Al-Houthi and the poor children of Yemen

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One of the ugliest things that militias do in the world is recruiting children when they are young, at the age of 12, after they have poisoned - and I do not say washed - their minds with their black intellectual food.

Iran does this militia behavior, and it is supposed to be a state, and this accusation is not based on the recent US State Department report on human trafficking, which accused the “Revolutionary Guard” and “Houthi militias” in Yemen of this, but rather on what the eyes observed in the picture.

Video clips show children carrying weapons, including AK assault rifles, or standing alongside members of the Revolutionary Guard and other forces at checkpoints and during patrols, and military gatherings organized by the state in Tehran, Mashhad, and Kermanshah.

In March of this year, Rahim Nad Ali, an official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Tehran, announced the launch of a campaign called “Defenders of the Homeland for Iran,” through which he called on volunteers aged 12 years and above to register at “Basij bases” throughout the capital.

In Yemen, the Houthis do this to children, or “ignorant people,” as they are described in some Arabic dialects, including Yemeni. Whoever watches the video clips showing some of the Houthi prisoners finds ignorant people, approximately 12 to 16 years old, with their weapons, and parroting - parroting - the Houthi scream.

These people grew up under the shadow of Al-Houthi in the areas under his control, and he tightened his ideological and educational grip on their souls and minds, for at least 10 years, meaning that he took them from the cradle to the Houthi era. These people do not know Yemen, nor its people, nor its history, nor its neighbourhood, except through the eyes of Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, Hamza Al-Houthi, Al-Hakim, Al-Ajri, Al-Bukhaiti, and those who surrounded them.

In 2007, the Fiqh Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation issued a summary of its opinion on the age of assignment, but it placed restrictions on it, including the age of 15 after which legal costs must be paid, but nevertheless: “In financial and criminal actions, the guardian has the right to determine an appropriate age of maturity as required by the interest according to the spatial and environmental conditions.”

This means that the conditions for mental and psychological maturity may change from time to time, and from age to age, and there is no specific age for that. Today, an 18-year-old is not the same as 40 years ago, for example. Maturity, psychological ability, and social skill differ.

But returning to the origin of the matter, the danger of Al-Houthi, and people like Al-Houthi, just as ISIS did in the “many years” in which it controlled parts of Syria and Iraq, is in shaping the awareness and culture of an entire generation, who were destined to be under the influence of these dark groups.

It is a battle of awareness and a struggle over education, before it is a gun or “janbiya” battle in Yemen, and frankly I find that the Yemeni educational and media content working on this front is... weak.

Quoted from "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat"