This is another victory for Iran, which backs the Houthis with money and weaponry. Iran now has control or significant influence in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sanaa. Only the Islamic State and Saudi Arabia are in the way.
“Yemen crisis: Houthi rebels ‘announce takeover,'” BBC, February 6, 2015 (thanks to Bill):
Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebel movement has announced it is taking over the government and dissolving parliament.
In a televised statement, the group said a five-member council would act as the president for an interim period.
The group took control of the capital Sanaa in September, forcing the resignation of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in January.
The announcement comes after the failure of UN-brokered peace talks.
The Houthis set a Wednesday deadline for political parties to reach an agreement on ending the country’s political turmoil, threatening to act unilaterally otherwise.
The rebels move would mark “a new era that will take Yemen to safe shores”, the statement said, according to Associated Press.
The declaration is the final stage of what many Yemenis have seen for months as a Houthi coup.
Government decisions will now be dictated by revolutionary committees, dominated by the rebels….
mariam rove says
Muslims V. Muslims! This has been going on since the day their pedophile prophet died. M
umbra says
And would probably continue until the day islam dies.
Katnis says
They look like a friendly bunch
Champ says
…they look like regular boy scouts, lol! đŸ˜€
MKG says
Yemen. Another pawn on the WWIII chess board has fallen.
Mirren10 says
”They are much better and more humane than their Sunni counter parts!”
No, they’re not.
And there’s plenty more where that came from. Idiot.
https://news.vice.com/article/baghdads-sunnis-are-living-in-fear-amid-escalated-violence
Kepha says
And we all know how kindly the Hezbulshaitan treated the Christians in Lebanon. We all know how tolerant the Khomeini-ites of Iran are towards Muslim-born people who become Christians. It was also the Zaydis of Yemen who contrived to have any non-Muslim orphan taken from his community and raised as a Muslim.
While pre-IS Syria and Iraq were nicer to their Christians than IS could ever be, their treatment of the ancient Jewish communities of the Fertile Crescent stand as a reminder of what the Alawite Syrians and half-Shi’ite Iraqis were ready to do to their minorities should they put their mind to it. These Jewish communities had been in those countries since the 8th century B.C., if not earlier–long before a word of Arabic had even been penned. Your Shi’ites are nice to religious minorities only if those minorities are utterly abject.
BC says
They are no angels either. You obviously are not keeping up with their atrocities. they are also fomenting and facilitating most of the jihad activity in the region
mariam rove says
What? Are you a troll? I was born and raised a Shia. Those bastards are just as brutal to minorities. m
Lu says
I can see a historical irony here – this is quite a “pleasant” addition to the intra-Islam schism between Shias and Sunnis. Their internal hatred makes them weaker and vulnerable … Yemen vs. Saudi Arabia, Saudis vs. Iran, Asad vs. “moderate rebels” … and on and on. Enemy of my enemy against each other. But hey – at the end of the day we infidels are their primary enemies.
Angemon says
Justin posted:
“You never see Shiites doing what their Sunni counter parts do like massacring Christians and Yazidis
and burning people alive etc.”
Nope, just hanging gays for being gays, and women for killing someone who was trying to rape them, etc.
MKG says
Welcome back Justin.
I don’t always agree with your point of view, but you do bring some interesting points to the table for discussion.
Many of us are aware of what our government is doing, and it troubles us. In addition many of us do not see much of a difference between Sunnis and Shiia. They are all muslims to us. Kind of like Catholics and Protestants are all the same to them.
Enjoy your First Amendment rights Justin, but remember, there is an old Mongolian saying, “The one who is about to speak the truth better have one foot in the stirrup.”
Angemon says
Justin posted:
“You must be referring to the Iranian regime but I was referring to the Shiites
as people”
What islamic sect rules Iran? And is the killing of gays by shiites in Iran more or less islamic than the beheading of prisoners by sunnis in the islamic state?
“I was not talking about islamic regimes”
What is the islamic state if not an islamic regime?
“because Saudi Arabia is also an islamic regime that beheads people in public every day and sponsors the global islamic jihad activities and doctrines and yet America and the West see them as their great ally.”
No one here said “you never see wahabis doing what their Sunni counter parts do like massacring Christians and Yazidis and burning people alive etc“, so your attempt at tu quoque is doa. And while Saudi Arabia is consider an ally for whatever reasons I can’t phantom, it certainly isn’t considered the “great ally” you imply precisely for its financing of terrorism abroad. Finally, I think you need to learn to stick to the topic at hand rather than rushing to shoehorn your anti-Americanism at any chance you perceive – shiite islam is no better in nature than sunni islam and Iran, like any other islamic theocracy, is a human rights disarter. The fact that the islamic state is sunni rather than shiite doesn’t make shiites any better. Both the iranians and IS believe in the same book, consider a murderous rapist and highway-robber to be the perfect example of perfection, and because of that publicly execute people for things that aren’t considered crimes in civilized countries.
Angemon says
Justin posted:
“Since 9/11 there were over 25000 islamic terrorist attacks and ALL of them are Sunni perpetrated terrorist attacks.”
Because Hezbollah and the Houthis are sunni, right?
duh_swami says
No matter how you cut the cake, the lesser of two evils is still evil…Bottom line, never trust anyone who believes Allah is God…Do you believe Allah is God?
Angemon says
Justin posted:
“Yes, the Shiite Iranian regime is a dangerous regime that executes homosexuals and tortures and imprisons women and minorities.
I am not denying that. What I was trying to point out is that Shiites
as people don’t commit the daily barbaric and evil atrocities that Sunnis
are committing globally every single day.”
Like executing people in public for something that wouldn’t be a crime in a civilized nation?
Angemon says
Justin posted:
“Houthis is a new Shiite militia that rose up to protect the rights
of the minority Shiites in Yemen from Saudi-sponsored Sunni jihadists or Sunni governments in Yemen and they also took up arms to protect themselves and their people from Al-qaida, ISIS and other Sunni jihadists that are increasingly using Yemen as their basis and as of now, Houthis are not considered as ‘terrorist’ organization.”
And they “protect the rights of their minority” with a coup d’etat. Good going!
“Hizbullah is different story and it is the ONLY Shiite organization which is considered as a ‘terrorist’ organization whereas you have many, many Sunni terrorist organizations in every Sunni country”
Sunnis are what?, 89-90% of muslims worldwide?
“organizations which far more barbaric and far more violent than Hizbullah.”
And? They all justify their actions with islamic orthodoxy. None of them would ever consider muslims and non-muslioms as equals before the law.
“And by the way, do you know that today Hizbullah is actually protecting Syrian Christians and Syrian Christian ancient monasteries and Churches from American-backed Sunni jihadists in Syria today? So to the Syrian Christian or to the Lebanese Christian Hizbullah is considered as the friendly protector but America and their Western-backed Sunni jihadists are seen as the real terrorists:
http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/2khvus/twothirds_of_lebanons_christians_believe/
”
Huh, al-akhbar is a pro-hezbollah newspaper…
Bezelel says
Are deez guys the moderates? (sarc)
gp says
I believe that all translates into: Iran is taking over control in Yemen. How will the OhhBummer respond to this? Perhaps another diatribe against the history of Christianity is in order? More dirt being swept under the old Obama prayer rug. What a total disaster.
umbra says
obama will probably do what the saudi king tells him to do. Run interference against the shia groups by supporting and training sunni opposition (and terrorist?) groups.
Arthur says
It’s always good to have the insights from a true Muslim believer posted here once in a while. Otherwise, we might forget the level of philosophy we’re up against.
duh_swami says
I guess this means Rasool’s drone crews are no longer welcome…
Mild Bill Hickok says
Obama the Viper, will now cancel medical programs for American veterans so that he can send Yemen Aid to the new terrorist in town.