The leader of Hezbollah Hassan “Nose of Allah” Nasrallah is calling on his supporters (and supporters of the Assad dictatorship next door) to start mass protests in Beirut this Thursday, that could last for days or weeks “until we impose, via our peaceful, civilised and democratic means, the downfall of the illegitimate, unconstitutional government – the government of (US ambassador Jeffrey) Feltman, not the government of prime minister Fouad Siniora.”

Which is the kind of dribbling taqiyya we’ve come to expect from the sly little Islamo-Fascist.

Thursday is the chosen day because that day the Cabinet of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is set to meet.

Mustapha at Beirut Springs believes Hassan The Nose iain’t quite getting the whiff of the Sunni sentiment in Lebanon, and recalls explaining to a Shiite friend (Mustapha is a Sunni) who is “not religious but a fervent supporter of Hezbollah” why most Lebanese Sunnis don’t share her enthusiasm:

After talking with her, I realized that she simply couldn’t understand why would anyone not support Hezbollah. Her feelings were so strong and entrenched that she concluded: “To me, the only reason why you would be against Hezbollah, is either because you hate the Shiaas, or because you are taking orders from the Americans, why else would you gloat at the killing of our brothers and sisters during the Israeli war?”

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My friend was shocked when I told her about what Syria did in the North, where people were seriously harassed under Syrian tutelage. And I’m not talking about regular political assassinations and bogeymanship, I’m talking about mass humiliation and utter disregard for human dignity. Lands stolen and plundered, Men ordered to send their wives to Syrian officers, mothers were given machine guns and forced to kill their own children. Cars were stolen and sold back to their owners, phones were tapped and mass scale harassments were taking place. If you add that to the regime’s history with the Sunnis (Mass wiping of Hama, shelling beb el tibbene, killing muftis, installing the Karamis to rule Tripoli) you would understand why Hariri’s murder and its consequences are not just an excuse for Sunnis to grab power, it’s a loud, resounding ENOUGH from an entire sect. This is no longer about Hariri, it’s about a straw that broke a camel’s back.

As I concluded from my friend and from Nassrallah’s speech yesterday, Hezbollah and its supporters seem to sincerely believe that the only reason the Sunnis want the Hariri tribunal is because Hariri is buying out their loyalties, or because his media empire is mobilizing and misinforming them. Yesterday, the overwhelming Sunni reaction to Nassrallah’s speech was a loud: “does he think we’re stupid?”

No, he thinks there is noone in the country who has the power to stop him.