A few years ago, civil activists and journalists held a symposium on hate speech in Sana'a. They were more than twenty activists; The group was detained at National Security for several hours, and then released, which meant that talking about hate speech was prohibited.

Hatred speech, blasphemy, treason, corruption and expulsion from the sect, is the basis for spreading hatred and enmities, and igniting strife and wars. In fact, abhorrence speech is the "oil of the machine" of strife and wars, and it is the weapon of deadly identities, as Amin Ma'alouf named it.

Therefore, attention to hate speech is significant; Because the rhetoric of atonement and treason is the essence of hatred since ancient times, and it is the weapon of tyrants, dictators and backward forces to conquer and enslave peoples. Moreover, hate speech is the basis of the backwardness, poverty and weakness of our countries in which the ruling was based on discrimination, and the spread of social, tribal, regional, sectarian and dynastic conflict. Although it is matter of fact that, the conflicts experienced by the Arab nation have their social, economic and cultural roots, but hate speech fuels and nourishes them.

Moreover, the struggle over power and wealth is the source of all evils, and this conflict does not and does not reach its extent except through an ideological and political discourse that employs the sacred, and stirs up tribal, sectarian, regional and dynastic strife, as is the case in Yemen. And if we go back to the war in the summer of 1994 against the south, a war that destroyed peaceful unity and ignited protracted wars that continue to this day; It coincided with the spread of vocabulary: separatists, traitors, agents, infidels, atheists, and communists, which confirms that the rhetoric of blasphemy and treason allows blood, overthrows heads, and creates strife and wars that begin and never end.

Hatred terms are similar to diseases that invaded many media outlets like cancer cells multiplied and spread, and expand like mites in the media, necrotic bone, and reached to the roots, and it is not known how to resist and eradicate it.

The mosque, the media, and the speeches of the authority and its parties competed to market, instill and dominate this discourse. The coup of Saleh and Ansar Allah (Houthis) represents a qualitative leap in the deepening and domination of hate speech; discrimination, religious, sectarian, dynastic, and regional arrogance, and pre-state identities, feed the discourse of hate, violence and war. In the south, the Transitional Council calling for secession will undertake the task of inciting hate speech and hatred and holding their brothers the sons of the north with crimes and tragedies of authorities whose victims they are like their brothers in the south; The discriminatory term (northern-southern) is filled with artificial hostility to the people who established one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and no one should imagine that the term “southern” and “northern” unite the sons of the south or the sons of the north. Rather, it results in discrimination within the South and the North.

Moreover, the war militias, parties and leaders are responsible for the ongoing war crimes, foremost of which is the hate speech that pitted the Yemeni against his Yemeni brother to fight each other as plotted by the people of power and wealth, under a thick cover of smoke. and divine right and...and...etc.

The seminar, which was hosted by colleagues Ali Abdul-Mughni and Ashraf Al-Rifi, developed a dictionary of the vocabulary of hate speech, which is the currency circulated in the media, north and south.

Further, the hate speech which covering the skies of the Arab region and is manifested and embodied in current destructive wars as well as in brutal violence - a lethal tool in the hands of the tyrants of the Arab rulers most dangerous to their nation and their countries; When they were unable to defeat the Arab Spring, they fabricated this discourse, and financed the tools of murder and terrorism: ISIS, the protectors of God, and drowned the peacefully rebellious nation in blood. 

The first enemy of tyranny, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, in his book “The Nature of Tyranny,” defines the tyrant as: “He who controls people’s affairs by his will, not by their will, and rules them by his whims and not by their law, and knows from himself that he is the usurper, the aggressor, so he puts the heel of his foot on the mouths of millions of people and blocks it so they cannot say the truth or claiming their rights. Bloody and violent rhetoric is the sign of tyranny and the dictator's weapon by which he turns the holy and righteous religion into a tool of murder and terrorism.

Additionally, those who studied hate speech shall be able to distinguish between the media speech before and after the Arab Spring. Professor Nidal Mansour believes in his preface to the book "I Hate You" wrote that "The media in the Arab world conjures up a dark and bleak picture that is almost pervaded by the state of fragmentation that prevailed after the Arab Spring crisis. The crisis is no longer confined to the difficult reality of media freedoms, and the increasing violations that journalists are exposed to, but its manifestations and repercussions are much deeper than that.

Hatred terms are similar to diseases that invaded many media outlets like cancer cells multiplied and spread, and expand like mites in the media, necrotic bone, and reached to the roots, and it is not known how to resist and eradicate it.

Furthermore, Mansour believes, and he is right, that before the Arab Spring, the media was mostly stripped of its freedom, and it was accused; Because it is the voice of governments, not the voice of the people, and independent journalists were paying the price for their struggle for independence and telling the truth through bans, imprisonment and restrictions.

In fact, the situation we reached after the Arab Spring was not isolated from the situation we witnessed before the Arab Spring; In Yemen - for example - there was a democratic margin that was achieved after the declaration of unity on the 22nd of May 1990, but this margin quickly disappeared after the 1994 war. When the war was waged in the name of the north against the south, but it was against the north and the south at the same time.

Consequently, public and democratic freedoms were suppressed, press freedoms were criminalized, freedom of opinion and expression were confiscated, party headquarters and newspapers and their equipment were looted, arbitrary arrests and trials, including high treason charges, and demands for the execution of journalists who covered war crimes in Sa'ada.

The coup of Saleh and Ansar Allah had a profound effect in increasing the severity of repression and making it a general policy and approach. Hate speech, racial discrimination, and claims of guardianship and divine right prevailed, and the most dangerous was the prevalence of hate speech throughout Yemen, the heavy killing of journalists, enforced disappearances, and unfair death sentences. And criminalizing the speech of logic and reason, and rejecting tolerance, coexistence and brotherhood.

The talk here is not about a mere hate speech, but about a discourse that destroyed a country, tore its national unity and societal fabric, and made it an arena of fighting, displacement and destruction for seven years, and the situation may further worsen and extended for longer.

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