Sayed Ali al-Amin Urges Hizbullah Not to Lead Lebanon “To the Bottom”

 

A ranking Shiite Muslim Cleric accused Hizbullah of lacking harmony with the aspirations of the Shiite community and attempting to isolate it from the remaining Lebanese factions.

 

The remark was made by Sayyed Ali al-Alin, the Mufti of Tyre and Mount Amel, in an interview with Naharnet.

 

“Aspirations of the Shiite community are not different from the other communities … but performance of the

political front (Hizbullah) that controls the state of affairs within the Shiite community is not in harmony with the community”s aspirants,” al-Amin said.

 

“Such a performance isolates the Shiite community and implies that the community is a source of fear or concern to others,” he added in reference to Hizbullah.

 

Such a behavior, according to al-Amin “implies that the Shiite community is linked to regional agendas and not interested in national agendas.”

 

The Shiite community supported Hizbullah “in confronting Israel, but not to be an obstacle facing the state of Lebanon,” he said.

 

He accused Hizbullah of “hurling Lebanon into the bottom of a pit” if it was serious in its open war declaration against Israel.

 

“Lebanon and the Lebanese People would encounter great dangers. That is why Hizbullah should consider this issue thoroughly because it should not drag all the Lebanese to a battle that concerns only the party and not all the Lebanese.”

 

Al-Amin cautioned that “chaos in Lebanon would benefit no body, the main side that would suffer from chaos, in addition to the Lebanese, is Syria.”

 

Chaos, he added, “would open the gate wide to internationalization in Lebanon and the region.”

 

He urged citizens of Hizbullah strongholds in south Beirut and south Lebanon to penetrate the “walls of factionalism to join the nation and joint existence as Preached by Imam Moussa Sadre.”