Comments on: On the anniversary of Prophet Muhammad

By: Tarek

Tarek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:28:01 +0000

Patrick,

I know that you and most of the Christians do not believe in the prophecy of Muhammad. I’m not here to convince you with it nor discuss the “neither killed nor crucified”, especially you’re having easter now. If you don’t want to add the prophet word,that’s that’s your choice but others may want to be “more” respectful.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:40:39 +0000

i do not have to respect the belief that jesus was “neither killed nor crucified,” which is what the qur’an says (4:157). that is very different from saying i am free to be “disrespectful.” i respect my muslim friends, but my respect for them does not require me to call muhammed a prophet when in fact i believe he was a false prophet. i am not going to say something i don’t believe in my heart… and i don’t think any christian should refer to muhammed as a prophet when none of us (christians) believe him to be anything but a false prophet. we don’t have to go out of our way to call him a false prophet everytime we refer to him… we can be respectful when we talk about him… but we don’t have to (and shouldn’t) call him a prophet.

By: kezballah

kezballah — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:43:57 +0000

Thanks Tarek.

I also agree it is 3ayb to disrespect other people’s religion, everyone believes in a different prophet no one is better than anyone else, even if we are all Christians or not you have to respect other people’s religion, if you don’t then you can’t expect other people to respect your religion.

By: Tarek

Tarek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:36:48 +0000

There will be always people ready to sell themselves, as the case with karami and yagan; but I don’t think that that was your question.

What I see that sunnis in tripoli will always be with their local leaders, FM and others. The question is will the local leaders and FM follow the syrian regime then? I don’t think so, they may have good relations but nothing more. I don’t think that the people will follow the new syrian regime, after all they don’t follow nor respect almost all sunnis regime around the arab world. However if an Islamic state was declared in Syria that will be a totally different story.

By: Tarek

Tarek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:21:18 +0000

Patrick,
We are not all Christians here, and though Christians do not believe in the prophecy of Muhammad, I think they show some respect to others..

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:41:34 +0000

…but please: we are all christians here… there is no need to refer to muhammed as “prophet.”

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:40:47 +0000

al-gama’a al-islamiyya are terrorists. period.

so i agree completely… why the hell is LF allied with hariri, and why the hell is FPM allied with HA. LF and FPM should be allied with eachother and the hell with FM and HA…

By: kezballah

kezballah — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:28:41 +0000

libanon, what are you talking about what strategic alliance?? Hezbollah refused to vote for the freedom of Geagea in parliament so where is the strategic alliance? They only backed the list of Jumblat and the LF picked Edmond Naim because he’s good friends with everyone so Hezbollah will not refuse him. If you back one candidate it is a strategic alliance?

By: kezballah

kezballah — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:22:41 +0000

Tarek, thanks for the great summary of the politics in the North. I wonder if Bashar is kicked out of Syria and the Syrian Sunnis take power, will the Lebanese Sunnis in the North change their politics and ally with Syria? Do you know how the people feel about this?

By: Tarek

Tarek — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:17:21 +0000

Those are highly vulnerable to “clean money”. BTW, the Jama3a Islamiyi almost have no supporters in Tripoli. They are supported by at most 0.01 % of the people in Tripoli and I’m speaking literally. Other people just make fun of them (including me) for not having any political vision or statement, and most importantly they are all divided. However the salafist are more powerful in tripoli and they all consider HA an enemy. Still they are considered a very small percentage by the number but are more accepted since their principles are not vulnerable to “clean money”, and they are generally not involved in politics.

The vast majority in Tripoli support FM but most of them just support it because it is by far the “better” but not even close to the ultimate. Other local leaders mostly SAFADI, MIKATI and KABARAH have a very good popularity more or less. Karami is Tripoli’s joke. People of tripoli consider him their clown with his accent and statements, add to that his cheapness. Still he has few guys around him who used to love Rashid karami, and as a lebanese tradition they love him.

This is speaking Tripoli wise, other areas around in the north things get really different.