The candidate for the Sunni seat in Beirut’s second district, Brigadier General Mahmoud Jamal, denounced, in a statement today, “the ugly scenes of naked people, women and men, wandering in downtown Beirut.”
He said: “We are a faithful and conservative Lebanese society, that believes in moral values and religious principles as conviction and practice, and what we have witnessed today indicates the moral decay in expression and practice and the fall of values, as we cannot understand such practices regardless of the justifications and arguments, because freedom of practice stops at violating the freedom of others and their convictions.
And he concluded: “We note the role of the security forces and their quick move to arrest these, and we call on the competent judiciary to take deterrent measures not to repeat such far-fetched anomalies from our societies and values, and are rejected by all segments of society.”