Michel Kilo’s “Plea to Patriarch Rai”

Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo (who’s a Christian):

Instead of warning us from this status quo, [Patriarch Rai] should have broken himself of it after the Maronite church had adopted it, well before the Declaration of Greater Lebanon and its establishment upon an administrative distribution between the church and the Sunnis to the detriment of the Shias who were at that time poor, downtrodden people.

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Whom is he trying to fool by his prejudgments and concerns that contradict the core of his church’s historical stances and his daily personal positions? Besides, whom is he trying to convince when he says that Maronites might lose their position as a result of a Sunni/Shia conflict emerging in Lebanon and the region and not as a result of the natural social growth and the increase of Lebanon’s awareness of the importance of justice and equality?

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