Destruction of education.. Other Houthi wars to revive the Imamate project
English - Tuesday 06 September 2022 الساعة 03:54 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Muhammad Yahya:
After the late Hussein al-Houthi returned in the year 2000 from southern Lebanon, where he studied Twelver Shiite thought there, in addition to political studies in the Khomeinist sectarian revolution, the idea of establishing the "Houthis" as a sectarian group began in the main stronghold of the Houthis in Saada Governorate.
Al-Houthi realized that education would be an obstacle to achieving his group’s ambition and spread, so he started establishing his own institute in 2002, after receiving support from the Qatari and Iranian embassies in Sana’a, and was able to attract students to his institute, in which he adopted sectarian study materials and extremist ideological curricula.
The mortal Hussein al-Houthi, through his institute, sought political mobilization, and focused his attention on creating the loyalty of his students. He also devoted his lectures, which later became one of the basic literature of his group, to promote Twelver Shiite thought, adopting views inspired by the speech of the Khomeinist revolution, such as the axis of resistance against the forces of arrogance, And the promotion of the Khomeinist velayat-e faqih theory, which contradicts the Zaydi sect. He also focused on the idea of the knowledge leader and linked it to the Qur’an, which made his followers see him as a sacred figure who embodies the Qur’an.
Within a few years, hundreds of students who were loyal to him and who believed in his ideas graduated from the Houthi Institute, which facilitated their subsequent conversion to soldiers in the wars and battles of the group that was founded by the perished. In the other five wars against the state, and in the war waged by the group at the beginning of 2012, against the tribes of Hajour al-Sham in Hajjah governorate, and then its war on Dammaj area in Saada governorate during 2013, then it increased at a greater pace after the group took control of power in Yemen, and the battles expanded in number of fronts.
After the Houthi coup against power in the fall of 2014, the pro-Iranian group sought to control the education sector and educational institutions, and appointed Yahya al-Houthi as Minister of Education in its unrecognized government, to be its tool for attracting and mobilizing students by targeting their minds and improvising them with Houthi sectarian ideas; To graduate sectarianly mobilized generations, fighting for the return of the Imamate project, influenced by the sectarian mobilization tool.
The Houthis changed the curricula and distorted the materials devoted to the idea of the Imamate entitlement to rule in Yemen. And the strengthening of the divine right of the Imamate dynasty to entitlement to wealth, the necessity of subordination and submission to the command of its leaders and symbols, and they imposed the Khomeinist cry in the school queue, in addition to holding celebrations and activities of a sectarian nature in schools and universities, and they also worked to distort national symbols and Yemeni memory, with the aim of reformulating the national memory for entire generations. And the graduation of extremist generations whose danger extends beyond Yemen to the entire region, by establishing an ideological awareness that consolidates Iranian influence in Yemen and perpetuates its sectarian approach and ideas.
More than three million students in schools under the authority of the militia of Iran’s arm face the danger of distortion and extremist thought, as a result of the change in the educational curricula carried out by the militia as part of its efforts to produce generations mined with sectarian ideas in a way that guarantees the far-reaching goals of the Houthis, and frames the ideological presence of the Iranian project in Yemen.
According to the results of a study of the contents of the curriculum carried out by the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate, the Houthi militia deals with education with political orientations and with the aim of employing it for military purposes. The texts of the curriculum served primarily its agenda by changing and falsifying the facts of history, politicizing the historical narrative, interpreting verses and hadiths of the Prophet in a way that serves the ideas of the Houthis, and imparting religious sanctity to his dynasty, in an attempt to control the minds of students by establishing those concepts espoused by the Houthis.
The American "Impact-SA" organization specialized in monitoring educational curricula and textbooks around the world, and which monitors the values of peace and tolerance, said in a report: that the Houthi militia has turned education into a tool for spreading Iranian values and culture, and that Iran is infiltrated through the Houthis in primary education centers and higher education institutes in Yemen, noting that hundreds of Houthi students are currently studying in Iran.
