(Completely OT, but Slim and Jill Andrews sang a great love song duet: Sea of Love)
Posted on 04/07/2021 1:23:38 PM PDT by Marinario
Lokman Slim was a rare Shiite Muslim who openly criticized the extremist group for its militancy in Lebanon and the Middle East. He was found dead in a car with multiple bullet wounds.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A prominent Lebanese critic of the militant group Hezbollah was found dead on Thursday after being shot multiple times in what his friends called a political assassination.
Lokman Slim, 58, was a publisher and filmmaker who was among a small group of political activists from the country’s Shiite Muslim minority who openly criticized Hezbollah, a Shiite extremist group, for its violent role in the country and the wider Middle East.
Mr. Slim’s killing came at a time of multiple crises that have pushed Lebanon to the brink of collapse. Its political system is nearly paralyzed, its economy is in free-fall, and many of its people are still suffering the aftereffects of a huge explosion in the Beirut port in August that killed more than 200 people.
For weeks, Lebanon has been under total lockdown, with a 24-hour curfew aimed at slowing the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
The killing of Mr. Slim, which the Lebanese authorities said they were investigating, raised fears among his supporters that the country could slide into a new period of political killings similar to those it had suffered through in the past. Assassinations have been rare in recent years, but multiple killings of politicians, journalists and security officials mar the country’s history.
“It is dangerous that there could be a return to assassinations,” said Ali al-Amine, a Shiite journalist and Hezbollah critic who considered Mr. Slim a friend.
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May he burn in hell
hey it’s happening over there.
“Islam is a religion of Peace” Mohammad said: “There is no compulsion in religion” and then he slaughtered those who would not embrace his religion.
(Completely OT, but Slim and Jill Andrews sang a great love song duet: Sea of Love)
Just curious as to why he should burn in hell if he was a “A prominent Lebanese critic of the militant group Hezbollah”?
Why fo you want him to burn in hell?
He criticized Hezbollah
Democrats want to bring that here.
My bad. I was in a hurry and misread it. I thought it said "Cleric" instead of "Critic".
Hey It happens to us all
You show class by admitting it
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