Liquor in Hizbullah areas of Lebanon

When I posted a few days ago about the ban of liquor in Tripoli, I was asked about availability of liquor in areas of Lebanon (south and the southern suburbs) where Hizbullah is politically dominant. Here is what I gathered from reliable liquor experts in Lebanon. Liquor is available throughout except in Sidon and Tripoli (both are under the Hariri-Salafite political influence).  In areas of South Lebanon, they are available.  Even in Qulaylah (the AbuKhalil family village east of Tyre), liquor is available.  In the village of Safad Al-Battikh, there is a woman who has been selling liquor there. People close to Hizbullah built a mosque adjacent to her store in an attempt to embarrass her, but she was not swayed and kept here store.  In Nabatillah, most of the stores are in Kafar Rumman (five stores in one street) which is a historically communist area of the South.  In Nabatiyyah itself, there is a store (Awadah) which sells liquor despite objections from religious-minded people.  Hursh Al-`Abbasiyyah in Tyre is a gathering place for alcohol-loving people.  The rest house in Tyre and Sidon also sell liquor.  In Khayaran, Adlun, and Sarafand liquor are available at restaurants.   I am told about a Hizbullah rally that once covered a sign or liquor: the party officials removed the sign for the rally but then restored afterwards.  Look: in the 1980s, when Hizbullah was under the horrific leadership of Subhi Tufayli and a crazy brunch off intelligence people in Iran, the party (AND Amal movement) tried to impose a puritanical order in South Lebanon and the southern suburbs. That did not last: Lebanese are too sinful for such order of religious virtue to prevail. Now what about the southern suburbs: people may think that it is easy there to just cross to Christian neighborhood in Hadath and `Ayn Rummanah for liquor. Not anymore. I hereby announce that liquor can now be found in Shiyyah itself: at the new Monoprix.  Cheers.  Conclusion of this post? Lebanon is not what is presented in Now Hariri and Saudi media.