"Hawthna of Mosques".. Quran schools in Sana'a turn into "sectarian seminaries"
English - Tuesday 22 June 2021 الساعة 11:17 am
NewsYemen, Al Ain News:
Many residents of Sanaa will not find a non-sectarian mosque in which to pray next Friday, after the Houthi militia occupied mosques and turned Quran schools into seminaries.
Dozens of mosques fill the historical capital of Yemen, yet there is no mosque left for the worshipers to listen to a Friday sermon devoid of sectarian rhetoric that incites hatred, death and bloodshed.
The Houthi militias are waging a sectarian war against mosques, hadith centers and Holy Quran schools in Yemen, where they impose preachers and imams belonging to the extremist religious wing within the group to reinforce sectarianism in society and the religious discourse.
On Saturday, the Houthi militia closed 3 centers for forensic sciences and the last school for memorizing the Noble Qur’an in Sanaa.
The Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq School, located in the Al-Hasaba neighborhood, north of Sanaa, is the last non-sectarian school for Quran memorization to be closed by the militias in exchange for the opening of thousands of Houthi religious centers to spread sectarian ideology.
The militias used methods of blowing up mosques, places of worship and hadith, arresting imams and preachers, and burning religious offices in all areas under their control, to impose their takfiri beliefs against the other.
Last Friday, the militia stormed 3 mosques in the capital, Sanaa; In preparation for the control of mosque buildings and the closure of the memorization centers, which are the Sunnah Center in Sawan, Al-Fath in Al-Maqaleh, and Al-Bashaer in Jidr.
This Houthi frenzy comes after these moderate mosques became an alternative for a large percentage of the population of the capital, Sanaa, to pray in them. After the militia imposed imams and preachers affiliated with it, in the mosques of the capital.
Many residents of the capital, Sanaa, refuse to perform Friday prayers in mosques in which the militias have installed preachers who promote sectarian terrorist ideology, and they are satisfied with praying in their homes or going to these mosques that the militia stormed on Friday and Saturday.
And last April, elements of the Houthi coup militia stormed the Al-Noor Mosque in the village of Amad in the Sanhan district of Sana'a, while citizens were performing Tarawih prayers.
Militia elements also stormed the Al-Noor Mosque while the citizens were performing prayers, and expelled the worshipers, describing them as "ISIS", then occupied the mosque and turned it into a sectarian estate.
In Ibb Governorate, in the center of the country, the Houthi militia turned the Imam al-Dhahabi Center and its mosque into its headquarters after they kidnapped Imam Sheikh Nashwan al-Ansi, plundered the rents of the endowment building that a merchant had allocated to serve the mosque and its annexes, and stopped the Quran memorization sessions.
control of mosques
The Houthi militia is trying by all means to complete control of mosques and impose its sectarian religious discourse in the areas under its control. In mid-2014, the militia blew up the largest Salafist centers in Yemen, located in the Dammaj region.
The Houthi terrorist militia’s closure and storming of mosques and Quran memorization centers in the capital, Sana’a, was nothing but an extension of a series of Houthi fascist crimes, years ago, against religious groups and institutions, with which they differ doctrinally.
Observers believe that Yemen has not known an extremist terrorist militia that has exploded places of worship like Al-Houthi throughout history.
Following the approach of extremist Iranian terrorism, the Houthi militia sought to empty the Yemeni arena of any opposition religious ideas, and imposed its sectarian vision imported from Iran.
The Houthi militia’s bombing of mosques and houses of Hadith began, while they are still in the Maran caves in Saada governorate, where they blew up Dar Al-Hadith in the Kitaf area in 2013, after an aggression launched against the opposition tribes, which led to the killing of 300 people, the injury of 500, the destruction of 19 homes, and the displacement of 420 families.
After taking control of the capital, Sanaa, and some provinces, it began to clamp down on religious and intellectual institutions, imams and preachers, and anyone who disagreed with its ideas.
A government report revealed that 299 mosques in Yemen have been subjected to systematic destruction by the Houthi militia, since the start of their coup against the legitimate authority at the end of 2014 until 2017.
A report by the Program for Communication with Yemeni Scholars documented the complete destruction of 299 mosques by the Houthi militia, while 24 mosques were severely damaged, while the militias transformed 146 mosques into "military barracks" in several governorates.
At the beginning of 2018, the Yemeni Ministry of Awqaf and Guidance announced a statistic of mosques that were bombed, bombed and looted by the Houthi militia from 2013 to the end of 2016. It reached 750 mosques, including 282 mosques in the capital, Sana’a, followed by Saada governorate with 115 mosques, and the rest in separate areas. .
