15 June 2009 - 19:30

BEIRUT: The United States is intent on weakening the region’s Christians, according to Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.

BEIRUT: The United States is intent on weakening the region’s Christians, according to Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.

The senior Shiite figure said he had observed “international movement, headed by the United States, at work, in one way or another, to see the exit of Christians from [domestic political formulas], or at least weaken them.

” Fadlallah, who was speaking on Sunday to a group of Norwegian delegates, also addressed the general situation in the Middle East, and commented that “everyone in the region is preparing for war, while the language of political salons is one of peace.”

He added that “the US administration is looking forward to more violence in the region, and it doesn’t differ from the previous administration, except in the method by which it deals with things.”

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