by Mark Bou Mansour 

Radicalization and extremism among youth continue to percolate in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, with the recruitment and planning of a recent suicide attack unfolding in proximity to my own childhood home. 

The story of Mu’ath, a young graduate of the College of Engineering in the Al-Mu’allah district of Aden, is instructive in terms of how extremist groups recruit young men for suicide attacks amid reports that 200 young men in Aden’s western Al-Braiga district are being trained for the same purpose.

“It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn’t feel like obeying his demand."
                                                                 — Rosa Parks on not giving up her seat on a bus

Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background