Suleiman, Miqati Extend Eid Greetings through Hopes of Unity and Stability

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President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati hoped on Sunday that Eid al-Fitr would unite Muslims in Lebanon and lead to the country’s stability.

In a statement issued by his press office, Suleiman extended his greetings to the Lebanese in general and Muslims in particular on the occasion of the Eid.

He hoped the holiday would lead to the “country’s stability and prosperity.”

Miqati’s office also said that the prime minister telephoned Vice President of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan and Shiite cleric Sayyed Ali Fadlallah to extend his greetings.

During the phone conversations, Miqati hoped that the Eid would “consolidate Islamic unity in Lebanon.”

The prime minister attended Eid prayers at Mohammed al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut.

Lebanon’s Muslims, both Sunnis and Shiites, marked on Sunday the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which follows the holy month of Ramadan.

Comments 9
Thumb benzona 19 August 2012, 14:59

Mr President, It isn't the Muslims that are creating a strife, it's the weapons held by a military faction that happen to be Muslim. Moreover, the so-called Muslims hijacked Allah's name, labelled him with a Kalashnikov to preach hatred and violence (not very Muslim btw). Stop implying it's a Sunni-Shia Strife, it isn't.

Missing mansour 19 August 2012, 22:27

benzona noone has hijacked the muslim religion so get that right and stop making up crap....cause if Mohammad was alive today he be a terriorts just like the rest,he was the first anyways so please dont deny it.
Christains killed of course i dont deny but we dont have it written in our Bible to kill and murder and take slaves of non believers so how do you keep saying your religion is hijacked???
and also i am curious to know why you guys celebrate Eid al-fitr or ramadan or whatever you call it?Long Live The Syrian Civil War

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:28

Mansour, thw prophet mohammad (saw) is innocent of all the evil you and your fellow children of satan attribute to him. It was the pagans that attacked, terrorised and tortured the muslims at his (saw) time and he migrated because of that with the muslims and waited patiently until God gave him permission to self defence. You call him the first terrorist? Well he doesnt need your approval as he got the approval of God unlike you. Now regarding your statement about the bible, lets see if your truthful shall we!!

Thumb lebanon_first 20 August 2012, 08:31

Mansour. This is immature what you are saying. Islam is a good religion. The problem is that a lot of moslems bring a lot of children, hence end up poor. And poor people are easy preys to do the agenda of anyone who has money be it bandar bin sultan or iran or qatar. Hence they appear as bad people while they are individually much more human than a lot of nonmoslems.

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:29

Matthew 10: 34-36 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household."

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:39

Revelation 2:22-23 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your work.

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:41

Hosea 13:16 (King James) Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:52

And that is only some of the terrorism that exists in the bible, both the OT and the NT. Regarding your rude question about ramadan and eid. Ramadan is the month we fast and eid el fitr is the feast we celebrate after ramadan ends. Now tell us about christmas? Why do you celebrate your so called God's birthday on that day when NONE of you know the day christ the prophet (pbuh), not the son of god, was born? Oh and if we are to believe you regarding the bible, that its peaceful and what not (which clearly it isent), then how do you justify calling for civil war and death upon pepole? Dont get me wrong, i know that christianity is a violent religion, but your trying to present it as peaceful while at the same time calling for death and war upon syrians.

Missing truthseeker 20 August 2012, 04:53

You cant have it both ways, either you admit your not a good christian (according to the peaceful christianity you claim it is) or your a good christian in the sence that you completly endorse the violence, terrorism and torture which exists in your altered bible in which case you must admit christianity is not what you lied about.