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Open Letter to HRH, Hamad Bin Khalifa al Thani, on Ethiopia

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Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Certainly, several dictatorial regimes have been represented by unrepresentative diplomats in the UN and the other international bodies, and at the level of bilateral relations. However, these tyrannies reflected the imposition of political choices that were not approved of by the majority of the people (as for instance in Franco´s Spain).

The case of ´Ethiopia´ is far more dangerous as the misrepresentation is an instrument of elimination of nations. This is attempted partly physically (through premeditated starvation, extrajudicial killings, appalling conditions of imprisonment, criminal indifference as regard diseases and contaminations, etc.) and partly spiritually – culturally (through forced assimilation and cultural genocide).

Fake Ethiopia is not a Christian country.

Part of the treacherous plan and mendacious attitude of the ´Ethiopian´ ´diplomats´ has been to highly portray themselves as Christians, particularly when among Western Christian nations. They try to extract any possible political benefit by highlighting their supposedly Christian historical identity. They even attempt to claim a historical continuity since the days of the Axumite kingdom of Abyssinia, something that cannot be historically proved.

Certainly the Abyssinians of the Axum kingdom adhered to Monophysitic Christianity, but we have a clear understanding that neither Axum Monophysitism nor Agaw Christianity (a later epoch marked by Cushitic Agaw political preponderance over the Semitic Abyssinians over part of the Axumite Kingdom´s territory, as the coastal zone belonged to the Islamic Caliphate down to the 2nd half of the 19th century) would tolerate non Christian practices and cults of the modern Abyssinians.

Furthermore, we know for sure that Axumite and Agaw Christianity would not accept the falsification of Christian and Biblical History as promoted later within the context of post-Agaw Abyssinian mythologies, involving royal descent from the Queen of Sheba (the Coranic Balqis) and the King Solomon (Hz. Sulayman), through their mythical son (Menelik).

The so-called Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia is a provocative falsification and it amounts to complete historical distortion of facts, ideas, beliefs, and concepts. The supposed epic text Kebra Negast that is referred to as philological evidence represents a fabrication geared to promote Abyssinian schemes against Islam, the Caliphate, and the historical Egyptian Coptic control of the Abyssinian Church.

Note: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/40279

Murders of Christian priests and monks by the Abyssinian Pseudo-Christians

Even worse, Abyssinia proved to be one of the most Anti-Christian countries in the world. The treatment of Christian Catholic priests, monks and scholars traveling in Abyssinia was far worse than the attitude expressed toward foreign Christians in any part of the Caliphate or the Muslim World in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The following excerpt from the Catholic Encyclopedia New Advent highlights the sort of ´Christianity´ the Monophysitic Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian pseudo-diplomats represent, giving at the same time a summary of Anti-Christian persecution that took place in the supposed ´friend of the Western Christians´.

This is what the unrepresentative pseudo-diplomats of Abyssinia try to keep hidden from anyone:

"The Sovereign Pontiffs, nevertheless, have bestowed a constant solicitude on the Christians of Ethiopia. The first missionaries sent to their aid were the Dominicans, whose success, however, roused the fanaticism of the Monophysites against them, and caused their martyrdom. For more than a hundred years silence enfolded the ruins of this Church. At a later period, the fame of the Crusades having spread, pilgrim monks, on their return from Jerusalem, wakened once more, by what they told in the Ethiopian court, the wish to be reunited to the Church.

The Acts of the Council of Florence tell of the embassy sent by the Emperor Zéra-Jacob with the object of obtaining this result (1452). The union was brought about; but on their home journey, the messengers, while passing through Egypt, were given up to the schismatic Copts, and to the Caliph, and put to death before they could bring the good news to their native land.

More than a hundred years later, in 1557, the Jesuit Father Oviedo penetrated into Ethiopia. One of his successors, Father Paëz, succeeded in converting the Emperor Socinios himself. On 11 December, 1624, the Church of Abyssinia, abjuring the heresy of Eutyches and the schism of Dioscorus, was reunited to the true Church, a union which, unfortunately, proved to be only temporary.

In 1632, the Negus Basilides mounted the throne. Addicted as he was to polygamy and to every vice, he showed himself the relentless enemy of Catholicism, and of its moral law. The Jesuits were handed over to the axe of the executioner, and Abyssinia remained closed to the missionaries until 1702. In that year, three Franciscans got as far as Gondar, the capital, where they converted several princes. The Negus wrote with his own hand to Clement XI, professing his submission to His Holiness. Once more the hope proved futile.

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Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 51, 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, (more...)
 
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