Nada Al-Ahdal | My thanks and appreciation to Sheikh #AliBinAliAlQusai for his initiative and response in the case, as our fathers knew them

I extend my thanks and appreciation to Sheikh #AliBinAliAlQusai for his initiative and his response in the case, as our fathers and grandfathers knew them: honourable sheikhs who do not accept injustice and do not discriminate between anyone, and who deserve all respect and appreciation,
and the thanks extend to all Yemenis who stood in solidarity and responded in support of the oppressed, and to all the free tribes of Yemen
and all my respect to all the free members of the Al-Ahdal family who reject these hateful racist labels, which carry arrogance towards the tribes of Yemen and the free people of Yemen.
And I repeat that pride in tribe and lineage is not a trait of free men, but a hateful trait of the age of ignorance that none boast of or defend except fools and ignorant people who have failed in their whole academic, cultural and social lives, and who try to ride on lineage and old bloodlines in order to steal the gains of others and cover up their failure, racism and ignorance in life
No tribe has the right to enslave another tribe or another people, whatever its lineage, race or tribe
Yemen became a republic of laws that made people equal before the law
and there is no difference between an Arab and a non-Arab except in the good each gives to their country and people
Also, no one, however influential, has the right to strip another person of a surname, lineage, name or identity, whether an individual, a group or a tribe, and if that happens it violates human values, international laws and local legislation.
Your faithful daughter
#NadaAlAhdal
Note: a surname is an identity, not a source of pride
If my surname were #AlKhadim or #AlShahhat or #AbuJahl I would defend it because it is my identity, not out of pride,,
Something you did not choose, you have no right to be proud of or upset about
like people with white or black skin: they have no right to be proud of their colour or upset about it, because they did not choose their colour or lineage by their own will
Nada Al-Ahdal | Human rights activist campaigning against child marriage

