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That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more rando
by enterprise_cog 3y ago
That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more random attacks, when it is clear they are targeted attacks and for specific purposes. Appreciate the link.
- kasey_junk 3y agoYou’ll note one of the specific purposes the link lists for the shipping attacks is to distract from domestic failures in Yemen. It’s not an outlandish position to say that the Israeli/Hamas conflict is a secondary reason for the Houthi shipping attacks.
- enterprise_cog 3y agoI don't disagree with that. Actions can have many intentions. But that doesn't mean they don't oppose the genocide and are using it unscrupulously to attack ships (which the parent was implying). The majority of muslims In Yemen, regardless of sect, support Gaza and oppose the genocide. This is a good way to take a moral stand, gain public support and further legitimize their government, and be a thorn in the side of the US.
- runarberg 3y ago[flagged]
- nradov 3y agoIndiscriminate terrorist attacks against unarmed civilian merchant ships are not a legitimate or effective means of stopping genocide.
- runarberg 3y ago[flagged]
- tptacek 3y agoI think people sometimes need to be reminded that the Houthis are a race-supremacist religious cult (they're literally named after a guy named Houthi, who very probably saw the movie Die Hard) that employs child soldiers to ethnically cleanse Yemen in a doomed effort to restore a (literally) fascist Imamate. Stop dignifying them. Nothing they're doing is even comparable to bringing a case before the ICJ.
- enterprise_cog 3y ago[flagged]
- tptacek 3y agoRespectfully, these are the kinds of questions you'd ask if literally the only things you knew about Yemen were that the Houthis oppose Israel and were in a war with the other Arab states. You can Google any of these questions and get pages of answers. This is the problem with campism. You're finding yourself zestfully defending an organization that has restored chattel slavery to Yemen. Why have this problem? Why go out on this limb? The Die Hard thing --- it just blows me away that this whole movement is named not after, like, the 3rd Imam, but rather some random dude who was alive at the time Three Men and a Baby was released. He very probably had an opinion about Steve Gutenberg. I think it's important to remember that these people aren't Zaydis; they're a cult splinter group.
- enterprise_cog 3y ago[flagged]
- tptacek 3y agoWhat did you read? I search [houthi racism] and get pages upon pages of it (unsurprisingly, given how Houthi theology works). I'm interested in a single source you've read that warmly treats the Houthi movement as legitimate. Even the founder of Believing Youth condemns them.