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Mufti of Tyre: "The Shi'ite Community in Lebanon Authorized No One to Declare War in its Name"
[MEMRI] The Mufti of Tyre, Sayyed 'Ali Al-Amin, told the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar on Aug. 22: "I don't think Hizballah asked the Shi'ite community about the war. Perhaps the great emigration from the south is the best proof that the people of the south were against the war. The Shi'ite community authorized no one to declare war in its name or to drag it into a war that was far from its wishes and from the wishes of the other ethnic communities in Lebanon. What happened in the south does not represent the will of the Shi'ite community, and is not its responsibility, but was caused by the vacuum that the Lebanese state left for years in this region." ()