Yemeni Tragedy Between Fantasy And Reality

In most political approaches to the situation of Yemen depends on the current political events and ignore the other motives of this situation. But in fact it's more complicated than we imagine, where politics intersect with religion, history and tribal customs, which requires developing another methods and theories to save Yemen from shark's mouth. When we tried to re-read the roots of the Yemeni crisis we found that its story has been completely falsified, in another word, the Yemeni identity was based on a cultural illusion and what is happening now is just an explosion of this illusion. This falsification touched the Yemenis in their affiliation and distorting it, to understand the story of this tragedy, we need to give a brief overview of what we mean. Historical overview of the Yemeni situation When we return to the historical references that written by Arabs, we find that it says with absolute certainty that Yemen is the origin of the Arabs, and Unfortunately, it was adopted in Academic circles as a fact, while the inscriptions revealed by archaeology proved that the Arabs were enemies of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms. Yemenis were a nation like other nations of the ancient world influenced by other civilizations and also influenced them, which made them accumulate an amazing urban achievement, including its own building patterns and a language that differs in its construction from the Arabic language and till now there are areas in Yemen where people do not speak Arabic. So how Yemen became an Arab country ? To understand the story of the Arabic language, we must know that Arabic can't be in any way without the sacred text of Muslims (Quran), it is an Islamic product, In the sense that before Quran there weren't people who speak Arabic as we known today in Arabian Peninsula. Muslims did not know writing until the eighth century AD, and This meant that the story of the transformation of Yemeni society to the Muslim community is not reliable. Muslims filled this dark era of history with strange stories that formed the social and religious awareness of the Yemeni society until this moment. One of these stories is the sectarian reference of the "Huthis" and is called The "Zaidi". Yemen’s Zaydis take their name from their fifth Imam, Zayd ibn Ali, grandson of Husayn. Zayd revolted against the Umayyad Caliphate in 740, believing it to be corrupt, and to this day, Zaydis believe that their imam (ruler of the community) should be both a descendent of Ali (the cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad) and one who makes it his religious duty to rebel against unjust rulers and corruption. A Zaydi state (or Imamate) was founded in northern Yemen in 893 and lasted in various forms until the republican revolution of 1962. Yemen’s modern imams kept their state in the Yemeni highlands in extreme isolation, as foreign visitors required the ruler’s permission to enter the kingdom. Although Zaydism is an offshoot of Shia Islam, its legal traditions and religious practices are similar to Sunni Islam. Moreover, it is doctrinally distinct from “Twelver Shiism,” the dominant branch of Shi'a Islam in Iran and Lebanon, but they agree in principle. This reading of Islam had been the ruler of northern Yemen for over 1150 years, and it had been the main guide in all political conflicts. The impact of these conflicts has spread to the south of the country more than once. The Yemenis tried to put an end to this religious domination when they staged their revolution in 1962. This has made the civil battles raging between the royalists who are hiding behind religion and Republicans who were eager for freedom and civic concepts. Fighting continued to 1970, and all parties used their allies from abroad, Saudi Arabia considered the Republicans a serious rebellion against it and supported the royalists and the Egyptian regime led by Jamal Abdel Nasser helped the Republicans. At the same time, the south of country saw the independence from British colonialism in 1967. The Cultural backgrounds in the south were different from the north, this is interpreted by turning south to the communist camp and, the North's attempt to open up to the rest of the world. But what has happened since that time until 2012? North Yemen ruled by five heads respectively, as well as it happened in the south, all of them have left the presidency disastrous way, however, if we consider that this situation is not normal condition this did not draw the attention of researchers and political decision-makers in Yemen to try to understand it, this means that there is collective collusion over the disaster, chaos, disorder. Cultural Roots Of The Problem The writing of history as a service to ideology does not usually create knowledge but exacerbates the state of ignorance of the movement of history, and this is what happened to the Yemenis. Today, small Ethnic groups in Yemen are beginning to look for themselves by retrieving selected models from history and, they believe this is the only solution to save Yemen. These ideas have been disseminated in society for decades by the Muslim Brotherhood which does not recognize the principle of patriotism as much as it recognizes religious and sectarian ties. In fact, Islam has become an ideology since it's entered into Yemen. Most of Yemen's political projects were hiding behind the Islamic religion or were surprising ideas for the nature of Yemeni society. One of the biggest mistakes in understanding of Yemen and Yemenis is to be considered as a single entity, but in fact, it is multiple entities that differ in their customs, traditions, dances and each of them their own memory. Tribe in the north are quite different from the tribe in the south, women's presence in the north is also different from its presence in the South. It is therefore natural that any unilateral view of a political solution will fail. I believe that the Yemeni tragedy can be anywhere in the world but conditions were poised to appear in this form in Yemen. This explains the increasing voices calling for their nationalities in various regions of the world, and this makes me seriously ask: Are we going to reduce cultural disparities and achieve cultural unity of the human race? as "Hegel" sees or towards the consolidation of the right of cultural difference. Yemen has gone from my point of view as a result of the consolidation of cultural and ethnic differences for a long time, as a result, ideology has become more important than human It seems that this suffering will last long under the indifference of the world.