Destruction of Mosques in Yemen

Enemies of mosques.

God

is greatest.

God

is greatest.

Mosques hold a sacred place in Yemenis' hearts.

Their hearts are humbled when they hear this

majestic call,

and their sanctity is more inviolable to them than that of

their homes. They would sacrifice their lives for them,

devoting the fruits of their lives, money

and effort, to building them.

Yemenis differed religiously. They diverged politically,

but

their mosques remained beacons of peace

and oases of coexistence.

No Yemeni would think of violating their sanctity

with harm

until the face of the devil appeared in the form of

the deceitful Houthi, who breathed into his followers the spirit of

latent discord. He filled them with ideas

that invoke rancor, hatred, and the excommunication of

Yemenis.

May God's curse be upon any nation if it follows this calf,

and may God's curse be upon its religion, scholars, books,

and monks.

Mosques faced enemies

uglier than Yemen had ever known.

They trampled on their sanctity and defiled their prayer niches,

blew up their buildings. More than eighty mosques

they completely destroyed. They saddened their minarets,

demolished their domes, killed their imams

and preachers, and displaced those in charge of them.

They bombed them and marred their beauty. More

Eight hundred mosques suffered the brutality

of the Houthis.

Not only that,

they even dared to attack the Sacred House of God,

launching Iranian missiles

toward the Muslims' qibla in

an unprecedented act for Yemenis.

And who is more unjust than those who prevent

God's mosques from having

His name mentioned therein,

His name mentioned therein,

and strive to destroy them?

Such people

should not

enter them except

in fear.

For them is disgrace in this world,

and in the Hereafter, a punishment

great.

Mosques are pulpits of peace and brotherhood.

The Houthis turned them into platforms inciting murder

and declaring Yemenis infidels.

Yasri, if you hear your son bringing you news

of Tariq Saleh's arrival, put a bullet in his head.

Mosques were a refuge for the fearful.

The criminals assaulted them

and turned them into a stage for their ugliness. They danced in

their prayer niches. They turned them into places for qat-chewing, storage, and amusement.

They tampered with their contents. They stormed them and dragged them

into their war, spreading their sectarianism imported from Iran.

Is it time to restore our mosques'

sanctity? And wipe the filth of the

militia from their minarets

and cleanse their pulpits of their sectarianism?