Internal demands for Al-Islah to dissolve itself on its 32nd year anniversary
English - Sunday 11 September 2022 الساعة 09:40 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:
Three days separate the Islah Party - the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood - from its thirty-second anniversary, amid criticism of its performance, which produced one of the worst phases in Yemen, beginning in 2011, and the subsequent events that contributed to the fall of the state in the hands of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen.
Prior to its inception on September 13, 1990, the Islah Party was operating clandestinely as an extension of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen.
The Brotherhood's party includes a combination of religious and tribal elements, and it underwent immature political experiments, marred by contradictions and opportunism among its leaders, especially in its alliances with the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the exploitation of that alliance to infiltrate the state apparatus for private gain.
Activists from within Islah itself, on the thirty-second anniversary of its founding, found an opportunity to call on its leaders to conduct a process of review and self-correction, while others demanded that the party dissolve itself and make way for a new formation with a new leadership.
In the latest criticism, critics belonging to the Islah party mocked his position on the recent events in Shabwa governorate and his threat to freeze his participation in the Presidential Leadership Council and the government.
Brotherhood activist, Osama Al-Mahweti, said: "Our celebration of the anniversary of the establishment of the reform does not mean forgetting the statement in which he threatened to freeze its activities unless its demands are implemented!"
Al-Mahwiti asked in a post on his Facebook account: "Where is the second statement? Everything is on its way?", referring to the Islah party's retreat from that threat, in response to Saudi pressure.
In this context, the expert in political sociology, Abdel Karim Ghanem; Failure to implement Islah threatens to withdraw from participation, to the position of its leaders who reside in Riyadh, and said that "it is difficult for you to take such a step that would show the failure of the Saudi leadership's efforts to unite the Yemeni forces allied to it."
In the same language, the Brotherhood activist, Adel al-Hassani, (a former leader in al-Qaeda), accused the Islah party of being affiliated with Saudi Arabia. Al-Hasani said in a tweet in which he congratulated the party on its founding anniversary: "We congratulate the loved ones in the Islah party on its 32nd anniversary, and we ask God to free them from Saudi Arabia, and if it is achieved, they will be the first Great Yemen Party."
Activists from the Islah Party say that their party is living in a state of slack, weakness and sustenance, and they acknowledged its failure in confronting the Houthis and serving them, and even its regression from the war led by the Arab coalition against Iran’s arm in Yemen, to small, absurd wars against the liberated areas, especially in southern Yemen.
