An imam and nine worshippers were killed following Houthi militia attacks on a number of mosques for celebrating Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, after Saudi Arabia announced the sighting of the Shawwal crescent, Yemen’s information minister Moammar al-Eryani and local media reported.
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According to al-Eryani, the militias stormed mosques during Eid prayer in Houthi-controlled areas, including Sanaa and Dhamar.
“The Houthi militia prevented the majority of honorable citizens in their areas of control from celebrating Eid al-Fitr and stormed a number of mosques and arrested citizens in Sanaa, Dhamar, Hajjah, and Ibb who refused to comply with its decision to postpone the celebration,” al-Eryani tweeted on Tuesday night.
Local media reports stated that the imam and worshippers were shot dead at a mosque in the Qiva district in al-Bayda, after they refused to stop their Eid prayers on Tuesday when ordered to do so by Houthi militiamen.
Sanaa residents also reported that the Houthi-controlled Religious Endowments and Guidance offices instructed religious guides and militiamen to monitor other “violating” mosques.
Yemenis on Monday were deeply divided over when the first day of Eid would be, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
In the southern port city of Aden, the legitimate Yemeni government declared that Tuesday would be the first day of Eid, while the Houthi militias, who control the capital Sanaa and other northern Yemeni provinces, declared that Wednesday, June 5 would be the first day of Eid.
This is the first time the country was divided over the moon sighting marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, despite years of deadly conflict between Yemen’s government and the Houthis.
Local activists said the Houthis wanted to challenge the Yemeni government, supported by Saudi Arabia, by announcing that Eid would commence one day later.
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Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
If you’re a moslem … What a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours ….
You’re an islamophobe! Not all muslums want the kafir to be killed! There are many ground level opportunities in the muslum world for kafir slaves who like hard work and serving their muslum masters!
What a bunch of bunk. You are kidding, right? Being factitious?
An intelligent, wise, and discerning person WOULD NEVER BE AFRAID of ISLAM, if they understand that it is of Satan. Here ya go. See? NO ‘RADICAL” IN THIS ONE. BAN ISLAM ALTOGETHER. PROBLEM SOLVED.
I’m not sure why the lower image needs to have the adjective “Radical”. Coexisting in any kind of equal status is contrary to the canon of Islam, period.
MAS
4 years ago
Y’all know what this is called? A good start. Muslims murdering other Muslims (instead of us) is not a negative…
Bro when Bush took out Saddam and the muzzrats started blowing each other’s mosques up, killing 300 people at a time, I was hoping Bush would sit back and let the problem take care of itself, that really was the smartest thing to do.
It would’ve saved US soldiers lives. This was the Sunni vs Shia war that could’ve resulted in the elimination of most of Islam, esp if we armed both sides. Muslims live for war, so as the battle heated up, many Muslims from the West would’ve left to fight there as well.
Honestly it was a golden opportunity to end this death cult. I go back to what Michael Savage said, “do you prefer they kill millions of us or that millions of them die?”
Ol’ Dubya and his upper crust advisers wanted to nation build among inbred tribal cultures poisoned further by Islam. I guess they expected a Muslim Thomas Jefferson to somehow float to the surface of the cesspool that is Islam. Foolishness that cost American lives…
Stunningly primitive! Hope Islam never gets the Green Religion Emergency ideology……
John Acord
4 years ago
If Hillary had won the election she would have solved the problem by settling a few million of these savages in a town near you. After all,it worked for Obama in solving the violence in Somalia?
R. Arandas
4 years ago
Is violence the only language they can truly speak?
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