One Remark on a Dead Minister
Lebanon’s industry minister, Pierre Gemayel, was assasinated last week in Beirut.
I don’t have much to say about this ordeal, just one small side issue that I noticed, and seemed to slip from most reports in the media.
The late minister was buried last week in a huge funeral. His coffin, as expected, was covered with a flag. However, it was not the national Lebanese flag. Gemayel’s coffin was covered with the flag of his political movement, the Falangas.
Hey, guys, he was a minister. Most probably, the victim of a political murder. Don’t you think he ought to be covered with the national flag? Doesn’t it bother any lebanese citizen?
Makes you wander: is Lebanon back to the sect days? Is it really on the edge of a civil war, as some claim, because sectism is so big in it? Do they really think that this is the proper way to bury a minister? Without the national flag?
Or maybe it is just a cultural difference. Hmmm.
