Ethiopia A
“Christian Country”? Since When?
By: Dr. Michael
Fessehaye
At a time
when they needed to demonize Somalia as “terrorism-infested Moslem county” and
at a time when the minority regime of Ethiopia and its “colonial masters”, as
Meles Zenawi would like to define them, needed another “bait” to divert the
attention of the Ethiopians from the “Hell on earth” they are being subjected
to; here are some Western diplomats, policy makers, and their media running a
well-oiled propaganda machine to present Ethiopia as a “Christian”
country. Most definitely they needed
another “bait” to wreck havoc in Ethiopia; but presenting Ethiopia as a
“Christian” country?
Dangling
“baits” by previous Ethiopian rulers to sedate or to divert the attention of
the Ethiopians is not new. Just as the
Weyane tried to use Eritrea as the “bait” (the promise of Assab and the Red Sea
in 72 hours) to go to war against Eritrea but failed militarily, politically,
and legally; Somalia is the other latest “bait” that is being presented for any
Ethiopian fool to take. They have
calculated that presenting Ethiopia as “Christian” country and Somalia as a
“terrorism-infested Moslem” county side by side, taking the fact that Somalia
and Ethiopia are historical “enemies”, is a double dose of “bait” to dangle in
front of the Ethiopians. To achieve it, “religion” is the “spice” they are
using to make it palatable to the common Ethiopian man in the streets. In short, they have chosen the deadliest
weapon to wreck havoc not only in Ethiopia but also in the Great Lakes Region
and the Horn of Africa. Of course, this evil scheme is coming after the
apostles and advocates of “democracy”, “human rights”, and “freedom of the
press and religion” not only betrayed the aspirations of the Ethiopians but they
did bury it to 6 ft under.
Ethiopia
a “Christian country”? Since when? How
stupid and how evil could they be to try to present Ethiopia as a “Christian
country”? In the 21st
Century, to promote Ethiopia as a “Christian country” is to play with fire that
could burn Ethiopia down to the ground; not to mention to the prairie fire that
could spread and engulf the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. They
are not stupid alright. They
know Ethiopia is a 60% Moslem and a 40% Christian Country. But if they are to
destroy Ethiopian as a country and people or if they are perpetual Ethiopia as
the “perennial beggar nation” or as the symbol of “hunger and human misery”,
then “religion” is the last potent weapon for the job they seem to have chosen;
Heaven have mercy on Ethiopia!
But do not
blame these elements for taking Ethiopia as a “Christian country”. Because that is how the previous Ethiopian
rulers presented Ethiopia in the past. In addition, still brainwashed by “old
school of thought” and still suffering from the “sham” teachings of King
Menelik and King Haile Sellassie era, there could be a few Ethiopians, which
includes Weyane, who are still taking Ethiopia as a “Christian country”. Old habits are hard to die or to unlearn;
but for the sake of Ethiopia, if there are such Ethiopians, now is the time to
“unlearn” the dangerous teachings they have been subjected to before it is too
late. Irrespective
of their beliefs and upbringing, the truth, nothing but the truth: They have to
accept that Ethiopia is NOT a “Christian country” and it is NOT a “Moslem
country” but a country of all Ethiopians of which 60% are Moslem and 40% are
Christians. That is a fact no body could
hide or change in the 21st Century. But if they are to
have the Ethiopians kill each other, just like what they did in Rwanda,
Liberia, Sierra Leon, and Ivory Coast; then they have chosen the most potent
weapon for the job.
The
Ethiopians should expect it, if these elements are to have the Ethiopians kill
each other or if they are to have Ethiopia “Balkanized”, ala Yugoslavia style,
then “religion’ will be their last potent weapon of choice. But do not blame such elements if they are
to use “religion” to wreck havoc in Ethiopia.
Unfortunately the plan to destroy Ethiopia as country and people is
already set in motion by the minority regime of Ethiopia, the Weyane. At this very hour, there is no Ethiopian
national that has not been made to kill another national or not been killed by
one. Ever since 1991, it has been the policy and the practice of Weyane that if
their yet-to-be-born “Greater Republic of Tigrai” is to be real, leaving an
economically destroyed, militarily weak, and socially divided, if not
“Balkanized”, Ethiopia is a must have condition. Never should the Ethiopians
forget that the “1976 Tigrai Manifesto” of Weyane calls for the birth of “Abai
Tigrai” at the cost of Ethiopia as country and people. And to that end, all preparations to make
“HILMI ABAI TIGRAI” (the unattainable dream of The GREATER REPULIC OF TIGRAI) a
reality are ready and in motion. What remains to be done, by the help of some
“colonial masters” I might add, are the following: (1)Destroy Eritrea as
country and people so the yet-to-born “Abai Tigrai” will have access to the Red
Sea and (2) leave Ethiopia behind; economically destroyed, militarily weak,
socially divided and engulfed in a religiously and/or ethnically driven civil
war.
It has
been the practice of Weyane that if it is not making the Oromo kill the Amhara,
it is making the Amhara kill the Afar; if it is not making the Afar kill the
Tigrai, it is the Tigrai kill the Amhara…..the cycle of killing or being killed
on ethnic lines has been going on and on. So far,
in Meles Zenawi’s Ethiopia, if it is not hunger, it is HIV; if it is not HIV,
it is malaria; if it is not malaria, it is Meles killing the Ethiopians in cold
blood in the streets of Addis Ababa and Gambela; if it is not Meles killing the
Ethiopians, it is making the Ethiopians kill each other on ethnic lines and
religious lines; if it is not making the Ethiopians kill each other, it is war
and incursion against all sovereign neighboring countries such as Eritrea,
Somalia, Kenya, and the Sudan; and if it is not war and incursion against sovereign
nations, it is back to square one-to hunger and human misery of biblical
proportion.
In short Meles Zenawi has defined
“Ethiopia” as synonym to “hunger” and “failed state” in the English
Dictionary. And now the
West, with their dog, the Weyane, are talking “religion”-as the weapon of
having the Moslem Ethiopians kill their Christian brothers and vise-a-versa.
Yes a bother is being set to kill his brother in the land we call Ethiopia;
Heaven have mercy to the God/Allah fearing people of Ethiopia.
These
elements know how “religion” can effectively destroy nations and societies for
they have seen it in Yugoslavia, right in their doorsteps. For all practical purposes, the Moslem
Ethiopians killing the Christian Ethiopians and vise-a-versa has already been
set in motion by the minority regime of Ethiopia. Report has it that, “five people in western (Jimma) Ethiopia were killed over the
weekend in violence between Christians and Muslims, bringing the total killed
in sectarian clashes there to 15 in the past month. More than 800 homes and
three religious centers were destroyed”. This is the ugly prevailing
condition in Ethiopia. The question is how fool and weak could the Ethiopians
be, especially the Ethiopian intellectuals, not to be able to see how their country
is being dismantled slowly but surely by Weyane! After 15 years of “The Hell” under Weyane, the Ethiopians should
have known!
Heaven
forbid; if Ethiopia as a country is ever “Balkanized”, it could never be
brought back or fixed for it has all the unhealthy “elements” to make it
irreparable or irreversible. Ethiopia
is a country of many nationals with no cultural, linguistic, religious, and/or
historical common denominator. Ethiopia is a country with a long history of
those who “have” and those who “have no” rights to be Ethiopians. Ethiopia is a country whose previous leaders
(King Menelik and King Haile Sellassie) believed, preached, and practiced that
only those who are “Christians”, with bloodline that goes back to King Solomon,
are only to rule Ethiopia. In short, for over 100 years, nothing has been done
to promote Ethiopian nationalism based on equality and justice but to
"divide and rule" by the principles of “Machiavelli”. With such
historical, social, and political “quicksand” aplenty in Ethiopia, if they are
to bring “religion” into the Ethiopian landscape in the 21st
century, then they are to have a fire that could never be put out. Therefore, the Ethiopians, especially the
Ethiopian intellectuals, have got to learn a lesson from others and they got to
save their country from more “Hell” that is about to rain. In short, only the
Ethiopians, especially the Ethiopians intellectuals, can save Ethiopia and they
must save Ethiopia as country and people.
At this
juncture, there is one thing all Ethiopians should accept. That is, Meles
Zenawi, who is the next “Charles Taylor” or “Sadam Hussien”, is only to have
Ethiopia destroyed as a country rather than he be brought to justice for
the “genocide” he committed in Gambela
and for the murder of the 193 Ethiopian children in the streets of Addis
Abba. To save their neck, Meles Zenawi
and his gang will go to the extreme, up to and including calling upon the
“Christian” Ethiopians for a “Crusade” to kill Moslem Ethiopians. By the way,
religiously driven extermination of people is not new to Meles Zenawi and his
gang for they have the history of their forefathers to back it up. To study the
horrors of religiously-driven-extermination of people; the Ethiopians have to
go to nowhere but to study the history of the “Jebberti” in the hands of King
Yohannes of Tigrai. That black and ugly history of Tigrai, the murder the
expulsion of the “Jebberti” from Tigrai by King Yohannes of Tigrai, is the very
same trait or inertia that drives Meles and his gang and a such the Ethiopia
got to expect Meles will most definitely go to this low of lows. Therefore, it
high time for the Ethiopians to go back and study the history of the
“Jebberti”- in there, there is a lesson they could learn before the Weyane
explode the “time bomb” that could destroy Ethiopia as a country and people. As
for Meles and his gang, they have crossed the threshold of human decency and
they are beyond pardon and redemption to turn back.
To save
Ethiopia, the first order of business of the Ethiopians, especially the
Ethiopians intellectuals, is to start building “Ethiopian nationalism” from
ground up. For the sake of the God/Allah fearing Ethiopians, they must do the
following: (1)They must redeem them selves from the teachings of the “old school
of thought” (from the teachings of King Menelik and Haile Sellassie) and they
should start to accept that Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual,
multi-religion and multi-cultural country where every Ethiopian is entitled for
“equality and justice”. (2) They have to accept Ethiopia is NOT a “Christian”
country and it is NOT a “Moslem” country either; but it is a country of all
Ethiopians where every and each Ethiopian national is to leave in peace and
they are to share what Ethiopia has to offer equally and equitably. (3) They
should start to learn and to accept that Ethiopia is a colorful country with
diverse culture, heritage, and history and as such “diversity” is not meant to
be a “curse” but a “treasure” to be enjoyed and cherished by all. (4)Last and
by all means not the least, the Ethiopian should accept that they could never
expect noble and honorable behavior from Meles Zenawi and his gang and as such
the Weyane are not to be removed from power by the power of the “ballot” but
the power of the “bullet”. Since Meles
Zenawi has crossed the threshold of decency and redemption and since Meles
knows he is the next “Charles Taylor” or “Saddam Hussien” that will be hanged
high and dry by the Ethiopians for his crimes against humanity; he is more than
ready to set Ethiopia ablaze. In short, to reclaim their country and dignity, the
Ethiopians should get ready to pay price; up to the ultimate price. Thus, the
hour of reckoning for the Ethiopians, especially the Ethiopian intellectuals,
has come and they should read the writing on the wall; if they are to save
Ethiopia. Only the Ethiopians have the
means and the power to save their country from being the next Rwanda or
Yugoslavia and they must save their country.
By
the way, if the Ethiopians want to learn how a united, peaceful, and harmonious
nation is built from ground up and if they want to see a place where all
religions, culture, history, language, and heritage of all nationals are
cherished, savored, and enjoyed by all the nationals of a nation; they do not
have to go far but they could come to “HAGERE WARSAI-YIKEALO”, Eritrea. There
in Eritrea, in the country of “NINE BEAUTIFUL COLORS”,
they will find “diversity” is not a “curse” but a treasure to be enjoyed and
cherished by all. Yes, Eritrea, the
land of “NINE BEAUTIFUL COLORS”,
does enjoy the rich and the colorful heritage and culture of all
nationals. There in Eritrea, in the
“can-do” country, they will find a people sharing what Eritrea has to offer
equally and equitability. There in Eritrea,
they will find every Eritrean, especially the “forgotten and disadvantaged”
sect of our people, are lifted up for better. You bet, Eritreans are being
lifted up one Eritrean at time and they deserve to be lifted up for each and
every Erirean family has paid beyond the number to have a home and a country
they call theirs. There in Eritrea, they will find a young nation and a baby by
comparison teaching “Africa” how to build a harmonious and united nation brick
by brick. That is what sets SHAEBIA above the crowd, especially above the
African crowd. To witness these and
more noble and honorable things about Eritrea and SHAEBIA, the Ethiopians are
more than welcome to Eritrea.
One final
note relative to relationship between Ethiopia and Somalia. To reach at their
destructive agenda, there are those elements who will try to promote Somalia as
“terrorism-infested Moslem” county or those who might take Ethiopia as a
“Christian” country with an unresolved “border issue” that could lead it to
more wars with “Moslem Somalia”. The truth, but nothing but the truth: (1) Being a Moslem is
not being a “terrorist”. If that is the
case, are we to take countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan, the every nations which are in the trenches fighting “terrorism”
as we know it, to be “terrorism-infested” nations? We know “terrorists” have come in all forms and shapes to wreck
havoc to humanity-all in the name of “Christianity” and “Islam” and they are
not confined to a specific “territorial boundary” or “religion”. (2) There is
no unresolved “border issue” between Ethiopia and Somalia. The border between
Ethiopia and Somalia is delineated, if no demarcated, as per the “colonial
boundaries”. That end, time and time
again, it has been the noble and correct position of SHAEBIA that, good or bad,
both Ethiopia and Somalia are to abide by and to live by the “sanctity of the
colonial boundaries”. Taking this noble and honorable stand of Eritrea, it is
time for the Ethiopians and the Somali to accept that there is no “border
issue” that could be exploited by any one for further destruction in Ethiopia
or Somalia. May God/Allah save Ethiopia-the home of the decent and
God-fearing people!
Wetru Awet
N’Hafash!
Hiji Win
Hade Hizbi Hade Libi!
Eternal
Glory to the Dead and the Living Heroes/Heroines
It is a
Must "Wefri Warsai-YekeAlo" Should Succeed!
Dr.
Michael Fessehaye