News:

A Saudi-led coalition of 10 countries has launched air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. On March 26, embattled President Mansour Hadi left the country’s southern city of Aden, to visit Saudi Arabia and Egypt in a bid to consolidate support for the ongoing Saudi-led military offensive against Houthi rebels.

Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, in a televised speech, responded to the Saudi-led operation “What do they expect us to do, surrender, announce our defeat and act like cowards? Absolutely not. This is not how the honorable Yemeni people think. We will fight back. All 24 million Yemenis will stand united and face that despicable aggression,” al-Houthi said. (Aljazeera, 27 March 2015)

Comment:

This war means more bloodshed and destruction to Yemen and its people, meanwhile the rulers of the Gulf countries, like the other rulers of the Muslims, do not hesitate in quickly protecting the interests of their masters of the Kufr West. Persistence to mislead Muslims are mobilizing popular support for this process is swiftly underway. On Arab satellite media, it portrayed the general public to appear supportive of the operation and proud and happy to be united against the Houthi Islamic party with the 10 other Arab majority countries. One Egyptian journalist expressed his support for Sisi’s decision in its willingness to strike Yemen and proud to be Egyptian and Arab. Some of even tossing around the propaganda that this is Jihad against the coalition involved and against the Houthis, all depending on who is talking.

Many are questioning the role of the United States in all of this, analysts agree that Obama is taking the lead from behind the scenes and not in the form of ground troops yet through logistical support in order to protect the Houthi so-called government from toppling. Since the Arab coalition will leave Yemen even more debilitated than before.

While there is difference in the Islamic schools of thought, it is never a justification for the massive bloodshed among Muslims on their land. However, these Rubaidiyat who only care to preserve the interests of their masters in Muslim lands, see no problem in the bloodshed of our sacred Ummah, as long the end justifies the means. Inciting and fanning the flames of sectarianism has always been a key feature of countries who cause the most mischief, whether these countries are actually involved in the war or affect them from behind the scenes.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Manal Bader