Beirut – “Arab Jerusalem”:
The head of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, published on his Twitter account the first joint photo of the spouses Joey Pierre Daher and Dalia Walid Jumblatt, who married a civilian in Cyprus before the marriage ceremony took place in Dar Mukhtara on September 16.
Jumblatt attached the photo with a comment that read, “Congratulations to Joey and Dalia, with my heartfelt and warm wishes for a happy and peaceful life dominated by love, stability and success.”
This news was met with an interaction by the followers, one of whom responded to Dalia’s marriage to a Maronite and not to a Druze by saying, “I think Walid Bey did not put a law prohibiting marriage between one religion and another, and I think that a person is a person and married life is a private life between two people. And fanaticism only kills its owner.”
Another follower welcomed Dalia and Joey’s marriage, rejecting the offensive and reactionary comments, and wrote, “Walid Jumblatt and his family prove that there is no sectarian, civilized secular, and civil human in all the meaning of the word, in fact, not in word.”
Some had asked if the leader’s daughter was entitled to what no one else was entitled to, while others wished that civil marriage would be recognized in the Lebanese state, where marriage unites and sectarianism divides.