Zaydis are divided into sub-sects. The Houthis are from the Jarudiyyah sect (who ironically is a narrator in Rafidi Imamite Shiism). Jarudiyyah Zaydis are the most extreme Zaydis, yes like all Zaydis they do not believe in the fairy tale of 12th particular Imams (that is why the likes of Yasser Al-Habib declared them as kuffar!) they dislike many Sahaba - in particular Abu Bakr and Omar - a lot and they are only to be found in north Yemen. Now these lunatics - who are literally cave man, here a clip where they take a shit LIVE on air (on their OWN satellite channel called Al-Maseer:
... are in their generality still Zaydis, however the Safavid-Zionist devil aka Iran, spirituality the most messed up country in the middle east (Iranian Shias are notorious for Arab hatred, secular thoughts, and the abondening of Islam altogether!)
... has turned the heads of the Zaydis into Twelvers. Iran Al Majoosiyyah took advantage of their already existing extremism and started infiltrating them and luring them into their sect just like Evangelical missionaries do to the poor around the world. Eventually the leader of the Houthis, Badr Al Deen (1926-2010) paved the way for a even more extremist form of Shiism amoungst the Houthis. He had close ties with the 12er Rafidah in Iran, his son Hussein (1956-2004) even lived and studied in Qom, Iran, the modern capital of Twelver Shiism. After the demise of Hussein, Abdul-Malik [Al Houthi] became the new leader of the Houthi clan and today it is known to everybody that the Houthis are nothing but a proxy of the Majoos of Iran who despise the Arabs to death, yet use the likes of Hezbollat (Lebanese Arabs) and the Houthi (who also operate under the name "Ansarullah") Arabs as their minions for their own agenda.
The Houthis are northern Yemenis, it is well known that the vast majority of Houthis are still Zaydis, that is why many Sunni laymen and even Shias (who don't know much about Yemen, Zaydis and Twelver Shia Rawafidh) are sometimes confused as to how serious their allegiance to Iran is. What many don't understand is that Yemen is a tribial state, the HEADS of the Houthis are all Rawafidh 12er Shias, the likes of Hussein Badr Al Deen has even studied in Qom, and this is the evil tactic of Iran and the 12er Rafida i.e. to steadily convert the ignorant Houthi masses into full blown Rawafidh Majoos 12er Shias (and obviously in a tribal society such as Yemen, it is just a matter of time till many if not most Houthis change from Zaydi Shia to Imamite Rafidi Shia). The Houthis even got their own TV channel (Al Maseer) and there are reports that they are being trained on Eritrean islands by the Iranian regime and their revolutionary corps.
As for Hussein Badr Al Deen, there are recording of him, where he openly accuses Sahaba such as Omar Ibn Al Khattab of being the worst sinner on earth, he says all the dilemma that this Ummah is facing is because of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab (retarded thing only Rafidis say):
(the clip contains a bunch of Houthis one dumber than the other. One says there is no such thing as Sahaba, only Ali! Nothing else. ALL Sahaba are liars he says. Literally a cave-man who doesn't even know what he's saying. These are the 'enlightened guided ones' according to the Rafidah! There is also an Ex-Houthi in the clip exposing them heavily)
Alhamdulillah the internet has exposed the Houthis in the Arab world but little do non-Arab speakers know about them.
The following video for example is the massive mazar/shrine of Badr Al Deen Al Houthi! Look how these heretics have already started exaggerating with their own leader who died just a decade ago by making Tawaf around his massive mausoleum, errected high in the sky, a waste of money and against the Sunnah of Rasul Allah and his Ahlul-Bayt! But don't be shocked, all the tyrants such as Ataturk, Khomeini etc. were buried in such wasteful anti-Islamic buildings, the people of kufr are but one nation after all.
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