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Government pushing Lebanon toward Islam, archbishop warns July 06, 2007
Lebanon's government is promoting a policy of "Islamization," a Maronite Catholic leader has complained.
Archbishop Beshara Rai of Byblos told the Lebanese newspaper As Safir that the country's Christians are being treated increasingly like "outsiders in their own country." He charged that Prime Minister Fouad Seniora has failed to protect the tradition of inter-religious cooperation and coexistence in Lebanon.
In a struggle for power between Sunni and Shiite Muslims factions, the archbishop said, Christians are inevitably the losers. He told As Safir: "If the the Sunnis and Shiites agree, their agreement would come at the expense of the Christians. And if they disagree, the Christians become their victims."
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