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Posted on 03/27/2026 9:13:51 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Hizbullah's act of retribution for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has ignited a fierce, growing wave of opposition within the Shia community.
Following Hizbullah's March 1st missile launch at Israel in vengeance for Khamenei's death, the collective voice of Shia activists and citizens erupted against its actions.
The objectors condemned Hizbullah for plunging Lebanon into a war that exclusively served the Iranian regime's interests.
This conflict has displaced thousands of civilians, devastating their property and the Lebanese economy with its heavy, unbearable cost.
Shia citizens are now openly confronting Hizbullah, channeling their fury through defiant video clips.
In one viral message, political activist Hadi Murad issued a denouncement: "You are a party without a conscience; you are traitors to the Shia sect."
Shouting from his car in Beirut, he continued, "there is nothing left for us to fear. No - the Shia are not with you."
Shia journalist Badia Fahs, a native of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, wrote on her Facebook page: "Say it with me: Hizbullah is a traitor."
A regional conflict This demonstrates the potent opposition within the Shia community rejecting Hizbullah's betrayal of Lebanon's interests to serve the Iranian regime's regional conflict.
"The Shia majority saw no justification for Hizbullah launching missiles at Israel. Hizbullah has dragged the Shias, and Lebanon, into a needless regional war," Ali al-Amin, a political analyst and opponent of Hizbullah, told Al-Fassel.
Shia dissidents demand the state alone hold arms, in order to guarantee sovereignty, stability and security.
"The citizens, still reeling from the last war, now face a new one, displacement and fresh burdens with absolutely no financial resources," al-Amin added.
Anger among residents A wave of anger is spreading across southern Lebanon, the Southern Suburbs of Beirut and other regions.
Residents are furious, having been forcibly displaced for a second time by Hizbullah's war with Israel, as the first war was on October 8, 2023.
"The Shia community's soaring opposition to Hizbullah is driven by a stark realization that they are victims trapped in an endless conflict," political writer Ahmed Ayash told Al-Fassel.
"There is profound disillusionment regarding the current war, as well as the sheer scale of the destruction and displacement it has caused," he added.
Hizbullah's glaring failure to serve its base now fuels even more severe, escalating opposition.
The aftermath of this war guarantees the group's inability to meet the Shia community's crucial needs.
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All driven by Iran.
“The objectors condemned Hizbullah for plunging Lebanon into a war that exclusively served the Iranian regime’s interests.”
Hizbullah also dragged Lebanon into a world class economic disaster with hyperinflation.
It is now about 90,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar. What a pound would buy in 1980 (just after the mullahs took over in Iran, and began to export their revolution), would cost about 17.5 million pounds today.
But Iran s run by a Shia Mafia.
By a mafia yes.
Shia? A weird sect of Shia. Be like Westboro Baptists running the USA.
Sure there are a lot of Protestants in the USA. And a lot of Baptists, even.
But Westboro?
It’s amazing to me, but having 2 groups, both Muslims, who will fight each other when they can’t fight Jews or Christians...this is pretty hard to understand. Within the “Christian” community there are some who are at odds with each other about basic beliefs, but do you see them going to war against each other???? We can usually work side by side without it erupting into a war.
It’s amazing to me, but having 2 groups, both Muslims, who will fight each other when they can’t fight Jews or Christians...this is pretty hard to understand. Within the “Christian” community there are some who are at odds with each other about basic beliefs, but do you see them going to war against each other???? We can usually work side by side without it erupting into a war.
I'm by no means a muslim apologist but in fairness to them, islam is about 1400 years old, and when Christianity was the same age there was some pretty serious sectarian violence
Within the “Christian” community there are some who are at odds with each other about basic beliefs, but do you see them going to war against each other????
The Troubles?
The Inquisition, among other issues.
I wasn’t expecting that.
No one does.
I was watching Shogun (the new one; excellent) and was reminded of the bitter nastiness (on both sides) of the Protestant/Catholic and even Catholic/Jesuit divide.
As a Catholic whose friends and a fair bit of family are my Protestant brothers and sisters in Christ it was a grim reminder about how we, as Christians, have been quite stupid at times.
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