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Extremsists Surround Jewish Homes in Yemen

Filed under: Religious, Targeting, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:13 am on Monday, December 15, 2008

Following our earlier report on the sectarian murder of a Jewish rabbi, a group of Muslim extremists (associated with the murderer) are surrounding the houses of several Jewish families in Yemen, throwing rocks and preventing them from leaving their homes. The government has taken no action and in desperation, the murdered man’s brother called a local news outlet.

AMRAN, NewsYemen: Rabbi Yehiya Yaish, one of the leaders of Jewish community in Yemen, said that he and other Jews are home arrested as eight suspected of killing his brother Moshe Yaish Nahari last Thursday are surrounding their houses since Saturday evening.

“We are home arrested and cannot even open doors due to threats by the gang that is surrounding houses in the area and throwing stones to windows and doors,” said Rabbi Yaish in a telephone call with NewsYemen….

Yaish said the order of the Interior Minister to arrest the eight suspects was “just for media coverage, but what is happening is that we are being attacked in broad daylight.”

Yaish refused to bury his brother Moshe and said Moshe would be buried together with the killer, calling Muslims to protect Jews.

Next the churches?

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Comment by samir halabi

12/21/2008 @ 4:21 am

If the yemeni authorities can’t control their muslim thugs, they should allow the remaining 300-400 jews if they so wish to transit yemen peacefully to Israel or any where else that they decide to go.
Today in the arab world there is only around 7,000 jews living mainly in morocco and Tunisia, this was out of a pre-1948 jewish population of just under 1,000,000 what about that for ethnic cleansing, the media only seems to be pre-occupied with the plight of the post mandadate of palestine arab refugee problem, nothing was done by the united nations for over 60 years for the middle eastern and north african jewish refugees whom incidently outnumbered the arabs of post mandate of palestine ie. (now Thank G-d Israel) I happen to be one of those unfortunate jews whose family was cast out of Syria, we lost everything we had all our money was frozen in the banks, our property ie. homes, offices, factories, communal buildings etc. etc. all stolen. The land the jewish comunities at that time owned throughout the middle east and north africa amounted in square miles to around four times the size of israel today. However all this falls on deaf ears, as the media and the biased UN are simply not interested.
Samir Halabi.

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Comment by Nashwan Ghanim

1/6/2009 @ 1:51 am

هل أصبح مشروع قتل كاتب مدونة في اليمن أمرا حتميا وضروريا بالنسبة للسلطة اليمنية؟!

كثيرة هي الأمثلة اليومية التي تؤكد بشكل جازم ومطلق بأن دولة بكامل قوتها وأجهزتها وضعت على عاتقها مهمة إغتيال كاتب مدونة ,قتل كاتب مدونة,,إعتقال كاتب مدونة ثم إعدامه بتهم مُلفقة إليه!!
وهذا الذي يحدث معي ما هو إلا إستفتاء علني على حتمية قرارها ,

هناك طرق مباشرة للقتل :

أولا: مثل زيارتي لشقة أصدقائي في العاصمة ,فأصحاب البيوت المقابلة للشقة يعمدون إلى فتح نوافذ بيوتهم لحظة دخولي إلى الشقة وذلك بغرض خلق تهمة عبر النساء,وذلك ليتم قتلي تحت هذا المبرر الكاذب و السريع والفتاك ,حتى وإن لم أكن ساكن معهم,وهذا الذي في إستراتيجيتهم !!

ثانيا:عبرا لسيارات والموتورات النارية ,مثل ما حدث لي اليوم,فقد ضرب في مؤخرة رأسي أحد ركاب السيارة المارة إلى جانبي,أدى إلى إرتطامي جانبا مع الضربة التي تلقيتها ,وكذلك تعرضت إلى حادث بموتور ناري قبل هذا ,نجوت من الموت بأعجوبة.

وهناك طرق غير مباشرة تسعى السلطة لإسقاط تهمها لي ,والتهمة التي تعمل على إيقاعها هذه الفترة هي :تهريب الأطفال إلى السعودية وذلك كما قلت لكم في رسائل سابقة عن المطاردة والملاحقة التي أتعرض لها,

والإعتقال سيجري عبر طرق كثيرة منها مثلا:

أن أسدد إيجار غرفتي إلى صاحب الغرفة وهذا العمل يعتبر جريمة عظمى في نظر السلطة اليمنية!

أو في حال ذهابي إلى الطريق المؤدي إلى السفارة الفرنسية بصنعاء أو حتى الذهاب إلى شارع الحصبة الذي يؤدي إلى طريق المطار,

أو عن طريق المظاهرات لفلسطين أو غيرها,والتي لم أشارك فيها أبدا!!

أو عن طريق أساليب أخرى سأذكرها لكم في حينها !!

دمتم بحرية أيها المدافعون عن شرف الكلمة والحقيقة معا !!

*نشوان عبده علي غانم

*صنعاء-اليمن.

*في حضرة الحصار والموت.

5/1/2009م.

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Comment by nashwan ghanem

1/7/2009 @ 4:24 am

Yemeni blogger appeals to prevent possible assassination

(Sana’a – Yemen) In a rather emotional entry posted on his blog, Nashwan Abdu Ali Ghanim, a Yemeni blogger with blogs on maktoobblogs.com and kitab.com called upon international advocacy groups and the Arab Bloggers Union to come for his rescue upon escaping ‘three failed assassination attempts’. Ghanim believes that his latest blog entry noting the involvement of senior Yemeni officials in the plotting of the attack carried out against the U.S. embassy in Sana’a on September 17, 2008 triggered a new wave of harassments and life-threatening acts.

“They want to kill me… So I urge you to immediately intervene” he said in a blog entry dated Tuesday November 18, 2008.

Support from ANHRI

A day later –Wednesday, November 19, 2008- the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) responded by releasing a strongly worded protest letter criticizing the Yemeni authorities.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information denounces this cruel campaign, which breaks all international laws and conventions, and even the Yemeni constitution. ANHRI consider this campaign a breach of democratic principles which the regime in Yemen claims to protect and adopt, and calls upon the Yemeni authorities to end the security persecution against Ali Ghanim and guarantee his integrity.” the organization said in its press release released on Wednesday, November 19, 2008.
A controversial article

Ghanim said he was chased by various elements in the country, threatened of being killed, besieged in his home, and exposed to other acts of harassment by government authorities after he had published a controversial article on the website of the Washington, DC-based Al-Hewar Center, which promotes online forum discussions and dialogue on matters of concern to the Arab world.

In his article, Ghanim accused the regime of being behind the attack on the U.S. Embassy which killed ten people and resulted, at the time, in the temporary suspension of the embassy’s activities. He claimed that Yahya Al-Arasi, whom he said was the press secretary of the Vice President of Yemen, was directly involved in the attack and blame extremist elements for it in order to exploit the U.S. for financial aid and to achieve several other objectives.

It is worth noting this article was not the first that Ghanim mentioned Al-Arasi by name as he had frequently written in discussion forums and in his blog about Al-Arasi’s involvement in various acts of intimidation and threats against him.

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