Islamic lynching of an Egyptian in Lebanon جريمة كترمايا وعدالة الشارع

Islamic lynching of an Egyptian in Lebanon جريمة كترمايا وعدالة الشارع

Lebanon shocked by lynching of murder suspect
سحل وقتل المصري مرتكب جريمة كترمايا

Reuters
Friday, April 30, 2010; 9:48 AM

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese officials said on Friday they would bring to justice angry villagers who killed a murder suspect and strung his body up with a butcher's hook in a revenge attack that has shocked the country.

The murder suspect, Mohammed Msallem, an Egyptian living in the southeastern mountain village of Ketermaya, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of killing an elderly couple and their two young granddaughters.

When police brought him to the scene of the crime on Thursday, an angry mob overwhelmed the policemen and beat Msallem with sticks and stones and stabbed him.

To cheers and applause, they stripped him to his underwear and socks, paraded him through the street and hoisted him up on an electricity pole with a butcher's hook.

Lebanese troops eventually arrived and took away his corpse.

"These are actions that the human conscience cannot accept," said Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar Friday, who condemned the crime as barbaric and said it would blacken Lebanon's image. "We know the names of 10 people and the courts have to do their work."
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Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said he had ordered the Interior Minister and Justice Minister to go after the perpetrators and impose "severe punishments" on them, the National News Agency quoted him as saying.

Mobile phone footage of the lynching was aired on television and dominated newspaper coverage and talk shows Friday.

Many of the villagers Friday were unrepentant, others said authorities had to bear some responsibility for sending the suspect out in public with only a few policemen.

"We thank the security forces for giving us the murderer as a gift so that we could seek revenge for our children with our own hands," Khaled al-Sayyed, a grocery seller, told Reuters.

The Egyptian embassy in Beirut denounced the murder of Msallem "even though he was in the hands of justice."

Security sources said Msallem he had confessed to the crime but his motive was not clear.

Qabalan Condemns U.S. Inspection Visit, Ketermaya's Mob Killing
Deputy Head of the Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan condemned on Friday the recent visit of a U.S. anti-terrorism assessment team to the Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria.
He said during his Friday sermon: "What happened yesterday at Masnaa is dangerous and it is interference in Lebanon through foreign agents."

He added: "Lebanon is preserved by its people, not by strangers, intruders, and infiltrators from outside the border."

He therefore urged the Lebanese state to "assume its responsibilities and exercise its authority over all its territories."

Qabalan continued: "We oppose any offensive against us" and some officials should steer away from creating chaos, stressing that they should be held accountable for their actions by the state.

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[catonahotroof]

Why ISLAMIC lynching? It's just a lynching. period. whether Islamic or not doesn't really make a difference. I know it was wrong to do but he had it coming. imagine if someone did the same to your family, wouldn't you react the same way?

[fading07]

No matter how bad the crime, you don't torture someone and parade their corpse around like it's some prize then call it JUSTICE. Justice is restraint as well as action. it is JUST. So had the mob done away with him, that is one problem; after all you can't take the law into your own hands or it would lead to anarchy. I think a firing squad would have been more civil. But parading the body around is EXCEEDING the limits. There's a thin line between revenge and justice. So no, that was NOT justice

[stinsens]

@catonahotroof

No..

Islam is an infection.

And it needs to be gone.

[BRRUUUAAHHable]

FUCK LIBANESE CHRISTIANAND MUSLIM

ONLY ISRAEL IS HAPPY

[hajenchri]

I'm doing a project about Genocide and it's so terrible how people can do these things. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, who the hell cares?

[KautharThalaba]

@zeiina1 اتقوا الله

[KautharThalaba]

@johndean89 ana kont bafakar aro7 lebnan bas shakloko koloko bel manzar el basha3 dah. Ya rab e7fazna

[animaniacsify]

@catonahotroof I hope you read the mob lynching of two innocent pakistani brothers. They were lynched by a mob who suspected them of mugging. They were just on their way to play cricket. You can find it on youtube too.

[hannahr77]

@MrCuddlyNinja1

what did he do plz tell

[MrCuddlyNinja1]

@Raymondofnine1 Letting your anger get out of control to the point where you start killing innocent people is not a mental disorder, it's just the result of an undisciplined lifestyle. It's not always true of course, but sometimes mob justice IS real justice.