Houthis militias tampering with secondary school curricula… Details

The Houthi terrorist militia has made significant changes to secondary school curricula in areas under its control that serve its agenda, twisting core-grade curricula.

According to a cultural intellectual seminar organized by the Al-Qalam Institute for Thought and Culture last Tuesday in Marib, the Houthi bulldozing of school curricula, militias have changed the facts of history, falsified it, and politicized the historical narrative, warning of the dangers of these changes, Yemen News reported.

According to educationalists, Iran’s Houthi arm has turned to the education sector in areas under its control, as part of its multi-track war with Yemenis.

The Houthi militias imposed the teaching of Lieutenant Hussein Al-Houthi, and allocated millions of riyals for printing them; in order to generalize the Iranian experience while depriving teachers in areas under its control of their salaries.

At the seminar, educational leaders reviewed some examples of Houthi militia distortions of the basic classroom curricula.

‘’In the school curriculum, the militias promote the weapons they use as a form of violent mobilization among young minds’’, education officials said.

The militia’s curriculum classes also included recruiting children, inviting them to take the Salafist route, and instilling sectarian ideas through lessons that urge students to follow militia claims.

Education officials said the militia’s sectarian-inspired bullying of school curricula serves its Iranian project, which is a danger to society and a disruption of its social fabric.

The participants called on the government to activate the educational channel and broadcast awareness programs that would protect students from the danger of the Houthi sectarian project. They demanded that the Ministry of Education review the curricula and purify it of some of the ideas of ancestry.

Seminar participants stressed the need for the ministry to form educational teams to formulate curricula on civic education and history so as to achieve the roots of Islamic identity and consolidate national identity.

Seminar participants’ requests to the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance included drafting a guide for an inclusive national discourse that preserves national identity and social fabric.

A study prepared by the Teachers Union in this regard said that the changes made by the militias are similar to those made in the Iranian and Iraqi curricula. They aim to impose an education that adopts the thought and doctrine of the guardianship of the jurist, and supports what is called the confinement of the two-domains to the jurisdiction, and the eligibility of the Houthi and his dynasty to rule over others.