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Who has not dreamed of a Lebanon free of the sectarianism? The damage has long been identified, the solution in its broad outlines, too, except that nobody has ever been able to respond effectively to the single issue that has meaning, namely, how to go from one to another, from problem to the solution. Yet, the determination is not lacking, because when they questioned the elimination of sectarianism, the Lebanese meet favorably to 58% (read here the survey results in January 2010 by Information International). In sum, the problem was and remains primarily a problem of the route (or path): if the starting point A and point B of arrival are known, the path from A to B remains uncertain.

On Sunday, Lebanese citizens will gather in the streets of Beirut to demonstrate their support for secularism. Nobody knows how they will, but good weather helps, we can expect a good presence even if only because the Lebanese have never shied away from waving banners, or sing loudly slogans. Maybe, but what and sing to send what message? For if it is a highly controversial issue in Lebanon, it is that of secularism on the definition and content of which the Lebanese continue to s'étriper.

Secularism means does the dismantling of the denominational system which divides power between religious communities? Is she is a separation between Church-Mosque and State? She seeks only to establish a status of "civilian" citizen on matters of marriage and inheritance rights without qu'interfèrent the muftis, bishops and other mullahs?

What about politics? Up when Lebanon will he have to be a Maronite President, a Prime Minister a Sunni and a Shiite Speaker of Parliament? The distribution of seats equally between Muslims and Christians will she still valid if one takes into account demographic trends rampant among them and declining in others? This is the heart of the problem and this problem will remain insoluble until we will not end the panic that seizes every community where feels in danger of losing its prerogatives.

Cheers and live the secular reforms, but try convincing the Maronites of the need to abolish political sectarianism when they hear Hassan Nasrallah threatened in a majestic complacency about the fate of Christians in Iraq. It is simply a call to suicide.

The Lebanese confessional system has long since reached an impasse. The reform has become a pious wish, to abolish it by force, provided it is civil war. What then? But participate in the "Lay Pride Jove, singing all his drunk to maintain the chimera, then leave the tail down, dreaming of "chalky ravines and hillsides laughing!