Among the reactions of some sympathizers regarding terrorism, bloodshed, black propaganda, media demonization or media terrorism to which the Yemeni Islah Party is subjected, there are parties and people who ask the following: Why does the Islah Party not retire from politics and disappear from the public sphere, while it sees the power of that terrorism, violence and bloodshed that targets its leaders and activists and makes the party a pretext to continue the coup against the state and forcibly subject society to the rule of terrorist militias and political violence groups in order to preserve what is left from its leaders and affiliates?

The answer to this question is: Despite the violence and terrorization that the Islah Party is subjected to with the aim of removing it from the national arena and forcing it not to invest its political presence and popular weight to achieve the goal of restoring the state the public space is emptied in order to be filled by violent groups and terrorist coup militias, the Islah Party remains steadfast in its principles, whatever the sacrifices because the repercussions of the current crisis in the country do not concern the Islah Party alone, but rather the country in general and threatens its fate.

In other words, the Islah Party does not have the right to leave its partners in the national struggle facing the militias of violence, terrorism, and the coup against the state on their own, and to enter into bargaining with those groups and militias to ensure self-safety and abandon a homeland of which it is a part and in which there are many political and social components that reject political violence, terrorism, and a coup against the state, especially since all the popular components have suffered from the scourge of violent and terrorist groups and militias in the Governorates that they controlled.

Therefore, the national principles of the Islah Party are principles shared by all national parties and components, and agreed upon by the masses of the Yemeni people, meaning that the national positions of the Islah Party come in the natural context and are not a political heresy, as they come within a general pattern agreed upon by different nations and peoples and supported by various constitutions and laws. As for anomalies, they are everything outside of that pattern. This is evident in political violence groups and terrorist militias that want to exclude everyone, monopolize everything and reshape society according to their vision and ideas to the point of interfering in the privacy of citizens, including the way women dress and the way men shave their heads.

With regard to the consensus of the various terrorist groups and militias against the Yemeni Islah Party, this reflects the exclusionary approach of those militias because they do not believe in the principle of partnership and equal citizenship within the framework of one country, nor do they believe in the principle of peaceful transfer of power through the popular will. These groups and militias believe that the constitutions that regulate the issue of the transfer of power are paganism or positivism. Sometimes, these groups and militias declare the constitutions to be blasphemy, announce their abolition, and deliberately disrupt all the constitutional institutions of the state, but the question is: What if there is a solid and broad bloc and is supported by a broad popular base and political weight that cannot be bypassed hinders progress of these groups?

In this case, wars, bloodshed, assassinations, physical liquidations and terrorist acts are the means of political violence groups and terrorist militias to achieve their goals because they are unable to achieve their goals with the agreed upon peaceful political tools, but they see that violence and terrorism is the best way to remove the great obstacles in front of them, especially since they have no moral references that prevent them from killing, bloodshed, and practicing terrorism in all its forms to dominate people, plunder their property, and subjugate them under the sway of brute force.

- Criminal preparedness and political differences:

There is no doubt that political differences are a phenomenon that spreads in many countries, but it is not a justification for assassinations and terrorist acts that affect peaceful or innocent people. Political differences are resolved by political tools according to the circumstances, laws and constitution of each country. Also, civil wars are not a justification for committing heinous terrorist crimes against defenseless and peaceful civilians, whether they are political leaders, university professors, preachers, religious scholars, and others. The question is: What are the motives for committing murder and terrorism against defenseless civilians? And how are violent groups and terrorist militias formed?

Terrorist groups are formed from people who have a criminal or terrorist willingness, and political differences are part of the factors revealing the criminal tendencies of people who unite with terrorist groups or militias, so they act as a unifying container for them, and then they are called upon by fanaticism tendencies and self-interest at the expense of others.

In general, violent groups and terrorist militias are formed by many psychological, mental, environmental, organic, social, family and other factors. Thus, their criminal behavior is the result of a causal sequence that begins with poor moral formulation and a defect in education, passing through a defect in the soul and a deficiency in the mind, and ending with the emergence of factors that reveal and motivate criminal behavior, such as political differences. Often the commission of a crime is the result of many factors that represent several episodes or stages in the causal sequence, and then these factors are linked to criminal behavior or a causal link.

In conclusion, we can say that political violence groups and terrorist militias are formed from groups that have a criminal willingness and believe that they can achieve their goals only through violence and terrorism. This is fully evident in the behavior of the terrorist Houthi militia and others. Such a militia is, as usual, an umbrella for people who have criminal tendencies, so they rush to join it to satisfy their criminal tendencies, which are linked to a special physical and psychological composition that distinguishes them from other upright people.

To be more clear, when there are militias or groups that have a criminal willingness and have illegitimate political goals, motivating circumstances for their terrorist tendencies are created, such as civil war. Consequently, there will be a political party that it believes is hindering it from achieving its goals of domination and enslavement of others. In this case, the political crime and terrorist liquidations are the result of an interaction between the internal criminal readiness of the terrorist militias and the political and security conditions that motivate them to commit violent and terrorist crimes.

Returning to the harvest of assassinations and terrorist operations that targeted Islahi leaders and activists during the past years, the following is a monitoring of the victims in the Governorates of Hudaydah, Hadhramawt, Shabwa, and Dhamar:

- Hudaydah:

- November 17, 2015: The Houthi militia raided the house of the Islahi businessman, Abdul Salam al-Shamiri, in the city of Bajil - Hudaydah Governorate killed him in his bedroom and mutilated his corpse.

- February 17, 2018: The assassination of the Islahi leader Hael Abdo Ghaleb, which resulted of a landmine planted by the Houthi militia in the military vehicle he was traveling in at Mahjar point south of Hays Directorate - Hudaydah Governorate.

- May 5, 2018: The assassination of the Islahi leader, the leader of the Tihama resistance, Sheikh Hassan Dawbala, along with five of his companions, in the explosion of an explosive device planted in his car on the Khokha-Hais road, south of Hudaydah Governorate.

- Hadhramawt:

- July 28, 2019: The assassination of Jamil Batays, the brother of the leader of the Islah Party in Hadhramawt, Salah Batays. The aim of this terrorist operation was to assassinate the leader, Salah Batays. Subsequently, the assassination attempt on Bates was repeated, but his personal companion, Tariq bin al-Zaw', was wounded on September 25, 2019.

- Shabwa:

- March 21, 2022: The assassination of the Islahi leader, Shukri Muhammad Yaaqoub, in front of his house, after the evening prayer, in the Al-Mishhara area in the Radum Directorate - Shabwa Governorate.

- Dhamar:

- March 28, 2016: The assassination of Sheikh Ali al-Ansi, a member of the Shura Council of the Islah Party, in front of his house in the Customs neighborhood, north of the city of Dhamar, by two gunmen riding a motorcycle.

- April 23, 2016: The assassination of the Islahi leader Hassan al-Yaairi, head of the Shura Council of the Islah Party in Dhamar Governorate, by two gunmen riding a motorcycle who shot him in front of his house while he was returning from the noon prayer.

- August 15, 2016: The assassination of a member of the Shura Council of the Islah Party in Dhamar Governorate, Saleh al-Aanhami, by armed men on a motorcycle.

- August 10, 2017: The assassination of the Islahi leader, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sarari, in front of his house in Badash village in Al-Hada Directorate, north of Dhamar Governorate.