Their society has contributed nothing of note to humanity in hundreds of years, perhaps ever.
Hodeida, July 28 - An official with the Ansar Allah movement that controls a large swath of Yemen acknowledged today that the organization's focus on activities that terrorize some and inconvenience billions more stems in the main from an inferiority complex that drives them to have an outsize effect on the world, regardless of how negative, so that they feel important in some way.
Houthi elder Qadib Saghir stated this morning what most others realized a long time ago, namely that the terrorist group's missile attacks on Israel and on vessels near Yemeni waters, as well as its hijacking of such vessels and taking the crews hostage, all grow out of the group's realization that their society has contributed nothing of note to humanity in hundreds of years, perhaps ever, and that the only way for them to assert any sort of relevance or fame involves violence that goes beyond ordinary domestic repression and terrorism.
"Listen, we know no one would know where we are, let alone who we are," Saghir confessed, "if not for our work as proxies for Iranian regional hegemony. A hundred years from now, not a single ordinary person anywhere in the world will know the name of of even one Yemeni - unless we become so notorious that no one can ignore us. That's why we do what we do. We will of course dress it up in religious, political, ideological, or self-defense terms, but in the end it boils down to worrying that we don't matter, so we're going to make damned sure everyone realizes we do matter."
Experts noted that the same motives lay behind numerous violent groups. "All of these organizations make ideological or other kind of claims to make their actions seem noble," explained Professor Thalaydidoth Protestumotch. "In the case of the Houthis, their need to feel important combines with their not-unrelated pursuit of feeling powerful, which leads them, a), to engage in terrorism and piracy so that people notice them, and b), to invoke Islamist theology in justification of their actions."
"It's all ego-based," he added. "In theory, the term 'Islam' refers to submission to Allah as the creator, sustainer, and ultimate authority; in practice, it has come to mean submission to the people invoking Allah for their own megalomaniacal or cruel purposes. It takes on extra valence when the only alternative they see to that pursuit is both obscurity and the shameful realization that their people have not contributed anything positive to humanity."
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