Delegate of- Hezbollah
School- Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ School, Jaipur.
“We are the sons of the umma (Muslim community)- the party of God (Hizb Allah) the vanguard of which was made victorious by God in Iran” (The Hizballah Program 1987). Hezbollah is a radical Shi’ite Muslim group present in Lebanon. It grew as resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. Hezbollah follows the doctrine of Wilayt-al-faqih, popularized by Ayotallah Khomeini during the Iranian Revolution. Even though we are an Islamic organization, being a part of the democratic structure of Lebanon, we accept all other religions and their ideologies. The politically exclusive and intolerant tone adopted at the time of Hezbollah’s emergence has given way to a politically inclusive and conciliatory discourse that later lead to the party’s participation in the secular and democratic political system. In contradiction to the Sunni concept of the abode of war and the abode of Islam, Hezbollah focuses of oppressors and oppressed. The oppressed are not exclusively Muslims, but rather all those who are oppressed on the earth; socially, economically, politically and culturally. …show more content…
As the party’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah said, “"The behavior of the takfiri groups that claim to follow Islam have distorted Islam, the Koran and the Muslim nation more than Islam’s enemies ... who insulted the prophet in films... or drew cartoons of the prophet.” Nasrallah went on to say that “Takfiris are the biggest threat to Islam, as a religion [and] as a message.” The popular notion that Hezbollah itself is a terrorist group is completely erroneous as Hizbullah considers Israel's existence an act of terrorism, and therefore most, if not all, acts of "resistance" directed against Israel are