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Originally Posted by dlishsguy
in the religious/ideological sense powerclown. since hezbollah is essentially a shiite group with shiite clerics as the head of the group, its only natural that all religious shiites look to them as a source of wisdom or guidance, and hence identify with them in a religious sense. do i make any sense?
i guess it'd be the same as if say some fundo wacko ran for president of the united states of america, you'd get many of the fundos' voting for him based on that fact alone.
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Yes, that makes sense. I have to admit to being uncomfortable with the phrase "all religious shiites" identifying with hexbollah...where you have ordinary, peaceful shiites forced to identify with a militant religious group. Where is the moderate voice of the shiite population in Lebanon? Why is hezbollah allowed to be representative of the populace, when they are such a tiny minority in the official Lebanese government? Could there be something going on behind the scenes here?