seem to understand that we must evolve, come down from the trees, and start using our cerebral cortex....
Hanibaal
Batrak Sfeir is very old. I doubt he is senile though.
As long as Lebanon remains a sectarian country ruled by sectarian rules (President Maronite, Speaker Shia etc) then the position he represents remains relevant and I think part of this discussion.
In any case, how would you classify someone like SHN? Is he a religious or political figure? Or both at once?
I have read a fair amount on the GOTC and their ideology (at one stage I was reading the media releases of Abu Arz as well).
Also, I don't know if you can use Europe as a comparison here. At the very least, Europe is religiously homogeneous (if you count Protestants and Catholics as one) whereas in Lebanon there is struggles between Sunni and Shia and Muslim vs Christian.
You seem to indulge in circular reasoning. Since Lebanon is sectarian, then sectarian people are relevant, and because sectarian people are relevant, then the country will remain sectarian. Fine, if we want to remain stuck in this fatalistic vicious circle, which is a hallmark of Lebanese thinking.
SHN: Same as the batrak. Ultimately, he and the batrak are people who are unelected and therefore unrepresentative (in a genuinely democratic process), yet who claim power first from some divine bullshit from antiquity, which they then use to exercise political power over largely ignorant and subservient herds of people. Yes, they are both religious and political at once, but that does not make it right.
I am familiar with Abu Arz's weekly releases. In fact, after a lull, he is writing again.
The comparison with Europe is intended to show that, though Europe was (and may still be at a basic level) divided along Catholic-Protestant lines, with a large Orthodox contingent in the East, as well as a significant Muslim minority, Europe has transcended these fault lines, at least in the discourse and the political process.
When Europeans fight politically amongst one another, the political lines are drawn on ideological (left-right-green-communist-socialist-conservative-etc...) and issue-driven (environment, social welfare, etc...) matters.
The Middle East is similarly divided between Shiites and Sunnis, with large contingents of Christians, Druze and others. Yet, when Lebanese and Arabs fight amongst one another, the primary fault line is a religious one and not an ideological or issue-related one. Issues and ideologies tend to follow religious divisions, and not the other way around. Which is why all the so-called Socialists in Lebanon are all Neanderthal Druze, and all the Qaoumiyeh Cro-Magnons are all Orthodox, and all the Phalangist simian primates are all Maronites, etc.... So I think a comparison with Europe is well-deserved to show us at least one way out of the religious cesspool in which we have been bathing for millennia.
Hanibaal
I never said the interference of unelected religious leaders in political life is right.
But, it is a fact of life in Lebanon - especially so given the country is based on a sectarian formula. Ignoring them (or having them all liquidated if you prefer) will not makes Lebanon's problems disappear.
So, Europe has advanced, whilst Lebanon has not. Why do you think that is? Apart from not yet coming down from their trees or venturing out of their caves, why have the Lebanese not yet advanced?
Is it purely 'religion' or the 'type of religion'?
It's not religion in itself. It is the presence of religion in public life.
In the US, more than 80% of people believe in God and are religious. Yet, there is an agreement to keep religion out of public life. In France, more than 80% of people do not believe in God and are agnostic or atheist. And, there is an agreement to keep religion out of public life.
This tells me that religion in itself is not the problem. The vast majority of people use religion as a hobby, a personal preference, something to fill their lives with, like soccer.
But in societies like Lebanon, it may be that the confluence of tribal structure with religion is what perpetuates the problem. Getting religion out of the public square is a first step. It will/might break the collusion between the religious organizations and the political families, each vying to maintain their control.
The type of religion doesn't seem to make a difference in Lebanon: the behavior - as a group - of the Maronites is no different from the behavior of the Druze or the Shiites ot the Sunnis... The overall structure of each community is essentially the same: Religious leaders, political and money families, and a herd of educated, yet, ignorant "believers" who live in fear of the others (largely instilled by the religious organizations and the political families to maintain their hold).
Hanibaal
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