One would be forgiven for thinking that any cleric working at the Presidents Mosque is one of the scholars for dollars, however, Abdus-Salam al-Majeedi is not one of them Insha Allah.
Here are excerpts of what he had this to say about the President.
It is high time for the President and the regime to listen to the demands of the Yemeni people and depart from power. It is time for us to show the world the greatness of the Yemeni people and it has been the greatest mistake of the President to not rely on these great people.
The Shaikh also expressed concerns about the lack of organised replacement for the current regime and worries about the posibility of disunity amongst the people hampering progress and blocking the door for change as well as the increase in power of Houthis and Iranian interests.
The Shaikh said that if the regime had presented genuine reforms in the begining and actually listened to the people there may have been a path out of the current situation, but it had become very clear to him as it had to others that this is a regime that does not like the advice givers, so how would they possibly ever make peace with the demonstrators?
In the end it is for the people to decide a path that will allow for the aspirations and dreams of the Yemeni people to be realised.
(Would like to note that the Shaikh did not mention democracy as the path anywhere in the article)
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