The newly appointed (and Hariri salaried) Mufti of `Akkar (a huge fan of Bin Laden by the way--as are the various Hariri clerics including the Mufti of Mount Lebanon, Muhammad `Ali Al-Juzu, who praised Bin Laden and refused to condemn the attacks of Sep. 11, and the Mufti of Biqa`, Al-Mays, who helped recruit volunteers for Zarqawi in Iraq), here compares the demonstrations in downtown Beirut to the protests by the pagans against Muhammad and his companions in Mecca.