News - Yemen: Yemen’s Government in Sana'a has welcomed the statement issued by the Leader of the Revolution, Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, calling for action to confront a crime involving an insult to the Holy Qur’an committed by a US–Zionist election candidate.

In a statement condemning the incident, the government said confronting repeated and deliberate insults to the Qur’an is a religious duty incumbent upon all Muslims worldwide, particularly governments and elites, to collectively stand against all forms of abuse and targeting of Islam, its symbols, and sanctities.

The government urged Yemen’s free people and all institutions to engage responsibly and consciously with the Leader’s call to act and publicly declare their stance against the recurring insults, ongoing Zionist violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to take part in the planned mass rally scheduled for Friday.

It described the US insult as part of a broader trajectory of explicit Zionist-American-Western hostility toward Islam, the Holy Qur’an, and core human values. The statement said decades-long Zionist targeting of Islam and the Muslim nation—escalating in recent years—has been enabled by the alignment of client regimes and Zionist-aligned media with hostile regional projects.

The government warned that failure by the Ummah to fulfill its responsibilities in confronting these provocations and ongoing violations of Islamic sanctities would embolden Zionist actors to persist in targeting the Muslim nation, its identity, and its sacred sites. 

It called on scholars, intellectual, political, and media elites to take urgent action and express rejection through all available means, including expanding the boycott of US and Israeli goods. The statement also cited the Zionist aggression against Gaza over the past two years as exposing to the world the brutal criminal nature of Zionist policies.

In a related statement, Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council called on Arab and Islamic peoples, scholars, and relevant international bodies to confront hostile campaigns targeting Islamic sanctities. Condemning the US incident involving an insult to the Holy Qur’an by a presidential candidate, the council said such acts aim to incite hatred and bear no relation to freedom of expression, urging an end to racist practices repeatedly directed at Islam and the Qur’an.

The council renewed its support for Sayyed Abdulmalik’s call for popular action rejecting the insult to the Qur’an, describing it as a responsible stance reflecting Yemen’s faith-based identity in opposition to US and Zionist policies that offend religious constants and human dignity. It characterized the provocative US–Zionist insults as a dangerous escalation and incitement against Islam and Muslims, occurring within the context of ongoing aggression led by the US and the Zionist entity against Muslim peoples, foremost the oppressed Palestinian people.

The statements come amid heightened tensions across the Muslim world following repeated acts of Qur’an desecration linked to Western political figures, alongside continued Israeli enemy violations in occupied Palestine, including attacks on Gaza and infringements on Al-Aqsa Mosque. Yemeni authorities and religious institutions say these provocations form part of a wider US–Zionist campaign targeting Islamic identity and sanctities, and have called for coordinated popular, political, and economic responses to deter further abuses and reaffirm support for the Palestinian cause.