The Jafarian Mufti, Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan, affirmed that the country is now on the "verge of the unknown" due to the destructive financial and economic policies of the country’s historical mafia, calling for a political rescue government.
The National News Agency reported in an urgent statement by Sheikh Qabalan that "the country is currently burning, and the worst is on the horizon; the nightmare of state collapse is catastrophic." Qabalan confirmed that the dollar game has turned Lebanon into a bomb of hunger and streets, noting that there are those killing Lebanese people without batting an eye. He pointed out the recent circular from Riad Salameh, which he believes has prompted the banking sharks to sweep dollars out of the country and convert the essential part to correspondent banks, meaning the siphoning off of dollars from the country and pushing the exchange rate above ten thousand Lebanese pounds on the premise that "tomorrow people will get used to it."
The Jafarian Mufti stated that despite what is happening, Riad Salameh and the banking sharks remain above the law, supported by political mafia and the state's feudalism and the wolves of finance. Qabalan continued that what we are witnessing now is a war of starvation, terror, burning, looting, recklessness, suffocation, and the killing of an entire people, while the corrupt authority sits on a decaying throne, with solutions non-existent because national capability is a market for traders without conscience. He emphasized that there are those insisting on a "victory or defeat" government.
Qabalan warned the political forces that the country is slipping into the unknown, stressing that the burden is very heavy and that the beginning of a solution must be through an exemplary political rescue government, away from the game of “defeat and victory.” The Jafarian Mufti noted that the equation now is either a political rescue government or the country slips into the unknown, warning that if the flames of the streets grow, the country will fly away, resulting in a catastrophic situation where if the country is lost, there will be no authority, public facilities, resources, security, and Lebanon will turn into a smoldering battlefield that never quenches its calamities.
