Al-Mustaqbal and the Islamic Tawheed movements have engaged in a dispute over inscriptions on the renovated Abdel Hamid Karami square.
As Safir daily said Wednesday that al-Mustaqbal demanded the inscription of "The Stronghold of Muslims – Tripoli" be removed after the end of renovations at the square. However, such a request was met with stiff opposition from Tawheed.
Al-Mustaqbal then added placards on the square”s outer layer on which it wrote "Tripoli the stronghold of Muslim and Christian Lebanese."
A Mustaqbal source said such a move was aimed at implying "that Tripoli is the city of dialogue, openness, coexistence and the city of Lebanese Muslims and Christians."