From: Tsehay_Demeke@rpi.edu (Tsehay Demeke)
Subject: Re: Ethopian Muslim freedom movement
Followup-To: soc.culture.african
Organization: RPI
Distribution: soc.culture.pakistan
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:00:46 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.151536.7975@sco.COM>, waseems@sco.COM (Waseem
Siddiqi) wrote:
> 
> Forwarded from MISG-L. Interesting article on political devl. in
> Ethiopia.
> 
> waseem
> 
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>          THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF OROMIA IN ETHIOPIA
> 
> Is the Oromos' drift into the jungle of secular politics
> finally coming to an end?
> If recent developments are any guide, greater awareness among
> Ethiopia's largest ethnic group who are overwhelmingly Muslim,
> (nearly 30 million out of a total population of 50 million)
> about the pitfalls of secular politics as well as their own
> Islamic roots may be becoming evident.
> The manner in which the Christian-led Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has
> been denied fair representation in the Tigrayan-dominated
> transitional government, also predominantly Christian,
> following the ouster of colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam from power
> last May, has created much bitterness among the Oromos.
> They are now turning to the Islamic Front for the Liberation of
> Oromia (IFLO), hitherto eclipsed by the OLF.
> In fact, those who had put faith in the secular OLF to secure and
> protect their rights feel betrayed and humiliated.
> This feeling is further compounded by their sense of historical
> deprivation. Even the OLF leadership was so upset that they
> walked out of the transitional government earlier this year, having
> already withdrawn their 22,000 fighters from government camps
> in Addis Ababa.
> The setback suffered by the OLF has benefited the IFLO whose leader,
> Shaykh Abdul Karim Ibrahim, better known as Jarra Aba Gada,
> appealed last August to all Oromos to join him in freeing "our homeland
> from the present colonizer, namely the EPRDF..."
> (the EPRDF - the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
> - was formed when the two Tigrayan groups, the Ethiopian People's
> Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Tigrayan People's Liberation
> Front (TPLF), merged.)
> Ethiopia's patchwork of ethnic groups is further complicated by
> the religious factor. Though a predominantly Muslim country,

A bunch of liars. Islam came to Ethiopia in the 15th century BY FORCED
CONVERSION. Whether you like it or not at 4th century a.d. Ethiopia was
the oldest christian country, that is long long time ago before Mohammed
was born !!

> a fact carefully concealed by western media reports, it has been ruled
> by the Christian minority since the end of the eighteenth century.
> Oromia, the largest and most populous of Ethiopia's provinces,

There is no province in Ethiopia known as Oromia.

> was occupied
> by Menelik, the Christian king backed by the European colonial powers,
> at the end of the eighteenth century.

The only king of Ethiopia who beat the hell out of a well prepared
European power - Italy, was the great king of Ethiopia Menelik the second.
At the time of his victory in 1896 at the battle of Adua, the  whole of
Europe
once again conspired on how to get rid of the history of Ethiopia and
Ethiopians.

Menelik's conquest of the European power has nothing to do with religion,
but preserving the unity and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. 

The Oromo ethnic group came to Ethiopia in the 15th century and expanded
itself from south to north. 

******* all historical lies deleted  *****************

Ethiopia's  past enemies include  the colonizers and expanding forces of
Arabs.
The Ottoman Turks in the past, Syria, Iraq, and recently Iran include the
current
enemies of the people and the history of Ethiopia.  

As Islam was forced down the throat of some of the Ethiopian population in
the
16th century, now there is an attempt and genocide in the south to
exterminate
the christian population of the south  by  late settlers and forced
converts of
Islam namely Islamic Oromia.

It should be noted that the non muslim world in general and Africans in
particular
are sick and tired of these bunch of Muslim fundamentalist and their racist
and
colonialist Arab mentality.
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Crescent International better serve the starving brothers and sisters in
Somalia  along
with Red Cross international, instead of feeding us hate and propaganda of
unjustify
lies. By the way long live the history and the people of Ethiopia. United
we stand
divided we fall.