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Last week, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, the influential patriarch of the Maronite church, composed a list at France's behest of potential names from which the rival parliamentary blocs could select a President. The list allegedly includes candidates favored by both factions as well as some independent names. So far no potential consensus candidate has emerged as both camps continue to press for their own choices for the presidency...
Saudi proselytizers are also interested in Muslims in the U.S. and other Western countries. Says Antoine Sfeir, the Lebanese-born editor of the Parisian quarterly Notebooks of the East: "Their message to Muslims in Europe and America is so extreme and intolerant: 'Do not accept their ways, and do not consider yourself as one of them. You only exist as a Muslim, respecting Muslim values alone...
Nasrallah Sfeir, the patriarch of Lebanon's Maronites, the country's largest Christian group, pleaded in vain for the factions to stop fighting. "This is suicide," he lamented...
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