Who wants to push Africa to Islamic Terror, using as proxy Abyssinian tyrant Zenawi?

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
April 9, 2007
Insightful into the culture of the Meles Zenawi’s regime, this article reveals the danger of supporting tyrants against Islamists; only Freedom and Independence to Abyssinia’s tyrannized Oromos, Ogadenis, Afars, and Sidamas can ensure progress in Eastern Africa.

Abyssinian supporters of Tyrant Meles Zenawi, and their ‘culture’

Recently published articles on Abyssinia and the tyrannical practices of Meles Zenawi, were widely republished among Oromo, Sidama and Ogadeni websites allover the world, as well as in many websites in Eritrea and Somalia. The fact that I insisted extensively on the fact that Meles Zenawi, with his failed interference in Somalia, risks contributing to Islamic Terror expansion allover Africa, was perceived by his supporters as an alarming warning.

The Abyssinian elite, deep inside their minds, know very well how risky the military intervention of pariah Abyssinia in Somalia is; they can imagine very well the Islamic Terror volcano explosion I have long been talking about. Contrarily to Western somnolence or ignorance, the Abyssinian tyrannical rulers and their supporters know very well that they have no chance of success.

The question is why the West should face a worse front with Islamic Terror because of undeserved and unnecessary support of Africa’s most anachronistic and dysfunctional dictatorship.

I guess Western readership may be at times astounded when I use marked terms and strong epithets for the Abyssinian medieval relic. As a matter of fact, there has long been a quasi-total lack of information in the West about the real nature of the Abyssinian tyranny. To demonstrate that my terms are modest, and pale in comparison with the appalling practices of the Abyssinian tyranny, I publish here the letter sent to me by a supporter of Meles Zenawi.

Through reference to my earlier articles, a reader can understand that Ms. Eleni Betemariam represents in terms of ethnic – religious appurtenance 16 – 18% of the country’s entire population. To understand better her background, consider that illiteracy runs at 65% among that ethnic – religious group, and that total Internet penetration in Abyssinia according to the CIA World Factbook does not exceed 0.2% (130000 people among 75 m in 2005). In brief, Ms. Eleni Betemariam’s representativity basis equals approximately 0.04%. Which equals the Abyssinian ruthless administration.

The importance in Ms. Eleni Betemariam’s text is the ‘culture’, the mentality, the attitudes involved, and I believe the non specialized reader will have a wonderful insightful into the nightmare of today’s Abyssinia through her text and my response at the end. For the average reader’s information, contrarily to what Ms. Eleni Betemariam suggests, a “poor person” cannot pay me a return ticket to Abyssinia, even if he / she lives three lives……

I have not edited Ms. Eleni Betemariam’s text.

Letter by Ms. Eleni Betemariam, Supporter of Abyssinian Tyrant Meles Zenawi

MR Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis,


Please please, if you have any heart, for christ's sake, have some dignity!! You are creating more hate against Oromos in East africa because we know you represent the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)


please stop writting crazy things!


You say, " The ongoing Somali revolution against the presence of the most hated enemy shows the terrible weaknesses of the Abyssinian "


-- Please please Sir, you are writting nonsense. The somali people have clans. The 40% Darod and Rahanweyn clans support the transitional government. the other ogadeni clans in other countries are helped ethiopia. the somaliland and puntland people are 95% supporting ethiopia. we are talking about almost 8 million people of 10 million somali are SUPPORTING ETHIOPIA!! Please have some dignity!! please!!! The subclan inside Hawiye clan is the only one fighting against Ethiopia.


-- you say, "The use of the name Oromo is prohibited in this African Cemetery of Peoples, being disreputably replaced by the Amhara – Tigray tyrants with the derogatory pseudonym ‘Galla’. "


--- sir, our brother, this is not the truth!!!!! the word "Galla" has been disallowed and let alone using the word Oromo, even the Oromo language IS BEING THOUGHT IN ALL ETHIOPIAN SCHOOLS, MOST COLLEGES, INSTITUTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! ALL TYPE OF OROMO CULTURE IS BEING FREELY PRACTICED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME!!! please PLEASE PLEASE ASK ANYONE FOR THIS INFORMATION!!! PLEASE DO US A FAVOR!!


please visit these websites to have some knowledge on oromos


http://www.ethiopar.net/

http://www.oromiagov.org/

http://www.ethiopar.net/main.html


please PLEASE go to Ethiopia and visit our country.

poor ethiopians would create a fundraising event to finance your airplane ticket to ethiopia so that you can stop being used by the OLF group, stop spreading OLF lies and stop spreading hate.


please have some dignity and humanity!!!!


All ethiopians know that you are representing the OLF. your crazy articles, completely inaccurate, very sad articles are not going to be read by George Bush. Your articles are being read by regular Ethiopians so YOU ARE MAKING US HATE OLF AND SPREADING MORE HATE AGAINST PEOPLE!!!! PLEASE STOP THIS NONSENSE!!!!

GO TO ETHIOPIA JUST FOR ONE DAY.


PLEASE STOP THIS HATE.

My response to Ms. Eleni Betemariam


Ms. Betemariam,

As you persist and invite me to your country, I have to reply.

First, I already visited Abyssinia. Ok, I do not know Abyssinia as well as I do Sudan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel, Turkey and Greece, but I know sufficiently well the local realities.

I studied your country's history (late 70s and early 80s), long before I came to Abyssinia (early 90s); I have an elementary knowledge of Gueze and Amharic.

As Historian, I know very well that your country's name is Abyssinia, not Ethiopia.

What is even worse for you, I know who was the person (and I know that person very well) who convinced Haile Selassie to call Abyssinia 'Ethiopia'.

All this is a first point.

The second point is that I have nothing to do with the OLF, either you know it or not, either you believe it or not.

The third point is that when I wrote analytically the Historical Truth - that your country's name is Abyssinia, not Ethiopia - I received all sorts of barbaric insults, hideous and vulgar emails, as well as public threats by Amharas and Tigrays, who through their hatred against me revealed me how fake the transfiguration of Abyssinia to Ethiopia had been.

They attacked me precisely in the way a guilty person attacks the one who reveals his guilt in public. They keep sending mails, thinking that they just insult me.

They are so blind in their hysterical passion that they do not read my CV to realize that I am Greek citizen of Turkish origin, and not Egyptian! I simply lived in Egypt during the past 6 years.

So mad they are in their irrational aberration that they do not read other articles of mine in which I attack - proudly I must say it, as no other scholar in the world - the Pan-Arabism, the falsehood of the so-called Arabic Nation, and the fabrication of the so-called modern Arabic language.

They accuse me of being an agent of Egypt, when I ask the global community to shut down the Arab League, considering Pan-Arabism the main reason of the Islamic Extremism.

They have no idea about my hobby, Psychology; I enjoyed reading all this original and unparalleled stuff that is enough to make me write 10 articles about the public culture and education, as well as the behavioural system of the Amharas and the Tigrays! Not one!

Why I have not done so?

I am the master of my time; I decide when! And please, do not ask me to disclose this info for you!

There are more points to discuss with you.


Fourth point is that in a normal democracy, all fronts, parties, organizations must be allowed to participate in elections; I am sure that you do not suggest that I prohibited OLF from participating in the elections in Abyssinia!

The murderous thug Zenawi did, so I simply criticize his deeds - which are real indeed.

Fifth point is that if people of a region want to shape an independent country, a free referendum must take place, and if the majority - let's say of the Catalans in Spain or the Ogadenis in Abyssinia - want to secede and form an independent country, this must happen immediately.

I am sure you know better than I do that if such referenda are held tomorrow in Abyssinia, the outright majority of the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Ogadenis, and the Afars will prefer independence. If you disagree, demand that such a referendum be held so that you prove you are right. Well, between us, let me advise you not to ask for this loudly in Abyssinia, for they will imprison you on the spur of the moment.


Sixth point is what you say about the national name of Oromo, namely that it is now allowed to be in use in tyrannical Abyssinia; great achievement!

This is not the point; you seem to forget for how many long decades the derogatory term Galla was used; the representatives of the Amhara political, social, economic, academic and intellectual elite have to apologize and denounce the practice for all times.

A crime has been committed; it cannot go forgotten, you know!

In addition, the overall picture of the Abyssinian universities is far worse than your nice description. I will soon focus on this in a separate article. When students support OLF, they get arrested and imprisoned without trial!

Wonderful sort of paradise!

I therefore envy your ‘paradise’, and I accept your invitation for one more trip to Abyssinia; will you take me to Kaliti jail to help me make another report?


Seventh point is the fact that not Somalis but all the peoples of the world are made of tribes and clans; few peoples have been settled for centuries in cities, and have transformed their earlier social structures, melting them within urban life.

The social structure of Somalia is not a hindrance in the country's national pride; they were and they are proud of being Somalis either in Berbera, in Bosaso, in Ras Hafun or in Kismayu. And they all want Abyssinian army out. Either they belong to Somaliland, to Puntland or to (Southern) Somalia; their desire to arrange their country as they find best has nothing to do with the Abyssinian criminal interference and invasion.


More than them, all the reasonable people in the world want this idiotic enterprise terminated, because longer the Abyssinian army stays there more people in Somalia, Abyssinia, Kenya, Sudan, Chad, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Central African Republic, and Uganda turn to the Islamists as the only possible alternative.


Tyrant Meles Zenawi risks making of the entire world volunteering supporters of Ossama Bin Laden. It is a paranoia!


And - it is ironical - I am sure that when all the oppressed peoples of Abyssinia achieve their independence, Meles Zenawi will start demanding Tigray independence from the Amharas!


The websites you suggest are all fabrications of a totalitarian regime that promises no referendum as above! Why wasting time on them?


In Nazi Germany, would you consider Goebbels as an authoritative source of information?


At the end of your letter you ask me to stop the ‘Hatred’ against your country; I don’t think I hate your country. I rather love its oppressed peoples. You therefore ask me to stop loving!

How illuminating, coming from a Christian!

(Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, and Islamologist, Historian, Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 49, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.)