The case of a once-Christian Lebanese town that bars Muslims from buying and renting property sparks a national outcry. By bmroue
In this Thursday, June 20, 2019 photo, Mohammed Awwad, 27, a Lebanese Muslim who was prevented from renting an apartment in the Christian village of Hadat, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon. The town's Muslim ban, imposed years ago, has recently sparked a national outcry. The case reflects Lebanon's rapidly changing demographic make-up against the backdrop of deep-rooted sectarian divisions that once erupted into a 15-year civil war.
The young Shiite Muslim man could not believe what he heard and asked his fiancee, Sarah Raad, to call the municipality and she, too, was told that the ban had been in place for years. Hadat is the only area where such a ban is publicly announced. Local officials in Christian areas in central, eastern and southern Lebanon impose such bans in more discreet ways. In the predominantly Christian southern region of Jezzine, some local officials have changed the status of land in their villages from commercial to agricultural in order to prevent mass construction projects while in other villages and towns only locals are allowed to buy property.
“When he says Muslims are not allowed to rent property he means that he does not want to see Muslims,” Awwad said, referring to Hadat Mayor George Aoun.Aoun strongly defended his decision, noting it was made in 2010, shortly after he was elected to the post. He said at the end of Lebanon’s civil war in 1990, Hadat was a purely Christian town but by 2010, tens of thousands of Muslims, many of them Shiites from Dahiyeh, moved in.
In response, hundreds of supporters marched in Hadat supporting the mayor’s decision over the weekend. Aoun told the crowd that he will commit to the ban until “doomsday.”
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