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What Kind of Yemen?

ties are hostile to one another. That is the main reason why Muslims

are killing one another in Syria and Iraq.
Only education can prevent this mentality based on superstition
from spreading savagery, enmity and lovelessness across the entire
Islamic world and turning people away from the true faith en masse.
This religion of superstitions is the result of a false system of educa-
tion. Many people exposed to this system, Shiite or Sunni, are unaware
that they are doing wrong. The damage done by this false education

can only be healed through correct education. So instead of settling
with only political agreements in Yemen, there also needs to be further
action in education right away.
Moderate and peaceable leaders, plus representatives of the
Houthis and Sunnis, must seek ways of ridding communities of that
false education at meetings among themselves. They must set about
educating people with books and broadcasts and seminars setting out
the correct concept of religion. For example, they must set out, with
verses from the Qur'an, how killing and hatred are unlawful in the

faith. The Yemeni people must be given detailed information about the
weaknesses and illogicalities of the system of super-
stitions.
If a lasting peace is desired in Yemen,

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