Al-Ghadir Al-Houthi celebration.. an occasion to curse the companions, a repetition of misinformation, and an embodiment of Iranian Shiism
English - Thursday 29 July 2021 الساعة 09:50 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, a special report:
In conjunction with the organization of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, for sectarian activities in the name of (State Day), many positions that the leaders and activists of the militias were hiding after their coup against power and their control of state institutions and the overthrow of the capital Sanaa by force and war on September 21, 2014 began to unfold.
Those who follow the positions of the Houthi militias since their coup until today will find that with each passing year and with their continued control of the capital, Sana’a, many positions appear related to their sectarian side, which seeks to impose their sectarian beliefs related to and derived from Iran by expressing their religiosity to the Twelver Jaafari doctrine, and politically through Announcing its political association with the project (Guardianship of the Jurist) and its subordination to the so-called (Axis of Resistance), which has been supported, led and led by the Iranian Republic since the Khomeini revolution in 1979.
After denying... the Companions and Muawiyah cursed on their heads, the Houthi militia leaders repeatedly denied that they practice the method of cursing the Companions - may God be pleased with them - including Muawiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan - but their denial did not last long, as the voices of many of its religious and even political leaders and activists began to appear Their culture based on cursing Muawiyah is based on past concepts related to the dispute that erupted between Ali bin Abi Talib - may God honor him - and Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan, may God be pleased with him, which ended with Muawiyah's victory and his founding of the Umayyad state, which is credited with consolidating, spreading and delivering Islam to China and Europe .
Among many examples, NewsYemen monitored some of the positions of the leaders of the Houthi militias, who publicly cursed Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan, as it monitored a tweet by the Houthi leader, Qassem Al-Hamran (Abu Kawthar), who holds the position of Acting Executive Office of the Houthis, and the position of Deputy Minister of Education in the Houthi government. Its content is a response to another tweet by Brotherhood leader and parliamentarian Muhammad Al-Hazmi, where the Houthi leader Al-Hamran revealed the culture of cursing by saying: Was Imam Hassan martyred poisoned only because he fought Muawiyah (the damned), and was Imam Hussein martyred unjustly in Karbala except because he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid (the damned).
NewsYemen also monitored another tweet by the militia leader and one of its representatives at the National Dialogue Conference, Abdul Salam bin Mahmoud Jahaf, which reads: (And Muawiyah came to fry a companion whose father cursed Abu al-Kalb who raised him).
Contrary to the propaganda of the Houthi militias, some of which deny their belief or practice of the culture of cursing for the Companions, and some of them sought to claim that what is cursed by some of the leaders affiliated with them are personal positions, several sources from the people (employees) who have undergone the Houthi sectarian courses confirmed to NewsYemen: that the culture of cursing The Companions have one of the most prominent foundations on which the militias’ ideology is based, and that although they try to hide this from the media, they show it in a strong and clear way in their sectarian courses for employees, and in their lectures and meetings with their supporters or those who mobilize them to the fronts of fighting, and practice the culture of cursing the Companions among its supporters from the fighters on a daily basis.
According to the sources, what was included in the tweets of some Houthi leaders of cursing Muawiya is nothing but a simple example of a culture that the militias are trying to establish in the minds of children and young people who mobilize them to their summer centers, or to their combat courses, and throw them to the battlefronts.
(The Day of Ghadeer)... Allegations and misinformation exposed by those close to it
Similar to the methods of religious and political use practiced by the Houthi militia with the name (Al-Ghadir Day) or (State Day) and the countless stories, myths, allegations and allegations it weaves around this sectarian occasion, and through which it seeks to achieve political goals and gains, most notably the consolidation of its sectarian ideology and its claims to its divine right. In power and government, and allegations of affiliation with the Messenger, peace be upon him, and his daughter Fatima, some militia leaders appear as a model for this method, which aims to practice misleading people on the one hand, and using the name Ghadeer Day for personal gain in the context of the conflicts and disputes of the Houthi wings.
In this context, NewsYemen monitored two completely contradictory tweets of the two sons of the Houthi leader, Dr. Ahmed Sharaf al-Din, the militia representative in the National Dialogue Conference, who was assassinated coinciding with the end of the conference on January 21, 2014.
In the first tweet, the son of Dr. Ahmed Sharaf al-Din Hashem, who was Deputy Minister of Information in the militia government - before announcing his cessation of carrying out his duties and his presence in his home - claimed that on such days, a year or two before his death, his father, Ahmed Sharaf al-Din, interrupted the Friday sermon and preacher. The mosque of Sana’a University residences on the pretext that the latter was abusing the Yemeni celebration of Ghadeer Day, as Hashem Sharaf al-Din claimed, who added in his tweet. A number of those present, including professors at the university, tried to attack him - that is, his father - but they were cowardly, as they saw him ready and with him one of my brothers.
The tweet, which coincided with the Houthi militia campaigns, called for the celebration of what it calls (Eid al-Ghadir) or (state day).
The content of the tweet, with its allegations, misinformation and political promotion of the concept of Al-Ghadir and its celebration, and the claim that Yemenis were celebrating it before the militias took control and their coup against power, did not hold much. With the preacher of the university mosque about the name of the day of Ghadeer.
Ahmed Sharaf al-Din explained that his father’s dispute with the university mosque preacher was about the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday, as he mentioned that his father went to the preacher before the Friday sermon and asked him not to address the issue of celebrating the Prophet’s birthday because it is a matter of dispute, claiming that the preacher agreed to that before he backtracked and forbidden In his sermon, he celebrates the Prophet’s birthday and considers it heresy, and this is what made his father intervene on that day and respond to the preacher.
The son of Dr. Ahmed Sharaf El-Din was not satisfied with exposing the allegations of his brother Hashem, who claimed that some university professors tried to attack his father and that they were cowardly because he was prepared as he claimed, but also confirmed in his tweets that his father, despite his disagreement with the university mosque preacher on the topic of celebrating the Prophet’s birthday, continued a good relationship Neighborhood with the preacher and in performing the obligatory prayers in the mosque, concluding by confirming his denial of his brother’s allegations by saying (and I was present and accompanying my father in that incident).
Media sources described the blatant contradiction between the tweets of the sons of the assassinated Houthi leader, Dr. Ahmed Sharaf al-Din, as clear evidence of the truth of the allegations made by militia leaders, media and activists about their sectarian activities, especially the Ghadeer Day.
They added to NewsYemen: In addition to that this contradiction reveals the misleading methods and baseless allegations practiced by the Houthi militia, it also reveals the reality of the differences witnessed by the conflicting wings within the movement. Hashem Sharaf al-Din, who brags about his affiliation with militias and strives to use his father's history for personal gain, even if This was at the expense of his position on the issue of the assassination of his father, which is still a case shrouded in a lot of mystery, especially after the Houthi militia announced the death penalty for a person named Majdi Abdul Karim Al-Mutawakkil, on charges of committing the assassination, claiming that he was a member of Al-Qaeda, while sources confirmed that he - i.e. Al-Mutawakkil - He was a member of the Houthi militia, and that the assassination of leaders of the militias from Sharaf al-Din to Jadban and al-Khaiwani, the last of whom was Hassan Zaid, are all evidence of the struggles and liquidations of conflicting wings within the militias. against people, and he publishes this in tweets on his Twitter page, and even bases his positions on his father’s speeches, which reflects his dissatisfaction with the way the militias dealt with the assassinated case to his father and her attempt to link the accused with the murder to al-Qaeda.
Al-Ghadir..Houthi celebration of the twelve manifestations
In recent years, manifestations of Houthi celebrations of the so-called Ghadeer Day have escalated, with traditional manifestations of what Iran is witnessing, which many interpret as evidence of the militias' employment and dependence on Tehran.
The journalist affiliated with the Houthi militia, Abdel-Fattah Haidara, a resident of Al-Dhalea Governorate, who was part of the militia leader’s team, Saleh Al-Samad before he was killed and was subsequently dismissed, criticized the militias’ efforts to transform the Ghadeer Day celebration into a Shiite celebration.
Despite his claim that Zaydis have a rich heritage of Yemeni poetry, rituals, customs and traditions to celebrate Ghadeer Day, he criticized the militias' insistence on transforming the celebration of this sectarian occasion with methods imported from Iran, and said in a post on his Facebook page: Why do we import from abroad our celebration of this day? .. The unbalanced rituals and poems during the decimal years invade the Zaidis in a way that is not appropriate for them or their people.
According to the media sources, who spoke to NewsYemen, the tweet of the media affiliated with the Houthi militia, Abdel Fattah Haidara, is an expression of the position within the militias, especially from its supporters and affiliates from the Shafi’i-majority governorates, which began to discover that the militias’ practices show their association and adherence to the Twelver doctrine imported from Iran, and that they They reveal their faces the truth that identifies with Iran's doctrinal and political orientations and no longer has anything to do with the Yemenis.
