Terrorism of religious groups - The Brotherhood and the Houthis - persecutes women in Yemen
English - Sunday 12 February 2023 الساعة 03:39 pm
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The National Committee for Women in Yemen expressed its deep disappointment with the security administration in Taiz governorate retracting its decisions to appoint a number of women officers, following an incitement campaign launched by Brotherhood leaders.
In late January, the Director of Taiz Security, Brigadier General Mansour al-Akhali, issued a number of decisions and changes in a number of departments and police stations in Taiz, which included the appointment of a number of women police officers in a number of these positions.
The decisions published by Taiz Security Media included the appointment of four women as deputy director of a police department in the city of Taiz, and the appointment of a fifth as deputy director of the Training and Rehabilitation Department.
These decisions were met with a fierce campaign by a number of extremist religious leaders affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, headed by the extremist preacher Abdullah Ahmed Al-Adaini, and the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentarian residing in Turkey, Muhammad Al-Hazmi, considering this as opposing the teachings of the Islamic religion and calling for the spread of immorality and promiscuity.
After a week of the Brotherhood’s campaign, the Director of Security, on Tuesday, amended these decisions and changed the positions in which women were appointed from the position of deputy director of a police department to the position of head of the women’s and children’s department in the department, in an attempt to stop the attack of extremist Brotherhood leaders.
The security director retracted his decisions, which the National Committee for Women (a committee affiliated with the government) considered in a statement issued by it, as "a diminution of the ability and competence of Yemeni women administratively and professionally," calling on the Taiz police command and the governor of the province not to back down from the decisions "regardless of the pressures exerted by any person or entity," according to the statement.
The Security Department's retraction of these decisions angered activists and women leaders in Taiz, as a member of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission, Olfat Al-Dubai, confirmed that it was "a response to terrorist pressures and threats from a mosque preacher," as she said in a post on her Facebook page.
This step in Taiz by the Muslim Brotherhood, which controls it, comes in conjunction with the severe restrictions that women in the areas controlled by the Houthi group have been subjected to during the recent period in the field of work and movement, and have reached the extent of obliging the owners of shops selling and designing abayas to follow a specific model of what is allowed to be worn by women.
Observers believe that these incidents and what women have been subjected to in areas controlled by the Houthi and Muslim Brotherhood groups, are clear evidence of the extent of convergence in the two groups' ideology, as an extremist ideology that has nothing to do with the ideology of the state, life and the future.
