உலகெங்கும் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கு சவுதி அரேபியாவே காரணம்- யேமன் எழுத்தாளர்

உலகெங்கும் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கு சவுதி அரேபியாவே காரணம் என்று யேமன் எழுத்தாளர் யேமன் டைம்ஸ் பத்திரிக்கையில் புட்டு புட்டு வைத்துள்ளார்.

“Libya and Iran financing Al-Qaeda in Yemen”
The Saudi Gazette Really Knows Better
Hassan Al-Haifi (commonsense@yemen.net.ye)

One cannot help but read with awe the gross misrepresentations of the facts by the Saudi press, as it seeks to whitewash the evil doings of the Saudi religious establishment throughout the world. It is not just by trying to disassociate themselves from all terrorist (and safe to say, absolutely non-Islamic, in deed and in concept) activities.

Like last Thursday's (August 21, 2008) article of the Saudi Gazette (link: www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008082114998), and of course acting under directions from their bosses in the Saudi regime, these paid pens of the Saudi regime wish to convince the reader that anyone to their dislike is the torchbearer of all the evil they have unleashed throughout the world over the last three decades. Thus the Saudi Gazette wishes to mislead the world that the Saudis are as innocent of Al-Qaeda and all its doings as the Prophet Joseph was of the seductress that was infatuated with him and demanded that he relieve her from the fire of temptation that had come to overtake her, because of this infatuation.

The fact of the matter is that the international so called "Islamic" terrorism, which has engulfed the Islamic world and brought havoc to the rest of the non-Islamic world, is as Saudi as the light crude oil that provides the source of financing for the propagation of the Wahhabi misguided rendition of Islam. The fact of the matter is that the Wahhabi Establishment, itself a hereditary clerical order (although Islam forbids the existence of a clergy) under the tight control of the descendants of Mohammed Abdul-Wahhab. This establishment is the mentor and financial backer of all these prominent so called "Salafi" movements. Mohammed Abdul Wahhab presumably concocted the divergent and deviant "Wahhabi" creed of Islam over two hundred years ago. One is puzzled why the followers of this gross misrepresentation of Islam in so many ways do not even like to be called Wahhabis, and try to cloud this association by taking on names that associate them with genuine ideological and seminarian associations (such as "Salafi", Moslem "Brotherhood", "Jihadists", "Fundamentalist"). The answer is obvious, as the Wahhabis are viewed by most mainstream Moslems, even the majority of Sunnis, as unorthodox, bloodthirsty highway robbers, as their early history was drowned with the blood of thousands of fellow Moslems, who were the victims of their lust for loot from pilgrims to Mecca and from those who dare dispute their misguided interpretations of Islam.

You will never see, in their revelations of the history of their movement, the hundreds of raids, especially in the earlier part of the past two and a half centuries, which these bandits inflicted on their brethren of the faith, who they actually labeled as "non-believers" or infidels, which makes their blood and their assets sanctified for them.

One is not here trying to smear the glorious bloody past of the Wahhabi Movement. Not that their past should be ignored, but one can state for certain that intra-sectarian bloody conflict between Moslems is virtually non-existent since the Prophet Mohammed's days until the Wahhabis came into being. Sure there was politically related Moslem bloodshed, but never was this fuelled by how long your beard is, or where you place your hands while standing in prayer and some of the other very secondary issues, in which Moslems might differ, which to the Wahhabis can be ground for war or for repression, if you are living in a Wahhabi regime. There have only been two countries that have succumbed to Wahhabi regimes (Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban), and in both cases it was by the use of repressive force. Ironically, there is a suspicious historical collusion between the Wahhabi movement and the British Crown (see Wahhabi Past), but that is a long story and there are enough sources in the internet and elsewhere that covers it.

The point to be made here is that the Saudis are not at all acting responsibly when they seek to disassociate themselves from an evil they have been rearing now for over two hundred years whether with British support or collusion with Masonic or Zionist forces, as so many historical chroniclers wish to point out on many occasions. The obvious incongruity of the accusation that Al-Qaeda is funded by the Iranians, with whom there is a big rift with the Al-Qaeda from a sectarian point of view is somewhat unbelievable and the same is true with the Libyans. On the latter one cannot help but remember how Washington tried to mislead the world into believing that Saddam Hussein was associated with Al-Qaeda (Actually Saddam had his own means of terror, which was more straightforward and down to earth and discernible than the wishy washy form Saudi Arabia has been nurturing and with which the Saudis could never disclaim any sectarian, ideological and even congenial association, as most of the Al-Qaeda elements that have been killed or arrested are actually Saudi citizens (Yemen has just submitted eight of them to the Saudis last week as well).. So it is not hard to tell, who is the real backer of world terrorism, morally and materially?



Hassan Al-Haifi has been a Yemeni political economist and journalist for more than 20 years.

யேமன்: இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து வெளியேறியதற்காக 9 பேர் கைது

யேமன்: இஸ்லாமிலிருந்து வெளியேறியதற்காக 9 பேர் கைது

Official: Yemen detains 9 people for converting
The Associated Press
Published: August 19, 2008

SAN'A, Yemen: Yemeni police have detained at least nine people this year for converting from Islam to Christianity, a security official said Tuesday.

The nine were arrested between May and early August and remain in police custody, said the official.

Converting from Islam to any other religion is illegal in Yemen and can be punishable by death. But in previous cases, those arrested are usually released after they revoke their new faith and pledge to return to Islam.

Three of the nine were detained west of the capital, San'a, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He declined to provide details about the others.

A family member of one of the detained said he fears those arrested could face torture or abuse in prison. The family member, who declined to be named because of security concerns, said Hani el-Dahayni, 30, was detained in May after police stormed his office and confiscated computers and compact discs.

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Separately, police detained six Iranian who are followers of the Baha'i faith and have lived in Yemen for three decades, the security official said. The six were accused of being members of a rebel group, he said.

Though not officially banned in Yemen, the Baha'i religion is considered by some Muslims as heresy.

The Baha'i faith was founded by the Persian nobleman Baha'u'llah, who claimed to be a new prophet in the series that included Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Islam considers Muhammad to be the last of the prophets.

Mansour Hayel, vice president of the Omar al-Gawi Political Forum that advocates for human rights and civil liberties in Yemen, blamed the arrests on the growing influence of extremist Muslim groups in Yemen.

இஸ்லாமிய தீண்டாமையில் உழலும் அல் அக்தும் சிறுபான்மையினர்

அக்தம் என்றால் அரபி மொழியில் வேலையாள் என்று பொருளாம். அக்தம் என்று ஐந்து லட்சம் சிறுபான்மையினர் தீண்டாமையில் உழலுகின்றனர். யேமன் நாட்டின் மூன்று பெரிய ஜாதிகளையும் சேராதவர்கள் இந்த அக்தம் சிறுபான்மையினர். இவர்கள் நாலாம் ஜாதியாக யேமன் சமூகத்தில் தாழ்த்தப்பட்டவர்களாக வாழ்கின்றனர். இவர்கள் மீது எந்த ஒரு பாரபட்சமும் இல்லை என்று அரசாங்கம் சொன்னாலும், இவர்கள் தீண்டத்தகாதவர்களாகவே யேமனில் நடத்தப்படுகின்றனர்.

1962இல்தான் யேமனில் அடிமைமுறை ஒழிக்கப்பட்டது.

YEMEN: Hear Our Voices: "I hate my classmates calling me a servant"
05 Nov 2006 13:59:37 GMT
Source: IRIN

SANAA, 5 November (IRIN) - Akhdam [servants in Arabic] are, as the rest of Yemen's population, Arabic-speaking Muslims but because they do not belong to any of the three main Arab tribes that make up traditional Yemeni society, they are the lowest social caste in the country. They are marginalised and face economic hardship although the government says that it does not discriminate against them. Most of them live in mud-straw houses, tents, tin shacks and some are homeless. The majority are illiterate and are unemployed in the poverty-stricken country.

In most cases, Akhdam men, women and children survive by begging. Those with jobs work as road sweepers, porters, cobblers and shoe polishers.

Mainstream Yemeni society see them as slaves. According to legend, they are the descendants of Ethiopian invaders who briefly occupied Yemen some 1,500 years ago. With the abolition of slavery in Yemen in 1962, the Akhdam [singular khadem] are now all free but face widespread discrimination. It is estimated that there are some 500,000 Akhdam in Yemen [total population about 21.5 million]. Some 100,000 of Akhdam live on the outskirts of Sana'a.

IRIN spoke to three people from the Akhdam community who live in what is called "Akhdam City" in Sana'a, Yemen's capital.

Ahmed Yousof Mohammed Ali, 31. "I am married with three children. But I don't have a job. I live in poverty, and everyday I look for a job. If I find one, it is always to sweep the streets, or clean a house or office. I have to get any job so I can get food for my family. People have a bad image of us as we live isolated as if in a nest. We really need free education for our children as well as free medical services. If I don't have money, I can't go to hospital for medical treatment. The government should give us jobs as well.

Sharifa Ahmed ,60. "Every year, the General People's Congress [Yemen's ruling party in Yemen] gives us basic food. But this year the party hasn't offered us any support. Food is our main need. Our new house is better than the one we used to live in, but the situation now is worse than before. We have no water, no electricity and no food.

These three basic needs require money which we lack. At the end of each month, we have to pay water and electricity bills which we can't afford. Should we pay the [water and electricity] bills or should we pay for a visit to doctor, for textbooks, or above all, for a loaf of bread? We have had no water or electricity for three months as they have been cut off. Even charitable associations are no longer supporting us. How then can my husband and I maintain our 12 children?"

Fawaz Abdu Abdullah ,13. "The most difficult problem for me is when my classmates call me khadem [a servant]. I hate this the most and I hate them only for that very reason. I know they call me so deliberately to pick a quarrel with me, or provoke me or both.

Actually, we [the children of Akhdam community] don't have many friends.

I need a good education. Textbooks are not free. So far, the school administration has not given me any textbooks. Even our education is marginalised."

யேமன் சாதியினர் மூன்று வெளிநாட்டவரை கடத்தி விடுவித்தனர்

தங்கள் சாதிக்கு யேமன் அரசாங்கம் எதுவும் செய்வதில்லை என்றும் தாங்கள் வாழும் பகுதியில் கல்லூரிகள் பள்ளிக்கூடங்க்ள் எதுவும் கட்டுவதில்லை என்றும் குரல் எழுப்பும் யேமன் சாதிகளில் ஒரு சாதியினர் வெளிநாட்டினரை கடத்தி ச்சென்று மிரட்டினர்.
அரசாங்கம் அந்த சாதியினருக்கு உதவுவதாக உறுதி அளித்ததால், கடத்தப்பட்ட வெளிநாட்டினரை விடுவித்தனர்.

Yemen tribe frees 3 hostages in business dispute
Sat Sep 1, 2007 9:53PM IST

(Reuters) - A Yemeni tribe has freed two foreign engineers and their Yemeni driver, a government source said on Saturday, after the military threatened to storm the area to secure their release.

The official Saba news agency reported earlier that the tribe had snatched the men on Friday after a dispute between a local contractor, apparently a member of the tribe, and the hostages' employer, Technohouse Engineering and Contracting.

It said that the military was preparing to force the release of the men being held in the eastern province of Shabwa, where they were working on a contract for a gas firm.

The three were identified in the Arabic-language report as Atram Nafour Kaftar, a Canadian of Indian origin, Osama Mohammad Aslab, a Syrian, and Ammar Abdul-Karim, a Yemeni.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has vowed to crack down on abductions of foreigners which, along with attacks by al Qaeda, are hindering the poor Arab state's efforts to boost tourism.

Scores of holidaymakers and foreigners working in Yemen have been kidnapped over the past decade by tribesmen demanding better schools, roads and services, or the release of prisoners. Most have been released unharmed.

யேமனில் 22 இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் கைது

யேமனில் ஏடன் நகரத்தை தாக்கும் வண்ணம் திட்டமிட்டிருந்த அல்குவேதா இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் 22 பேரை யேமன் அரசாங்கம் கைது செய்திருக்கிறது.

கார்களில் வெடிகுண்டுகளை நிரப்பி பொதுமக்கள் இருக்கும் இடங்களில் நிறுத்தி வெடிக்க வைக்க திட்டமிட்டிருந்த இவர்களை யேமன் அரசாங்கம் கைது செய்துள்ளது பாராட்டப்பட தக்கதாகும்.


நன்றி கல்ப் நியூஸ்

22 militants held in Al Qaida terror plot
AP
Published: August 19, 2007, 00:22

Sana'a: Authorities have uncovered multiple Al Qaida plots targeting government institutions in the port city of Aden, a security official said on Saturday.

Twenty-two alleged militants were arrested in connection with the plots including three Al Qaida masterminds, said the official. Documents including forged passports and visas were found with the detainees, who were operating in two groups, he said.

One of the groups allegedly was planning to target government facilities and blow up cars containing explosives using remote control, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

The other group was planning to carry out suicide attacks, storm prisons and launch a wave of kidnappings, according to the official.



Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told newspapers on Thursday that his government is cracking down on militants, but his comments fell short of claiming that terrorism is being eliminated.

Sleeper cells

"Nobody can claim that we have controlled terrorism, but we are alert and we follow up," Saleh told Al Wasat, an independent newspaper.

"There are sleeper cells, which sometimes wake up, but our security apparatus is always alert and never rests."

The arrests came less than a week after Yemeni authorities announced the arrests of nine suspects in connection with the early July suicide attack on a Spanish tour group.

Ten people were killed when a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into the tour group's convoy at an ancient temple in Marib.

Al Qaida has an active presence in Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama Bin Laden, despite government efforts to fight the terror network.

Al Qaida was blamed for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Aden that killed 17 American sailors and the attack on a French oil tanker that killed one person two years later.

யேமனில் அரபு ஜாதிகளுக்கிடையே சண்டை

யேமனில் ஒவ்வொரு ஜாதி தலைவரையும் ஷேக் என்று அழைக்கிறார்கள்.

பகீல் ஜாதியின் தலைவரான (ஷேக்கான) அப்துல் அஜீஸ் அஷ்-ஸய்யப் வீட்டில் நடந்த அரபு ஜாதி தலைவர்களின் கூட்டத்தில் யேமன் தேசிய ஒற்றுமை கவுன்ஸிலுக்கு எதிராக கூக்குரல் எழுப்பப்பட்டது. பகீல் ஜாதியே யேமனில் மிகப்பெரிய ஜாதியாக இருக்கிறது.

யேமன் தேசிய ஒற்றுமை கவுன்ஸிலின் தலைவராக ஹாஷித் ஜாதி தலைவரான ஷேக் உச்சேன் அல் அஹ்மார் இருக்கிறார். இவர் தீவிரவாத கும்பல்களுக்கு ஆதரவாக செயல்படுகிறார் என்று குற்றம் சாட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது.


Ash-Shayif accuses National Solidarity Council of treachery
By: Saddam Al-Ashmouri For Yemen Times

SANA’A, August 15 — A number of sheiks accused the National Solidarity Council along with its supporters of treachery and supporting subversive elements. This accusation was made in a meeting attended by close to 1,000 sheiks at the Sana’a home of Sheik Abdul Aziz Ash-Shayif, sheik of the Bakeel tribe, one of the greatest tribes in Yemen. The meeting aimed at standing against the National Solidarity Council headed by Sheik Hussein Al-Ahmar who is affiliated with the Hashid tribe. The Hashid and Bakeel tribes are well-known for their tribal rivalry.

The meeting, chaired by Sheik Naji Ash-Shayif, in a statement signed by a number of sheiks, announced their objection to the National Solidarity Council along with its suspected goals, inciting feuds and conflict among Yemeni citizens. It also said that sponsors of this council as well as participants do not represent Yemeni tribes, tribe sheiks or any other constituency of the Yemeni community. They only represent themselves and their party.

The statement also accused Arab countries involved in the council with supporting terrorism and interfering in country and citizen affairs. “Those countries had provided well-known parties in Yemen with money and weapons to practice such barbaric acts. Today we hear about establishing the so-called National Solidarity Assembly whose sponsors received financial support from Arab countries.

All people know that those countries’ regimes practice subversion and interference in other countries’ affairs in order to incite feuds and troubles.”

The statement also invited all Yemeni citizens along with their respective tribes to foil the destructive objectives of the National Solidarity Council and stand against all conspiracies against the values and principles of Yemeni people.

Last month the National Solidarity Council was formed, with membership including sheiks, academic and social figures as well as politicians and members of Parliament. Sheik Hussein Al-Ahmar was nominated chairman of the council. The council is not directed against any party or entity. It is a national and popular assembly, aiming at deepening and strengthening revolution, republic and unification among citizens and tribes.

During the Solidarity Council conference, Al-Ahmar urged people to fight corruption and maintain national unity.

யேமன் - ஓமன் எல்லையில் முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஆயுதங்களுடன் கைது

யேமன் துருப்புகள் மூன்று முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகளை எல்லையில் கைது செய்துள்ளனர்.

நூற்றுக்கணக்கான கை எரிகுண்டுகள், மோர்ட்டர்குண்டுகள், ராக்கெட் லாஞ்சர்களுடன் இவர்கள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.

யேமனுக்குள் பயங்கரவாத செயல்களில் ஈடுபட இவர்கள் இவ்வாறு ஆயுதங்களை கொள்வனவு செய்து உள்ளே வ்ர முயற்சித்திருக்கிறார்கள் என்று யேமன் அதிகாரிகள் கூறினார்கள்.

3 Islamic militants arrested, weapon caches uncovered near Yemen-Oman borders
The Associated PressPublished: July 17, 2007

SAN'A, Yemen: Security authorities have arrested three suspected terrorists and uncovered weapons caches along the Yemen-Oman border, police said Tuesday.

Hundreds of hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, 158 mortars and other weapons were smuggled from a Yemeni military storage and hidden in a cave in Al-Mahrah province near the Oman border, a police official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

The official also said preliminary investigations shows that the three suspected terrorists allegedly smuggled the weapons in preparation for terrorist attacks in Yemen.

But it was not clear whether the three are linked to al-Qaida terror network, the official said.

Al-Qaida is believed to be behind the suicide attack that killed eight Spanish tourists who were visiting the ruins of a temple linked to the ancient Queen of Sheba earlier this month.

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Yemeni authorities say they have rounded up two dozen suspects since the attack took place.

Al-Qaida has an active presence in Yemen — the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden — despite government efforts to fight the terror network.

யேமன்: முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகள் வைத்த குண்டில் 7 டூரிஸ்டுகள் பலி

யேமனில் முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதிகள் வைத்த வெடிகுண்டில் 7 டூரிஸ்டுகள் பலியானார்கள்.

Suspected al Qaeda bombing kills 7 in Yemen
By Mohamed Sudam

SANAA (Reuters) - Six Spanish tourists and one Yemeni were killed in an attack by a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomber in the Yemeni province of Marib on Monday, security sources said.

Security sources said the "terrorist attack" followed an al Qaeda statement demanding the release of some of its members jailed in Yemen and warned of unspecified actions.

One security source said six of the 13 Spanish tourists travelling in a convoy near a tourist attraction in Marib were killed in the car bomb attack and the rest were wounded.

Spain's Foreign Ministry confirmed the toll in the attack in Marib, about 150 kilometres (95 miles) east of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

"According to preliminary information the blast could be the result of a car bomb that hit a convoy of (Spanish) tourists," one provincial authority source told Reuters. "Investigations are underway," he said, adding that preliminary information indicated the attack was a suicide bombing.

Yemen is the ancestral home of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. It joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism launched after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 and has been battling Islamic militants for years.

The security sources said al Qaeda also demanded that Sanaa reconsider its cooperation with Washington.

In March a French student and a Yemeni man were killed and another Frenchman was wounded when Shi'ite rebels attacked an Islamic college in a volatile area in northern Yemen. The rebels are not linked to al Qaeda.

Yemen foiled two suicide attacks on oil and gas installations in 2006, days after al Qaeda urged Muslims to target Western interests, especially oil installations.

Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen claimed responsibility for the foiled attacks and vowed more strikes.

In 2002 militants bombed the French oil supertanker Limburg off Yemen's coast. In 2000, a suicide attack on the U.S. warship Cole killed 17 U.S. sailors.

Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, has been widely seen in the West as a haven for Muslim militants, including al Qaeda supporters.

Scores of tourists and foreigners working in Yemen have been kidnapped over the last decade by tribesmen demanding better schools, roads and services, or the release of jailed relatives.

Most hostages were released unharmed, but in 2000 a Norwegian diplomat was killed in crossfire and in 1998 four Westerners were killed during a botched army attempt to free them from Islamic militants who had seized 16 tourists.

(Additional reporting by Raquel Castillo)