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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

the National Social Party. As of 2003, the active parties are the GPC,

Islaah, the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), the Nasserite Unionist Party,
and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Some of these parties espouse liberal policies and others an Islamic
conception of politics. There are also parties in Yemen, like the Ba'ath
parties in Iraq and Syria, that support pan-Arab nationalism.
Parties in Yemen try to win elections, and thus gain power, by
promising to do what society wants. Yet it goes without saying that

some parties may fail to resolve national problems or even to identify
problems.
Although the repression caused by Ba'athist regimes in Arab coun-
tries is obvious, there are still parties in Yemen that claim there can be a
better future through socialist or Nasserite policies.
The failures of the Ba'ath parties that were active until recently in
Iraq and Syria inflicted terrible disasters on their countries. On the other
hand, the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt
was overthrown due to concerns it would exclude all those who did not

support it. There is no civil war like that in Syria in Egypt now, but there
is also no democracy. There is also a good deal of tension over a wave
of turmoil and violence that may explode at any moment.
In contrast to these poor examples, there is still a functioning
democracy in Yemen. It is vitally important for democracy to keep func-
tioning, no matter how great the ideological gulfs between the parties so
it is therefore essential for the parties in Yemen to compromise on a low-

est common denominator. Moreover, it is also possible to establish those
denominators without changing or restricting parties' ideologies. The
main points that the parties need to agree on in order to maintain

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