BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun is set to join Muslim and Christian religious figures and politicians for a conference on coexistence in Lebanon.
Aoun said that he is set to participate in a conference titled "The Family and the Challenges of the Era in the Middle East," which will be held over Nov. 7-8 in a religious center in Rabweh.
“We will meet, Muslims and Christians, to reflect together on the dangers that threaten the existence of Christians in the Levant and the principles of co-existence and national unity in Lebanon,” Aoun said. These dangers were aggravated by the emergence of extremist movements, which Aoun argued were born out of the “so-called Arab Spring.”
"We are going to meet to decry movements” that have rejected political democracy, ignored freedom of conscience and belief, and denied the freedom of expression and the right to difference, he said.
The FPM leader expressed hopes the conference would issue recommendations that serve to “protect the free existence of Muslim and Christian,” calling for a “triumph of true Islam - a religion of mercy, tolerance and acceptance."
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