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A Protestant mother. A Shiite son. A plea for vengeance on his killers. But unlike many responses to political martyrdoms in Lebanese history, she yields it to God. Last month in the Hezbollah-controlled south of Lebanon, unknown gunmen shot Lokman Slim in the head. It was a targeted assassination of a man dedicated to the hope that his small Middle Eastern nation might overcome sectarian divisions. He was his mother’s son. “I will not go and kill them, but ask God to avenge him,” said the grieving 80-year-old, Selma Merchak. “This comes from my faith in God as the great authority.” ....
Share: A protester carries a poster of the Lebanese activist and Hezbollah critic of Iran-backed Hezbollah Lokman Slim with Arabic words on the poster that read, “Hezbollah’s arms against who? Weapons of terrorism” during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday. Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE BEIRUT, Lebanon,– This week’s slaying of an anti-Hezbollah Shiite political activist in southern Lebanon and recent violent unrest in the northern city of Tripoli have increased fears the country is slipping into “security chaos” and facing an Iraq-style wave of silencing peaceful activists. “All the signs indicate that Lebanon has actually reached the level of security chaos…We are already there,” Riad Kahwaji, a Dubai-based Middle East security and defense analyst who heads the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, told UPI. ....