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What Kind of Yemen?

behalf of so-called Islam continue to be propped up by some Muslim

circles. Indeed, Jalal Baidi, one of the al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen,
expressed for the first time that some armed men from local tribes
joined them in their fight against the Yemeni army. The Islamic world
needs to ponder upon the reasons for this and seek solutions.
For the Islamic world to get rid of the scourge of terror, an all-out
spiritual campaign must be launched. Both international institutions
such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim countries

must make greater efforts to correct some misconceptions about Islam.
They must explain that acts and practices of terror organizations such
as al-Qaeda and Boko Haram are at odds with the Qur'an; that in the
Qur'an killing an innocent person is equated to killing all of humanity;
that Islam forbids terror, violence, oppression and tyranny; that
according to the Qur'an peace, love, self-sacrifice, justice and compas-

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