The United Australian Lebanese Movement No room for WLCU rhetoric against Aoun, says UALM 19th June 2020 (See Translation in Arabic section) Once again, the World Lebanese Cultural Union is dishonoured and emptied of its status. The long and proud history and its charter, sidelined by a leader who believes that his political ideology and mission can be promoted through the denigration of the President of the country the WLCU claims to represent. The United Australian Lebanese Movement (UALM) deplores the language of WLCU President Steve Stanton, which levelled personal insults at the President of Lebanon in an interview on Sawt El Ghad with Suzan Horani on the 19th June 2020. Such language has no place in an organization that claims to be a Cultural institution, in fact it shows a complete lack of culture on the part of its President. According to the Charter of the WLCU, it is an international, secular, non-denominational, non-profit organization sponsored by the Government of Lebanon but working independently in cooperation with Lebanese emigrants abroad, representing the Lebanese Diaspora in the world. Throughout the interview, Mr. Stanton strays far from the charter of the organization he represents, and insults and vilifies the President of Lebanon and a large segment of the Lebanese population, with a barrage of bias and vilification of his fellow Lebanese. The language of the WLCU represented by Mr. Stanton reminds us of the language of sectarianism and extremism used by militias during the sad and devastating war that should now be in Lebanon’s past. The UALM calls on all honourable and dedicated supporters of the cause of the WLCU to liberate this ransacked organization from the ranks of those who would use it as a platform to promote their sectarian and extremist ideas. The UALM calls on political parties to refrain from exploiting the WLCU, thus rendering it inept and unrepresentative of the majority of Lebanese. The WLCU deserves to fulfil the valuable and great mission its founders had in mind, rather than being a hijacked podium for the promotion of division. Charbel Radi Federal President - UALM |
