Religious Education in Yemen Summer Camps
YT headline: Government spends YR50 million on religious education
What it says, What it means:
Sheikh Yahya al-Najjar, Under-secretary of the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance, confirmed that the Cabinet has offered YR50 million through his ministry to finance religious summer schools.
The Yemen goverment is financing the spread of Salafist ideology among Yemeni children basically converting them by force.
Sources mentioned to the Yemen Times that government had requested 3000 teachers from al-Iman University to teach at the religious schools during the summer vacation.
al-Iman University is run by Sheik Zindani, a US classfied “Major Terrorist, ” primary mentor to bin Laden, who issued the Fatwa that legitimizes civilian killings. al-Iman University is where John Walker Lind attended school, along with several other known terrorists. These teachers will be indocrinating Yemen’s children through the summer in the Salafist interpretation of Islam.
Some sects, including the Zaidia’s, are rumored to consider the new government support as an attempt to homogenize religious education in the country and that it is a violation against the human freedom.
Zaidia, shiites, are being methodically repressed. Their religious books and libraries have been trashed. The public school’s religion class descriminates against them. Moderate Sunnis dont do much better. Forget about the socialists, they are fatwa-ed. (Actually anyone not in with the web of corruption is a target.) The Yemeni government is attempting to “homogenize” religious thinking in Yemen: all Wahabbi.
Procedures taken against religious schools have become severe after the recent blood clashes in Sa’ada between the government and supporters of al-Houthi, who had been controlling numerous religious schools in the north province of Sa’ada.
The violence in Saada is targeted against Zaidia Shiites civilians because they have a different interpretation, and religious pluralism in Yemen is being actively discouraged.
Speaking of kids: the actual number of (Yemeni) children who have never attended primary school is distressing – a little short of 50% (male: 46.79% and female: 47.24%).
