BEIRUT: Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Musawi Sunday lashed out at Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi over recent comments against the party, accusing him of becoming a burden to, rather than a minister for, justice.
“He who envisages justice should be a minister of it, and not a burden on it,” Musawi said in a clear message to Rifi. “Such attempts to compare the weapons of the takfiri groups with the weapons of the resistance are wrongful attempts that have no link to justice.”
Rifi Saturday called on the Army to raid Hezbollah’s warehouses in the southern suburbs of Beirut and other areas just as it was confiscating the weapons of jihadists in his home city of Tripoli.
He said that the state should not discriminate by raiding the warehouses of militants in Tripoli while turning a blind eye to Hezbollah’s arsenal all over Lebanon.
“It is unfair to compare the men of the resistance to the nationless murderers and criminals of the takfiri groups,” Musawi stressed in the speech he gave at an Ashoura ceremony at Marjayoun’s Mais al-Jabal village.
“There is a difference between a takfiri weapon killing Lebanese Army soldiers and innocent civilians and another [weapon] whose carrier gets martyred in defense of Lebanon and all the Lebanese.”
Army raids in Tripoli and other parts of the north came after four days of fighting between the Army and jihadist militants last month which killed 11 Lebanese soldiers.
Musawi’s speech is the latest in the war of words between Hezbollah and the Future Movement.
Last month, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk, from the Future Movement, accused Hezbollah of foiling security plans in Lebanon.
Musawi slammed Rifi’s mention of “equality and justice between the Lebanese,” and considered his comments as extortion against Hezbollah and its allies.
The Hezbollah official said that the attempts to picture the conflict as a battle between the takfiri ideology and that of Wilayat al-Fakih was for mere political interests.
“They are extorting the Lebanese by saying ‘if our will as moderates does not prevail you will be facing takfiris,’” he said, saying his political rivals’ strategy was clear and would backlash on them.
“If not for the blood of those martyr soldiers of Wilayat al-Fakih, the takfiris would have reached every Lebanese city and not only Tripoli and the north,” Musawi said.
Rifi said over the weekend that Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah considered himself a “soldier” under the Wilayat al-Fakih doctrine.
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