Revolution of February 11, 2011

For Saleh and his regime, the rumors that accompanied the February revolution were an issue of salvation for his authority, and a matter of life or death.

They said about the February Revolution that it was the "Calamity of February". It would seem natural that Saleh and his supporters describe the February revolution with the calamity. It really is for them a calamity, because it dropped the inheritance project.

The most important achievements of February was the overthrow of the inheritance project that cost the country high wages before, during and after the February Revolution, therefore, the supporters of Saleh consider it the great crime.

The inheritance scheme was so tightly knit that there was no challenge to it. And in order to empower it, parallel official institutions as well as civil institutions were established that use power and influence, so the February Revolution was a major calamity for Saleh and his family.

We are not justifying the revolution. Revolutions break out only after all roads have been blocked and the breadth of the dangers that threaten the state and its existence. The February revolution was a mass popular revolution, where the military and security machine could not stop it. It was a popular revolution, in which Islah and the JMP sought to solutions to keep violence and war away from the country.

Rumors associated with the February Revolution

Stealing the Revolution

Although it is a public popular revolution that has come out of control and stunned political forces, including Islah Party, but this revolution is attributed to Islah, this is an honor that Islah does not claim and a charge Islah does not deny. But Saleh and his supporters imagined that the focus on Islah would weaken the revolution and attract the other forces to their side. Saleh's propaganda partly succeeded in saying that the revolution was stolen, the Islah stole the revolution, and some leftists tried to spread that saying, but the revolution was greater than all.

The revolution brought Houthi to the capital

Al-Houthi Group represents the Yemeni crisis with all its disasters and forms. It is an out of law rebellious armed group. It was made by Saleh and he created the ground to employ it in intimidating the people from the Imamate in order to choose inheritance. And under the intimidation and the auspices of Saleh, in full view of the world, Saleh assigned a presidential committee to communicate with the Houthis and give them a formal cover. The Chairman of the Committee was a well-known arms dealer Faris Mannaa the Chairman of the Peace Committee, and decision of war became at the hand of a Supreme Security Committee, but the cessation of the war was through a telephone conversation between Saleh and Houthi. The Presidency of the Republic was in contact with the movement of rebellion and gave it enormous moral payments, to be the agreement in 2006 through the appointment of Yahya al-Shami as a governor of Saada, although Saleh knew that Shami leads a secret Imamate organization. This appointment was a formal waiver of the governorate in favor of Houthis in exchange for using the governorate to vote for Ali Saleh.

In 2009, the president declared that the Saada wars were rehearsals, and that the real war has begun. And Saleh meant that the Houthis crossing the border and clashing with the Saudi forces.

Houthis came with the revolution

And because the Organizational Committee of the Revolution and the political leaderships of the Imamate Parties with a leftist welcome allowed the participation of the Houthis with tents in the square, but their presence was in part. Although their revolution became known that it is not against Saleh but against Ali Mohsen, they continued for two reasons:

The first reason is the ignorance of the logic of the state, which says that the state is the only side has a right to monopolize the armed force and not to allow the existence of armed militias, and that the presence of the Houthis in the Square of Change is to legitimatize their presence. The logic here required the organizers of the revolution to make a condition for the Houthis to lay down their arms.

The second reason is the ignorance of the nature of their relationship with Saleh, where the Houthis saw Saleh as their most important ally before and during the revolution, while the refusal of their attendance in square was thought to motivate them to ally with Saleh, and the revolution seeks to isolate him.

There was no realization that the alliance had developed and became reality, and that the presence of the Houthis in the square became in favor of both Houthi and Saleh.

Rumoring of communicating

The strange thing is the establishment of the alliance between Saleh and Houthi and the formation of a counter-revolution consisted of the two parties. This alliance was the decisive factor in the overthrow of the directorates, governorates and the capital in the hands of the Houthis. Saleh has brought them to various areas supported by information, army and devices. The two sides have succeeded in overthrowing the president, but they have not agreed on the alternatives, and this lack of agreement led to the overthrow of the Yemeni state.

However, supporters of Saleh accuse the revolution that it received the Houthis and spreading rumors that there is a communication between the Islah and the Houthis, despite all what happened.

At a time when all the local, regional and international forces stood with them in an implicit agreement or verbal understanding to empower them, Islah was the only party that realized the threat of the Houthis and the return of the imamate.

Leftist forces welcomed the invasion of the Houthis. Saleh and the General People's Congress handed them the institutions of the state through a declared alliance.

The Houthis targeted the Islah in all their movements: its official headquarters, homes, mosques and Koranic schools were blown up on suspicion of being linked to Islah.

Although the declaration of Islah's support for the Arab Alliance, and despite that its members were subjected to the oppression of the Houthis - despite all these - but rumors that target Islah by various internal and external parties are still present to this moment.

Some of the followers of the General People's Congress find themselves stigmatized with the alliance with the Houthis and the betrayal of the revolution and the republican system. At the same time they find that the elements of the Islah's force take in principle a position from the Houthis who representing the imamate with all its arbitrariness, racial discrimination, accusing the people of ignorance and reliance on superstition and priesthood, which conflict with Islam that came as a Mercy for all creatures, humiliating the Yemenis and looting their dignity.

It is the fulfillment position for the sacrifices made by the nation to liberate themselves from the Imamate, and the fulfillment for the Yemeni state, which is wide enough for all Yemenis, where they have no safe haven without it.

It is a position that makes the followers of Affash (Ali Saleh) feel vileness, so they spread the rumors of communication between the Islah and the Houthis, and therefore they feel happy with those rumors.