The evolving Saudi-UAE strain potentially affects global energy markets, not to mention regional politics. The central issue of why the UAE backs the Southern Yemeni separatists: Yemen’s more than a decade-old civil war involves Iran-backed Houthi rebels controlling most of the north and a Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized Yemen government in the south. […]
Yemen: Muslims pressure Christians to conform to Islamic law
The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, non-Muslims are expected to conform their behavior to Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims are expected to conform their behavior to Islamic sensibilities. “Yemeni Christians pressured to conform to Islamic law: ‘We were forced to wear the hijab,’” ACI MENA, September 23, 2024: Christians […]
Yemen: Locals break into and rob Christian church
On Friday August 26, unidentified and armed militants broke into and robbed a Christian church, the Church of Banjasar, in Aden south of Yemen. In the words of a local source, “Armed militants accompanied by youths from the village broke into the church after morning prayers and looted the contents of the church.” The source […]
Islamic State kills at least 60 in jihadi suicide bombing in Yemen
The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency issued a statement: “Around 60 dead in a martyrdom operation by a fighter from Islamic State targeting a recruitment centre in Aden city,” in accordance with Qur’an 9:111: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the […]
Yemen: Islamic jihadists torch Roman Catholic church in Aden
Did the church hold a Muhammad cartoon contest? Did the church tell people that Islam was not actually a religion of peace after all? Will Pope Francis and the U.S. Catholic bishops issue an apology to the jihadist attackers for the effrontery of having a Roman Catholic church in Aden, which constituted an obvious obstacle […]