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“Cyprus is close,” Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad al-Machnouk said in a recent televised interview, referring to the island that Lebanese citizens still have to seek out as a refuge in case they wish to marry under civil rather than religious law. Though legal in Lebanon now, the implementation of civil marriage is still being delayed by the Ministry of Interior for no publicly-stated reason. Instead, Mr. al-Machnouk asked the Lebanese people to obtain one of their simplest, most basic civil rights, the right to marriage, outside their own country.
This amounts to a public declaration of this country’s retarded state. Lebanon, as a sum of ruling bodies and resulting legislation, leading up to its current identity, must have missed the point of being a nation. The point is to facilitate a dignified infrastructure, not an obstacle race. I don’t understand how Mr. al-Machnouk found this “solution” reasonable enough to propose.