Some Arabs will have no problem fitting into western societies

Gemmayze residents organized a small demonstration few days ago and blocked the main road protesting against the noisy night clubs that are keeping them from sleeping.

As a result, the ministry of tourism met with few concerned people and decided to close 20 pubs and restaurants which were judged inadequatly positioned and causing uncomfort ..

I think they are right, this used to happen in Monot street before. The street should be made for pedestrians only (at least on weekends) and nightclubs and pubs must install a proper soundproof system.

وزارة السياحة قررت إقفال 20 مقهى وحانة في الجميزة لا تراعي راحة السكان

I say let them go down and have a drink and they ll forget about all the noise

This article proves that love can eventually be blind

Another great editorial by Dr.Antoine Najm

Federalism is the starting point

Posted by cedars.

( I add one question: Who killed Ramzi and did any inquiry take place on that awful crime ?? )

والقى النائب عدوان كلمة قال فيها:” ان وفاءنا لرمزي عيراني هو الوفاء نفسه لكل شهداء لبنان وشهداء ثورة الأرز “.

Our loyalty to Ramzi Irani is the same to all Lebanon’s martyrs? Are you loyal to the martyrs of Hebollah the same way you are loyal to martyr Ramzi? Kif haideh? Or is it saf hakeh la nihke and as we say in Arabic haida “Hashou”?

ولفت النائب عدوان الى ان “شعار “القوات” كان في الماضي “مؤسسة نحو المستقبل” أما اليوم فأصبح “مؤسسة لقيام الدولة اللبنانية”.

Who changed it you? The LF? Who? When the LF raised the slogan an institution towards the future, at that time there was also no republic, no consitutions, nothing ….
Switching the slogan and the work form building an institution that is looking towards the future, to build a democratic party, to present its project, its plans and its ideas for a solution, a better future, ….. To an institution to lift up the republic is a major mistake. If you can’t lift yourself first you will never be able to lift anything else. Unless the Republic you want to build today is build on a farm and feudalism.

By the way, when Ramzi was assassinated, where were you Mr. LF deputy and Vice President of the LF? Matter of fact where were you since 1995 till the day you were elected a deputy?

Just couple of free LF minds are still questioning while the rest are clapping.

The Lebanese crisis pretty much damaged the Arab Summit badly. Lebanon boycotted Syria and as a result, KSA, Egypt & Jordan followed Lebanon’s step and lowered their level of representation.

The summit has no major heads of states or kings attending, except few unimportant and useless ones. Ghaddafi of course was nominated as the Summit’s clown. As for Bashar el Assad, he will start his list of lies by an opening speech and at the end of the summit will present us with a summary of these lies.

In his opening speech around noon on Saturday, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad refused to admit interference in Lebanese internal affairs, despite widespread accusation that his country is a major player in the current political crisis that has gripped Lebanon since the withdrawal of the Syrian troops that occupied Lebanon for almost 30 years.

One answer to that quote:

As long as Hezbollah exists in Lebanon, Syria is more than ever present.

Syria is our enemy, We must boycott Syria, close our borders and show some balls as long as the international community is behind us. It is time to act March 14!

On Wednesday, General Wafiq Jizzini, head of general security directorate, which handles censorship, told AFP he had decided to ban the film after Shiite officials expressed concern that its content was offensive to Muslims and to Iran.

“The office that handles censorship matters informed me in their report that the film attacks Islam and the Iranian regime, and this could spark tension with Iran,” Jizzini said.

The decision was massively critisized by many parties, among them Walid Jumblatt’s psp, Culture minister Tarek Mitri and Bassam Eid production manager with Circuit Empire, who blasted the ban as ridiculous and unwarranted, especially since pirated copies were widely available in Hizbullah’s stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

I join other fellow bloggers in condeming this banning, specifically BeirutSpring who decided to put the film for all to watch for free until the movie was unbanned.

As a result of the large critics,
Lebanese authorities on Thursday legalized the screening of the prize-winning animated film “Persepolis”, following an outcry and accusations that the banning it by the censors was aimed at pleasing Iran and Shiite clerics.

“We have given the green light for the film ‘Persepolis” to be screened in cinemas across Lebanon,” an official from the censorship bureau, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Agence France Presse. She did not elaborate on the remark.

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Head of the UN Special Tribunal Daniel Bellemare has announced an unnamed “criminal network” was behind the Hariri assassination and suspects the network acted out the subsequent chain of assassinations.

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Dahieh, the economic heart of Lebanon, is going on strike starting tomorrow.
Lebanon’s biggest CEOs, including Abu Hadi, Abu 7assin and Abo cho7atta decided to stop bread production as of today evening since the Ministry of Finance has not yet provided them with the essential quantities of flour.

Abu Hadi, CEO & founder of Al Hadi Bakery, one of the leading bakeries in the suburbs declared that the ‘illegal’ government is not giving them enough amounts of flour. He was angrily shouting and yelling and cursing on how he was unable to supply the Tents yesterday with enough bread ..

Yes it is all the “illegal” government’s mistake ..

(End of joke)

This is by far the peak of arrogance !

Ma bye3terfo bil 7koume 2ella wa2et el ch7ade wa wa2ta baddoun yo2bado !

Eitherway, Sami Haddad clearly declared there is no crisis .. so life goes on … woulli jou3an yirou7 3and 7assouna !! 3ando rat burgers gher chekel !

Everytime i read a statement by Jamil el Sayyed, i think to myself : ” When will this tribunal come to judge this criminal and his three companions and silence him for good ?? “

Former director of Lebanese General Security, Major General Jamil Al-Sayyed has been in detention, along with three other high-level officers, for suspicion of involvement Hariri’s assassination since September 2005.

Since then, he has been attacking judges & the international tribunal committee, as well as the government and calls for his release everytime. In summary, the man is playing “le tout pour le tout” before the tribunal is officially launched.

But his fate is known and will not change, he is guilty and his past and present speak for themselves.

Lebanon Boycotts Damascus Summit

As i was hoping for, Lebanon boycotted the Arab Summit being held in Damascus and most of the major Arab countries showed support by sending low-level delegations.

It is refreshing to see M14 boycotting Syrians officially and the Arabs almost boycotting Syrians as well.
I truly hope the next step will be closing the borders and stoppig all diplomatic relations until Syria leaves us alone ..

We shall never win any battle against this barbaric regime unless we take extreme and decisive measures ..

Watch documentary here: http://www.france5.fr/c-dans-l-air/index-fr.php?page=resume&id_article=2624 

En ces fêtes de Pâques, le mot “paix” est décliné dans toutes les langues. Par les fidèles des Eglises chrétiennes occidentales qui ont célébré la résurrection, par les dizaines de milliers de marcheurs qui depuis vendredi sillonnent l’Europe du Nord mais aussi par les chrétiens d’Irak, dont la survie est menacée dans un pays ensanglanté quotidiennement. 

Depuis la chute du régime de Saddãm Hussein et la montée en puissance des mouvements islamistes, la communauté chrétienne d’Irak est victime d’une véritable hémorragie. Cela a commencé à Bassorah, où nombre de chrétiens chaldéens s’étaient installés pour ouvrir divers commerces, et en particulier des magasins vendant de l’alcool. On comptait quelque 500 familles au début des années 70.

Victimes d’attentats, ils ont tous fui, presque immédiatement après la chute du raïs. Cela a continué à Bagdad et à Mossoul, où l’implantation catholique remonta au premier siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Pendant près d’un an, les membres de cette Eglise ne se sont pas sentis visés pour leur croyance mais d’être victimes, comme les autres Irakiens, de l’anarchie et de l’insécurité générales. Puis, les enlèvements et les meurtres se sont multipliés et ont bouleversé la communauté qui jusqu’alors ne se croyait pas menacés par les islamistes dans ces deux villes.

Le 13 mars 2008, la découverte du corps de M^gr Rahho, évêque de Mossoul, qui avait été enlevé le 29 février à la sortie de la messe, provoque l’émotion de l”ensemble du monde chrétien. Cette mort représente un symbole du martyre enduré par les Chaldéens, menacés depuis cinq ans par les islamistes, qui reprochent à la très ancienne communauté chrétienne de Mésopotamie d’être complice des Américains.

“Des gens sont menacés, kidnappés, tués en pleine semaine sainte !”, s’insurge l’archevêque chaldéen de Kirkouk, Luis Sako. Des actes qui poussent beaucoup à se poser chaque jour la question de l’exil.

Face aux persécutions, les responsables chrétiens irakiens estiment que 75 000 croyants ont quitté le pays pour la Syrie, la Jordanie ou l’Occident. 75 000 autres auraient fui vers le nord de l’Irak, au Kurdistan irakien, où la liberté religieuse est plus grande. Mais arrivés nombreux avec, pour seul bien, les habits qu’ils portaient sur eux au moment de leur fuite, leur intégration pourrait se révéler difficile.

Depuis le début de l’invasion américaine en 2003, au moins 2 millions d’Irakiens ont fui le pays et on estime qu’il reste aujourd’hui moins de 400 000 chrétiens en Irak. Ils étaient au nombre de 636 000 environ en 2005 et encore un million en 1980, car, paradoxe de l’histoire, Saddãm Hussein leur ménageait une relative tranquillité.

Depuis six mois, la multiplication des initiatives a permis d’amorcer un début de prise de conscience des chrétiens de France en faveur de leurs frères d’Orient. Au nom du mouvement Pax Christi, l’évêque de Troyes, M^gr Marc Stenger, qui s’était rendu en Irak en février, a à son retour plaidé pour accueil en Europe des croyants irakiens qui se sont enfuis de leur pays.

Un projet formulé par le ministre des Affaires étrangères Bernard Kouchner en décembre 2007. ”Nous allons, j’espère, en accueillir près de 500 dans les semaines qui viennent et on verra après”, a-t-il déclaré le 19 mars 2008, lors d’un entretien sur RMC et BFM-TVM, en ajoutant que “nous ne refuserons pas d’accueillir des musulmans” mais “le problème, c’est que personne n’accueillait les chrétiens”.

Accueilli avec soulagement par la communauté chaldéenne de France, forte de 15 000 membres environ, vivant majoritairement en région parisienne, cette annonce a suscité quelques réserves. Pierre Henry, directeur de France Terre d’Asile, avait accusé, mardi 18 mars, dans un entretien à l’AFP, le gouvernement de vouloir faire une “opération de communication” en faisant venir ces chaldéens irakiens aux alentours du début de la présidence française de l’Union européenne, qui commence le 1^er juillet 2008.

From Naharnet:

(Arabic Version)

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Monday Hizbullah does not want a civil war in Lebanon, contrary to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime that works to ignite such a civil strife.
Geagea made the remark in an address to the Lebanese community in Los Angeles.

“Had Hizbullah accepted Syria’s plans to start a civil war we would have been in civil war,” Geagea said.

Hizbullah, he added, “does not want a civil war because it is not part of its strategy.”

“The Syrian regime is trying to hurl Lebanon into civil war, but did not succeed due to weakness of its allies,” Geagea added.

He said the International Tribunal “would not only expose those who killed ex-Premier Rafik Hariri (in 2005) but would also disclose who killed Maarouf Saad (in 1975) and who committed all the other crimes.

On the 40th day remembrance of the assasination of terrorist Imad Moghnieh in Syria, Hassan Nasrallah speeches and yet again confirmed that he wants to wipe out Israel ..

Not only that, but this time he based himself on statistics to say everyone wants to wipe out Israel, statistics which i will develop in a separate post to show you how accurate they are ..

السيد نصرالله: طرح سؤال في لبنان ضمن دراسة علمية نفذت وهو: هل تؤيد العمل على إسقاط النظام الصهيوني فجاء الجواب: الطائفة السنية تؤيد بنسبة 90% العمل على إسقاط النظام الصهيوني
السيد نصرالله: الطائفة المسيحية 77.4% تؤيد العمل على إسقاط النظام الصهيوني
السيد نصرالله: الطائفة الدرزية أيدت بنسبة 60% العمل على إسقاط النظام الصهيوني
السيد نصرالله: أما الطائفة الشيعية التي كان لها النصيب الأكبر من الدمار في حرب تموز فأيدت بنسبة 94.3%العكل على إسقاط النظام الصهيوني

77.4 % of Christians in Lebanon want to drop the Zionist regime !

LOL, i will bet you a million dollars that when asked what a Zionist regime means, 50% of the Lebanese people wont know!

I wont comment on the rest of his speech, it is nonsense and reminds me of Saffa7’s speeches when Americans were invading Iraq, specifically when he was declaring victory over the Americans while the Marines had conquered Baghdad.

All terrorists will face the same fate …

Its been few days i havent heard of any activity Dr.Geagea has one in the states, no mention of him in the news, papers or whatsoever ..

Easter passed and no mention of him attending any mass in the states ?
No visits to US officials anymore .. no visit to Bush yet ..

If anyone has info concerning his activities the past few days, kindly post them.

Looks like i got my answers :

Update 1: Event on the 23rd of March.

Update 2: جعجع بحث في واشنطن القضية اللبنانية مع “المجلس العالمي لثورة الأرز”
بحث رئيس الهيئة التنفيذية في “القوات اللبنانية” سمير جعجع القضية اللبنانية مع وفد من “المجلس العالمي لثورة الأرز” في واشنطن.

Thanks Appo & Richy.

I am sure many of you have seen this billboard a week or two ago ..

Billboards that said : “Fi farah” and others “Ma fi farah”

I never imagined for a second this might be referring to Maggie Farah’s new show on Otv.
Ya3ne abyakh min hek di3eye min cheyif ba3ed !

And the colours ?? purple wazwaz ?? Seems their graphic design team is Iranian now ..

Anyway i am not sure who is gonna listen to this 60-70 year old astrologist has to say ..

We blamed Aounists before and attacked them for disrespecting the Patriarch in their group ..

Then i see LFers going to their level …
I suggest if anyone knows who was after that group to ask him to close it for two main reasons :

1- LF never goes into such levels (At least not the one i know).
2- Putting a martyrs’ related pic as a profile picture for this crappy group is big insult and disrespect to them.

Posted by cedars.

Al Masi7 Kam .. 7akkam kam.

Dar El Fatwa organized an event in Tripoli for celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad and invited many personalities, mainly the secretary general of Jamaa Islamiyya Fayssal Moulawi, Wajih el Baarini, Assaaad Harmouche, Omar Miskawi, FM representative Abdel Ghani Kabbara etc …

From Annahar

نظمت دار الفتوى في طرابلس والشمال احتفالاً في المولد النبوي في قاعة مسجد الوفاء في المدينة في حضور حشد من الشخصيات.
وشارك السيد عبدالله ضناوي ممثلاً الرئيس عمر كرامي، السيد عبد الاله ميقاتي ممثلاً الرئيس نجيب ميقاتي، النائبان السابقان وجيه البعريني واسعد هرموش، نائب رئيس المجلس الاسلامي الشرعي الأعلى النائب السابق عمر مسقاوي، الأمين العام لـ”الجماعة الاسلامية” الشيخ فيصل مولوي، مفتي طرابلس والشمال الشيخ مالك الشعار، رئيس بلدية طرابلس رشيد جمالي، رئيس بلدية الميناء عبد القادر علم الدين، الامين العام لـ”حركة” التوحيد الاسلامي” الشيخ بلال شعبان، المنسق العالم لـ”تيار المستقبل” في الشمال عبد الغني كبارة وممثلون للاحزاب وشخصيات.

What was interesting were the speeches given by Al Cha33ar and Moulawi ..

من جهته قال مولوي: “عندما تمكن لبنان من الصمود كان لا بد من ضربه وضرب المقاومة، وذلك بان تخلق اسرائيل صراعاً بين المقاومة وشعبها، واذا بالصراع السياسي الحاد يحقق ما اراده الصهاينة، وحتى المقاومة دخلت هذا الاطار واصبحت جزءاً من الانقسام الحاد، عندما استدرجت الى الداخل (…)”.
وختاماً القى الشعار كلمة: “(…) المقاومة شرف لبنان، واعلن بكل دقة مسؤولية انها لم تكن شيعية او سنية انما كانت لبنانية ومن الجميع. وكم نتوق الى ان نلتف حول هذه المقاومة حتى لا تكسر شوكتها وحتى لا يعربد العدو اليهودي من جديد على حدودنا”.

I thought Jamaa Islamiyya was FM’s ally, and Tripoli was won by FM ..
How come we have its Sheikh supporting HA ??

Those extremist groups are a serious threat to Lebanon and its moderate Sunnites mainly …
Those are highly vulnerable to brainwashing and what differentiates them from becoming terrorists is a very fine thin line ..

Hariri and his Future movement should either step away from those people or control them ..
We cant be in a strategic alliance with an ally backing such groups ..