The Lebanese presidency, the government, and religious leaders confirmed their refusal to display religious symbols, after tension erupted between Hezbollah loyalists who made sectarian chants, and others demanded the disarmament of Hezbollah during the protests that usually come out to demand the improvement of the deteriorating economic conditions in the country.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that exposure to any religious symbol of any Lebanese sect is an attack on the entire Lebanese family, adding that his country's strength is in its national unity.
Aoun called - in a statement issued by the Lebanese presidency - political and spiritual officials to do what they must in order to stop any form of sedition resulting from the violation of religious sanctities.
He added that political differences should be set aside, and work should be speeded up to revitalize Lebanon from the depth of successive crises.
In turn, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said in a statement that his government condemns and denounces in the strongest terms all sectarian slogans or sectarian slogans, especially exposure to the mother of believers, Mrs. Aisha.
Diab called on all Lebanese and their political and spiritual leaders to be aware.
In turn, Dar Al-Fatwa warned in a statement against insulting the mother of the believers, Aisha, confirming that it was issued by ignorance of two motors.
Without referring to accusations extended to his supporters because of Mrs. Aisha, Hezbollah said in a statement that the abuses and chants of some people were rejected and condemned, stressing the sanctity of that.
In this context, the Secretary General of the Arab Islamic Council in Lebanon denounced the scholar Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini for insulting the Companions and the Mothers of the Believers, and emphasized that this is forbidden by Sharia, and it is one of the causes of sectarian strife in the country.
He called the Lebanese judiciary to criminalize those who insult and insult the mothers of the believers and the companions, may God be pleased with them.
Since October 17, 2019, Lebanon has witnessed popular protests raising economic and political demands that forced the Saad Hariri government to resign on the 29th of the same month.
On April 29 last year, the government of Hassan Diab unanimously approved a 5-year economic rescue plan to pull the economy out of sharp downturns that led to the inability to pay external debt.