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Lebanese Shias Who Support The Syrian Revolution

February 11, 2012 · Mustapha Hamoui

They have formed a Facebook group. In Lebanese code-speak, “Lebanese from the south” is a euphemism for people who live in majority-Shiaa areas that overwhelmingly vote for Hezbollah.

Such initiatives are helpful because, although small, they form symbolic and important stereotype-breakers. Like Egyptian copts who protected Muslim revolutionaries while praying in Cairo and Fadwa Suleiman, the pro-revolution Syrian Alawit celebrity, they are useful counterpoints to people who see the revolutions in purely sectarian lights.

Read more about this group in English here. (Thanks Imad)