What a shame and what an evil conduct. Our Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bchara Al Raei is apparently worshiping power and earthly materials. He is not only keeping a blind eye on Hezbollah's scheme to confiscate the Lebanese Christian land (real estate properties) all over Lebanon via mere terrorism and petro dollar temptations and tactics.

No not only that, but he is personally playing a very active role in this Iranian Mullahs' expansionism scheme. The latest scandal in this evil realm was aired on the MTV yesterday. The Lebanese/Arabic report aired confirmed with solid proves and live statements by local witnesses that Al Raei is renting Maronite Church pieces of land with very low fees to a very suspicious thug of merciless merchants and pro Hezbollah groups in the heart of the Lebanese Christian area of Kesrwan, and specifically in Al Gynieh mountainous Al Jerd Maronite town.

According to the report, the towns' residents, municipality officials and dignitaries are seriously planning to abort this scheme by all means . The report exposed Al Rae's vicious and anti Christian role.

We, Strongly believe that the Lebanese Maronites in both Lebanon and Diaspora are urgently and immediately required to take this bold and very scary atrocity to the Pope and to the Eastern Vatican Council before it is too late because it direly threatens their own entity, existence, history and future.

This man, Al Raei is currently in India for a one week tour, although no Maronites or Maronite congregations do exist in this country.  He must be stopped and immediately and the renting contracts be revoked.

It is time to say no, a big and loud no for all the derailed activities, stances, coalitions, conducts and insults that our Maronite Patriarch, Al Raei is committing. His acts are open insults to all our Martyrs and to the essence and core of our holy and blessed Lebanon, the unique and distinctive country. The peace and coexistence message and  the role model to the whole word.

Say no and say it loudly with no fear or compromises before Lebanon is Iranized. Definitely history will not have mercy on all those Lebanese who do not take the right stances in the right time and right manner. History's bin will be waiting for all those who keep a blind eye on this existential threat.

God and Virgin Merry safeguard Lebanon from the all the mercenaries and the temple merchants.
 

Click on the below Lebanese- Arabic links to watch and listen to what actually is going on

Vedio/ http://mtv.com.lb/Special_Reports/Ghineh_Scandal_19_Sep_2012

Audio/ http://216.18.20.116/reports/gyne scandal20.09.12.wma

There is no connection between the Hon. Moslmane speech on the war on Iraq and Desmond Tutu's call for prosecuting Blair and Bush and the Sydney protest. Mr. O'Farrel shamefully wanted to tarnish the stance that the Hon. Moslmane  have taken on the Protest and to try to make him look like part of the problem. He effectively paints him as part of the extremists out there.

Mr. O'farrel: I was disturbed to read that 13 days ago, in the other place, a member of the Labor Party sought to bring those hatreds into this Parliament when the Hon. Shaoquett Moselmane raised in the Upper House the issue of the Iraq War and urged that George Bush and Tony Blair should be tried as war criminals. That is the sort of hatred and tension that leads to these situations, and it ought to be condemned by every member opposite. This is not the Federal Parliament; this is not a place to discuss foreign affairs—as much as the member for Liverpool would like it to be. We should be doing all we can as citizens of this State and as representatives of this State to ensure that the harmony that exists in this State is retained. Speeches like that of the Hon. Shaoquett Moselmane do completely and utterly the opposite. A right to protest does exist in this country but it comes with a responsibility to do so peacefully and in accordance with the law. Any repeat of last Saturday's events will be strongly met by a police response. Police know they have the full support of this Government to deal with violent protest wherever it occurs across the State and with whoever is responsible. The events of Saturday were a blight upon this city, and they must not be allowed to be repeated. With the efforts of the police those responsible will be brought to justice

Labor MLC Shaoquett Moselmane today condemned the protests in Sydney last weekend.

 "The events on the weekend deserve unconditional condemnation," Mr Moselmane said in the Legislative Council.

 "Those who truly study and worship in the Islamic faith are peace-loving and tolerant.

 "I condemn the attacks on the Islamic faith, and I also condemn attacks on all faiths."

 Mr Moselmane also called for all Australians to unite against bigotry and accept one another.

 "As Australians, we must live together and accept one another," he said.

 "We have worked hard to achieve what we have here today."

  

Lebanon is designed as a safe haven to nurture a dynamic, resourceful, creative and faithful people.

Its biblical land of enduring, tenacious and imperishable cedars became a cradle for a bliss nascent from the "cross-pollination" of myriad civilizations.

The harmony and coherence of peaceful and collaborative coexistence in this earthly heaven survived many clashes stemming from the influence of atrocious intrusions of conflicting political, dogmatic and confessional bigotry and "exorcism".

Regrettably, the vicious crimes committed by mobs of maniacs whose brains were loaded and saturated with hatred and aggressive beliefs are terrorizing the targeted groups and pushing the survivors to reluctantly leave their homeland and seek safe refuge abroad.

Among those Christians were the most vulnerable victims who under constant duress and despair were displaced or moved out of their land.

The Christians in Lebanon, whose demography and geography are shrinking, are regarded as the backbone of those living in the middle-East.

Christians of Lebanon are a pillar of its foundation and an active and indispensable component of its social fabric.

Without Christians Lebanon loses its "raison d'être" (reason of existence), its luster, role and humanistic vocation.

That is why Pope John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI summoned the bishops of the oriental churches to convene in two synods to discuss how to cope with hardships and challenges the Christians and their churches are facing in the Middle-East.

The outcome of each synod was redacted and issued in a Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Special Assembly for the Middle East ( "New hope for Lebanon" by Pope John Paul II and "Ecclesia in Medio Oriente" by Pope Benedict XVI) signed during a ceremony in the Basilica of St Paul, Harissa, by each Pope during a visit to Lebanon ( Pope John Paul II on May 10-11, 1997; Pope Benedict XVI on 14-16 Sep. 2012), to give righteous counsel about strengthening faith, adhering to the church teaching, supporting justice, respecting human dignity and fostering brotherly relationship with fellow citizens.

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI framed the Exhortation with "the light of this Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross" which raises the specter of the Paschal Mystery and transforms "our sufferings into a declaration of love for God and mercy for our neighbour".

He also urged the faithfuls to "stand firm in truth and in purity of faith", cling to hope, dwell in their homeland and maintain the role of peace makers and earnest advocates of mutual concord.

His meeting with religious leaders from other denominations highlights the call for a communion of tolerance, respect, reciprocal entente and collaboration.

"The Exhortation shows openness to authentic interreligious dialogue based on faith in the one God, the Creator."

Each Exhortation propagates an encouraging and soothing message that transcend local population to become universally welcomed, pondered, observed and cherished not only by Lebanese and middle eastern people but by every human being.

Every country is moving, at varied pace, on the same path that Lebanon evolves on.

Therefore the success of the Lebanese life journey is in the interest of every country because its own is eventually destined to the same fate.

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No one sane or actual faithful in the whole world who honestly believes in human rights, democracy, values the humane life and freedom of speech can agree or accept the angry and bloody demonstrations and riots that unfolded in Libya, Egypt and other Muslim countries in response to a film by a U.S. producer that mocks and insults the Muslim's Prophet Muhammad.

The movie, "Innocence of Muslims," was directed and produced by an American real-estate developer who characterized it as a political effort to call attention to "the hypocrisies of Islam", as he alleged. It has been promoted by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose burning of Qurans previously sparked deadly riots around the world.

We strongly believe that the film in question was an unwise, stupid, and a merely provocative one. The producer identified a problem as he stated, but in reality he did not do any good to tackle this problem,  on the contrary he made it much worse.

If he really was genuine in his approach of problem solving, he would have utilized the millions of dollars that were spent on the film to help his own people in Israel and in other countries. Definitely declaring a war via a provocative movie on another religion that fosters hatred and widens divisions is not by any means a solution and will never be.

In the same realm this is not the right way for the Libyan people to show their gratitude for the USA who with all its military mighty and economic capabilities helped in freeing them from the butcher and dictator Muammar al-Qadhafi and his family

This savage reaction that took three American innocent lives at the American embassy in Libya is extremely impulsive and does not benefit Libya or its people who after years of oppression are now enjoying freedom because of the American - Western help. The same argument and rule applies to Egypt too.

Definitely this bloody and uncalculated reaction in Libya and Egypt will make the Western world more hesitant in helping the Syrian people to oust al-Assad dictatorship regime. Here and because of this bloody and Stone Age reaction the Syrian people will be forced to suffer more and more without any Western military help to end their misery.

This is not the first such religious based bloody disaster, and definitely it would not be the last unless the actual deeply rooted problem is identified and treated with openness, knowledge and courage. Accordingly, one might ask where the dilemma of such evil and murderous actions and reactions lie? The answer lies totally in the context of education, reality, and tolerance.

The most vital part of the solution lies within the hands and boundaries of the Muslim countries and the Muslims. They MUST understand once and forever that the Western secular, free and democratic countries have different concepts from their own in regards to freedom, democracy, religions, religious rituals and religious figures.

These differences that they are not yet able to accept and live with are governed by laws that ensure and protects them. Those Westerns, officials, journalists, religious figures, citizens etc. who breach these laws are dealt with through the judiciary systems, and not by bloody attacks, Jihad, intimidations, riots or threats.

Another vital reality that MUST be totally assimilated by the Muslim countries and Muslims is that the entire secular countries in the whole world recognize no such Muslim Sharia laws as apostasy and blasphemy that Muslim countries enforce. So the criteria and standards for what is a taboo, holy and righteous, are totally different between the Western world and the Muslim countries.

Accordingly, the right, productive and effective means for Muslim countries and Muslims be individuals or groups to protest any western anti-Islamic policies, acts, movie, books, articles, studies, pictures etc. is through the Western judiciary system and its well known procedures.

Definitely burning Western flags, attacking Western embassies, assassinating Christians or Jews anywhere in the world, burning churches or hijacking airplanes etc. is not the solution or the deterrence for any anti-Islamic rhetoric or acts. On the contrary such acts hurt those who execute them and portrays them as outlaws.

Based on all of the above we strongly condemn the production of the USA movie "Innocence of Muslims", due to the bare fact that it will not achieve anything that is good, but at the same time we condemn more the bloody riots that took innocent lives and which will also foster the hatred and grudges.

In conclusion, the remedy for such ongoing religious fatal and futile confrontations is more openness, more education, more awareness, more tolerance and more living realities not fantasies

 Foreign Minister Bob Carr today said Australia has taken an active role in responding to Egypt’s transition following President Mubarak's resignation on 11 February 2011.
Senator Carr said Australia committed a $21 million package to assist in this transition.
“The funding is focused on food security and agricultural productivity, employment for Egyptian youth, and mine action,” Senator Carr said.
“This includes spending $5 million over 4 years on a crop irrigation improvement project targeting small scale farmers in the Nile Delta.
“We are also providing $6 million over 4 years on youth employment generation programs.
“$6 million over 5 year will go towards agriculture research programs to improve salinity and agriculture production in the Nile Delta through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
“AusAID will also place a full-time officer in Cairo starting in January 2013 to manage Australia’s aid engagement.”
AusAID will undertake a scoping mission to Egypt and Tunisia in September, to develop options for further support to the region.  
Additionally, Egypt also has access to both short course and long term Masters and agricultural PhD scholarships under the Australia Awards initiative.
In 2012 Egypt received 30 awards, including 3 Masters Awards in agriculture, and 27 short course awards in agriculture and technical vocational education and training.
In 2013 Egypt will receive 4 Masters Awards in agriculture and in water and sanitation. 
Senator Carr was in Egypt between 4-7 September.

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