I believe this was written in English, thought in Arabic...
Yemen Times Staff
The 27 April parliamentary elections results announced last week showed participation of all Yemeni 22 political parties and organizations with their different national, Islamic and socialist orientations while other Islamic sects didn’t specify their stands vis-a-vis elections process. - Sources mentioned that al-Salafia movement stand, which is considered one of the strongest Islamic groups found in Yemen, was clear and didn’t take part in the elections describing them as an act of infidelity and imitation of the west.
| Didn't think they were gonna win, huh? |
However, some sources indicated that some of al-Salafia elements had supported the al-Dawa candidates (extremists) from the Muslim Brotherhood movements.
| The Muslim Brotherhood is the (semi-legit) front for Salafism. It's where they keep the Learned Elders of Islam, who're too important to The Movement™ to actually get shot. Syria, I believe, shot them a few years ago, and they're outlawed in Egypt and a few other places... |
- The Shiite al-Ethnashria (al-Gafrites) that has existence in some areas, called on its followers to back General People’s Congress candidates attempting to gain the ruling party support for its activities to face what is called al-Wahabi movement in Islah party with whom they have intellectual-pragmatic enmity.
| Makes sense for the Shiites to support the gummint party when the Salafists are the main opposition... |
- Regarding the Jews in Yemen who are extensively inhabit in Sadah information indicated that they were supporting al-Hak, an Islamic party which adopts al-Zaidi-alhaidwi ideas.
| Saleh Obad al-Zaidi was assassinated, on April 27th, by coincidence — or maybe it wasn't a coincidence. I presume that's who they're referring to. He was a prominent figure in the Yemeni National Arab Ba’ath Party, and was one of the founders of the Oma al-Marek (Mother of Battles) organization. So somehow we end up with Yemen's Jews supporting an Islamic party that adopts Baathist positions. I think I'll go take an aspirin now... |
- Al-Bohra and al-Ismaelite stand obviously was for GPC candidate in Sana’a, Haraz and Jibla.
| Never heard of them. Don't know if they're parties, secret societies, social clubs or what... |
- The second section [wing] in the al-Salafia movement that is represented in al-Hikma al-Yemenia members, backed Muslim Brotherhood movement candidates.
- However, the stands of al-Hijra, al-Takfeer (Disbelieving), and al-Dawa groups which have simple existence in most Yemen areas is not clear till now.
- The Islamic jihad movement does not show any stand against the operation and might boycott.
| Yemen has its own version of Islamic Jihad. It was originally an offshoot of Egyptian IJ, rather than being affiliated with the Paleostinian version. I believe it's outlawed in Yemen. |
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