Friday, December 11, 2009
Sectarianism in the land of the Cedars
Sectarianism is present in the social and political life
of the Lebanon and is even in the unwritten-constitut ion.
Sectarianism is saturating the day by day life
so that it becomes invisible and indivisible. ....
and it replaces the breathing-air.
But then and again,
too much of anything , makes it absolute
and self-destructive. Like love and or alcohol..... .
I shall give you an example :
One candidate running for an "orthodox-seat" in the parliament
is a member of an "all-Maronite-party" and ex-member of a dissolved
"Maronite-militia".
This candidate won the elections in his district (for the orthodox-seat)
thanks to the overwhelming votes of the Druzes in that same district.
The Druzes voted for him under an agreement (a coalition)
with the Sunni-group of Hariri.
So there you have it :
An Orthodox-parliamentarian who is member of a Maronite-clan
voted in power by the Druzes-voters , only to serve the Sunnis-strategy.
This is not a fictitious figure...... ....but a real one !!.
And if you want to hear more confusing details ,
this "Orthodox-parliamen tarian" got less than 24%
of the Orthodox-voters in his district.
Meaning that in practice he is only representing that Maronite-party
which , accidentaly ,does not even exist in his peculiar distric ,anyhow.
And if you think that is unfair or strange , you would be surprised
to know that this (Christian) Parliamentarian has ,during the civil war,
killed more of his christian opponents ,
than from his Muslim or Druze opponents.
Today ,
his own body-guards fear those people only from his own religion
and even from his own sect....rather than anyone else.
Sectarianism ,because it is man-made , is like Racism
and is not at all, natural !!
Raja Chemayel
non-sectarian and anti-racist
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