Yemen’s political parties: Mass graves [Archives:2007/1082/Opinion]
Hamid Al-Abeedi
All the political parties and organizations existing in Yemen have disappointed the public who are inspiring for a prosperous future and a better life, which they have been waiting for as if they are space ships to take them away and rescue them from the bad situation. The sufferers are awaiting these ships to rescue them from swamps, cottages and boxes of the ugly times and take them to the divinely places in a way similar to what parties and organizations did in other democratic countries.
Regretfully, it has been nearly 15 years since political parties were established in Yemen. The one who closely observes performance of these parties and what they did for the sake of people and democracy is bound to find that they evidently deteriorated and progressed backward. Moreover, these parties and organizations turned into mass graves for the burial of man. As a result, man has become an ineffective element in the construction and development of this life. These graves prevented man from doing the real job required from him and made him an extra burden on the society. They made man without any value or weight and returned him to the same place where he started fleeing and at the same time asking for relief.
All these parties raised the same slogan despite their different names and trends. They have taken their people and supporters into a deadlock and appeared disabled before them asking themselves what they can do and how they can behave. The state of these parities has become similar to that of a fortune teller who brought genies together and then felt unable to distribute their tasks or disperse them from around him.
The main reason is that these parties – or the so-called mass graves – lead their people by sentiment in the past while their current problem is that they are insisting on leading their public through the same misleading sentiment they have been used to. This sentiment lacks science, reason, logic, pretext, evidence and serous work. It also has nothing of the contemporary means and mechanism that shows respect for humanity of man and help him grow in a better way to be an effective pioneer in this life.
The leadership, which is based on sentiment, is short-lived. Its means and mechanisms are sterile and ineffective, and therefore call for backwardness, injustice, corruption, dictatorship, chaos and randomness more than they did for the sake of development, justice, reform, law and order, and liberty.
From this point, I invite supporters of all the Yemeni political parties and organizations to avoid being led by sentiment, fanaticism, misleading addresses or false promises. They have to care for being led by the serious action, which is implemented in conformity with the declared statements and effective mechanisms.
The Prophet Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) did not feel convinced by the words given by his Creator as an alternative to action. Instead he said: 'My God, please show me how You recreate the dead.' He freely asked his Creator this question without any sense of fear or anxiety despite the fact that he was standing before Lord of Mankind. So, did these parties endow their supporters with serous works in order to help them overcome their poor situation and get rid of their constant sufferings? In event this question is correctly answered, it will be easy for the nation and its people to progress toward tangible development and continued prosperity.
Source: Al-Wasat Weekly
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