Supporters of al-Islah took to the streets of the Yemeni capital this Monday to protest what they characterize as Egypt counter-revolution.
Al-Islah, Yemen's very own Sunni radical faction serves as a political umbrella for several parties, among which the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Pan-Arab movement, the Muslim Brotherhood has always been very vocal in its support for other sister factions across the Middle East, often offering moral and logistic support, just as the Baath party just to do during its Heydays.
After its rise in popularity a the height of the Arab Spring movement, the Muslim Brotherhood managed to secure landslide victories in Tunisia and Egypt; a trend which political analysts qualified as the coming of political Islam onto the democratic scene, something western powers looked with slight dismay. The idea of a political Islam and a democratic Islam has always been for the West two notions which somewhat cannot co-exist. Nevertheless 2011 saw the rising of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political faction with democratic regional ambitions.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi' sudden departure from power prompted a widespread reaction across the region and in Yemen, where supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood came to denounce a move they perceived to be as directed against their party by the figures of the old autocratic regime the revolution fought to depose in 2011.
Protesters in Yemen called for the reinstatement of Egyptian President Morsi and and an immediate end to Egypt political witch-hunt against the Brotherhood. The killing of a reported 43 Egyptians protesters in Cairo early on Monday outraged Yemen Muslim Brotherhood, forcing its leaders to react and denounce such violence in the strongest terms
Already Sheikh Abdel-Mageed al-Zindani, a prominent cleric, tribal leader and high ranking member of al-Islah condemned what he calls, Egypt coup d'état, alongside other religious figures.