Qabbani in Eid Sermon: No Compromises on Taef, Tribunal, Justice
Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani stressed in his Eid al-Fitr sermon on Tuesday that there would be no compromises on the Taef accord and the international tribunal.
“Our national and Islamic stances have never changed and we don’t make compromises on our principles,” Qabbani said at Mohammed al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut.
He stressed on the need to have a united nation and a capable and fair state. “We won’t make compromises on the Taef agreement that laid the foundations of the Lebanese state on the basis of participation.”
He also rejected “the road of infighting and the wars of strife.”
Turning to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon that is probing ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination, Qabbbani said: “We won’t make compromises on the achievement of justice and the international tribunal.”
Justice should also be achieved for all the Lebanese in their rights to have a balanced representation in state institutions, he said.
Qabbani also rejected the naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon, saying it “is an Israeli objective aimed at withering Palestinians outside their nation.”
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