Greater Lebanon and the South: Maronites, Shia and Sectarian History

When Greater Lebanon is asked, what happened in the south?

The Shia attacked all the villages. Maronite and Christian villages.

And massacres were committed.

Bro, why? What did we ever do to you? What did those people do to you?

What did they do to you? They wanted to join Syria. If you had joined Syria,

would you have had any existence?

You would have been a crushed minority in Syria, with a Sunni majority.– Right.

What role would you have had?

If it were not for Greater Lebanon giving you this basic foundation.

Man, the Higher Shia Council,

if it were not for the Maronites, there would be no Higher Shia Council.

They would have been under Sunni Dar al- Ifta. – One hundred percent true.

So what I want to tell you is how important it is

that we go back and deal with the issue,

the issue of the Shia question in the country.

Okay, Gouraud asks the Patriarch,“ Look,

send the French army to calm things down in the south,

the massacres that were committed against these innocent people are a shame,

they have nothing to do with it, they are not involved in politics,

these are peasant people, illiterate, living on this land, just like the Shia,

the same as everyone else.” - The same thing.

I committed these massacres against them like this, for free. Okay.

Now later you will see

that the Sunni He got involved with the state and became an essential part of it.

And we mean Abdel Raouf Sano, whom I salute, The great professor,

former president of Maqasid,

and one of the most important historians in this country, Kisni,

if you read his works, he deserves a medal

from the Lebanese Republic, Because of how great and refined this idea is.

What does it tell you?

It tells you that you Maronites used to be the strongest thing, but you did not

monopolize power.