22 September 2007
Lebanon Christians fear lives are targeted
BEIRUT - Lebanese Christians said on Friday that the murder of yet another Christian MP was aimed at reducing their community’s historically prominent role but balked at being dragged into another civil war
“There is a general feeling that we are targeted as Christians,” cried a mourner who did not wish to be identified during the funeral of Antoine Ghanem, who was killed in a car bombing on Wednesday.
“I am convinced that those who carried out this assassination wanted it to be a trap in order to push the Christians to react violently,” she said, as pallbearers carried the coffins of Ghanem and his two slain bodyguards. “They want to plunge the country into another civil war, but we will not let them do that,” she said, wiping a tear from her face. Ghanem was the eighth anti-Syrian politician to be assassinated since the February 2005 murder of Sunni Muslim prime minister Rafiq Hariri. Six of them were Christian. Rabih, a 30-year-old member of the Lebanese Forces party, stood in anger as he watched pallbearers carrying the coffin into the nearby Sacred Heart church. “They are specifically targeting the Phalange (Christian party) and the Lebanese Forces,” he said. “We are always the first ones to say “no,’ so they are making us pay the price of our battle for an independent Lebanon,” he said while nervously crumpling a Lebanese Forces flag. Many mourners accused Syria of Ghanem’s assassination. They also voiced anger against the Damascus-backed Lebanese opposition led by the Shiite militant Hezbollah and including followers of popular Christian leader Michel Aoun. “Hezbollah terrorist. You donkey, Bashar al-Assad,” a group of young men shouted, referring to the Syrian head of state. “They are killing us because they want the (anti-Syrian parliamentary) majority to become a minority, and the minority to become the majority,” said Joanna, 20. “They want the next Lebanese president to be under the orders of Syria and Iran,” she said. “Damascus does not want the Christians to be united, because they do not want a united Lebanon,” said her friend Fadi. For others, it is the entire ruling majority -- grouping Muslims and Christians -- which was targeted.
Leila, a resident of Ain el-Remmaneh district near the former greenline that separated Beirut’s Christian east from the capital’s mostly Muslim west during the 1975-1990 civil war, said “the enemies of Lebanon want the Muslims and the Christians to remain divided.”
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yes its sad whislt evil, and dark forces are all working to get world domnion of one faith,FOR IT HAS BEEN SAID 3000 years ago prophcies of excatly whats taking place today, there is a reason what we see and all i can do i pray for christians & jews and also for the world.
i just came back form lebanon, beautiful country.."it says in BIBLE its GODS OWN GARDEN"...but just reflect to history and whats happening today all original christian and jewish countries are muslim converted by force and masterplan..lebanon,palestine or isarel,syria,iraq,egypt,europe etc..
just hope no other human is killed for evil jihad or ethnic cleansing or faith..
Posted by: rohan john | 30 September 2007
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