The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman responded to the political ethics professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, Dr. Mohammed al-Mukhtar al-Shankiti, who criticized her call for a secular democratic state in Yemen.

Tawakkol Karman said in her account on "Twitter": “Dear Mohamed al-Shankiti sit down with al-Zawahiri, al-Baghdadi, Hassan Nasrallah, malali in Tehran, hawzahs of Najaf, Al al-Sheikh, scholars of Najd, and Ali Jumah, and from Yemen, al-Hajouri, al-Zindani, Abu al-Abbas, Hani Bin Buraik and others, and others, and agreed on the nature of the state you want and we agree with you and authorize you.”

Karman added: "What we propose in the proposal of secular democracy is a solution to the growing conflicts in the region, that are open to catastrophic tragedies between your sects, groups, and faiths that do not seem to stop before shedding blood of the last Muslim in the region!!”

"But if you are enthusiastic about Al-Otaibi's call for secularism and the promised secularism of Bin Salman, you have all the right, but I assure you and others that our call for secular democracy target, first of all, the tyrannical state of Bin Zayed and the family brutal and dictatorial kingdom of Bin Salman that lies on a long history of priesthood,” she said.

"We now have a draft constitution that we have agreed on to establish a democratic state with secular implications as it stipulates that it is not permissible to issue any government laws or procedures that are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other charters, and it bans the formation of parties on a religious basis and prevents mosques’ preachers from talking on politics,” Karman said.

Karman stressed that there is nothing to do with the Arab tyrannical secular states that have become out of date, pointing out that she talked about a democracy with secular contents that stand at an equal distance from all religions and sects and everyone lives under it freely and well-being.

In his account on Twitter, al-Shankiti criticized Tawakkol Karman's call for adopting a secular state, saying that "what made the Arab countries today a ruin is the regime of secular elites against the will of people."