Lebanon between the legal and illegal terrorism

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The Lebanese societies have for a time been living between a legal Shiite terrorism embodied by the Hezballa party an illegal Sunni one embodied by different Jihad inspired organisations.

 For many Lebanese in Lebanon and Diaspora and to most countries, both sides are and should be terror stamped. The Hezballa party was legalized in the beginning of 1990 when Lebanon was under Arab Syrian occupation. The voices of the Christian Aramean Lebanese people and the moderate Arab Muslims were never heard. Later this party grew bigger and stronger and could take full control over areas of Shiite domination.

 The Sunni terror in Lebanon is not legal but is supported and financed by many Sunni Lebanese Arabs and Arabs of other nationalities. They are organisations like Fatah al Islam, al Qaida and others. Most headquarters are since years in the Sunni dominated town in the North, Tripoli.

 Both are stamped as terror organisations because their activities often are aimed to civilian targets, inside and outside Lebanon.

They are also very similar in their ideologies. Both believe Lebanon should be ruled by a strong Muslim leader. The extremist Shiites call him ayatollah and the Sunnis call him the Caliph.

The Shiites of Hezballa believes in the holy war against the infidels and so does the Sunni Al Qaida and others. Both want the Sharia of Muhammad (the Prophet of Islam) to be the judiciary system in the society.    

 The Muslim Lebanese Arabs do not always like this situation but they are too often passive and silent. The Christian Lebanese Aramean groups are unfortunately all too often passive because of their internal fights over power in different small regions.

Lebanon needs a common vision between all Christian groups and then a common vision between them and the Arab Muslims. Only then they would be able to stand strong and strike back all forces trying to make Lebanon an extremist Muslim state.