Throughout the last two years of our work with youths in North Lebanon, we, in MASAR, started noticing the impact of Islamic movements operating in this area on our work. That was felt when young men with beards in the Islamic fashion participated in our activities. An atmosphere of uneasiness would prevail amongst the other participants who would split up along confessional lines according to their ideological, religious and congregational affiliation. They would stop listening to each other due to these affiliations, or even ignore each other when performing a group work instead of collaborating on youth-bound issues of interest to them all.
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