Yemen conflict raises Gulf tensions - 15 Nov 09

Saudi Arabia is continuing to attack a Shia rebel stronghold in northern Yemen by air, while Saudi troops and Houthi rebels have been engaged in bloody clashes for more than a week.

At least two Saudi soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting, and the conflict is further raising tensions in the region, with Iran warning Saudi Arabia not to interfere in Yemen's internal affairs.

Ali Larijani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, said on Sunday: "The intervention of Saudi government in Yemen and repeated bombardment of unprotected Yemeni Muslims by Tornado and F-15 fighters is astounding.

"How has his Excellency, the servant of the two honourable shrines, allowed Muslims' blood be split in Yemen by means of its military devices? The news proves that the US government has been the accomplice and assistance in such suppressive measures."

The Iranian parliament also called on the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to intervene to stop the killing of Yemeni Muslims.

Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, where he's been gauging the fallout from this ongoing battle.

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[Theologist]

I dislike both arabs and indians but I will say this...the numerical system today is built largely in part by/thanks to india.

Even at that point, you should keep in mind that all these comments refer to "muslim" knowledge/discovery. Not arab discovery.

Arabs are a very violent and stupid peoples.

Everything the arabs claim 'pride' to is actually by different races, cultures, countries, who happened to be under islamic rule at that time.

The arabs have nothing, really, of their own.

[AsianMarck]

I'm a Deist. I believe in the causeless-cause, "the one" beyond names such as Allah, God, or Yahweh.

I believe in Stoic philosophies and the superfluousness of earthly pleasures related to the construction of matter and reality. I also have come to practice Buddhism and ending my suffering.

But there is probably a high possibility that there is one beginning power of all reality.

[dalahmah]

I agree that religions create social structure as some philosophies try to. I can tell you much more about Islam, but from your arguments I can guess that you maybe an atheist or not following the monotheistic religions, I might be wrong exactly. But in either cases talking about that is a different issue. If you are welling to discuss it, I would start my arguments by proving that there is one God only, and after that everything follows smoothly and naturally.

[AsianMarck]

Hahaha  I think some of my sarcasm was lost.

I don't know a lot about Islam, but I know of religion and philosophies and they both lead to social structures(systems). You think Islam is divine. I don't think it is. It was created by a man to unite warring tribes and to set up a social system that was fair for those tribes it does not apply to all.

My previous statement is obviously an opinion just like how a Muslim would say Islam is the absolute truth. Neither can be proven.

[dalahmah]

I don't understand why the emotional reply. Anyway, as the case for most religions, they are not for a specific people but for whole mankind. And yes I believe that Islam is the way to raise the human being to higher status in all the aspects of life. And no, i don't believe in Harry Potter. Finally, regarding your last statement, I suggest rephrasing it as an "opinion" not a fact, since I don't think that you know enough about Islam to make judgments.

[AsianMarck]

Oohhh... they may had been the first to discover the concept of "zero" in the known world at that time but the Mayan discovered "zero" all by themselves.

You keep insisting with words like "purified" that Islam is Harry Potter mystical magic revealed by GOD to the Arab tribes to enlighten the world. It is all civilization development that things are discovered.

Islam is simply a means to a social structure(system) just like how philosophies or beliefs are. Of course I think to realistically.

[dalahmah]

I agree, knowledge is accumulative and incremental. Muslims took the the knowledge of other nations purified it from superstitions and added their contributions, then the west came built on it and did not give credit to no one.

The first to add of concept of "zero" were the Muslims, meaning before that other numerical systems were underdeveloped.

[dalahmah]

I did not say that the Roman empire is the Byzantine. I said both of them were took down by Muslims. And did you read in your classes the interaction between the Islamic civilization and the European in Spain?

[AsianMarck]

And Muslim science and math would not have happened without the ideas of the Indian numeral system.

[AsianMarck]

In my classes the Byzantine Empire is not referred to as the Roman Empire after the fall of the Western half. It is the Byzantine Empire. Your statement sounded weird because it sounded as if Arabs went into mainland Europe to beat Rome.

I have taken Western Civilization and it does not skip to the Renaissance. We read through the Dark Ages.