Friday, June 24, 2011

Hariri and Saudi endorsement of domestic violence in Lebanon

Make no mistake about it: the notoriously corrupt Lebanese Sunni Muftititi is a mere Saudi/Hariri tool.  He does not even sneeze without permission.  This is his latest achievement:  "A draft law to protect women from domestic violence is a Western idea designed to dismantle the Muslim family, rather than improve women’s status in the country, a statement released by Lebanon’s highest Sunni body said Thursday.  “[The draft law] was presented not to improve women's status, but rather to break up the family similar to Western ways which are foreign to our society and values,” the statement from Dar al-Fatwa said following a meeting between the Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Kabbani and other high level Sunni Sheikhs."  There is a campaign on Facebook to respond to this outrageous stance by this most corrupt of clerics.  (thanks Farah)  In the 1990s, this corrupt cleric-for-hire and the ill-cited Rafiq Hariri single-handedly opposed and defeated a draft law for civil marriage in Lebanon.