Divergence from Fundamentalist Views of Taef is a Walk into Chaos
Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani warned Monday that divergence from fundamentalist views of the Taef Accord would lead to chaos.
"Peace among the Lebanese … cannot be achieved without state institutions and a nation of law capable of imposing peace, security and safety," Qabbani said during Eid el-Adha sermon.
He stressed that the strategy of the state is one of "liberation, freedom, construction as well as national and human coexistence."
"While contradictory strategies," Qabbani went on to say, "are strategies of partition, subordination, fear, confrontation and conflicts as well as destruction."
He reminded the people of the Taef agreement which was the result of a "national and popular Lebanese will that stood against calls for partition and separation."
"Divergence from fundamentalist views of the Taef Accord is a walk in the unknown, a walk into chaos," Qabbani warned from Mohammed al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut.