Dubai-based, Saudi private capital-funded pan-Arab news channel Al-Arabiya TV interviews live at 1716 gmt on 18 August Dr Hasan al-Shahhal, head of the Faith, Justice, and Charity Society who today signed a memorandum of understanding with Hezbollah on behalf of the Salafi trend, to comment on statements by Shaykh Da'i-al-Islam al-Shahhal, the founder of the Salafi trend in Lebanon, in which he dismissed the memorandum as "an attempt to divide Sunnis and Salafis."
On whether there are "deep divisions among Sunnis in Lebanon," Al-Shahhal, speaking over the phone from Tripoli, says: "There are no deep divisions, no, there is a misunderstanding between us and my cousin [Da'i-al-Islam]. We saw it fit to quickly sign such a memorandum of understanding so that we may help entrench civil peace in the country and ward off sedition because we fear that if we are late to act, then Lebanon might, God forbid, turn into another Iraq amid these horrible security conditions."
Asked if the signing itself has not "created a rift in the Sunni street," Al-Shahhal wishes that Da'i-al-Islam had chosen to comment on the repercussions of the memorandum instead of the memorandum itself.
Source: Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai, in Arabic 1716 gmt 18 Aug 08
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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