A paper presented on 19 November, 1994. Eritrea National Union of Eritrean Women From The Horn of Africa Bulletin, September-October, 1994. International Aid Detailed From Indian Ocean Newsletter, February 4, 1995. World Bank and IMF use Eritrean national debt to curtail the Eritrean government's social commitments to make the country more permeable to capitalist penetration. Jehovah's Witnesses have lost citizenship rights Eritrea Ministry of the Interior, March 4, 1995.
Witnesses recognize Eritrean law only to extent compatible with their personal religious views.
Implicitly, instead of the jihad being the highest duty to God and country, self interest comes first, and so basic issue here seems to be capitalist ideology.