The resistance Arms Will Stay and We Will not Allow You to Help Kill Us
Shiite Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan in a ceremony in Meys el-Jabal stressed that "Lebanon”s glory has arisen thanks to its honorable resistance fighters who have sacrificed their lives and blood for the integrity of this land".
Qabalan rhetorically asked the public "what did the others offer when our children and women in southern Lebanon were being killed? Some were conspiring against us while the others were visiting with the murderers” ministers in Washington," he added.
"Does democracy mean giving up our integrity and strength? Or is it allowing the enemy to kill and annihilate us? To those we say that the arms of the resistance are staying despite of Israel”s threats. We will neither allow you nor the national committees to help our enemies kill us that easily under unfunded pretexts," he continued.
The Mufti said that it is the resistance who protects Lebanon”s sects, unity, and co-existence formula. "Let them reason and be aware that the country belongs to everyone and we all belong to the country; it”s not monopolized for a specific category or a certain sect above the other," he clarified.
Sheikh Qabalan called all to work together "to put Lebanon”s best interests above our own. Let us give up our selfishness and stop bargaining with loyalty and nationalism. Nobody, despite his position, comes above the other. This is Lebanon and we will have no other, may he leave whoever wishes to do so," he concluded.