WHAT IS SECTARIANISM IN LEBANON?

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 What is sectarianism In Lebanon?

    However, before predictions of this group’s failure or success are made it is incumbent upon us to think seriously and critically about what ending political sectarianism entails, and consequently, about what sectarianism is and therefore the myriad ways during which it functions to supply and animate the conditions of possibility for both “Lebanon” as a nation state and “Lebanese citizenship” as a category of everyday practice. This is the unfortunate outcome of sectarianism, which cultivates a culture of continuous divisiveness.

    By some counts (although it is always prudent to be wary of protestor counts) more than 10,000 people participated in the last protest. For the past five weeks, growing numbers of people have taken to the streets stating their refusal of both the March 14 and March 8 coalitions and demanding the end of sectarianism in Lebanon. Even among Sunnis, these divisions found a place to lead one Sunni group to seek to destroy another. In politics, sectarianism has been burdened by strong negativity since its birth. While it's still early to call what's happening a “movement” and it's definitely too early to call it an uprising, what's happening cannot, and will not, be discounted or cynically dismissed as doomed to failure.

Overthrowing Political Sectarianism:

    Even if, hypothetically, the threat of religious fanaticism was one day eradicated by strong armed tactics, any form of fanaticism is likely to resurge so long as the root of fanaticism still exists, which is fanatical sectarianism. It will have succeeded in being the impetus for the formation of networks that will last far beyond these weekly protests. Even if it does fail in its stated goal of “overthrowing political sectarianism” it will have succeeded in inspiring thousands of people across Lebanon and its diaspora. First in a politician report on Quebec, entitled Building The Future: A Time for Reconciliation which is in response to Quebec’s increasing public discontent concerning religious accommodation and also in a later work entitled Secularism and Freedom of Conscience .

    In 1990, with the Taif Agreement, the constitution was revised but didn't structurally change aspects concerning political sectarianism. The dynamic nature of sectarianism in Lebanon has prompted some historians and authors to ask it as "the sectarian state par excellence" because it's an amalgam of spiritual communities and their myriad sub-divisions, with a constitutional and political order to match.

 Marginalizing Groups:

    Atheistic governments in World War II and post war Soviet Union not only resulted in the most abhorrent governance in history, they also committed the crime of murdering millions. Sectarianism regards its own sects because the only truth and thus demands interest, evaluation, recognition and respect for its own group. The sectarian mentality does not stop by marginalizing people of different sects; it finds ways to divide and pit a man against his brother as soon as they eradicate the proverbial cousin.

Sectarianism? – Leading Light Communist Organization:

    Religious extremism is an imminent threat to human civilization, but punishing the extremists and even condemning the religion will not solve extremism on a fundamental level. In this blog, I am going to clarify two matters,

1)   secularism by no means denotes sectarianism, in fact secularism opposes sectarianism;
2)   it is sectarianism rather than any religion intrinsically that leads to religiously fanatical violence.

What is sectarianism?

    Western misreading also led to a failure to anticipate how Iran, the most powerful Shiite state, and Turkey, the most powerful Sunni one, would agree to not allow their very real differences to prevent understandings from being reached. This blog aims to briefly consider one of the challenges. Should American troops withdraw from Iraq, the differences between the two—between Iranian and Iraqi nationalism, and between the dominant Iranian and Iraqi variants of Shiism will likely come to the fore.

     It has been inspiring to ascertain men and ladies from all age groups, areas and socio-economic strata march together through parts of Southern Beirut, East Beirut, West Beirut and the rest of the country shouting slogans like “we want the top of political sectarianism”. It led to misjudgment of the dynamics underpinning relations between Iranian and Iraqi Shiites, driven less by sectarian solidarity than by common anxiety over the role of the United States. Christians did not stop persecuting each other and causing large-scale bloodshed until the 19th century. Before entering a more in-depth analysis of these questions, I begin with a table that summarizes some of my claims.

 Secularism Solution:

    Secularism used to be seen as the best solution for people who share different religions to harmoniously live together in the world. In short, Taylor objects to secularism because the underlying view of the world and of human nature as an all- encompassing secular philosophical conception is not liable to be shared by all citizens, and those who embrace any sort of religion are becoming second-class citizens, a fact which ultimately renders secularism into a sectarian doctrine. It also caused Washington to miscalculate the impact of Russia’s support for the Syrian regime. It was subsequently reinforced with the creation of the Republic of Lebanon in 1920 and its 1926 constitution, and within the National Pact of 1943.
    However this idea has been severely challenged in the past two decades. It is fanatical sectarianism that keeps people apart, not certain sects of beliefs or doctrines themselves.

    Sectarianism in Lebanon has been formalized and legalized within state and non-state institutions and is inscribed in its constitution. The foundations of sectarianism in Lebanon go back to the mid-19th century during Ottoman rule.