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Yemen: 10 shot to death in Ramadan prayer dispute

Jun 7, 2019 2:15 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

More Muslim on Muslim violence. This one was over a dispute involving Ramadan prayers….

An imam and nine worshippers were killed following Houthi militia attacks on a number of mosques for celebrating Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, after Saudi Arabia announced the sighting of the Shawwal crescent, Yemen’s information minister Moammar al-Eryani and local media reported…. the militias stormed mosques during Eid prayer in Houthi-controlled areas.

Western culture of appeasement and negotiations will not stop jihadists from their 1,400 year bloodshed–infighting between sects and against infidels.

The Houthis are a Zaydi Shia minority sect, referred to as Ansar Allah or “supporters of god”. They have been fighting the Yemeni government which is backed by Saudi Arabia.

“Houthis kill imam, 9 worshippers for following Saudi Eid al-Fitr moon sighting”, Al Arabiya, June 6, 2019:

An imam and nine worshippers were killed following Houthi militia attacks on a number of mosques for celebrating Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, after Saudi Arabia announced the sighting of the Shawwal crescent, Yemen’s information minister Moammar al-Eryani and local media reported.

According to al-Eryani, the militias stormed mosques during Eid prayer in Houthi-controlled areas, including Sanaa and Dhamar.

“The Houthi militia prevented the majority of honorable citizens in their areas of control from celebrating Eid al-Fitr and stormed a number of mosques and arrested citizens in Sanaa, Dhamar, Hajjah, and Ibb who refused to comply with its decision to postpone the celebration,” al-Eryani tweeted on Tuesday night.

Local media reports stated that the imam and worshippers were shot dead at a mosque in the Qiva district in al-Bayda, after they refused to stop their Eid prayers on Tuesday when ordered to do so by Houthi militiamen.

Sanaa residents also reported that the Houthi-controlled Religious Endowments and Guidance offices instructed religious guides and militiamen to monitor other “violating” mosques.

Yemenis on Monday were deeply divided over when the first day of Eid would be, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

In the southern port city of Aden, the legitimate Yemeni government declared that Tuesday would be the first day of Eid, while the Houthi militias, who control the capital Sanaa and other northern Yemeni provinces, declared that Wednesday, June 5 would be the first day of Eid.

This is the first time the country was divided over the moon sighting marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, despite years of deadly conflict between Yemen’s government and the Houthis.

According to al-Eryani, the militias stormed mosques during Eid prayer in Houthi-controlled areas, including Sanaa and Dhamar.

“The Houthi militia prevented the majority of honorable citizens in their areas of control from celebrating Eid al-Fitr and stormed a number of mosques and arrested citizens in Sanaa, Dhamar, Hajjah, and Ibb who refused to comply with its decision to postpone the celebration,” al-Eryani tweeted on Tuesday night.

Local media reports stated that the imam and worshippers were shot dead at a mosque in the Qiva district in al-Bayda, after they refused to stop their Eid prayers on Tuesday when ordered to do so by Houthi militiamen.

Sanaa residents also reported that the Houthi-controlled Religious Endowments and Guidance offices instructed religious guides and militiamen to monitor other “violating” mosques.

Yemenis on Monday were deeply divided over when the first day of Eid would be, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

In the southern port city of Aden, the legitimate Yemeni government declared that Tuesday would be the first day of Eid, while the Houthi militias, who control the capital Sanaa and other northern Yemeni provinces, declared that Wednesday, June 5 would be the first day of Eid…..

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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    As long as they kill each other I don’t mind. Muhammad said mudlims can kill Muslims

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 9:02 am

      I’m with you, Antiislamicman. I read this headline as: “Enemies of the Civilized World Suddenly Reduced by Ten.”

      I realize that’s pretty cold; but we really do need to see Muslims as enemies, and nothing more, if we are going to successfully defend the West. That’s how the True Believers of Islam view us; and every one of them wants to see the world become a global caliphate.

  2. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    Oh come on, we all know that Is-lame is “The Religion of Peace”. NOT!!!! More like the “Religion of Bloody Pieces”

    • mortimer says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      Islam’s the religion of jihad, intolerance, xenophobia, misogyny and supremacism.

  3. Halal Bacon says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 3:04 pm

    tough crowd

    • Lydia Church says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 10:56 pm

      Oh yes… ahem… yes ladies and gentlemen… you see… islam is the religion of ‘peace,’ and… oh, wait, we must pause for this brief news commercial:

      “10 shot to death in Ramadan prayer dispute”

      Ahem… sorry about that… yes, so… as I was saying… the religion of peace…..

      (NOT!!!)

  4. Jean (old) says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 3:04 pm

    © Islamic theology 622-2019.

  5. ntesdorf says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 3:06 pm

    This just goes to show that you can’t be too careful and need to check twice that the timing of Eid al-Fitr is correct or you can be severely harmed in a Muslim country that that it all very seriously.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 6:42 pm

      Islam cannibalizes other Muslims if they have no kafirs to persecute.

      • Westman says

        Jun 7, 2019 at 10:01 pm

        It makes one wonder how low their IQ can go; killing over something that runs autonomously. As stupid as flat earth and the Sun setting in a muddy puddle. 1400 years with no intellectual progress. These guys must make modern Muslims cringe with embarrassment.

        • Bazz12 says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 3:38 am

          They are the descendants of a long chain of cousin marriages in a population where the practise is widespread. They are becoming a serious burden on the genome of humanity and like animals born with severe birth defects they should be put down.
          For the sake of the children they should stop breeding.

        • WPM says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 4:51 am

          The words “modern” and Muslim do not go together if you are true Moslem you need someone and something to hate. Lacking Christians ,Jews ,Atheists, ect ,they have to turn on each other .Hate, violence, mayhem give only true meaning to practicing Moslems ,non-practicing ones are not a problem. Modern Moslems, true modern practicing Moslems that are tolerant are like unicorns a myth put forth by libtards. It would be like a true communist who said he believes in capitalism and little government involvement in peoples everyday lives.

        • Westman says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 7:42 am

          Actually, WPM, I had Iranian students, just before the 1979 “revolution” (devolution), that were, by all standards, modern. However, they were paranoid about Islamic “spies” reporting on them. Many of them likely died in the Iran-Iraq, 8-years, war.

          Islam is like a tarpit with guards. If an individual gets unstuck, some “guardian” throws him back in.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 8, 2019 at 8:27 pm

          Westman wrote:

          Islam is like a tarpit with guards.
          ……………

          Spot on, Westman. I often think that pious Muslims are like the crabs that will pull their fellows back into the crab pot if they try to crawl out.

  6. Steven RSA says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 3:24 pm

    This is as rational as killing people for choosing Mickey Mouse over Donald Duck.

  7. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 5:14 pm

    Hey Steven RSA- What’s wrong with Donald Duck??? You must be quackin up! Why, I oughta…..!

    • katherine says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 5:59 pm

      Fully support you there – I wanna gun down the stupid crowd that idolizes a silly sweetie Mickey. An AR-15 should do the job on these pesky li’l tots. Gauge-12 on standby in case Mr T takes offense.

      These are serious issues – really. And 12 Buck holes in the butt of those conducting Mass with their backsides to the congregation. Down with Bergoglio and his running dogs.

      Great scenario indeed when Mideast comes to America.

  8. Wellington says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 5:56 pm

    Here I another time post what I have not posted in a while but will again on this thread, to wit: There are four givens in life—1) death; 2) taxes (which I ordinarily like to describe as legalized government theft); 3) Muslims killing non-Muslims; 4) Muslims killing other Muslims.

    4) is preferable to 3) and both 4) and 3) somewhat overlap with 1).

    This is the reality of existence on Earth. Damn shame that it is, but that IT IS constitutes a depressing certainty. Unless, of course, Islam were to disappear, a beautiful thought I would contend, and thereafter mankind would “merely” be left with two certainties. If this should occur it would be an immense improvement to human existence by, let’s see here, a factor of 50%. Well, as I averred, a beautiful thought. But I digress.

    • 6woods says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 6:14 pm

      The inevitability of all 4 is why I don’t post here anymore. I haven’t been able to bring myself to even visit this site in several months. I’m tired of the hopelessness and despair that islam engenders. I’ll live my life with my head in the sand – it’s so much easier this way.

  9. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 6:34 pm

    “Nigerian Christians Ask Trump for Help Against Jihadi Slaughters”

    https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2019/06/07/nigerian-christians-ask-trump-for-help-against-jihadi-slaughters/

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 8:22 pm

      “US resumes training of Nigerian troops for anti-terror war”

      https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/198338-us-resumes-training-nigerian-troops-anti-terror-war.html

      Of course, with a Muslim president in Nigeria, this hasn’t done a lot of good…

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 6:39 pm

    Christine W-D zeroed in on the main point of this conflict, namely, that only one group of Muslims have THE TRUTH and so the other ‘schools’ of Islam must be heretical and must be brought under control whether they like it or not.

    The point of this story is that there is no tolerance of minorities in Islam … even when the minorities are other Muslims who worship differently on matters of relatively small importance.

    Islam inculcates a Bronze Age mentality of ‘MIGHT MAKE RIGHT’. This illustrates what Islam cannot fit with Western thought which maintains that the pen is mightier than the sword.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 7, 2019 at 8:28 pm

      Yes, Mortimer–this would be like Christians murdering each other for celebrating Christmas on different days, or holding midnight mass versus mass on Christmas morning…neither of which happens.

  11. John Hawk says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    That’s quite a “Guidance Office” they have there. Do what we tell you, are die.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 8:15 pm

    Yemen: 10 shot to death in Ramadan prayer dispute
    ……………………..

    Ramadan Mubarak, everyone!

  13. John says

    Jun 7, 2019 at 11:44 pm

    Proves islam is just a Barbaric Satanic Moon God IDEOLOGY.

    • Christopher Kelley says

      Jun 8, 2019 at 4:21 pm

      Did you mean “IDIOT-ology” ?

  14. Frederick King says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 3:51 am

    They almost need nukes that will explode if the leave the the middle east ? Just let them nuke each other, and get it over with. Let them put each other in paradise or hell. Then the disease of islam has been cured ? You know what I mean. This will never end, as long as they can attack each other and infidels. 1400 years of constant war.

  15. Frederick King says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 3:59 am

    These guys insist on the perfectness of a 7th century “prophet.” A guy that said “god told gabriel, the angele, who told me, that these are the perfect laws and rules for all of humanity. He also to him to tell me to tell you that there will never be any changes to this, as it is perfect. Any questioning of what I say is an instant death sentence. how i n the hell do you reason, or live in productive peace with this mentality ? You can’t. It’s complicated by sect wars, over who is incharge of interpreting this madness. Our brilliant dims and the EU “new world order morons” want to let these guys immigrate to the west in huge numbers. Duh ?? They think they will help the new socialist world order by helping kill off all of us conservatives and non socialist capitalists ? I real sign from a real, loving God, would be a few well placed meteorites. Fairly big ones. look at the state of muslim countries. If they don’t have huge oil reserves, they starve. I rest my case.

  16. unbeliever1 says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 8:14 am

    This “religion of peace” has its work cut out for it in order to live up to that title. Violence by its followers is a given. I just read that a mosque in Trinidad was raided and 8 gang members were arrested. Masks were found in the ceiling of building.
    More than 150 Muslims from this island have gone to join ISIS. Some years ago there was an attempted coup by Muslims there.

  17. J D.S says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 9:41 am

    Paganism….moon God worshippers

  18. Frances Picard says

    Jun 8, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    This story leaves me speechless except to say I rejoice there are now a fewer of them to be concerned about.

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