WAHABISM: Its Creed and Objective Part Two                                                                                                            Melaku Tefera 08/22/13 In part one of the same titled article, I have raised some issues about the Wahabia group’s objectives and presumptions, which as we found out, is based on suspicion and unfounded hypothesis; and also the fact that it harbors its own political ambitions. Part two continues… This religious fundamentalists group works on confusing the Muslim community through speculative thinking. Going through numerous individual countries’ complex history, they come down to an unfounded conclusion which usually goes out like ‘Ethiopia is about to do this and do that’ and so forth. We can see these types of worthless comments from the group, given in different times, without providing a single shred of evidence. This fundamentalist group made some distasteful and unsubstantial claims like, ‘there is a scheme to make Ethiopia “Ill at ease” (uncomfortable) to the Muslims; there is a campaign underway to localize Islam like the Ethiopian orthodox; the Muslim community didn’t use to demand it’s right; students & civil servants may be asked to skip Ramadan fasting not to setback work & education’ Let’s come back down to earth (& reality for that matter), and further probe this presumptuous ‘claims.’ As it’s known every government in every part of the world strive to make their citizens life better; and it’s clear that a country motivated to change this wish into reality cannot afford to be favorable to one religion and detrimental to the others. Because if a country is to be prosperous and afford its citizens better life, it should mobilize the people from border to border and make sure that they are part of the development process. Obviously this can’t be achieved by fracturing the people through petty religious favoritism, as the would-be Islam’s- defender wahabia claim. The good thing is the Ethiopian government or more precisely the ruling party has a rich history of working closely with the people and always had respect for the public which emanates from the party’s innate nature. The ruling party understands that their grand victories and the current fast and continuous economic development recorded are achieved through the key role the public played; therefore it can’t ruin this attitude or thinking by weighing things through the vista of religion, and it hasn’t. This is why the ruling party uses the slogan ‘the future is bright with us’ in its election campaigns. The Wahabian futile acts of bad mouthing the government won’t work persuade the people, as the public is well aware of the workings of the government and the extremists. By the way, who are responsible for downplaying other religions and denouncing its own religion by claiming ‘the existing Muslims were subservient in demanding their right? the wahabians or the government? Who are trying to send other religion followers in to dark ages by imposing their beliefs forcefully? The body responsible for raising all these paltry questions is a foreign lackey made up of riot–crazed extremists, who are profiting under the name of a religion. So except for the Wahabians the future is bright for the peace loving Muslim community. The current state of the country is more suitable to peace rather than to havoc seeking miniscule entities. Thus, the wahabia disciples cry to the Muslim community of our country’s so called attempt to be ‘Ill at ease’ to the Muslim is nothing but self-delusion. The new Ethiopia can only be ‘Ill at ease’ to havoc and riot crazed vandals. In the new Ethiopia, every citizen’s human and democratic rights have been respected; also the constitution has guaranteed the people freedom to demand and implement their rights.  And the people have been enjoying these freedoms and right for the last twenty one years. These religion fascist wahabians declare that the existing Muslims don’t use to demand their rights, employing their divide-and-downplay approach. What I and other member of the religion can attest is the fact that we all have been demanding our religious rights. And these demands have always been answered unlike the previous regimes. For instance for the last two decades our question for a mosque building sites have been answered. So who asked for those mosques to be built? Is it the havoc mongering wahabian or is it their political thinking? The ones who demanded and enjoyed their right are the Ethiopian Muslim community not these extremists with foreign masters. So these wahabian worthless preach (argument) is of no value. The other bit of ‘shot in the dark’ like subject this undemocratic group raises is that, it believes there is a campaign waged by the government to localize Islam, like the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. From what or where these deluded fundamentalist get this cockeyed idea, only them and the devil knows. But, I believe this emanates from the two pillar characters of Wahabians: their innate lying and deluded presumptions and their function in international terrorism. It’s helpful here to mention that Ethiopian orthodox church is not in fact walled within the borders of the country; and as far as I know the church is member of world council of churches, unlike what the Wahabian cough-up from their ‘disrespect-every –other religion’ mouths. We even have been hearing for some time that the late patriarch (may be rest in peace) of the church was once the president of the council. So if the church is only Ethiopian, how on earth did the patriarch held the presidency of the world’s church unity? What I would like to remind to the Wahabian is that, this kind of mudding facts with lies to have their way will only help further increase the pace of the their marginalization from the Muslim community. They’re a living proof of ‘the more you lie, the obvious you become’. Dear Readers, the group’s Nostradamus-like prediction that goes like ‘there’s a campaign to limit Ethiopian Muslims within Ethiopia’ harbors aspirations for joining international terrorism syndicates. When some forces insist that a religion has to follow the extremism trend that is going on internationally against its long held values, it means it is concealing ‘imposing our beliefs on others’ thinking which undermines other’s freedom of religion. This also justified the long time claim made against the Wahabian, that the group is the resident lackey of the fundamentalist in our country, especially considering the fact that they are involved in downplaying the Majlis (the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs). Like the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Majlis is part of international Islamic institution and works in cooperation to stage Hajj’s & Umrah’s. These wahabia’s ‘shot in the dark’ like facts are both shame – laden and in large supplies. This group has the nerve to say ‘students and public servants may be prohibited to fast during Ramadan to avoid work & education clamor.’ Thinking about this outrageous claim during this holy Ramadan month, couldn’t make sense out of it or find any where to place it. Any so-called religious sect cannot possible fail to comprehend that a democratically elected government has no grounds to prohibit its citizen from fasting- unless they are harboring political ambitions. This pretentious stunt which was executed by presenting non –existent facts as the truth can not be more than a failed political analysis on the part of the extremists- nothing more, nothing less. This is because this kind of deluded hypothesis only exists on the demented minds of the Wahabian, not in this new Ethiopia where we all live in and can see for ourselves. In fact during this Ramadan, our Christian friends and peers have been supporting us by sharing the load of our works. These realities and acts of brotherhood have helped shade a light on the extremist’s bogus & unfounded ‘we won’t be allowed to fast’ nonsense.    The other “artistry” these religious fascists have been doing is painting the Ethiopian government as the westerns’ liaison (lackey). However, anyone (with a common sense) can attest that the government has its own unique politico-economic directives and it’s notorious for not succumbing to foreign pressures. The regime fervently believes that its constitutional power emanates from the people not from foreign forces. Its strong position of forwarding the country’s national interest no mater what, and its innate objectives of an all-inclusive development & benefit plan have been attested by recently leaked confidential documents (cables). More over in these secret cables made public; courtesy of ‘wikileaks’, claims that the one time American’s Acting Ambassador to Ethiopia Vicki Huddleston described the Ethiopian government as ‘the Ethiopian government always prioritize what it believes to be in the country’s interest rather than our (foreign) demands’.  This neutral & reliable testament can be a factual base to conclude that the Ethiopian government indeed doesn’t take orders aside from the Ethiopian people. So considering these facts, it’s safe to deduct that the Wahabians are only interested on bad mouthing the government – for the reason that, even they cannot be this gullible to not recognize these facts. This groups also have tried (in bad taste I might add) to condemn government officials by referring to their respective religions. They tried to champion government affiliation with Christianity by just highlighting Christian government officials. But are they blinded by ignorance and hate so much that they can’t understand that a government official like any ‘average Joes’ out there can have his/ her own religion. As long as an official doesn’t try to impose his /her own religion in the workings of the government, their freedom of religion is protected (like every other citizen). But, it’s not surprising that the Wahabians don’t understand this fundamental concept, as their motive is to subvert this freedom in the first place. Mentioning every Christian officials and then leaping far above the ground to outrageously claim ‘the government is working on building a Christian dominated Ethiopia’ seems to be part of their agenda and objective. Indeed if their objective to use this rumor as a pretext to declare ‘we the wahabi’s should be the order’, then they should realize their agenda won’t be more than ‘Hope flows eternal through…’ like wish. Cause this kind of favoritism towards one religion over others (be it Muslim or Christian) is as good as tearing up the constitution, and this can’t possibly happen as long as Ethiopian nation, nationalities and peoples exists. This kind of state-religion structure is bulldozed to the ground with the Emperor and the Derg’s regime.  The game plan of the group calls for condemning the government from their armchair. The other rumor they’re spreading (straight out of their claim-unresearched-and-bogus theories-as-facts book) is that the government wants the Muslims to be marginalized from Ethiopian politics. This unconstitutional stunt is also not surprising considering one of the group’s agenda calls for establishing an Islamic republic by over throwing the constitution. However, this is a barren hope not to be realized because it’s obvious to everyone with eyes that the Muslim community has equal footings in the country’s politics and claiming otherwise is purely political propaganda ( a bad one at that ). Since we member of the Muslim community are fully a ware that the political stratum is open to all religion’s followers to claim stake in, these ---------- must realize this act of perplexing won’t work on the Muslims. If the Wahabians are dreaming of establishing an Islamic government where they’ll sit at the top, then they should realize that this outrageous plan won’t be possible especially considering this kind of Sharia administration which adjoins religion with the state contradicts with the democratic order the country’s building. Therefore these fanatics and their masters must realize that this unconstitutional longing of theirs will only be feasible in the dream world because their quandary is directly with the people. The Wahabians know no bounds on propagating false rumors or condemning a democratic government. One of their famous brazen presumptions has to do with their claim that ‘the government officials support the Al Ahbash sect’. But, I as an Ethiopian Muslim don’t know anything about ‘Al-Ahbash’. Of course I am well aware of one Islam which came down to us from the days of the prophet Mohammed (Peace Be upon Him); and about foreign funded religious extremists group like the Wahabians. Other than these I don’t know anything about, what these fanatics proclaim as, ‘Al-Ahbash’- aside from true Islam. All in all, we have never heard or saw the Ethiopian Government participate in an act of Franchising or de-franchising any religion or any side. The government can’t perform its constitutional duty of upholding ‘the rule of law’ with effect by favoring one religion ahead of others. The constitution has made sure that the state cannot interfere in religion and vice versa- there are no loopholes or excuses. Therefore, any claim to the contrary made by Wahabians on the government only helps shade a light on the inner agenda and thoughts of the groups’ political ambitions, and is also a prime example to their nonchalance to religion. And this is part of the reason why they indulge in petty propaganda of labeling someone Christian and claim that he/she is working against Islam. If the Whahbians were really after strengthening freedom to religion, they wouldn’t be occupied in spewing unfounded and bogus wrath on government publications and innocent government officials. However, thanks to the group’s inconsistencies, now everyone is aware of their mischievous acts and motives. Yes, these pseudo-Islam defenders are political junta’s not religious sect. Moreover what we can understand from the group’s bogus, unfounded and distorted claims (“argument”) is that they are unconstitutional forces who are after destabilizing our peace and reversing the country’s thriving economic development under the guise of religion. But the fact of the matter is we the Muslims who knows Islam is a religion of peace, love and respect should act in a way to stop these lunatics. Thus, we must marginalize these extremists who are disturbing our peace and development in mosques and the streets and also must condemn their distasteful act of lying in the name of a religion.