almotamar.net - The Secretary General of the General People's Congress (GPC) Abdulqader Bajammal on Saturday warned of the danger of ideological and cultural apostasies which he described as extremely reactionary and extremely negative thought and extremely nihilistic mentalities. He said, "We face at present souls packed with rancour and envy to a destructive degree and rather reached to self- destruction," affirming that the homeland, with all of its great meanings, is not part of calculations of these mentalities.

Mr Bajammal also warned against the danger of branch cultures that grow the same way as parasites and pointed out that there are sick mentalities promote for those cultures with all their hostility and darkness that do not see anything in life.

Addressing the opening Saturday of the training course organised by Al-Mithaq Institute for journalists of the GPC over ten days, Bajammal said the most dangerous thing for Yemen is the political, cultural corruption as well as corruption resulting from branch cultures with all their sense of promoting for regionalism, sectarianism and tribalism. He considered that the most corrupt one in this country are those possessing psychological and ideological darkness who promote for this nihilistic thought in a country endeavouring for enhancing and consolidating its national unity.

Mr Bajammal said, " The big part in disclosing the elements of corruption lies in the Yemeni society that is founded on basis of social solidarity because without social solidarity is an element of corruption."

The GPC Secretary General also called for encountering this destructive thought with thought based on enlightened dialect and moderate thought. He stressed that the training course should have active dialect and discussions between the political and ideological and cultural leaderships on the one hand and the GPC media leaderships on the other. He said," If such large dialect does not take place between the political, cultural and media leaderships, we in such a case make a blocked road for the meeting of the elements of knowledge and it is absolutely not possible to present knowledge in its form however mature it were or however its correctness was responsive or presented in a good way." He added that "We are facing great challenges and have to deal with them in a different from the previous logic because if we deal with them in that same logic we will not attain to any decision." He said there is no more difficult decision that the GPC decision to be the leader of the society and the state and that is the most difficult of options and challenges that face "us and that should be realized by all those who undertake this responsibility."

Bajammal also urged the media leaderships and press of the GPC to seek credibility and commitment to concepts of democracy, the freedom of expression and respect of human rights. Bajammal cited how some were sceptical of the decency of the UN Organisation that granted him recently the award of Earth Champions for 2008.