Al-Houthi bans school queue music, confirming ISIS ideology
English - Thursday 03 March 2022 الساعة 03:57 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, a special report:
The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, continues its attempts to consolidate its extremist religious ideologies that align with the same extremist ideas of the rest of the political Islam movements, whether those that follow the Sunni sect (such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, and others) or those that follow the Shiite sect (Lebanese Hezbollah, Badr Corps Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and the Houthi militias in Yemen).
Since its coup and its takeover of power and state institutions on September 21, 2014, the Houthi militias have worked to implement a gradual program to consolidate their strict concepts of all kinds of art, especially music, songs, and accompanying dance or solo dance, before the Houthis’ criminal and forbidden measures for all of these types escalated in Sana’a and their areas of control
To complement the measures of extremism and extremism that they are implementing, Houthi leaders in the Education Office in Sana'a issued a circular to public and private primary and secondary schools banning the broadcast of any musical segments accompanying the morning school queue exercises.
School principals, teachers and students in several schools in Sanaa told NewsYemen: The circular stipulated that students should be satisfied with the morning queue exercises without any accompanying musical effects, as was done during the past period, considering that these musical influences are prohibited and fall within the framework of the concept of intellectual invasion, and the soft war that is launched by the enemies of Islam.
In the same context, Houthi women’s elements known as “Zeinabiyat” began campaigning inside girls’ schools in Sana’a and militia-controlled areas, coinciding with the militias’ celebration of the death of their founder Hussein al-Houthi.
Female teachers and students in several schools in Sana’a told NewsYemen: The Houthi Zaynabiyat organize daily visits to primary and secondary schools in Sana’a, where they force school administrations to allocate time for a class to meet with female students and give them lectures that promote the Houthi sectarian project, glorifying the militia leaders, led by its founder and his brother, the current militia leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi and the claim that he taught the guidance that the nation must surrender and submit to his leadership and implement what he commands.
And they added: The Zainabiyat lectures included issuing fatwas forbidding art, singing and dancing, and considering their practice by Muslim girls as infidels and loyalty to Jews, Christians, America and the West that is fighting Islam, according to their allegations.
The student Huda from a Sanaa school told NewsYemen: The Houthi Zaynabiyat became angry when they showed the pictures of the leader of the Iranian revolution Khomeini and the slain Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and his companion Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed by Washington in a drone strike, and found that most of the students did not know any information about them, noting that one of the Zainabiyat got angry and said, “But you know the names of the infidels and immoral artists, singers, dancers and athletes, and this was indicated by the names of Arab artists (Nancy Ajram, Asala, Elissa, and Najwa Karam), whom the Houthi leadership described as infidels and immoral women and practicing prostitution, immorality and disobedience, according to their claim.
Over the past years, since its coup against power, the Houthi militia has shown the reality of ISIS, its strict ideology towards everything related to life, as it prevented the broadcast of songs on the official radio and satellite channels that it controls, and replacing it with chants of its own, including everything related to the infidelity of the other and it is permissible to kill him, in addition to banning the holding of any parties or activities related to art, music and dance, which were organized by some local cultural organizations and gatherings.
In addition to raiding wedding halls with affiliated teams that broadcast militias’ psalms, and trying to limit and reduce the joyful singing and dancing manifestations on wedding occasions through its circulars according to which laws were enacted to prevent the continuation of wedding parties in halls after eight o’clock and not to practice any manifestations that contradict what it calls the faith identity.
An employee of Sana'a Radio told NewsYemen that the Houthi militia was not satisfied with preventing the broadcast of any national songs on Sana'a Radio and the rest of the official radio and satellite channels. Rather, it confiscated the library of national songs and Yemeni songs, which includes lyrical recordings of various artists in Yemen and from different governorates to an unknown place.
He added: Since the Houthi militias took control, we no longer hear any patriotic song that Yemeni artists chanted, which included consolidating the values and goals of the Yemeni revolution, urging the love and defense of the homeland, calling for unity and rejecting division and fanaticism, and singing about the regions of Yemen, where they were replaced by militia chants, which incites slavery, violence, killing, and blasphemy of the other.
He continued: With the exception of the national anthem, in which the militias were forced to keep its recording in the library of Sanaa Radio, the rest of the recordings of national songs, especially those that glorified the republic and the revolution and its goals, have completely disappeared as the militias looted them and no one knows whether those recordings still exist or were destroyed.
He concluded: The position of the Houthi militia on national songs and Yemeni art in general is not only related to their hatred of the Yemeni revolution and its goals and the republican regime that destroyed the Imamate regime, which they are trying to restore in different ways, but is also linked to a strict religious sectarian stance that prohibits art, singing, dancing and music and considers it forbidden.
In this way, they are no different from other extremist movements such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
