The Lebanese are well known for being a religiously diverse bunch, with sectarian disputes often plaguing the country and its political system.
The Christians, Shias, Sunnis and Druze might well disagree on some things, but a recent hashtag has united them together in a collective expression of love for the chat-up line.
Hashtag “flirt using your religion” has taken Twitter by storm overnight and, be warned, some of the efforts might make you snort.
Some went very general:
#FlirtUsingYourReligion not even death will do us part, babe.
— Aabed (@AbedBanna1) January 17, 2017
#FlirtUsingYourReligion I want you to be mine in all my lives
— Bassel (@bassel_ak) January 17, 2017
#FlirtUsingYourReligion every time I see you, I tell myself: What a fool he who thinks your beauty is not created by god. What a fool!
— Levi (@7LandD) January 17, 2016
A lot took the “four wives” angle:
Id marry you 4 times #FlirtUsingYourReligion
— Kamal Mohamad (@kamhd81) January 17, 2017
#flirtusingyourreligion
— Ferdy G. (@ferdddaws) January 17, 2016
If you act right ill move you up from Wife #3 to Wife #2
While others went for a more original take:
#FlirtUsingYourReligion you're hotter than Jhanam...
— Abdallah Morata #11 (@Abdallah_rm11) January 17, 2017
#FlirtUsingYourReligion you're the 2atayef to my Ramadan
— Dana (@ShDana_) January 17, 2017
Qatayef are the delicious cheese or nut-filled snacks eaten during Ramadan.
You're my only houriya #FlirtUsingYourReligion
— Rawad Abou Khalil (@rawadaboukhalil) January 17, 2017
The “houriya” are the beautiful women promised to Muslims in heaven.
This tweeter sees her beloved like the dawn prayer:
Baby, are you salat l Fajr? Because I'm up all night waiting to do you.
— حنين (@CaffeineHanine) August 9, 2014
The Christians had their say, too:
#FlirtUsingYourReligion forgive me father for I will sin
— Abi ® (@AbiBb9) January 17, 2017
Are you Peter? Because I think you have the keys to my paradise. #FlirtUsingYourReligion
— marinour (@marinourn) January 17, 2016
But one tweeter in particular stole the show with this simple expression:
#flirtusingyourreligion hi my name is islam
— Islam (@SpiderFromMarx) January 17, 2017
This trend took off as other social media users celebrated "Arabic flirting day", a hashtag which received 57,000 mentions in just 24 hours. Love certainly seems to be in the air in the Middle East!
