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Jews in Yemen flee homes following extremist threats
2007-01-23
Follow-up on the story posted late yesterday by TW.
Some 45 Jews in Sa'ada in Yemen have left their homes after being threatened by radical Muslims and are seeking the president and government's help, the Saudi daily Al Wattan reported yesterday. The extremists reportedly told the Jews to leave their homes within 10 days, and threatened that those who stayed would be killed or their children abducted and their homes looted.

The Jews moved into a hotel in the city of Sa'ada, north of the capital Sana. A formal complaint was submitted to Yemenite President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the report said.

The threats are attributed to followers of Shi'ite religious leader Hossein Bader a-Din al-Khouty, who was killed in clashes with government forces in 2005. The Jews have received letters alleging that they have been acting "first and foremost to serve global Zionism" and are working ceaselessly "at corrupting people and making them abandon their moral and religious values." A Jew named Yihya Yosef Musa told Al-Wattan that one of the Muslim leaders said he wanted no Jews to remain in the Sa'ada region. "We have been driven from our homes, our money has been lost, we cannot feed our children. We came to plead with the president and government to treat us properly because we are Yemenis," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Thank you, someone2. I've bookmarked the site for further reading, and plan to send the link to a friend, descended from a long line of Egyptian rabbis, who himself escaped from Egypt at the age of 15.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-23 22:56  

#6  Live as a slave, die as a slave, unfortunately.

TW, for more background go here (you may have to scroll:

Point of No Return

If the link doesn't work, it's http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com




Posted by: someone2   2007-01-23 19:17  

#5  Note that children are considered property that can be stolen. The evil of this "religion" is so blatant and so monstrous it could hardly be a greater parody of itself. And yet the left cringes along behind these Orcs. I find it hard to say which is worse.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-01-23 16:41  

#4  I didn't know either, which is why I posted that story yesterday. Thanks for the book, Uleanter Ebbinenter1449. It's added to the veeeery long list I've accumulated from the wise and knowledgeable people here at Rantburg. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-23 12:09  

#3  In fact if my memory is any good the Koran calls for teh explleing of Jews (and Christains) out of the Arabian peninsula so their presence in Yemen is unislamic. Ein Volk, ein Reich, Ein Prophet.
Posted by: JFM   2007-01-23 11:36  

#2  I didn't know there were any left in the whole Arabian peninsula.

Yep, when the (North) Yemen were expelling them in the sixties they realized that there would be no craftsmen left to make things, so they stopped the deportations. About 20,000 remained, subject to restrictions - not allowed to own cars, though they can fix them, not allowed to own knives other than kitchen cutlery, although they make the traditional (Rhino horn) daggers, etc.etc. for really good info read "Baghdad without a map" by Tony Horwitz.
Posted by: Uleanter Ebbinenter1449   2007-01-23 08:49  

#1  I didn't know there were any left in the whole Arabian peninsula.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-01-23 00:18  

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