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Lastly, Riachy indicated that the attempts to diabolize Islam required "the hand of the Levant's Christians." "Christians in Lebanon know well that Muslims are not terrorists and we can tell the entire world that these Muslims are our brothers and that difference and respect are a right," he concluded.

"Hezbollah's rivals will use this incident as part of their relentless attempts to diabolize the party."

He told Le Monde newspaper recently that "If we diabolize the Salafists, they will rule the country in ten to 15 years." The events in Tunisia represent an early test for political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring.

So, it's a big mafia...manipulating everything and mixing up everything in order to diabolize the Syrian government." Al-Jaafari wondered about the international efforts exerted to pressure the armed terrorist groups, particularly by the parties which have influence on these groups such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, stressing that "Somebody should speak to those parties who have influence on the armed groups, supplying them with weapons, sending terrorists, al-Qaeda elements, providing them with haven ground, allowing them to cross the border with Syria to carry on military operations and then to run away back to the territories of these neighboring countries.

Now and then Luhmann may permit himself an ironic remark, such as the one at the end of his book on the welfare state, where he muses how society will deal with grand questions of justice as long as government and opposition are driven to diabolize each other.