agnostic
Legendary Member
Copying some educative posts of Maître @elias-aj I can confidently write the following.
There are unfortunately more and more people who think they can get rid of what they consider being unlawful restrictions whereas these restrictions are set up to maintain peace and civility in a society. Thus in a sectarian country like Lebanon respecting laws' restrictions is an essential to maintain the ta3ayosh contract between the Lebanese communities.
There's a difference between voicing an opinion against anyone, and insulting him. Insulting someone is not protected under free speech. So no, one can't freely insult any person in public, whether his neighbour, a politician, a tv commentator...
Example : one can say publicly that Hezbollah is a terrible group, that he's the worst ever, that his policies and militari actions are bad useless etc. etc. etc. But he can't, publicly, use insults against Hezbollah his leadership, members, supporters or martyrs.
Back to the main question in this thread : Does labelling Hezbollah as terrorist break Lebanon's laws?
If we rely to what is said above, yes it breaks the laws since Hezbollah and his hardcore supporters who represent more or less 40 percent of the Lebanese, are not considered terrorist following Lebanon's laws. There are both defamation and insult by labelling them as terrorists.
Added to that, too many Lebanese Shias have been hunted, spoiled, imprisoned and killed, just for expressing their support to Hezbollah or even just for being Shias, under the excuse of supporting a terrorist group.
Finally I reiterate that people in this forum can always expose their opinions what ever these opinions may be in an intelligent and respectful manner, without breaking Lebanon's laws.
There are unfortunately more and more people who think they can get rid of what they consider being unlawful restrictions whereas these restrictions are set up to maintain peace and civility in a society. Thus in a sectarian country like Lebanon respecting laws' restrictions is an essential to maintain the ta3ayosh contract between the Lebanese communities.
There's a difference between voicing an opinion against anyone, and insulting him. Insulting someone is not protected under free speech. So no, one can't freely insult any person in public, whether his neighbour, a politician, a tv commentator...
Example : one can say publicly that Hezbollah is a terrible group, that he's the worst ever, that his policies and militari actions are bad useless etc. etc. etc. But he can't, publicly, use insults against Hezbollah his leadership, members, supporters or martyrs.
Back to the main question in this thread : Does labelling Hezbollah as terrorist break Lebanon's laws?
If we rely to what is said above, yes it breaks the laws since Hezbollah and his hardcore supporters who represent more or less 40 percent of the Lebanese, are not considered terrorist following Lebanon's laws. There are both defamation and insult by labelling them as terrorists.
Added to that, too many Lebanese Shias have been hunted, spoiled, imprisoned and killed, just for expressing their support to Hezbollah or even just for being Shias, under the excuse of supporting a terrorist group.
Finally I reiterate that people in this forum can always expose their opinions what ever these opinions may be in an intelligent and respectful manner, without breaking Lebanon's laws.