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Lebanese society, especially the Christian community, and especially the youth community, has experienced a busy atmosphere in recent weeks. An atmosphere that has become almost familiar with Lebanese incidents and political divisions. But the reasons for the division, the incentive and the incentive were different this time: a young and famous musical ensemble in the young media invited to participate in the summer artistic festivals of Jubail. This is the "Laila project", which has made his fame with an audience he does not know or heard of in his own name, and his fame for his artistic and musical taste is quite strange by compared to what the group offers in Western music.
Campaign and fame
This is the committee of the Byblos festival that invited the group to a concert on August 9th. More than a week ago, groups of opinions split between the opponents of the series and the supporters of its creation. There were calls for boycotts, demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, and finally for the threat of violence. The Byblos Festival Committee decided to cancel the ceremony "to avoid bloodshed" .
The main reason for the campaign or "uprising" against the rebirth of the group's concerts, emanating from the Christian environment, is that Hamed Snow (the group's lead singer) had published on his Facebook page in 2015 an article about A foreign writer carrying the image of the Virgin Mary, She addressed a foreign artist. In addition, the group offers songs that Christian conservatives consider prejudicial to their religious and social beliefs.
But participation in Jbeil's festivals is not the first of the "Layla Project" in the Christian regions of Lebanon. She has already participated in concerts at international festivals in Baalbeck and her songs are old and not new. And then, some authorities in the Arab countries prevented the group from happening on its territory.
Campaign throwers
The chief culprit of the recent incitement campaign against the Lebanese Christian community is the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (Awni) to Jbeil Naji Hayek. The Lebanese Forces Party, the Catholic Information Center, the Maronite Diocese of Jbail and MP Ziad Hawat joined the campaign, accompanied by a large group of conservative supporters opposed to the group's participation. at the art festival.
The group, on the other hand, calls for feminism and the rights of homobaduals, has been criticized and has often taken the character of violent, and some considered art provided by the art group are decreasing.
It is therefore possible to say that the recent "Intifada" is not new, as it emerges from time to time in different religious and sectarian contexts in Lebanon. However, there is no doubt that the intifada or the recent campaign has had a significant impact in the Christian environment.
Instances of Islamic Christians
What is the cause of this Conservative conservative Christian wave that is behind the new extremism – the old among the Christian communities?
In an in-depth badytical vision of this renewed phenomenon, we see it as the result of a fear or feeling of existential threat to Christians. So they linked their feelings of insults to their beliefs with being in a relatively different environment. Looking quickly into modern history, we see that Christians' growing sense of danger for their existence increases their closeness and extremism. They live in an Arab region that does not care about their problems and in an Islamic environment that fears its extremist currents. The picture of what the Aounis call "the Ashrafieh invasion" – led by Islamic groups and set on fire on February 5, 2006 by the Danish Embbady in Beirut in protest against the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad – is still alive in their memory. They weave today in the same way in the province and religious extremism. They remember the terrible mbadacre of Charlie Hebdo as the peak of Islamic violence that frightened them, thinking of putting red Christian lines and not bloody face their symbols and religious rituals.
Basil Dimension
This Christian phenomenon also has a political dimension. His appearance coincided with the rise of the minister's star, Gebran Bbadil, and his grip on the feelings of Christians, oppressed and worried. Of course, Minister Bbadil is not the only one responsible. His speech calling for "the restoration of the rights of Christians", which sometimes has a racist and sometimes racist character, as well as the responses to it, have helped to nurture this atmosphere among Christians and other Lebanese parties.
Gibran Bbadil has put his Christian opponents in a position they do not send. The Lebanese Forces, like the Lebanese battalions, are trying to make a moderate and interdenominational speech – sometimes made by MP Sami Gemayel, saying that the rights of Christians in Lebanon should not be at the expense of Muslims and approved. by article 80 of the law of finances, the games of the Council of the public service isolated balances sectaries – Basil and the movement aouniste are behind him a different doctrine which evokes big Christian groups which claim its protection.
The campaign launched by the leader Aouni in Jbeil against the "Laila Project" could have been influenced by the separatism Basile. This has turned into a wave of various political parties, political and religious parties and parties, following the popular saying: "Anyone who comes to the market sells and buys". This means that those who do not attend do not sell or buy.
As if the proverb "The people are about the religion of their kings", has today turned in Lebanon on the contrary: "Kings are on the religion of their flock", or the people of their flock, as long as They are not kings, but popular leaders.
Christians in Lebanon have long sung that they were advocates of openness and a beacon of freedom in this Orient and that they were the link between East and West. Where is. It's their natural location. Neither the inquisition nor the crusades will restore their rights. What are their rights essentially? What is different from the rights of a Muslim or any other person?
The battle is not a battle of shrines and beliefs and defense of the gods against the demons. The only battle that needs to be engaged is the battle for a decent life, the fight against corruption, waste and moral degeneracy.
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