{"id":1015,"date":"2012-02-04T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2012-02-04T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T16:47:22","slug":"lebanon-suffers-political-conflict-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/lebanon-suffers-political-conflict-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Suffers Political Conflict in Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, Vice-Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, described the current situation in Lebanon as \u201cvery bad.\u201d He warned that this may hinder the Lebanese from dealing with their critical challenges, whether from the Zionist enemy or domestic issues.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive to IslamOnline.net, the prominent scholar rejected the viewpoint that Lebanon is undergoing a sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. \u201cIt is pseudo-sectarian,\u201d he explained, \u201cthe conflict has nothing to do with sectarianism, but it is twisted to seem sectarian, which makes things even worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bin Bayyah had supported sending a delegation of scholars to Lebanon to mediate an end to the clash, seeing high prospects of a \u201cpossible solution.\u201d However, Bin Bayyah stated that: \u201cNow, the region is set on fire and there seems to be a\u00a0faint chance for such endeavor to go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, Vice-Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, described the current situation in Lebanon as \u201cvery bad.\u201d He warned that this may hinder the Lebanese from dealing with their critical challenges, whether from the Zionist enemy or domestic issues. In an exclusive to IslamOnline.net, the prominent scholar rejected the viewpoint that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[108,109,107],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-insights","tag-lebanon","tag-political","tag-suffers-political-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binbayyah.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}