Persecution Defines Life for Yemen’s Remaining Jews

[Sally]

I would imagine that this happens in many Muslim country where there are still Jews residing.

Persecution Defines Life for Yemen’s Remaining Jews
By ROD NORDLANDFEB. 18, 2015

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Yemen’s Last Jews
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RAIDA, Yemen — About all that remain of Yemen’s ancient and once vibrant Jewish community are untended cemeteries, dramatic hillside ghetto villages of thousand-year-old stone houses and a few people like Abraham Jacob and his extended family.

Most of them live near this northern Yemeni town in Amran Province, deep in territory controlled by Houthi militants, whose leaders have made anti-Semitism a central plank in their political platform.

It shows. When Mr. Jacob, 36, came to the souk here Thursday to meet journalists and take them on a rare visit to his community, he rode a battered motorcycle, his long, curly earlocks flapping and making him readily identifiable as Jewish. When traffic stalled for a minute, a khat dealer accosted the visitors’ Yemeni interpreter, Shuaib Almosawa, a journalist.

“What are you doing with that dirty Jew?” the dealer said. “Why are you friendly with him?”

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[irosie91]

Sally---persecution defined the lives of jews in yemen since the arab dogs
invaded. -----but they did have their own little enclaves where they could
forget about "them" for awhile. Leaving the enclave was a dangerous
adventure. Women virtually never did it. A walk to the water hole was
their adventure and generally in the safety of GROUPS. Now the remaining few are ALWAYS right in the midst of the ummah kennel. That's life in the shariah cesspit