‘We know how to retaliate’
Death upon death in Lebanon Tuesday as in one stroke suicide bombers hit Iran and Hizbullah in the Shia district of Janah, southern Beirut, writes Gamal Nkrumah
The site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut (photo: Reuters)
20-11-2013
The Shia factor in the Levantine body politic is increasingly metamorphosing into a dangerous debacle. The Lebanese news media do not agree on much. But they have been almost at one in condemning the suicide bomb blast that rocked the predominantly Shia suburb of Janah in southern Beirut. As Al-Ahram Weekly went to press, it became apparent that the death toll was no less than 40 and fast rising.
Why secularism must increasingly matte
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November 20, 2013, 8:21 pm
A Lebanese man runs in front of a burned car at the scene where two explosions struck near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 19, 2013
In fact, secularism must increasingly matter in the purported world of democracy if societies are to be spared murderous inter-religious violence and bloody disintegration. In South Asia, India has done well to obligate the state to maintain an equi-distance among the country’s religious communities.