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It's the only silver lining about the Yemeni Civil War. There is a fairly large Yemeni American population now due to displacement from the war. There's a fair
by alephnerd 2y ago
It's the only silver lining about the Yemeni Civil War. There is a fairly large Yemeni American population now due to displacement from the war.
There's a fairly large community in SF in Tendernob near the Yemeni consulate and the Yemeni mosque.
Highly recommend trying the Masoob and Mandi at Yemen Kitchen in Tenderloin.
- roughly 2y agoHuh, I hadn’t drawn that connection - I’d noticed a bunch of new Yemeni shops opening, but I hadn’t tied it to the civil war. That makes sense.
- criddell 2y agoThe podcast Search Engine did an episode trying to get to the bottom of why there are so many illegal weed stores in NYC. Turns out a significant percentage are run by Yemeni Americans. I’ve always wondered how that came to be but never considered that the war could have something to do with it. I wonder if that’s the case?
- lordofgibbons 2y agoI like to try out a lot of different dishes from different countries and recently tried Yemeni Mandi... WOW, it might just be my new favorite dish!
- cess11 2y agoWhat do you mean, "Civil War"? Yemen is occupied by UAE and likely Israel, has been at war with the US and Saudi Arabia for a decade or so, and before that on and off been managed by puppet regimes since they kicked out the british.
- tptacek 2y agoYemen is not occupied by Israel. Yemen is in fact in the midst (the end stages, really) of a civil war, between a corrupt preexisting government that ostensibly represented the Sunni majority of the country, and rebels led by the supremacist group Ansar Allah, which represents minority a Zaydi Shia sect.
- cess11 2y agoThe UAE and Israel are planning a joint base in the Socotra archipelago. It's reasonable to assume Israel already has a military presence due to this project. The Ansar Allah hasn't been particularly sectarian for many years, opting instead for establishing a non-sectarian government and maoist-like people's army, which they've mostly achieved. Due to the imposed starvation policies from the US, UK and allies they also aim to replace qat production with food. There's a lot to not like about them, don't need to make things up.
- tptacek 2y agoThe entire purpose of Ansar Allah is the restoration of the Zaydi Imamate. They have spent the last several years destroying Sunni mosques and laying siege to Sunni-majority cities (as they continue to do in Taizz and Marib). They are an explicitly and exclusively sectarian movement. This is not a thing you need to take my word on; you can get it from UNHCR (if you must), HRW, or literally any history of the movement. If you do take the time to read up on this, I strongly recommend you learn how the Imamate worked. It is not an abstract thing, like "the caliphate" so many other Islamist movements seek to restore; it was the governing structure of Yemen until the 1960s. If I wanted simply to trash Ansar Allah, it would be easy enough to do; they are currently the world's largest employer of child soldiers.
- cess11 2y agoMaybe that's their secret goal. They've formed a government with representatives from other groups and explicitly draw politics and rhetoric from historic socialist anticolonial movements, including the socialist South Yemen. al-Bukhaiti is the most outspoken of their leaders in this regard. Old Saleh loyalists have during the last year warmed up to the Ansar Allah-led regime as well. If my homeland was under attack by the US and Janjaweed I'd expect many local kids to join the effort.
- tptacek 2y agoI don't understand how you can read anything about Ansar Allah and conclude that Zaydi revivalism is their "secret" goal. The kids get sent to kill Sunnis, for what it's worth; there aren't US and Israelis there for them to kill. Not that it would matter! They're children!