In support of Al-Houthi’s crimes against them, a Muslim Brotherhood fatwa declares Yemeni Baha’is as infidels and the permissibility of killing them
English - Wednesday 16 June 2021 الساعة 09:18 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
A Muslim Brotherhood sheikh in Taiz said in a religious fatwa that the Baha'i faith is an infidel religion, calling for the need to fight it and persecute its followers in Yemen as apostates.
Sheikh Ali Al-Qadi published a lengthy post on his Facebook page, attacking the broadcast of Belqis channel, owned by Brotherhood leader Tawakkol Karman, a program on the violations that the Baha’i community suffered in Yemen at the hands of the Houthi militia.
Al-Qadi, in his publication entitled "The Baha'is are Apostates", said that the Baha'i Faith "is an infidel pornographic religion that must be fought with all force, in Islamic law, reason, patriotism and morals."
He added: "It is possible to coexist with Jews and Christians and the infidels of the world, and it is permissible to marry Jews and Christians despite their unbelief, because the origin of their religion is divine.
Brotherhood Representative in Parliament Shawqi Al-Qadi commented on the publication - without expressing any objection to it - by requesting a fatwa from the judge on the fate of the Baha’is, in the event that the Houthi militia’s control over the areas where the Baha’is are present and whether they can be considered Yemeni citizens with the right to life, a decent life, and equal citizenship ?
For Sheikh Ali Al-Qadi to respond to his question that the state should implement “the legal ruling is their repentance, and if they insist on apostasy, then the punishment shall be established for them by the consensus of the nation, which is murder,” he said.
He suggested that in the event the state was unable to do so, “because of the Jews, Christians and their affiliated organizations, and it saw that establishing the punishment for apostasy would cause it severe damage, so the state would warn against them in the media and expose the maliciousness of their faith and expose their atheism and moral corruption by word so that it could impose the punishment on them,” he said.
The Baha'i sect is one of the minorities in Yemen whose true number of followers is not known because of their fear of being killed on charges of apostasy and blasphemy. The leader of the sect in Yemen, Hamid bin Haydara, was arrested in 2013 by the security authorities led by the then Minister of Interior of the "Brotherhood" In the Government of National Accord, which was announced after the events of 2011.
The sect’s suffering doubled with the Houthi militia’s control of state institutions in late 2014, when they were prosecuted and imprisoned. The Houthi militia arrested a number of them and brought them to trial on charges of “conspiring with Israel.” In early 2015, a Houthi court in Sana’a sentenced the sect’s leader to death.
As a result of international pressure, the group released the leader of the sect and 6 other followers of the sect in late July 2020, in exchange for their exit from Yemen on a United Nations plane, and the legitimate government condemned their deportation by the Houthi group and said it was a "crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of international laws and covenants."
