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“Stultitia Delenda Est – Stupidity Must Be Destroyed.”
The brilliant Femi Akomolafe touches on an issue in the African context that fits so well in our context. With brilliant discussions on GlobalSouth.co, many times the comment has appeared: “It is a spiritual war”, and I do not disagree and have no problem with that, because deep down we feel that the part of us that we recognize as a spirit, is assaulted. The incessant gaslighting would have us question our own realization of reality. The specific issue that is highlighted here and well discussed by Femi, is spiritual escapism.
How does a ‘spiritual war’ fall within the political zone? How does spirit play into international relations? What is the part of spirit while all indications are that we are heading towards a larger war in the physical sphere?
Is it that we automagically call it a spiritual war once we are in a position where our understanding is so assaulted that we have nowhere else to go? Has it come to the state that we bury ourselves in a spiritual blanket because, personally, we are at the end of our ropes? Has it become a handy excuse, instead of a rational assessment of our state, and the state of our world and our close community? Do we call a Holy War because we don’t dare to call it what it is? Pure spiritual escapism. The spiritual in our lives is also assaulted, and we have to bring it to the harsh light, as we unentangle the physical. Just before we forget: No, they are not God’s Chosen, and God did not give them that land, which is about the best example of the results of a malaise of spiritual escapism that we can find. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, visited an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. During the visit, he openly supported Israel’s right to the entire West Bank: ‘This land (West Bank) was promised to the Jewish people. The world may not see it this way, but we do, and God tells us to honor the Jews’.
At the end of the day, keep that which is good.
Femi unentangles this issue.
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Usually, there comes a time in the life of every enslaved people when even the blind among them begin to question the direction of the caravan. But sadly, this is not the case in Africa. Unfortunately, we in Africa have perfected the art of kneeling while being whipped, singing hymns while we are being robbed, and shouting Hallelujah! as our presidents fly off in their expensive Gulfstreams to receive treatment for headaches in Europe while our hospitals run out of gauze.
And when we dare to ask why? They and their rented mouths respond, with pious solemnity: “It is the will of God.”
God’s will? We didn’t queue for hours under the blazing sun, risk ballot snatchers and AK-47-toting party thugs, just to vote for god.
We voted for governance.
But what we got instead was a pantheon of petty, power-drunk demigods dressed in Armani agbadas, reciting Bible verses as excuses for policy failures and using Qur’anic quotations to justify the economic disasters they have visited on their people.
Look at Ghana – the land of Nkrumah’s Black Stars dimmed by presidential mediocrity—which has decided to become an outpost of the German labor ministry instead of a sovereign republic.
Skilled Ghanaian nurses, doctors, and engineers—trained with taxpayer money—are being shipped off to rebuild a rapidly aging Europe, while Ghanaian hospitals resemble 19th-century leper colonies. And what do His Excellency and his Ministers say when asked about this brain hemorrhage? “It is a divine opportunity.” We get this after seventy years of ostensible independence.
These misrulers tell us this absurd, divine nonsense as though god is now running job fairs in Hamburg.
Nigeria, not to be outdone in the circus of the absurd, now boasts of a High Priest in Aso Rock. Alhaji Pastor President Tinubu, sermonizer-in-chief of petrol poverty, recently donated ₦90 billion—yes, billion—to sponsor pilgrimages. This is a country where schools operate without roofs, where people have been under austerity measures for forty-plus years, doctors are constantly on strike, and the national grid collapses more often than a Pentecostal at a crusade.
And when asked about the collapsing economy? The same refrain:
“Nyame woha or God is in control.” “Let us pray for divine direction.” We didn’t elect a bishop or Imam; we elected a leader – or so we thought.
Fela warned us back in the 1970s when having a functioning brain in public was still legal in Africa. He sang, “Dem go for Rome, dem go for Mecca, dem go carry all the money.” And behold, his prophecy has come to pass.
Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
Christians go dey yab (amen!)
“In Spiritum Heavinus” (amen!)
Muslims go dey call (amen!)
“Allahu Akbar” (amen!)
Open your eyes everywhere
Archbishop na miliki
Pope na enjoyment
Imam na gbaladun…
Our presidents now perform annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca, not to negotiate trade deals or continental alliances but to kneel, weep, and genuflect to phantoms and goblins of the sky. That is when they are not running to Washington, New Delhi, or Moscow to answer their peers who summon them to attend Africa Summits, which are never held on African soil.
These men – no, these misrulers – have turned State House into Holy Temple. They govern with crucifixes and prayer beads, not constitutions. When cholera breaks out? They declare a three-day fast. When the naira falls? They summon prayer warriors. When kidnappers abduct schoolchildren? “Let us all pray together as a nation.”
“In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.” – Robert Green Ingersoll.
Pray? What of the obscene security votes that disappear into individual’s pockets? What of the billions budgeted for defense? What about the drones, the armored vehicles, and the intelligence agencies? Were they baptized, too?
This orgy of spiritual escapism has turned governance in Africa into one giant prayer meeting. State functions now begin with invocations and end with laying on of hands. Even public hospitals do not start the day without prayers.
Yet, despite all the religious pyrotechnics, not one pothole gets patched, not one slum gets upgraded, and not one factory gets built. We turned all the post-independence-built factories into prayer chapels, and we wonder why unemployment is high.
African presidents spend more time with Pastors and Imams than scientists, engineers, or philosophers.
Meanwhile, the clerical class – those miracle-peddling charlatans in priestly cossacks and with shiny shoes and darker souls – have become the unofficial opposition.
Men of God who own private jets and satellite churches in Miami but haven’t built a single hospital or provided clean water for their flock – snake oil in Gucci suits.
The average African is told to pray for wealth while his resources are auctioned off to multinationals by officials who just tithed at Sunday service. We have the most religious continent on Earth – and the most underdeveloped. Surely, someone must explain to us how righteousness correlates with ruin.
We have been played. Hard. Not just by the West, but by our rulers—these god-invoking, verse-spitting, spineless plantation overseers who’ve made kneeling and supplication a national ideology.
One loquacious, self-promoted Archbishop in Ghana called for prayers to rescue the sinking cedit.
Kenya’s Ruto tells citizens to fast and pray to survive inflation, while his motorcade alone could invade a small country. You can’t make this up.
Uganda’s Museveni—Africa’s own Methuselah in fatigues – has held office longer than many of his citizens have been alive. Every year, he organizes national prayer rallies – to ask God what? After 38 years in office, if you still need divine guidance, perhaps it’s time to try retirement.
We are ruled by cowards in cassocks, crooks in kaftans, and conmen in clerical collars. These are not leaders. These are spiritual scammers running pyramid schemes of piety while looting with both hands.
And the people? We nod. We chant, “Amen.” We vote again. We even defend them. Because we, too, have sold our minds to the clouds. We no longer ask for roads. We ask for “breakthroughs.” We don’t demand water. We pray for “showers of blessing.” Instead of infrastructure, we hold vigils. We spent all our waking hours in one religious jamboree or the other.
But as Ola Rotimi told us, the gods are not to blame.
It was not gods that cut the budget for education. No almighty god signs the loan from the IMF or inflates the price of fertilizer. Gods didn’t rig the elections. All these malfeasances are committed by the shameless, sanctimonious reprobates we have in power in Africa who cloak themselves in hypocritical piety.
Africans, let’s stop listening to stupid sermons. What we need is not more churches. Not more mosques. We don’t need bishops in government or mullahs in ministry.
What we need is cold, secular, competent governance. We need governments that build roads, not cathedrals. We need leaders that deliver vaccines, not verses.
“…Building Church and universities.
Deceiving the people day by day.
Me say dem graduating thieves and murderers…” – Bob Marly
The Chinese are not praying for a high-speed rail; their engineers build them.
The South Koreans did not develop through deliverance sessions. The Europeans have largely given up on God – and look at their infrastructure!
But Africa? Ah, we host continental fasts for economic growth.
And the result?
We are rich in minerals but poor in spirit, rich in culture but poor in direction. We have gold, oil, cocoa, and cobalt—but no shame.
We are ruled by shameless men who cannot fix a drainage ditch but can quote Isaiah 40:31 on national TV. Their motorcades stretch for miles, but their legacies fit in a single tweet: “We prayed, and God will do the rest.”
No. We did not vote for god. We did not vote for shepherds. We voted for stewards. Accountable, mortal, fallible stewards.
Leaders who understand that power is not divine but contractual that they serve at our pleasure, not Heaven’s.
Until we stop romanticizing this fusion of altar and authority, until we stand up and call out these pulpit-propped parasites for what they are – enemies of our progress draped in divinity – we will remain the laughingstock of human civilization.
So, the next time you hear a leader say, “We leave it in God’s hands,” remind them:
Mr. Presidents and the rented Vuvuzelas, please stop wasting our ears. God did not run for office; you did.
And if you cannot lead without a Bible in one hand and a bank alert in the other, kindly step aside. We’ve had enough of the gods.
What we need now—desperately—is governance.
Let the pastors build hospitals, let the imams build factories, and let our presidents—if they still dare—build futures, not faith-based excuses. After all, we do not see the reprobates in our presidential palaces in Africa kneeling or supplicating before they award themselves fantastic salaries and emoluments. We do not see them entreat heavenly fathers before they spend humongous amounts renovating their already lavish palaces. We do not see these misrulers plead with Holy Ghosts before they replenish their presidential fleets with the latest jets. They should stop fooling us with their stupid display of piety.
© Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀
(Farmer, Writer, Published Author, Essayist, Polemicist, Satirist, Social Commentator, Chief Exorcist of African Hypocrisy.)
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A living Revelation anticipates the astonishing tableau which confronts us today: the violent and calamitous end to the Old Order heralded by the aggression of the Anglo-Zionists on Iran.
Chapter 105 of the Qur’an: Surah Al Fiil (The Elephant) — for interpretation & context see (here)
Divine Revelation, as Sheikh Imran Hosein and serious scholars note, is neither static nor dead. The same verses in subsequent generations, according to need of the flock, reveal gems, and guidance for navigation. For the same words or phrases can differ in meaning, or emphasis, according to context and circumstances of the times.
Symbol of the Republican Party of the United States
Yesterday, eschatologist Omar Baloch linked the unfolding Iranian-American Murder-Suicide in the Qur’anic chapter named Al Fiil (The Elephant). The incredible pressures, tensions, and mind-blowing geopolitical rearrangements and shattering of the old templates underway force contemplation. These astonishing and hair raising developments were previewed approximately 1,500 years ago.
The Republican Party (GOP) of the United States of America has the distinction of using the elephant as its symbol; the Democratic Party uses the donkey.
The messianic GOP will have the distinction of burying the Last Satanic Empire.
It has to do with one of the shortest and sweetest chapters of all – called The Elephant.
Rubio appears on live TV with the ash cross on forehead, discussing the Ukrainian and Middle East crises. 3.6.2025 (3×6=666).
Methodology of interpreting the Qur’an: if a non-Arab word is used in the Arabic Qur’an, it points to the land it came from. The Arabic language, as all languages, adopted various terms and phrases from other languages and cultures with which Arabs formed contact and relations.
Elephants were unknown to the peninsular arabs to which were revealed the Qur’an. At the time, during the 7th century, elephants were associated with Persia. The very word, “Fiil”, was arabicized Farsi, the Persian language.
India and Africa are also associated with elephants, but Persians are closer to the Arabs by direct land route. And for several millennia, Persians ruled the Arabs, whose culture and norms and language were of intimate familiarity, being one of the traditional two superpowers of the millennia preceding the revelation of the Qur’an. Historically, all parts of Arabia were at one point or the other dominated by Persia.
June 18, 2025: for the first time, Iran launches the 2-stage Sejjil MRBM on Zion. In verse four of the Chapter of the Elephant, Sejjil are the clay stones baked in the Hellfire launched by the flock of birds on the army of the People of the Elephant.
The Chapter of the Elephant is remarkable worldwide for two seminal events in history, being an extremely important year, both for Arabs and Islam.
First, it was the year in which was born the Islamic Prophet, PBUH.
Second, this year marked the first serious attempt to destroy the Kaaba, the House of God, in Makkah (Mecca). An invasion was mounted by a Christian Abyssinian army to destroy this House in Makkah, spiritual symbol of all the Arabs.
The Abyssinian powers of that time had come to Yemen to expunge the Jewish tyrant king that genocided their Christian brethren, recounted in the Chapter of the People of the Trench. They then overstayed to conquer Yemen, displeasing Yemenis. When the Abyssinian warlord built a grand cathedral, one night an ignorant pagan Arab entered and defecated inside it, leading to his vowing to as desecrate in retaliation the Arabs’ holiest sanctuary in Makkah.
This warlord Abraha marched to Makkah to destroy the Kaaba, then controlled by pagan Arabs, but nevertheless symbolically the central house of worship of all Arabs. His army included novel war elephants in its procession, unknown to Arabs and hence the symbol of that striking year, memorialized in the parable and the name of this scriptural chapter.
Forty years later, the young herder of those elephants, then an old blind man, was alive at the time of the investiture of the Islamic Prophet, having escaped the fate of the army by fleeing up a mountain when he saw the Elephant refuse to continue on the suicide mission by kneeling just before entering the Haram (holy borders) of Makkah, the forbidden sanctuary. The men who continued onward did not survive.
Iran unveils Hesa Ababil 3 unmanned combat aerial vehicle. In verse three of the Chapter of the Elephant, Ababil are the flock of birds which attack the army of the People of the Elephant. (see Iran’s Ababil drones family)
Now follow reinterpretation of this historical chapter, known by heart to perhaps billions since it is so very short, sweet and singsong, and striking, and as Scripture is not static but constantly unfolding:
The Eschatologist noted several things – note the promise of the Lord to annihilate this arrogantly aggressive and presumptuous army, “the People of the Elephants.” Their plans will go awry in terrible ways. Their forces (in the region) will be obliterated, scattered like dead chewed straw (being helpless without adequate AD, and at point blank ranges).
Extrapolating the nature of MAGA behind the current GOP incumbent, are they not a cult? Even so, the MAGA base is openly disintegrating right now, with most against this suicide in motion. They’re disillusioned with endless unwinnable foreign adventures, as their nation fractures and quality of life disintegrates and irreversible poverty sets in. Even those mind-washed for generations can connect the dots – if all the money is spent on guns, used abroad fruitlessly at behest of others, there will be no butter at home. And this they see.
Yet the American elite are under compulsion of the Anglo-Zionists, and will march on into the breach. It is decreed, to complete the Humiliation, and conclude the Babylonian System. The Tragedy of the End Times. So much waste for such the abominable project of Pax Judaica.
The Americans will at the same time deal terrible blows to Persia, unprecedented in human history. The Islamic Prophet said “one blow” in one narration, “two blows” in another narration.
I assume after Persia defeats their conventional attack, and annihilates their regional forces, they will use ICBMs?? This is beyond my competence. But it is a given that the Exceptionalists whose last place of hegemony is at total risk, and having been humiliated, will escalate to becoming permanent Black Hats, the unconscionable Pariahs within the larger human family. With the coming Deeds, they shall carve their own tomb-stones in Persia, and attribution for all subsequent horrors that follow.
According to further explication of subsequent events, after the satanic wasting of Persia, the Zionists and India (Hind) will join to annihilate Pakistan (Sind), with Zionazis having taken baton from the defeated Anglos. “Hind will defeat Sind”. So dramatic reversals will appear for a Pakistan which just stymied India last month.. But he then added, “China will defeat Hind”/India. China will not sit out. She appears to keep her powder dry for the coming moment, hence the agony of India now knowing its total exposure if she serves the suicidal Anglo-Zionist aims, effecting her own Murder-Suicide. For all now know that Pakistan and China come as a package…
After nuking Iran, the same treatment will be meted to the Arabs — i assume the GCC, even more than former Resistance (Yemen, Iraq, Hezbollah, etc) since the PetroSheikhs will be then be ghost, consumed in the Persian Gulf conflagration as most of their citadels and oil/gas assets, located in the eastern peninsular half adjacent to Persia, will be no more, and at that point, Pax Judaica can absolutely not trust ANY arab whatsoever.
Pax Judaica will rise on a sea of skulls like Pol Pot, or rubble like Gaza. Such terrible wars of extermination lie ahead. As Yahya Sarae, spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, warned the comatose compradore Arabs:
“To the rest of the Arab and Islamic countries and peoples, we say:
Jihad is one of the gates of Paradise, opened by Allah for His distinctive servants.
Take the initiative to stop the Israeli crimes against your people in Gaza, for what befalls them today will befall you tomorrow.” (June 15, 2025)
This is the Pandora’s chest willfully opened by Donald J Trump, the Last American President, and Joker of our End Times.
I suspect Iran will initially win, yet lose in the interim, before the ultimate Victory, due to the Murder-Suicide. The other side will fight dirty to “win” at all costs (when did empires fight “fair”?), condemning itself in the process, through cascading nuclear exchanges. So the real order of events may be Suicide (of the annihilation of regional western force presence) then mass Murder of the Iranian civilians by the Antagonists of All.
Californian Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. His father Yoav Botach was an Iranian Jew who left Isfahan. [01][02]
The overriding imperative remains of 70,000 true semitic Jews to emerge from Isfahan, under leadership of the AntiChrist making his entrance in human guise. This completes the ascension of the “Moshiach” of messianic Jewry, ruling a leveled world from Jerusalem.
Isfahan has the oldest continuously settled Jewish community on earth, nearly 3,000 years old. Today only some 20,000 Jews remain, with most having relocated to Zion, and USA. Arguably the most famous US rabbi is a Californian with direct ancestry in Isfahan. His father migrated from Isfahan to Zion in the last century, then onward to the USA. He peppers his speeches and presentations with exhortation to liberate Iran, so that they may return to Isfahan. So with much of Iran erased, they would be able to reverse migrate to Isfahan…
My father Yoav Ben Eshrat Botach passed away tonight after Sabbath on Rosh Chodesh Sivan. He was 87 yrs old. He fought for months & we believed he was healing. This was last time I put tefillin on with him. This is a devastating time. May my father’s memory be an eternal blessing pic.twitter.com/xzIDucLRk8
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) May 24, 2020
IMO, most of Iran (and Yemen’s) fighting men may be in underground cities inside mountains and deserts and other secret areas. Plenty of places to hide. Impossible for even nukes to materially affect them. I heard about a million Iranians are currently under arms.
But what civilization can hold on without women, children, elderly, and the non-martial trades? When these are Gaza’ed… it will take time to reconstitute, being dispersed autonomous cells and forces over a huge land of over 1.5 million km² in Iran.
The Persian, and others, especially Pakistanis, will essentially return as guerrillas, having been decapitated, stateless, fighting totalen krieg every inch, like in Gaza. And when they put the last zionazi and westerner to the sword, they’ll weep rather than celebrate, having had their hearts and hearths torn out.
Such horrors beckon as the living will envy those in their graves. What we see today in Gaza will seem a beach holiday. The Mad Orange Emperor warned the Palestinians in January to surrender or the same bestial Hell we currently see would be unleashed; last week he warned “Leave Tehran” …
Sorry for the terrible previews. There is scant good news for any side in the End Times. This is the Islamic version of the Book of Revelations, and it gives the same unvarnished terror, trials and tribulations. As Imran Hosein said, around the time corona began in 2020, now’s a good time to die, given what comes.
Why would the Persians commit to the Murder-Suicide, knowing the terrible outcome for their people at the hands of unrepentant resolved devils?
Their ultimate victory would be pyrrhic, spent mourning for generations, given holocausts experienced.
Clues lie in words of the Islamic Prophet recounted by Omar Baloch, Imran Hosein, and many — he said none would be as knowledgeable in his flock as the Persians, who would seek knowledge and wisdom in the very heights of the stars if needed. So they know everything described herein in this short article, and foretold of their unusually bitter role in the End Times.
“We are the nation of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him” a declaration of identity, emphasising allegiance to an Imam revered for his martyrdom at Karbala in 680 CE., symbolising resistance, sacrifice, justice and ready to face the enemy with courage.https://t.co/U5xCe8xnv6
— Elijah J. Magnier
(@ejmalrai) June 21, 2025
I will leave you this tweet by Magnier and Prof. Marandi, which highlight the ethos and determination of Karbala, where the grandson of the Islamic Prophet marched to his certain annihilation at the hands of the tyrant of the time. This is the lodestone of the Shia realm; the fount of their devotion to sacrifice, and struggle against impossible odds. It is of the same strand of the Sunni Palestinians who say, ‘ …verily, it is a Jihad, until Victory or Martyrdom.’
We will find, as Hamas refuses to lay down its arms and surrender even as 100-200 of their precious children and women and elders are massacred every single daily for over 600 days, the Iranian nation will prove to be as resolute in dealing as catastrophic commensurate annihilation to the Anglo-Zionists. It remains a Murder-Suicide, come what may.
The Chapter of the Elephant of the Qur’an appears to foretell that during the initial phase, Iran will be given unusual tools that will militarily erase the fallen West from the face of West Asia.
(Mine) Metropolitan Kirill: “Lord have Mercy. Did he really ask, “…why were the Oreshniks not released as the US & Tel Aviv saw this move as weak. Why did it not happen and will it happen?” Son, this venue ain’t the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). And no worldly weapon is gonna win this War”
Background:
Official channel of the Synodal Department for Interaction with the Russian Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies:
The Synodal Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies held an award ceremony for military correspondents
On June 3, 2025, the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, met with military journalists and correspondents who, in the course of their work, actively cover the activities and service of the military clergy in the SVO zone.
Among them:
For their contribution to the coverage of the service of military clergy in the SVO zone, they were all awarded the medal of the Order of the Blessed Prince Dmitry Donskoy.
Military Department of the Moscow Patriarchate
“How weary am I of devils and brutes, a true human is what I long for.”
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
The fact that our planet in this day and age is home to a genocide – visible to all human beings on personal devices throughout the world – an ongoing abomination unhindered by any international body, by any intergovernmental organisation or even by those noble states that proclaim to be constructing a new and more just world… says a lot about our evolution as a species and potentially about the future of our civilisation.
We now stand before a bifurcation: one clear and broad path leads to destruction and ruin; the other is to lead to a new and harmonious world… but it is winding, stony, vague and enveloped in fog.
Like a frantic victim in quicksand, flailing his arms about in vain, the frenzy of a declining Empire is only accelerating its own demise. It has chosen the path leading to ruin and its own suicide… and it has many followers – especially in its diseased appendix – the Zionist entity – and the rest of the Western World. The symptoms of this necrotic drive are seen in the Forever Wars; a self-devouring economic system based on insatiable greed and wilful ignorance; the destruction of society, of the family, of rituals and traditions; and, essentially, a total contempt for all that is natural and alive… These signs arise from a state of permanent discontent and fear, which ultimately leads to self-destruction.
And now… though today’s Hegemon, the United States – built on genocide and slavery – has been waging countless wars since its inception, and Europe has been massacring and plundering the planet for over 500 years due to its endless rapacity… it is no longer just a question of geography. The core of the problem of our human civilisation today is the western mindset and the system of financialised capitalism, both of which have infected the entire world to various degrees… with only a few exceptions.
Most of the World Majority remains incapable of throwing off the yoke of the colonialist West because of corruption, dependence, societal pressures and a lack of support from states to enlighten citizens on their own past and history.
The mythification and emulation of the Western World have become so deeply ingrained in the marrow of so many over so many centuries… that a decolonisation process will take time. And little has been undertaken officially to this end. The promising BRICS+ states are focussing mainly on trade, economic growth and hi-tech innovation.
To avoid that western path to societal devastation and ruin and to clear the other path of fog, we of the Global Majority need to seek clarity in many areas… We may have to make seismic changes to our ways of thinking. We can begin by questioning our definitions of very basic terms… Such as: what is “development”, what is “growth”, “what is “prosperity”, what is “progress”? Not all growth is advantageous – as in malignant metastases. “Positive growth” today pertains chiefly to monetary matters – GDP, GNI, PPP. What is “progress”? Progress today mostly pertains to technological innovations. And certainly it is imperative that peoples are lifted out of poverty, such as China has succeeded in doing… but what is the kind of “prosperity” that Humanity would like to achieve??
Today, in this post-modern world, there is little discussion of development, growth, prosperity and progress with regard to immaterial matters…
It is not only education, the arts and cultures of the world that have fallen into stagnation, but obviously also the ethics and value systems of entire states and societies… not to mention the conscience of most of Humanity.
How else could a genocide become commonplace? How else could atrocities become a daily tolerable spectacle throughout the world? How else can two genocidal leaders meet and speak so eagerly about their “real estate plans” for their concentration camp as though they were having a normal conversation? How else could we have all become a global audience for an orchestrated famine? How else can so many European states and the EU Border Control Authority Frontex become the clients of “combat-tested” weapons (“tested” in Gaza) from Elbit Systems (“Israel”‘s largest arms company) that manufacture surveillance drones and remote-control turrets for armoured vehicles to enable European soldiers to avoid accountability and a bad conscience when targeted refugees are murdered by anonymous technicians located in remote offices? How else can European countries allow their historical incidents of genocide against the Jews to be “revised” and whitewashed by the Zionist entity for Israeli business advantages? How else could International Law be trampled upon without resistance? How else could serial mendacity and the constant breaching of constitutions and agreements become acceptable? How else could the citizens of those states, which vaunt their “freedom of expression” and “western values”, allow their states to reach the point at which they are now criminalising protesters for standing up for human rights?
Other than the people involved directly in battles for their survival (in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere), courageous soldiers fighting against Nazism, committed journalists risking their lives on the fronts and activists, risking their professions for protesting against the Genocide… where is the rest of the world?
Some states voice their condemnation of the ongoing genocide but take no action, because… because it’s… complicated.
And yet… we have an exception… the Ansarallah of Yemen. There is nothing complicated about their resolute move: it is simply a matter of priority.
Why would the majority of a people of one of the poorest countries (perhaps the poorest) on Earth devote most of their energy, their scarce resources and their steadfast beliefs in risking their lives in defence of another people, who are not directly related to them and are located in a distant country (an estimated 2,270 kilometres away)? What unites these people in this goal? And what might be THEIR definitions of “development”, “growth”, “prosperity” and “progress”?
A crossroads of various civilisations for at least 7000 years, Yemen’s own great civilisation has, over centuries, experienced countless invasions, fierce battles, usurping dynasties and colonial occupations by those who continually sought to plunder, conquer and control this valuable, highly developed, resource-rich and “geographically optimal” territory.
In the 1990s, after a long period of economic hardship due in part to persistent Saudi oppression and notably Yemen’s refusal to join the US-Saudi military coalition against Iraq, a Zaidi grassroots movement emerged in northern Yemen, known as Muntada al-Shabab al-Mu’min (“Believing Youth”) – which offered social programmes to the impoverished population of the region. The successful movement grew and soon transformed into the Ansarallah (“Supporters of God”) who went on to fight six wars against the Saudi– and Western-backed Saleh regime between 2004 and 2010…
Now, despite decades of deprivations, the Ansarallah remain undeterred in their goals for justice, in their fight to liberate Palestine and to improve their own country. To achieve these goals, they do not require “monetary prosperity” and a financialised state. In all their operations they show solidarity and unity amongst themselves. They cannot be intimidated. They are ready to die for their beliefs and principles.
In their filmed speeches and discussions, the demeanour of the Ansarallah is visibly marked by confidence, serenity, grace, poise, modesty… During the Third International Conference “Palestine, the Central Cause of the Nation”, they displayed kindness, generosity and hospitality in welcoming foreign guests, even toward those hailing from “hostile states”.
Single-handedly, they have disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Relying on the expertise of their own specialists, they manufacture weapons themselves… The US Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer Bill LaPlante expressed alarm over the sophistication of these weapons: “What I’ve seen of what Ansar Allah has done in the last six months is shocking.”
In his article Factors behind Yemen’s Valiant Resistance, journalist and political analyst Ayman Ahmed describes how the Ansarallah “managed to modify conventional military tactics in very unconventional ways” by adopting a guerrilla-oriented approach: moving on foot over hostile terrains in small mobile groups, with their group leaders often improvising tactics on the spot, and using little to no electronic devices… “Their use of drones in almost guerrilla-style operations highlights how the Yemenis managed to jam billion-dollar Saudi air defenses…” […] “The Saudi regime has not been able to score any major military victory despite possessing large stockpiles of weapons supplied by the world’s leading arms merchants.”
But their strongest asset of all is their motivation and determination in their pursuit of “a dignified life and standard of living for Yemeni citizens, the protection of the independence of the nation and seeking world peace and appropriate equal cooperation with the other countries of the world” – as inscribed in their “National Vision for the Modern Yemeni State“. With this, they have won the support of the masses across all segments of society.
As Rune Agerhus, political analyst and member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen, wrote here: “What Ansarallah has managed to establish, while facing war, starvation, and a crippling blockade, is a system that could best be described as akin to Yugoslavian worker self-management” […] “Farmland and output are controlled by the cooperatives, which are wholly owned and administered by Yemen’s peasantry.” The defence of Yemen as a whole is being fought on two fronts – “the battlefront and the development front”.
The system adopted by the Ansarallah is the antithesis of contemporary capitalism.
(Not to forget: Yemen has already had experience with socialism when its southern territory – a separate state in 1967-1990 – eventually formed a Marxist-Leninist government following decades of rapacious British colonial rule over the region.)
In our globalised, postmodern, technology-obsessed world dominated by Western norms, technocrats and the Market and guided by an ignorance of history and a limitation in independent reasoning, the Ansarallah seem to many backward and savage at worst, quaint and exotic at best…
Different people may have different views of the Ansarallah and will judge them accordingly… but the ACTIONS taken by these people in defence of another people undergoing a genocide, especially in view of their own circumstances, speak for themselves… louder than any fine words.
On 10th April 2025, under the incessant bombings of the barbaric Hegemon, Ansarallah’s leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made another urgent appeal to the world… to come to the aid of the Palestinian people and to become conscious of our ethical responsibility as part of a collective humanity. Who is listening? Where is the “world community”?
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After so many millennia of human civilisation, what is the “progress” we are making as a species in our modern-day age?
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Dar al-Hajar, former royal palace outside of Sanaa (1920) on the ruins of an ancient Sabaean palace known as the Fortress of Dhi Saydan, constructed by the Himyarites in 3000 BCE
Inscriptions in Musnad, the Temple of Awwam, Throne of Queen Bilqis (Sheba) 1500–1200 BCE © Zain Alaabdain Ben Ali / Arabia Felix Magazine
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