Controversy in Sidon: Islamic Group and Ahbash Clash in Militia Security Incident

2023-05-07 20:35:35

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Controversy in Sidon raises tension.. and a scathing statement from the “Islamic Group” against the “Ahbash”

The “Islamic Group” in Sidon considered in a statement that “the statement reported by some media outlets attributed to the Al-Ahbash Projects Association, in which it claims to have been attacked by elements affiliated with the Islamic Group, included lies and slander aimed at misleading public opinion with the aim of covering up their militia transgressions and their glorifying acts.” They committed it in Sidon today, which no Sidonian is silent about“.

He added: “The people of the city, specifically on the sea corniche behind the Grand Omari Mosque, were surprised by strangers from the city riding in four-wheel drive cars, interrogating passers-by, filming them and asking them about the reason for their presence and their destination in a militia security manner, and this was rejected by one of the city’s residents who was going to his home in The same place, after making sure that they are not affiliated with any official security agency, and he demanded that he not be photographed, so one of them did nothing but raise a sack containing nails in his face in addition to the military weapon that appeared in the car, then a stampede occurred after the people of the region stood by the son of their neighborhood And they were able to expel the alien aggressors from the city and snatch the phone and the laptop.”

Earlier, the Al-Ahbash Projects Association issued a statement saying: “Several days ago, there has been a campaign of suspicious incitement, insults and slander against the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects by motorists in the beloved city of Sidon and others on social media and others, and this campaign leads to sedition.”

And she continued: “And today, Sunday, there was an attack by two motorists on some of the association’s youth, after the end of its activity in Sidon today and the people’s departure, and not as they claimed and slandered that the association’s youth were the ones who assaulted them, and this matter is documented.”

The statement concluded: “We are in the process of prosecuting everyone who sought to harm the youth of projects in the beloved, safe Sidon.”