Al-Houthi restores the Imamate project from the education gate
English - Monday 12 September 2022 الساعة 04:22 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Hadeel Muhammad:
The idea of establishing "Al-Houthi" as a sectarian group began in the main stronghold of Al-Houthi in Saada Governorate. After the return of Hussein al-Houthi in the year 2000 from southern Lebanon, where he studied Twelver Shiite thought, in addition to political studies in the Khomeinist sectarian revolution.
Al-Houthi realized that formal education would be an obstacle to the realization of his group’s ambition and spread, so he began establishing a sectarian religious institute in 2002, after obtaining 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 dead Hussein al-Houthi sought, through his institute, to 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 the 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 in Saada, which facilitated their later conversion to soldiers in the wars and battles of the group founded by the perished, as he recruited them in his war against the state in 2004. His death, in the five other wars against the state, as well as in the war waged by the group at the beginning of 2012, against the tribes of Hajour al-Sham in Hajjah governorate, and its war on Dammaj area in Saada governorate during the year 2013, then increased at a greater pace after the group took control of power in Yemen, and the battles expanded On a number of fronts.
After the Houthi coup against power in the fall of 2014, the group, the Iranian arm in Yemen, 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-packed generations, fighting for the return of the Imamate project, influenced by the sectarian mobilization tool.
The Houthis changed the curricula and distorted many subjects, adding lessons that reinforce 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, and the necessity of subordination and submission to the command of its leaders and symbols.
The dynastic group imposed the Khomeinist cry in the school queue, in addition to holding celebrations and activities of a sectarian nature in schools and universities, and also worked to distort national symbols, with the aim of reformulating the Yemeni memory for entire generations, and graduating extremist generations whose danger exceeds Yemen to the entire region, by establishing awareness My doctrine consolidates Iranian influence in Yemen and perpetuates its sectarian approach and ideas.
In the areas under the control of the Iranian arm, more than three million students face the threat of extremist sectarian ideology, as a result of the change and distortion of educational curricula carried out by the Houthi 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 militia of Iran’s arm deals with education with political orientations and with the aim of employing it for military purposes. Al-Houthi’s ideas, and giving religious sanctity to his dynasty, in an attempt to control the minds of students by fixing 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 penetrating through the Houthis in primary education centers and higher education institutes in Yemen, noting that hundreds of Houthi students are currently studying in Iran.
