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Houthis aren’t Yemen the same way the Taliban isn’t Afghanistan.
by paxys 3y ago
Houthis aren’t Yemen the same way the Taliban isn’t Afghanistan.
- tptacek 3y agoThey're literally named after a guy named Houthi, who was not, like, the 4th Imam from 875AD, but was alive until a few years ago. He watched Die Hard. They're a splinter from Zaydi Shi'a, which makes them a subset of a minority in Yemen, which is majority Sunni. The Houthis like to blow off steam by blowing up Sunni mosques. Unfortunately, the Arabian Peninsula boasts some of the world's least competent governments, which operate the literal least competent armed forces in the world, so a well organized IRGC-backed Shi'a David Koresh stands a good chance of running the whole show there.