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Originally Posted by deAtheganized
People in Lebanon have no options..lets imagine this scenario...I wanted to go join a political party, what options do I have?
1- Old political secular parties who have made no changes although the ideas they are based on have fallen in the whole world (The political parties of the 60's and 70's affected by communism, 3abd l'naser wel kawmeyye l 3arabeyye)
2- Christian Sectarian Parties ( LF, Kate2eb and the sort... =.gif "):") I can't join those even if I wanted to 
3- 'Muslim' non-shiite Parties: You have two druze, well three if you count we2im wahhab's party  , again, I can't join them even if I wanted to. Sunni Political parties that don't fit under the first group are FM (I knew some shiites there who joined in the days of Friend of the Silky, they left the party naturally now), local parties whose interests extend only over one city (Omar Karami and Safadi in Tripoli, Bezri in Saida...) and finally Salafist Parties I like the idea of a Shiite applying to join a salafist party
4- Armenian Parties: Yeah exactly where I would fit in, do they even talk arabic in their meetings ?
5- Newer parties: These are parties that everyone knows will never matter Hidden under glorious names and they are nothing but ghost parties for some political figures. (haraket l yasar l demokrate, haraket l sha3eb, hezb l taw7id....)
6- FPM: Well lets just say this here. It will take me more than four years to forget Aoun's old stances on just about everything. That Orange book was really something. I am happy that he is an ally and happy with his stances, but joining his party would be going too far. Thats number one. Number two is that there is a lot of social issues I would disagree on with Aoun, if not now, later in the future. Number three, FPM is not a secular party, it is a party with secular ideals but still when we get closer to every elections we hear the same words. GMA near every elections, and out of all issues, starts concetrating on issues like the authority of the first president( using words like 'ed3af l markaz l masi7e l awwal')....It was so obvious in the elections in which Amine l'Jmayyel lost..
7- Shiite parties: There are only two parties...as we all know...and here are my only two options...
Follow the same logic for your own sect and you will see how few your options are. In some cases you get like only one option So whether the people you end up with are stealing their speeches or they are pure liars, they might be your only option.. |
FPM seeks balance among the lebanese religions and sects in order to reach the
دولة مدنية faster where all of the guys and girls are being represented anywhere at anytime without any discrimination. when the sunna are in trouble, aoun talks about it, when the chi3a are in trouble aoun talks about it when the christians are in trouble aoun talks about it...
examples:
Sunna of akkar's discrimination, no one but aoun talked about it.
july war on chi3a, aoun offered everything to the people from the south in order to survive
Saudi war on the christians through hariri and co. aoun did everything to keep the christians alive, and concerning the presidency issue, he was right. why can't we talk about the ra2is majles nouweb and the prime minister but we can curse the president?
now, going back to FPM on the ground as ministers...
Jebran Bassil lowered the costs of phones for all the lebanese not just for the christians on keserwen jbeil
Alain Tabourian (FPM's ally) did something good for the electricty where all the lebanese share it equally
Mario Aoun found many moustawsafet in all of the lebanese regions in need not just in christian areas
Elias Skaff is covering Tachjeer events from north to south not just in zahle.
and the list will go on once we win the elections... everything we're working on proves that we're working for a moujtama3 madaneh bi emtiyez away from ma7soubiyyet w 3asabiyet ta2ifiye w mazhabiye...