Analysts reveal Houthi plans to destroy children’s minds
The pro-Iranian Houthi militias continue their terrorist efforts to destroy the minds of children by changing their school curricula and persuading future generations with beliefs that are contrary to reality. This is a new move by the terrorist militia to attract the younger generations in favor of their terrorist ideas.
Mind destruction
The Yemeni government has reportedly repeatedly sought over the past years to repel the Houthis’ continuous attempts to change the educational curricula in schools by introducing concepts alien to Yemeni society. However, they continue to pursue their agenda, prompting teachers to call for a general strike.
Calls for strike
Over the past few hours, the Yemeni Teachers Union called on all educators in areas controlled by Houthi militias to go on general strike and to stop administrative and educational work starting tomorrow, Saturday, in protest against the changes made to the school curricula.
“The changes that have been made to the curricula aim to break up the social fabric and obliterate the national identity, in addition to the non-payment of teachers’ salaries for years,” the union said in a statement.
It also affirmed its categorical rejection of the changes made by the so-called High Committee for Curricula of the Houthi militia to the school curricula and their inculcation with sectarian ideas.
It also expressed her rejection of imposing political slogans on students and forcing them to sing them in schools, in reference to the Houthis’ decision to impose the slogan of “The Scream” on students in the morning queue instead of the national anthem
The union called for an end to the policy of exclusion and arbitrary dismissal of teachers and educators in areas controlled by the coup, and the replacement of militia volunteers who have nothing to do with the educational process.
“In its statement, the unrecognized government of the coup sought to reverse the decision to fire 8,000 teachers from 160,000 public employees who were arbitrarily dismissed by the Houthis for political reasons and replaced by pro-Houthi or affiliated elements.”
Meanwhile, the union renewed its call for the release of thousands of teachers who were arrested, kidnapped, and disappeared in the prisons of the Houthi militia. The union held the leadership of the coup militia, represented by the so-called Supreme Political Council and the unrecognized government, responsible for the negative effects of the strike and escalation due to the disruption of the educational process.
Widespread anger
On social media, there was widespread anger and ridicule as activists circulated pictures of school curricula, including stories and poems glorifying the leaders and members of the Houthi coup militia, amid warnings that the minds of future generations would be booby-trapped.
Activists warned against the wide-scale distortion and distortion of curricula and curricula by the Houthi coup militia since its disastrous coup in 2014, and its horrific effects on the ideas and beliefs of future generations, the Yemeni identity, and the major threats it will pose to the future of the country as a whole.”
Militias are continuing to change school curricula to serve their sectarian ideas, incite youth and youth to violence and join the fighting, in a large-scale destruction of the remaining symbolism and national approach to basic education in areas under their control, they said.
The most dangerous war
“This is the most dangerous war that must be fought with an integrated cultural, media, educational and political strategy. It is a war that targets citizens and generations,” said journalist Ahmed Othman, commenting on the militia’s change of curricula.
In his tweet, Othman believes that the issue goes “beyond placing the poem of Al-Junaid in the curricula and removing Al-Bardouni, Al-Zubairi, and Al-Maqaleh from the curricula, to targeting identity and replacing it with a destructive sectarian identity and racist ideology.”
Houthi plans
Since 2015, the Houthis have been pushing hard for a change in the school curriculum, said Yemeni writer and analyst Ghamdan al-Yousefi. The move follows the appointment of the Brotherhood leader’s brother as minister of education, a delicate position that should have been kept out of the conflict as it relates to generations and children.
The Yemeni writer pointed out that the Houthi group deliberately uses school textbooks as a means to ignite historical wars, incorporating racist and sectarian ideas in what the children of Yemen, who have historically suffered from attempts to manipulate their minds by rulers and political and religious leaders, have always had a problematic curriculum in terms of what they teach the students.
The most dangerous thing is that the group has introduced some of the events of the war currently taking place in Yemen, inserting military terms into mathematics curricula and using military names such as “guns” to teach the collection and presentation of young people, thus consolidating the idea of militarization from an early age, especially since the Houthis are known for recruiting children, he said.
