The Yemeni Brotherhood following in the footsteps of Houthi; details
Eight years ago, the Brotherhood’s al-Islah Party was able to isolate Marib in the media from the rest of Yemen’s governorates after devoting a one-color press to the Houthi militias.
The al-Islah Party, the political front of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, harassed and persecuted journalists, monopolizing Her Majesty’s profession on a group of ideologically organized elements coming from outside the media establishment.
The Brotherhood used their control over the military, security, and intelligence decision in the city of Marib, including the Special Forces, to impose tight control on the press work without allowing any margin for media freedoms. This led to the blocking of the crimes of the terrorist organization, in addition to the crimes of ballistic missile attacks by the Houthi terrorist militia.
The Brotherhood has also used its control over the Yemeni Ministry of Defense in recent years to control its sites and platforms, and to gain absolute control over moral guidance, which has become a security apparatus linked to the al-Islah party’s organizational structure and away from the military.
The Ministry of Defense is one of the targets of the Brotherhood early on to control its administrative details, departments, and the strength of its field units. The Moral Guidance Department and the media departments in the military brigades and regions were the main targets of the organization, which gathered its members and monopolized work there and turned them into ideological and not national platforms.
Media sources said that the Brotherhood instilled activists working for Sahwa sites, al-asimah online, Marib Press, and other Brotherhood media into the management of moral guidance divisions in the Ministry of Defense and the administration of the ministry’s official newspaper (September 26).
It also planted its members in media centers built at the military level (fifth, sixth, seventh, third and first) and in combat and brigade media centers. The Brotherhood created media missions and positions in the Ministry of Defense to absorb its members and activists to work in the name of the state, headed by the Media Center for the Armed Forces.
Apart from the official press or Brotherhood media, the al-Islah Party’s various brutality tactics against journalists have reached even its own followers who are enrolled in the Brotherhood’s media department and who have jobs.
One is journalist Raddad al-Salami, who recently published a story about his resignation from the Brotherhood’s al-Islah Party. He accused him of destroying the party psychologically, in the media, and physically, and violating religious and moral taboos in order to obtain information and bring down opponents.
The Brotherhood’s religious shadow leadership issued a secret fatwa that allows women to use “widows” to commit unethical crimes that are related to homosexuality and drugs in order to spy on their opponents, including journalists, al-Salami said.
In a statement announcing his resignation from the al-Islah Party, he named the Brotherhood leaders who issued a fatwa condemning all religious prohibitions against women and drugs. They are:
“The Muslim Brotherhood’s Reform Party has its own intelligence apparatus that uses it to destroy anyone it wants, under the direct orders of the party’s president, Mohamed al-Yadoumi,” al-Salami wrote on his Facebook account.
The Brotherhood’s policy of harassment did not spare any media voice in Marib, even those who considered the city their last refuge after fleeing the Houthi killing machine in northern Yemen.
Hamoud Hazz’a, a Yemeni journalist who lives in the Al-Gafinah camp, the largest displaced persons site in Yemen and hosts 11,000 Yemeni families, spoke about a shocking situation of Muslim Brotherhood thuggery under the cover of the security establishment against the displaced media.
Hazz’a said on his Facebook page, that he was subjected to arbitrariness and a stoning by a member of the Special Forces, which are subject to the Muslim Brotherhood, and which reached the point of demolishing the wall of his house, storming it and violating his sanctity.
He said that for more than two years he has been knocking on the doors of security leaders, police stations and all the doors of the state, but it has not carried out its duties as a sign of the inaction of the sultan of Marib, which is under the control of the Brotherhood, and its collusion with its thugs.
The Yemeni journalist said he suffered a number of crimes, including pointing a gun at his face, demolishing the wall of his children’s home, violating his privacy, and terrorizing children on a daily basis by throwing stones and systematically disturbing his or her residence and family, wounding and dignifying them and restricting living conditions.
He called on the legitimate authorities to look at the Al-Gafinah camp, carry out their responsibility, and hold accountable those who trade and practice acts of thuggery against displaced persons displaced from the Houthi militia. He called for redress for the oppressed and for deterring the aggressor.
The al-Islah Party was formed in Marib as a special military and security force, numbering more than 10,000, to be used to suppress and humiliate the displaced, media voices, and even military and tribal leaders who do not pledge allegiance to the Brotherhood terrorist organization.
