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Tripoli religious educators lament absence of justice
6-8-2018
The anguish of the religious educators at Awkaf Akkar continues, Al Diyar newspaper reported. Some 134 female and male educators who, despite their affiliation with the richest Awkaf charities in the country, live below the poverty line on scant salaries that are barely enough to pay their living expenses, Al Diyar wrote. Amidst harsh economic conditions, nearly half of these teachers are reluctant to teach or sign new contracts, particularly after the UAE suspended their financial grants worth of USD 300 per teacher six months ago, noting that these educators (males and females) depend on said grants for subsistence. Nonetheless, Al Diyar went on to say, the teachers are very hopeful the Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan, will resolve the impasse. The newspaper quoted the distressed educators as repeatedly criticizing the preferential attitude of the Directorate of Sunni Islamic Awqaf. They cited the assignment of multiple jobs to one sheikh thus bringing his monthly salary to more than LBP 1,500,000, in addition to his receiving a generous benefit package of LBP 15,000,000 annually, the payment of his children's school fees and the last four salaries of his work at Dar al Fatwa. While inconsistently, there are sheikhs whose monthly salaries do not exceed LBP 140,000, Al Diyar wrote, pointing to a general disappointment among sheikhs towards Saudi Arabia’s support to Wahhabi Salafist sheikhs in Lebanon, where each one of them is allocated USD 1,500 a month.(Al Diyar, August 1, 5, 2018)
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