Extremist groups storm Sufi Mosque in Aden

ADEN, Aug 05 (YPA) – Members of Saudi-affiliated extremist groups stormed the most famous and oldest Sufi Mosque in the city of Aden, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition factions, making it a platform for spreading terrorist ideas that perpetuate the culture of fighting among the Yemeni people.

Informed sources stated that the leaders of the Salafist groups led by Ahmed Othman Al-Adani, who works as the “imam and preacher of the Great Mosque” in Al-Buraiqa district, seized the pulpit of the Kude Bayah Mosque, which belonging to the Sufi sheikhs in the Sheikh Othman district to spread his poison to serve foreign projects and interests in southern Yemen under the banner of religion.

Al-Adani was released by the Saudi authorities after his arrest on charges of fraud and trading in the “sacrifices” project during June of last year 2022.

Sources explained that Al-Adani, who owns a center for extremist Salafism with Hussein al-Hutaibi al-Yafei, prevented Sufi sheikhs from giving religious lectures, instead, he gave lectures consecrating Wahhabi thoughts and ideas from the mosque’s pulpit amid widespread discontent by the people, indicating that the Kude Bayhan mosque has become a gathering place for the extremist Salafist elements.

They stressed that the forced control over the Sufi Mosque pulpits by Salafist elements is a Saudi policy aimed at stoking sectarian conflicts in the city, which cannot tolerate further security chaos.

This comes after the city of Aden has witnessed during the past years a large-scale assassination campaign that affected about 55 imams and preachers of the mosques by intelligence elements affiliated with Saudi Arabia and the UAE with the participation of local leaders in the city.

E.M