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What Kind of Yemen?
the south have been exploited by governments that have come to
power." The Spanish region of Catalonia, and Pandia in Italy, want to
secede from their respective countries for the same reasons. Based on
the framework of the EU and their strong democracies, Italy and Spain
are keeping these demands for secession under control. In Yemen there
is a factor that is far more influential than those mechanisms: Islam. If
the rulers abide by the norms of the kind of moral values that God wants
from Muslims, even if they come from different sects or tribes or hold
different political opinions, such demands will disappear of their own
accord.
"God commands you to return to
their owners the things you
hold on trust and, when you
judge between people, to
judge with justice. How
excellent is what God
exhorts you to do! God is
All-Hearing, All-Seeing."
(Surat an-Nisa', 58)
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