17 May 2010
BEIRUT: A ceremony was held on Sunday at the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in Downtown Beirut to mark the 1989 assassination of Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled. Beirut MP Mohammad Qabbani praised the late mufti’s openness. Qabbani said Khaled was a supporter of dialogue among confessions and of women’s rights. Sunday’s ceremony was attended by an array of political and religious figures including Grand Mufti Mohammad Rashi Qabbani. On May 16, 1989, a 136-kilogram car bomb was detonated next to Khaled’s car as he drove through Beirut. Khaled and 21 others were killed. – The Daily Star
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