REPORT: Mufti Qabbani says expulsion of Iraqi Christians 'not linked to Islam'

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REPORT: Mufti Qabbani says expulsion of Iraqi Christians 'not linked to Islam'
Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani stressed on Monday the need to elect a new president and hold parliamentary polls after agreeing on an electoral law that represents all parties.

“Lebanon's politicians have been seduced by arrogance and unilateralism while citizens are grappling with poverty and hunger,” Qabbani said during his Eid al-Fitr sermon at Mohammed al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut.        

“The solution lies in ending our discrepancies and steering clear of regional policies,” Qabbani said.          
Turning to the situation in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, Mufti Qabbani said "the forced expulsion of Iraqi Christians is not linked to Islam".       

The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.           

The ultimatum by the Islamic State drove out the few hundred Christians who had stayed on when the group's hardline Sunni Muslim fighters overran Mosul a month ago, threatening Christians and the diverse city's other religious communities.          


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