Al-Houthi prevents schools from holding a ceremony honoring students, under the pretext of preventing the mixing of girls and boys students (Ikhtilat)
English - Saturday 26 February 2022 الساعة 02:49 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, prevented private schools in Sanaa from holding celebrations to honor their first outstanding students, as was the case every year during previous years.
Every year, private schools in Sana’a organized celebrations honoring outstanding male and female students with the approach of the end of the school year, with the participation of parents who were allowed to celebrate their outstanding children, and some of these celebrations were held in event halls or within the headquarters of the private schools themselves.
The directors of private schools in Sana’a told NewsYemen: The civil education officials in the education offices in Sana’a and its directorates, who are leaders of the Houthi militias, told the private schools to refrain from holding honoring ceremonies for students, which, they say, is witnessing mixing between male and female students on the one hand, and male and female guardians on the other hand.
They added: The Houthi militia circular included emphasizing that if the school insists on holding such a celebration, it must hold two separate celebrations, one for the students and their parents, and another for the female students and their mothers, and that any violation by any school of these directives will have consequences for taking measures against the school, and it might reaches the limit of withdrawing its license and closing it.
According to the directors, most if not all schools canceled the program of honoring celebrations for students this year, justifying that it is unreasonable, logical, acceptable and even feasible to organize a celebration to honor students while preventing their mothers or fathers from attending the ceremony, considering that the joy of honoring students, whether male or female, will not be complete without the presence of their parents together in the same hall, which the Houthi militia refuses to allow under the pretext of preventing mixing.
The Houthi militia has taken discriminatory measures to prevent mixed studies between male and female students at the level of public and private schools in Sana'a and its areas of control.
These measures included universities, institutes, restaurants, and cafes, which led to the forced closure of some schools and universities or confined to teaching one of the sexes, either males or females. While these measures caused the closure of most, if not all, cafes in Sana'a, turning them into restaurants where only families are allowed to enter.
These discriminatory measures are one of the manifestations of religious extremism practiced by the Houthi militia, and they are completely consistent with the measures practiced by extremist political Islam movements such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban and others.
