Sheikh Kassem warns against meddling with personal status laws and promoting

The Deputy Secretary General of Hizbullah, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said yesterday that he rejected any infringement on the personal status laws in effect in the Lebanese courts and replacing them with civil laws under any title or name. Kassem who was speaking during a conference held by Lebanese Cultural League Association said return to Shari’ and the jurists is required to inspire solutions for problems and later amend the personal status laws in the shari’a courts based on the jurists’ commendations with reference to religious sources, as he put it. Kassem maintained that he will not accept any maneuvering in the form of infiltrating a civil law to resolve a separate case or cases that will transgress against religious personal status laws. “Recently, a seemingly misguided group of people launched a campaign in the media to forge an amendment of the laws. A previous attempt which failed, thank God, sought to impose a law on marital rape under the title of domestic violence,” Kassem claimed. “This is totally in contradiction with the spirit of marriage,” he stated. “It is true, at the end of the day, when domestic violence is related to beating a woman or child, it is considered civil law because it has to do with physical beating,” Qassem expounded, but warned that any “tampering with the laws is unacceptable”. As to homosexuality Kassem said: “Dealing with homosexuality as a moral and educational deviance or perversion requires reform, and those who promote or encourage it should be punished. As for the sufferer, he must receive help to get rid of his malaise. Homosexuality will never be a natural tendency as it is contrary to nature, and the opposite leads to the decadence of the family,” he concluded. (Al Diyar, An Nahar, April 7, 2017)
 
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