Boys Who Talk to Girls 'Burn in Hell' Warns Hezbollah Deputy

Published September 26th, 2017 - 01:42 GMT
Be wary of allowing girls to associate with “deviant women who talk about fashion and cosmetics”, Naim Qassim told his audience last week (Wikimedia)
Be wary of allowing girls to associate with “deviant women who talk about fashion and cosmetics”, Naim Qassim told his audience last week (Wikimedia)
  • Hezbollah's deputy has suggested that boys who talk to girls will “burn in hell”
  • He also warned against divorced and fashionable women
  • Naim Qassem's comments angered many in Lebanon
  • He was slammed as "backwards" and compared to Daesh
 
by Rosie Alfatlawi
 

These were just some of the comments made by Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General last week at the “Ashura assembly”.

Lebanese Twitter was soon flooded with furious retorts to Naim Qassem’s words at the meeting, which marked the month of Muharram, a period of mourning in Shiism.

People were particularly angered by his demonization of divorced women, who he implied would not be good teachers as a result of their lives being "full of problems". This, apparently, would make them incapable of advising girls well.

Every time we say we want to advance in this country, Naim Qassem comes out and speaks.

This isn’t logical in 2017 that there is a party in Lebanon that calls for these things. The height of backwardness.

One individual offered a quick summary of Naim Qassem’s ideas:

You are a girl, therefore you bring shame upon society.

Some were resigned to their fate:

 

I talk to girls therefore I’m a kafir (disbeliever) and I’m going to hell.

Others thought they had located the source for Naim Qassem’s words:

In the air-conditioned buses, Naim Qassem carefully listened to cassettes recorded by al-Baghdadi (ISIS leader), memorized them well… and returned to bring the glad tidings to the Ashura assembly.

 

 

This is in reference to the 17 air-conditioned buses that last month moved hundreds of ISIS fighters from the Lebanese border into eastern Syria, with the agreement of the Syrian regime and Hezbollah.

According to posts on social media, Qassem also criticized mixed-gender activities in schools and praised the “great” spread of the hijab in Lebanon. Hezbollah's second-in-command spoke out against teenagers “deviating in night clubs” and even had time to comment that the “Germans, French and Americans remind us of the pre-Islamic ‘ignorants’”.

It’s a wonder he managed to fit so much bigotry into one speech.

At least someone could see the funny side:

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