License to KILL an Ethiopian style

In less than three months after the Ethiopian federal Affairs Minister Shifera W/mariam’s announcement to follow Ahbash or face the consequence the first victim became the 2009 Bahrdar University Chemistry department Award winner and Muslims students Amir

የሱልጣን ቢትወደድ አሊሚራህ ሥርዓተ ቀብር በአሳይታ ተፈጸመ

ኢትዮጵያ ከታላላቅ ልጆቿ መካከል አንዱ የኾኑትን የአፋሩን ሱልጣን አሊሚራህ ሐንፍሬን በሞት አጣች፡፡ ሥርዓተ ቀብራቸውም ከትናንት በስቲያ በትውልድ ስፍራቸውና የሱልጣንነት መቀመጫቸው በነበረችው አሳይታ ከተማ ተፈጽሟል፡፡

የአፋር ብሔረሰብ መንፈሳዊና ባህላዊ ፖለቲካዊም መሪ የነበሩት ሱልጣን አሊሚራህ በቀዳማዊ አፄ ኃይሌ ሥላሴ ዘመነ መንግሥት (1923-1967) ከፍተኛ ሥልጣን ከነበራቸው መካከል አንዱ ነበሩ፡፡

በአፄ ኃይለ ሥላሴ የቢትወደድ ማዕርግ የተሰጣቸው ሱልጣን አሊሚራህ የኅብረተሰብአዊት ኢትዮጵያ ጊዜያዊ ወታደራዊ አስተዳደር ደርግ መንግሥትን በመቃወም በስደት በሳዑዲ ዓረቢያ በመኖር የአፋር ነፃ አውጭ ግንባርን

An Appeal Letter To VOA

David  Arnold                                                                                                                                        Chief, Horn of Africa
Voice of America                                                                                                                           330 Independence Avenue SW                                                                                 Washington DC 20237

Dear Sir David Arnold

This time I represent none other than myself and this is my personal appeal to you.  As you may remember once I have complained regarding your Amharic broadcasting staff on Oct. 12 / 2009 broadcasting of VOA

ጥቁር አዝሙድ ከፈውስ አንፃር

ዶ/ር ኢያሱ ኃይለ ሥላሴ

ሪፖርተር በድህረ ገጹ እንደዘገበው ጥቁር አዝሙድ በኢትዮጵያ ከአያሌ ሺሕ ዓመታት ጀምሮ በምግብ ማጣፈጫነት ሲያገለግል ኖሯል፡፡ ተፈላጊም ተወዳጅም ነው፡፡ ከምግብ ባለፈም በባህላዊው ሕክምና በፈውስነት ማገልገሉ አልቀረም፡፡ የባህላዊ ሕክምና ጠበብት ከእጸዋት ከሚያዘጋጇቸው

Ethiopian Immigrants in Libya caught in the middle

From what has been aired on al-jazeera English that some of the people caught in the middle are immigrants from Ethiopia who disparately looking a way to reach Europen shores.   I’m sure Ethiopian government soon will contact the Libyan embassy in Addis Ababa to find a way out to those Ethiopians

Editor of Al-Quds passed away

By Amal

The chief editor of al-Quds newsletter Mr. Ezedin Mohammed carrier spanned for more than four decades.  He was one of the pioneers in Ethiopian Muslims journalism history and the first ever Islamic orientated news paper to be published after the fall of the Derg regime in

Iranian 32nd anniversary coincided with Mubarak’s Farwell in Egypt

After almost 30 years of dictatorship finally, the Hero’s of Egypt ousted their last pharaonic monarchy.  I’m proud of those people’s determination and commitment they have shown in Tehrir square.  A big chunk of credit to Al-Jazeera news Network staffs, its anchors, camera men/women and correspondences who dedicated everything without partiality and shown to the world professional journalism and reporting that none of the medias shown us before. 

Mosque burned to the ground in Addis Ababa

A fire engulfed Tebarek Mosque and the house of the Imam at the heart of the capital Addis Ababa Ethiopia in an area called Mexico. The fire destroyed part of the mosque that was used by women’s, the house of the Imam as well as all the books the Imam use with his student’s also many unpublished scripts written by the

ECMC’s Statment

ECMC’s  Association Statement Regarding the Burning of Eight Mosques in Southern Ethiopia 

Ethiopian Canadian Muslims living in Toronto, Canada would like to express our concern and worry by the recent news received from theGurage Region of Southern

ETHIO INTERFAITH PALTALK ROOM HAS CELEBRATED UNITY DAY

Unity is strength.  When the sand grains unite they become a vast desert.  When the sea drops unite they become a boundless ocean.  The seven colors emerge in the shape of a bewitching rainbow so on… Almighty Allah in the Quran says that the division of people in the races and clans is only for their introduction.  The best one out of them is the man of piety. Dr. Mohammad Ali Al-khuli in his book titled “The Light of Islam” writes. “Islam is the greatest unifying force in the world.  It is a religion to all humans regardless of color, race and language.  It is a religion that tolerates other religions and orders its followers to respect and protect all humans.” According to a Hadith of the Holy Prophet all persons belong to Adam and Adam was from soil.  The racial discrimination has been strictly prohibited in Islam.  In the last sermon from the Mount of Arafat the Holy Prophet had clearly announced that no Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab; or the white over the black.

Based on the above Quranic advice and the Prophets sayings unity is indeed an essential aspect of all groups for their advancement and development.  Amongst Ethiopian Muslims the essence of unity has been lost for centuries.   In actual fact Ethiopian elites groups purposely destroyed the unity of Muslims by dividing on ethnic lines for centuries as one of the invited guests eloquently put it.  So, from this fact the Muslims unity has been a threat for Christian’s highlanders for centuries however, Islam is the perfect religion in tolerating and harmonizing differences unlike other religions actually this is established fact from history.

The program was the most vibrant and exhilarating many expressed their delight and contentment by means of poem and menzuma others by sprinkled roses on the lobby.  Many scholars urged Muslims to be united and gave educational lecture on broad subjects. 

Indeed the credit is all due to Bilal Communication Inc. who initiates and sponsored the scheme.  The program was designed for two days and more than twenty well known and loved scholars invited to give lecture.  Bilal Communication Inc is an organization dedicated in disseminating of information to all by means of radio TV and internet.   Currently Bilal Inc, running Radio Bilal and Bilal Show a TV program running twice a week in collaborating with ebs TV.   

The absence of unity brings and breeds disruption, devastation and disputes.  “The Muslims are like a body; if one limb aches, the whole body aches.”  Then the Messenger of Allah says; “whoever does not care about the affairs of the Muslims is not one of them.” Most scholars clearly focused on stressing on the issue of unity and brotherhood.  The program is currently on progress and we will further report more on the topic InshAllah.

“Zem Zem Bank to offer share sales”

(capitalethiopia.com) Ethiopia’s first interest-free bank Zam Zam Bank is about to launch founding share sales this week, Capital has learnt.

About 1,000 shareholders, who have already pledged to subscribe shares from Zam Zam Bank, are meeting at the City’s Municipality hall today to deliberate on proposals to be forwarded by the organizing committee, including the launch of share sales starting next Friday, December10.

“ZamZam’s capital is proposed to be 250 million birr. The proposal is to offer shares each valued at 1,000 birr to raise the stated capital,” a source close to the organizing committee told Capital.

 A minimum of twenty shares’ purchase will be required for shareholders that will establish Ethiopia’s first non-interest bank that, according to the National Bank’s directive, includes modes of advancing funds on a profit-and-loss sharing basis consistent with the Sharia’h law. Sharia’h – Islamic law – prohibits believers from taking or giving interest. To share profit from investments, equally accepting losses is permissible in Islam, while interest is not.

According to the source close to the ZamZam bank founders, who spoke on condition of anonymity not to preempt today’s official announcement, there will not be a cap of subscription, except the regulator National Bank’s stipulation that disallows anybody from having more than 5 percent share from any bank. A five percent service fee and 40 percent down payments are expected to be proposed for the 1,000 founding shareholders by the organizing committee.

A green light from shareholders, who until now were asked to keep their money in their pocket, would also be asked about executives hunt and staffing and a future headquarters for ZamZam. Shareholders are expected to be briefed why it took three years to realize ZamZam. “When the idea of establishing interest free banking was brought up three years back, more than one thousand people from various part of the country came to buy shares and put pledges. Though it took too long, the legal technicality is now over. We can now go ahead to forming the bank,” the source said.

The 2008 proclamation for the first time in the country’s modern banking history has opened doors for non-interest banking operation which is also known as Islamic banking. A subsequent belated directive detailing the particulars when first tabled on June proposed both a fully-fledged interest-free bank and a window for the service in the existing conventional banks.

Ethiopian Orthodox church goers torched Eight mosques in Gurage Zone

In Gurage zone eight mosques have been torched last week Radio Bilal has reported the horrifying incident.  Sadly it became frequent to see and hear mosques set on fire inside Ethiopia.   The tragic episode took place in an area called moor and aklil the first mosque was burned on 28/November/2010 in kana kebele and next day (19/November/2010) three mosques were also burned to ashes in an area called batana, subsequently four other mosques also set in blaze in similar manner jebaqa debeqi Kebele by chance the two mosques sustain sever structural damage nevertheless past the worst from total annihilation by locals. 

This unprovoked attack blamed on a mentally disturbed person which seems far from certainty.   Numerous Muslims rejected the alleged person is indeed insane (this is a common assertion to validate this hideous action of ravagers to exonerate from baring responsibility).   It is beyond believable doubt to assume an insane man carried out such a well engineered felony in a matter of days.  Moreover the mosques were widely scattered to be reached in a short period time unless there were a pre-disposed villainy.

The customary aggravation of Muslims and Muslims institutions became widespread episode in the country unfortunately, for the past few years it accelerates to reaches its climax and testing Muslims serenity.   When the local Imam asked about the person whether he is indeed mentally ill as it was laminated or not he evidently stated that the man who burned down these mosques is actually not only healthy but he is widely respected man in his local among an Orthodox church goers.   Meanwhile other four assailants also apprehended by local police even though Muslims doubt the genuineness of the action taken by the police.  In fact the person who ruined these mosques was previously known to his threat in destroying them.  Actually at the time he was also detained by the police for his remark, nevertheless before long he was released without charges.

So far no report has been released from the Government information desk or from the country’s major media outlets.

Please visit us for further development.

Bilal Show aired its program

Bilal communication Inc publicized the launching of its first ever Islamic TV show (bilal show) on Tuesday 16 / 11 / 2010.   According to the news reported in its web site the launching of its program was a successful initiate.    According to the schedule it is planned to air the programs every Sunday and Friday 11:00 Am – 12:00 midday, 01:00 PM – 02:00 Pm in local time subsequently it will be re-run in the evening but no detail is given on the timetable.

Bilal Communication Inc at present signed a contract agreement with the Ethiopian broadcasting service (EBS) EBS is a privately held media company established in 2008 in Silver Spring, MD, USA to provide a niche transmission programming that targets the booming Ethiopian market globally.

The launching of Bilal Show marks a major millstone in the history of Ethiopian Muslims, Bilal communication also run a short wave radio program from Washington DC however, planning to switch onto TV alone.   Meanwhile, the reactions of its viewers were very exhilarating several expressed their joy and contentment.  

The Need for Courage

By Brother Nejib Mohammed

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is reported to have said; Allah loves two human qualities and dislikes two; The two qualities Allah loves are generosity and courage: The two qualities Allah dislikes are bad character and miserliness. more reading click here.

WHO WILL SAVE “NEME” FROM FALLING APART?

I think the last few days have seen an unusually fierce exchange of ideas among our blogger community. Indeed some are out and about drawing scenarios, writing stories, alleging individuals, tarnishing images and hallucinating a possible demise of Islamic projects, etc. No doubt the frenzy begs for explanation.  please click more more reading pdf

Smear Campaign or a Genuine Concern?

 ”Bilal Communication has signed a contract with Ethiopian Broadcasting Service TV (EBS TV) to deliver a two hour program – Bilal Show – a week”. 

ማነው በእርግጥም አረብ አረብ የሚሸተው ኢትዮጵያዊው ሙስሊም ወይስ?

ለበለጠ ንባብ እዚህ ይጫኑ

ቶኒ ብሌርና መንትዮሽ ስብዕናው

“እንደኔ እንደኔ ከሁሉም በላይ የቁርዓን አስደናቂነቱ የተራማጅነት ይዘቱ ነው: የሌላ ዕምነት ተከታይ እንደመሆኔ ይህን ፅሁፍ በታላቅ ትህትና ፅፈዋለሁ፡፡ ከዕምነቱ ውጭ እንዳለ ሰው ሳየው ቁርዓን የተሃድሶ መፅሃፍነቱ ግርምት ይፈጥርብኛል ፡፡

አል ቁድስ እና አባስ የዛሬ ዓመት

የዕምነት መሰረታቸውን በኣንድ ፈጣሪ ላይ መስርተዋል ለሚባልላቸውና  የነቢዩ ኢብራሂም (የአላህ ሰላም በእርሳቸው ላይ ይውረድ)  ልጆች ለሚከተሉዋቸው ሶስቱ ታላላቅ ሃይማኖቶች- የአይሁድ እምነት፣ ክርስትና፣ እና እስልምና (ሞኖቴኢስቲክ ኤብረሃሚክ ሪሊጅንዝ) ሁሉ የዕምነታቸው መነሻና መድረሻ ያህል የምትቆጠረው ትንሽዬ ከተማ  አል ቁድስ (እየሩሳሌም)በርግጥ ለሁሉም ቅድስት ከተማቸው መሆንዋ አስረጂ የማይሻ እውነት ነው፡፡

Shame on the oppressors

Ethiopian war heroes honoured but not ashamed of the discrimination and disproportion of racisms on recruiting members within Ethiopian armed force.  I have no disrespect what so ever for those individuals who honoured as a hero.  Ethiopian armed force the past or the present has policy of discrimination among its own citizens.  Once there was an email circulated around by GINBOT 7 movements that was heavily critical of the current government’s recruitment to the post within the armed force and their position as racist and biased.  However, by comparison the current armed forces are much more diverse than the previous one.  As a Muslims I just looked at it from religious prospective and Ethiopian armed forces were by far racist than anywhere on earth.  I was reading on the news just days before the article that was published on Ethiomedia, that the French armed forces was preparing a hajj trip to its military personal  to Saudi Arabia by comparison with my fellow Ethiopians its unthinkable even to be Muslim and recruited to a significant post during the previous regimes .    In fact this racist views and practises are dangerous trend to follow who ever think Ethiopia is a nation of multi ethnic and religious nation.  

I was keen to go through the names of military personals proudly published on Ethiomedia  to my surprise I found one Muslims name among more than 150 names.  The direction of the country Ethiopia seems unknown on regard to issue addressing ethnic and religious diversity.   We all knew with certainty that Ethiopian Muslims consists at list half of the Ethiopian population but why there is no mutual respect among the people of these two major religions Islam and Christianity?

I think it won’t be long before the courses of history changes in that country but for now the discrimination remain intact to those who are pleased to do so.  What so ever the oppressed will never remain oppressed but they will set themselves free.