In lieu of continuing our Yemen story today, I decided to give you some deep background on the Houthis. Like 7th century deep. I assume some basic familiarity with the roots of Islam here, like knowing who Muhammad was, but if those things are unfamiliar to you, well, we can always tackle that in a future episode.
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