According to reports, the Muslim Houthi militias in Yemen are bringing chattel slavery back to the regions they control after the practice was outlawed in 1962.

When they gain controlling power, Muslims have always been prone to enslaving their enemies and the minority groups in their midst. But “officially” slavery has been banned, even in heavily Muslim countries. In Yemen, for instance, slavery was banned in 1962 after the revolution there.

It was also banned in the decade before that in other Muslim countries in and around the mideast and Pacific.

But that is the thin veneer of “legality” that they cloak themselves in for western interlopers to see from afar, because many of these Muslim nations still either effectively or outright practice slavery even today.

And now, the Muslim militias in Yemen are no longer even pretending that they have banned the practice and are dealing in slaves rather openly.

Per this report:

Sources close to the group told Asharq Al-Awsat that several civilians have been forced into slavery by prominent Houthi leaders. More than 1,800 Yemenis work as servants and slaves at the residences and workplaces of high-ranking Houthi officials.

These including militias leader Abdulmalek al-Houthi, his brother Abdulkhaliq and their relatives Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, Hamza al-Houthi, Abdulkarim al-Houthi, Mohammed Abdulkarim al-Houthi, Yehya Badreddine al-Houthi, Sheikh Ashraf al-Kabsi, Abdulrab Saleh Jarfan, Hassan Amer and others.

The Houthis are working tirelessly to restore slavery in Yemen, nearly 70 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and decades after the 1962 revolution in Yemen. The revolt called for liberation against all forms of oppression and slavery.

Several local reports have confirmed that slavery witnessed a rise in Yemen during the past four years when the Houthis staged their coup against the legitimate government. Crimes linked to modern slavery vary from actual slavery, abusing people’s poverty and hunger, forced marriage, human trafficking and the forced recruitment of children, women and African migrants

Muslims have always put up a civilized face for stupid westerners to look at and to convince themselves that Islam is “civilized.”

The Houthis are now just refusing to bother putting up the false front.

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