Minister of Culture Judge Mohammad Wissam Al-Murtada warned against "falling prey to despair programs that prompt us to emigrate, allowing this land to belong to others, specifically the displaced, whom evil intends to settle here instead of the Lebanese, particularly the Christians. This aims at achieving several goals, the most important of which is eliminating diversity that represents the moral opposite of the racism of the evil entity planted south of our borders."
During his patronage and presence at a ceremony honoring intellectual, literary, and poetic figures from the town of Rashmiya in the Aley district, attended by a group of political personalities, regional deputies, and cultural and social figures, along with Mrs. Salwa Khattab, the head of the Rashmiya Festivals Committee, Al-Murtada stated: "We must write this chapter and reinforce it by not becoming captives of the whispers of the misled and the misguiders. We need to be aware, with hearts united and determined to continue living together, and to hold on to the partner Other in this homeland with an attachment that cannot be broken, and to rejoice in them with boundless joy, because it is only in this way that Lebanon will survive and return as a space of encounter on the values of freedom, goodness, truth, and beauty."
