Will Yemen become a new haven for ISIS?

  • 2019-02-28 14:33:00
By :Jamal Al Awadhi* The environment provided by wars as chaos, corruption and instability represent large factories of terrorism and extremists under the cover of religion. Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan are clear examples of this. Terrorist operations have crossed the borders of these countries and have become the source of terrorism to Europe and the United States, as well as to many Muslim countries as ISIS considers them political regimes and infidel peoples. The Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda as well as ISIS  have emerged as the biggest and most dangerous terrorist organizations in the Middle East, benefiting from three main elements: Illiteracy , poverty  and war. Religion comes as a major tool in addition to the three elements to seduce young people and influence them towards extremism, which is the first step towards terrorism.   Yemen is currently a fertile land for embracing the extremist terrorist ideology of ISIS of  Syria, Libya and Iraq in light of the growing terrorist operations in the south and east of the country, as well as Islamic organizations moving freely in the east of the country. Unfortunately , some of them are part of the Yemeni government as Islah Islamic Party that used to be one day a partner along with former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Many of the extremist leaders of this party are wanted by the USA. There are even jihad training schools run by an extremist Egyptian Islamist named Abu Anas al-Masri established and funded by the Islamic party in Marib province, east of Yemen.   It is only a warning to the international community that, along with the pro-Iranian Houthi militias and the corruption of the Yemeni government that currently residing in Riyadh KSA, there are also extremist groups that carry out terrorist attacks against the resistance in southern Yemen but they did not touch what is so called a national army in the Yemeni province of Marib, who is controlled by leaders of the Islamic Islah Party ( Muslims Brother hood movement in  Yemen). Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen only kill what they believe that they are infidels and an atheists!     * Jamal Al Awadhi is a director AIJES and president of Paris Forum for Peace and Development PFPD.  

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