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| Report: Nusra Front Demands al-Rahi's Apology over Burning of ISIL Flag |
| 2014-09-03 |
| [AnNahar] Al-Nusra Front is reportedly demanding Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi to apologize for the burning of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... flag by youth in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district. Sources close to the Moslem Scholars Committee said in comments published in the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Tuesday that "the group (al-Nusra Front) will not release the soldiers and coppers without anything in return." Media reports have said that the jihadists have a list of demands, including the withdrawal of Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... from battles in Syria, the release of ten Syrian inmates held at Roumieh prison in return for each captive soldier and policeman, an apology from al-Rahi over the burning of the flag and the end of calls by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... to mobilize Christians against the Syrian people. Islamists have allegedly burned crosses in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in retaliation to the burning of an ISIL flag in Ashrafiyeh's Sassine Square. Reports said however that the flag was burned last month and not over the weekend. Several threats were written on the walls of Churches in the northern city of Tripoli, the latest on Tuesday when assailants vandalized the walls of Mar Elias Church. They vowed to "slaughter the worshipers of the Cross." Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... politician George Adwan had said that al-Rahi "will not address these people," considering that the apology demand will not occur. Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi vowed to legally pursue the youth who set ablaze the flag, considering it a sectarian incitement. He also called for an investigation to be carried out into the burning of crosses in Tripoli. For his part, FPM official MP Ibrahim Kanaan said that he will defend the youth who set ablaze the flag. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has prompted widespread concern as it advances in both Syria and Iraq, killing hundreds of people, including in gruesome beheading and mass executions. |
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