And hold fast, all together, by the rope which God (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves. (Q003:103) The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear God, that ye may receive Mercy. (Q49:010)
Ethiopian Muslims have intensified their resistance to government sponsored indoctrination of Ethiopian Muslims with Ahbash ideology. Lately students of Awolia Collage and schools have become the voice of the Muslim community; and the collage the center of their resistance.
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Students of Awolia are on strike since last week. They continued denouncing the so-called Majlis and the attempt to indoctrinate Ethiopian Muslims with Ahbash ideology, an alien religious cult invited by the Ethiopian government and provided with all the support to impose its teachings on Ethiopian Muslims.
In mean timeEthio-American Muslims Ad-hoc Committee strongly denounces the Human Rights violation On Ethiopian Muslims by EPRDF Regime. Ethio-American Muslims Ad hoc Committee firmly stands along with other peace-loving, equality and freedom aspirant Ethiopians in their struggle for justice, equality and real democracy. The Committee also calls up on all Ethiopians to come together now more than ever and stand united against the unprecedented human rights violations in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian-American Muslim Ad-hoc Committee in the Washington Metropolitan Area is saddened by the continued and intensified human rights violation by the regime of Ethiopia of its Muslim subjects. Despite strong resistance and outcry from the Muslim community to the government’s plan to impose an alien belief system on Ethiopian Muslims, the Ethiopian Regime is determined to proceed with its plan with full force and resource. To unveil and condemn this terrible human right violation, the Ethio-American Muslims Ad hoc Committee accomplished a well organized mass protest behind the White House and in front state department on November 21,2011.The committee also dispatched several diplomatic letters to various entities around the world.
the coercive indoctrination of Ethiopian Muslims with an imported ideology has reached its apex
Based on news from VOA Amharic for more than a week now, students of Awolia, the only institution for Ethiopian Muslims, are denied of their right to education and held as hostage in their respective campuses. Awolia is nearly half a century old community institution that the Ethiopian government recently seized from the public. The institution’s academic and administrative staff members including the college Dean and different school directors were removed from their job without any prior notice, without compensation, nor service allowances.
According to BADR Broadcasting Network (BBN) and Selefiya Newspaper, Muslim youth and religious teachers are rounded up, abducted from their houses, work places and from worshiping centers and subjected to humiliation and other inhumane treatments. Several disappearance are being reported; some others had to incarcerate for several days in isolation before they were told to leave the detention centers without even brought before a court and without being told the reason for their detention. The committee is convinced that this unfettered repression and oppression is not limited to the Muslim community; the wider Ethiopian community is being terrorized by the EPRDF Regime of Ethiopia.
A Must See Documantary: Conspiracy of Ethiopian Government and the Ahbash Cult Against Ethiopian Muslims
The Ethiopian government has launched its onslaught on Ethiopian Muslims. This time the effort is directed to the fundamentals of their belief system. In an effort to dismantle the Muslims community from all aspiration to stand at equal footing with the rest of the Ethiopian population and contribute their share to the betterment of their country, the Ethiopian Government has set in operation a project that it hopes would shake the basic and fundamental values of Islam. To that end it invited a rejected pseudo-Muslim group from Lebanon and put them at the helm of the Muslim Community. The two part documentary below exposes the conspiracy of the two against Ethiopian Muslims and far beyond, and the implication and consequence of their marriage. It is a must see material for all Ethiopians irrespective of their religion as the danger this effort of the government surpasses the Muslim community and engulf the country and its population.
The Ethiopian government has lately launched an over all campaign against the belief of Ethiopian Muslims. For its evil plan, it brought a deviant group called Ahbash from Lebanon. Since June 2011 Ethiopian Muslims are being forced at gun point to attend trainings. Using the pretext to fight religious extremism, the EPRDF government is terrorizing the Muslim community in particular and all Ethiopians in general. This material is a part of a counter measure taken by Ethiopian Muslims in the Diaspora with the objective of exposing the conspiracy which according to the producers is paramount to declaring war on Ethiopian Muslims and Islam in Ethiopia.
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It is not about capital. It is not about the economy. It is all about the conventional practice and that practice should be protected at all costs. As we know practices that we understand as conventional in Ethiopia are none other than those that limits the Ethiopian Muslim from having a part in the country's social, economical and political activities. They are not limited to the banking sector. They are of all nature.
Such policy to protect the conventional practice is to be seen in all sectors, even what and how Muslims should believe is not spared. The government has allocated all its effort and millions of birr to indoctrinate Ethiopian Muslims with the Ahbash ideology, an ideology that is developed to put down any aspiration by Ethiopian Muslims for freedom, equality or justice. Muslim students are required to forget their being Muslim and leave their Islamic identity outside of their campus as they seek scientific education. Muslims may not have an organization and may not seek to establish any institution that works in upholding the demands and desires of the Muslim Community. In this continuous engagement of securing conventional practices, today is the turn of Zemzem bank, an initiative that clearly demonstrated not only the desire of the Muslim community to have institutions of its own but also its capacity to sustain them. Hellas, it was too much for a political establishment that is built on anti-Islam and anti-Muslim values. It is no more a question what is next but when. Each and every initiative that has been operating in helping the Muslim community will fall down one by one.
A directive issued by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has delivered a serious blow to banks seeking to operate full-fledged non-interest bearing banking services in accordance with Islamic financing principles and modes of operation, while giving conventional banks the green light to run Islamic windows. According to the directive, which will be effective starting October 1, full-fledged banking on the basis of non-interest bearing principle is not going to be accepted by NBE. The supervisory body came to the decision following years of deliberation on the subject .
After a proposal on Islamic banking was submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office, during which time the the banking proclamation of 2008 was in the works, NBE incorporated the first clause that refers to non-interest bearing banking business in the country’s history. Since the promulgation of the proclamation, which bestowed on the bank the power to write a workable directive, though, it took over two years to compile a draft. Finally, NBE prepared a draft and circulated the document in the industry for a while. However, the draft document did not appear to contemplate a bank operating just an Islamic window .
Meanwhile, Zemzem Bank, the first bank in Ethiopia that longed to operate on the basis of this Islamic banking principle, was well into the process of organizing the new bank. Members of the organizing committee at the bank, who also were close to the matter from the very beginning, unsuspectingly mobilized funds and fulfilled the threshold capital to become the first Islamic bank in the country. Furthermore, a while back the bank had assembled shareholders to name the first board members of the bank only to learn over the weekend that all has fallen apart. According to sources at NBE, the Bank’s decision is based on the rationale that the country’s banking sector follows the conventional banking practice. But, in due consideration of the demand for the banking product (non-Interest bearing) it was allowed to be practiced on the basis of a window. “Anybody wanting to give the service should do it in conjunction with interest bearing banking,” sources explain.
However, the window service as well should fulfill some requirements, according to the directive. The first requirement is a risk management mechanism, which is important in the delivery of Islamic banking product. Hence, NBE strictly requires banks wanting to give the service to make account of the detail risk management mechanism.
On the other hand, a mechanism to effectively separate the Islamic banking operation from conventional banking is also another requirement that the directive give s emphasis to.
The directive also obliges banks seeking to provide the service to furnish to NBE information on their financial capacity, accounting policy to be followed and the relative proportion of the Islamic banking to the conventional and other relevant documents.
Ethiopian Muslims have been looking forward to having Zem Zem bank - the first interest-free Ethiopian Muslims operated bank in the country - start operation. However, with the new directive of Ethiopian Central Bank that raises the minimum paid up capital to 500 million from 75 million, many are wondering what the fate of this eagerly awaited Bank going to be. The recent overall development in Ethiopia is becoming a surprise for all Ethiopians and Ethiopian Muslims in particular. It is becoming a puzzle where the government is taking the county and its people. Please read below what Addis Fortune reported on this particular measure which many believe the directive is intended to makes the sector effectively free to bankers close to the ruling political parties.
[Addis Fortune] The central bank has raised the minimum paid up capital required to establish a new bank from 75 million Br to 500 million Br effective Monday, September 19, 2011. This is a 566pc increases.
The directive signed by Getahun Nana, vice governor for Financial Institutions Supervision, was sent to private commercial banks on Friday, September 16, 2011.
The 500 million Br minimum paid up capital should be paid in full and must be deposited at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) in the name and to the account of the bank, according to the directive.
This is to make new banks competitive with existing banks the directive states. Banks under formation and who do not fulfil this requirement have to raise their capital by June 30, 2016.
The directive doesn’t recognize banks under formation which are required to come up with 500 million Br to join the banking industry. This includes the likes of Tsehay, Hawassa, ZemZem and Noh who have been aggressively promoting their shares trying to meet the 75 million Br minimum requirements, are now faced with the daunting task of raising 500 million Br.
[Jimma Times] An unlikely hero emerged for Ethiopia on Sunday as world record holder and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele unexpectedly withdrew from the 10,000 meters race at the World Athletics Championships. 22-years old Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan used a combination of sprints and pacing tactics to upset the Kenyans and Eritrea’s Zersenay.
The Bale-Oromia native Ibrahim finished the race in 27 minutes and 13.81 seconds followed by Britain’s Somali-born Mo Farah and Ethiopia’s Imane Merga. The Eritrean finished fourth. Ethiopia’s Ibrahim has never won a gold medal at a senior level before and he was animated in celebrating his victory.
Before Sunday, It has been a disappointing start for the Ethiopian national team as Meseret Defar also dropped out of the women’s 10,000m race in South Korea. On Saturday, Ethiopia’s Kalkidan Gezahedge and Gelete Burka barely qualified for the 1,500m final round while Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia managed to qualify for the 800m finals with a time of 1 minute and 44.57 seconds. Click here to see the video on Youtube.com
Ethiopian Muslims have intensified their resistance to government sponsored indoctrination of Ethiopian Muslims with Ahbash ideology. Lately students of Awolia Collage and schools have become the voice of the Muslim community; and the collage the center of their resistance.
the coercive indoctrination of Ethiopian Muslims with an imported ideology has reached its apex
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n unlikely hero emerged for Ethiopia on Sunday as world record holder and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele unexpectedly withdrew from the 10,000 meters race at the World Athletics Championships. 22-years old Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan used a combination of sprints and pacing tactics to upset the Kenyans and Eritrea’s Zersenay.
