No Insult Intended Against Maronite Sect
Lebanese Sunni Mufti of Mount Lebanon Sheikh Muhammed Ali al-Jouzo said that the statement he declared last Monday did not aim to insult the Maronite sect. It rather aimed to condemn those who crippled political life and proved that Lebanon needs tutelage since it was incompetent of forming a cabinet.
"I regret that some understood my words in a wrong way, or deviated my words in a manner that serves their sectarian aims dumped in backwardness," clarified Jouzo.
The Mufti of Mount Lebanon said that he didn”t ask that Maronites be extradited and returned to Syria where they came from, but rather he addressed all Lebanese sects about the fact of Lebanon nowadays.
"Why don”t all of its (Lebanon”s) people immigrate and present it as a gift to Syria and its agents? How do the people of Lebanon still bear Lebanon and not regret the days of Anjar and its officers. Hadn”t the Maronites come from Syria, let them return to it, and let all of Lebanon return to Syria and not that who yearns for Syria alone," added Jouzo.
He said that part of his speech had aimed to ridicule those who had forgotten the past, the same ones who feel nostalgia toward Anjar after Lebanon had freed itself of the tutelage era.
"I highly appreciate the statement issued by the press office of the Maronite International League, that was full of manners and wisdom, and showed profound understanding to what we said in our statement of precise description to the deteriorating state the politicians in Lebanon got us into, and which we did not aim to insult the dear Maronite sect through it," concluded Jouzo.