Haile selassie statue is still demolished

[tyrannicalmanager]

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

In june 2020 an Oromo artist Haacaaluu Hundeessaa wad assassinated, causing massive riots and protest in Ethiopia. in Harar the Oromo youth took their anger out on a statue of Haile Selasssie.

 

[SoMal]

Correction: That was the statue of his father, Ras Mekonnen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makonnen_Wolde_Mikael

 

[Hatshepsut]

Rastas crying right now

 

[kaahin13]

Ethiopia is now fully controlled by ilma Orma and unlike langaab tigray they actually have the numbers to be in power forever.

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

Correction: That was the statue of his father, Ras Mekonnen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makonnen_Wolde_Mikael

both were demolished

 

[SPMLegend]

Alhamdulliah rabil Alameen. Next should be the illegal churches built by these occupying settlers.

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[Shimbiris]

There was an interesting Emperor candidate once. He was supposedly in large part deposed because the gaalo suspected he had converted to Islam and there were whisperings that he'd even helped get arms to the Daraawiish in Somali territories and was in some communication with the Sayyid. The Italians claimed at one point that a Somali informant (snitch) of theirs witnessed Iyasu telling a procession of Horner Muslim notables that he was in fact Muslim and on their side. This was allegedly part of what got him done for. All sounds gooky until you realize there's actually sources out there of even the Sayyid oddly alluding to a connection to him:

Yet a fifth facet of similarity relates to the fact that both demanded, and did not receive, respect due to the leaders of free nations in their dealings with the Europeans. In the era of "gun boat" diplomacy the idea of a black sovereign demanding respect from white men on pain of death must have struck the European adventurers then descending on the Horn of Africa as most preposterous. As Sven Rubenson writes in King of Kings: Tewodros of Ethiopia : "Tewodros is the father of modern Ethiopia in the sense that he conceived the idea of a united, strong, and progressive Ethiopian state, the peer of any other state in the world."9 The peer of any other state in the world! Therein lies the rub. Imperial Europe, expansionist, seemingly militarily unstoppable (until Minilik II came along) and openly racist, was unlikely to accept the idea of an African peer. On a similar note, the Sayyid wrote the British in 1897: "We are a government. We have a sultan, and amirs, or princes, and chiefs and subjects." In other words, to be respected and taken seriously as the leaders of sovereign nations is what both men aspired to and failed to receive from a racist Europe. But respect was not forthcoming, and this led to one man's honorable suicide at Maqdala in Ethiopia (1868), and the bombardment and consequent destruction of the other man's state at the plains of Taleeh in northern Somalia in 1920.

Finally, the central animating point of my comparative attempt concerns the question of madness, a charge that persistently stalked both men. The record makes it abundantly clear, to my mind at least, that both men became, toward the end of their tempestuous lives, mentally unhinged, or simply demented. In both cases, the men who began their careers as compassionate visionaries deteriorated in the end into homicidal lunatics, unleashing a reign of terror on their terrified subjects, savagely beating up people, even murdering them for no more reason than that their victims happened to be in their path. They suffered the fate of men of genius too sensitive to endure the frustration of being unfulfilled, the humiliation of defeat and the despair of utter failure. So, they went their separate ways into annihilative self-destruction. In January 1921, after defeat and imminent death, the Sayyid seems to have sustained episodes of mental dislocation: referring to the aerial bombardment, the Sayyid was heard to remark that he did not mind the birds (airplanes) whose droppings singed his sartorial resplendence - white robe and all. Rather, he was hurt by the damaging imputation to his ancestry that the leaflets dropped from the planes made. "My origin has apparently been forgotten," the Sayyid fulminated, "I am the son of Ras Makhail's brother and I am the cousin of Lij Yasu, the prince of Abyssinia," a claim that the British colonial historian of the period dismissed with the rider: "It would puzzle even a Somali genealogist to discover the common origin of their respective families, unless, indeed, the devil was the ancestor whom both these rascals share."

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41931237

Real shame if true. Horn might've been unified if the Emperor of Ethiopia was Muslim and pushed it as the new state religion. But if this was the case the gaalo would of course never stand for it. The Horn and Sudan could very well have become a closely allied political bloc and that's a no-no.

 

[kaahin13]

There was an interesting Emperor candidate once. He was supposedly in large part deposed because the gaalo suspected he had converted to Islam and there were whisperings that he'd even helped get arms to the Daraawiish in Somali territories and was in some communication with the Sayyid. The Italians claimed at one point that a Somali informant (snitch) of theirs witnessed Iyasu telling a procession of Horner Muslim notables that he was in fact Muslim and on their side. This was allegedly part of what got him done for. All sounds gooky until you realize there's actually sources out there of even the Sayyid oddly alluding to a connection to him:

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41931237

Real shame if true. Horn might've been unified if the Emperor of Ethiopia was Muslim and pushed it as the new state religion. But if this was the case the gaalo would of course never stand for it. The Horn and Sudan could very well have become a closely allied political bloc and that's a no-no.

One thing I found out about Habesha christianity is that according to the orthodox mainstream opinion the alexandrian rite that the habesha follow belong to a heretical sect that were excommunicated around 451. So they’re not even proper Christian’s according to the orthodox community. They also have weird jewish practices that they chalk it up with an ancient presence of Judaism in the horn (lol)

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

One thing I found out about Habesha christianity is that according to the orthodox mainstream opinion the alexandrian rite that the habesha follow belong to a heretical sect that were excommunicated around 451. So they’re not even proper Christian’s according to the orthodox community. They also have weird jewish practices that they chalk it up with an ancient presence of Judaism in the horn (lol)

Teah They believe in the book of Enoch is authentic despite it being considered apocryphal to all mainstream Christian and Jewish scholars.

 

[kaahin13]

Teah They believe in the book of Enoch is authentic despite it being considered apocryphal to all mainstream Christian and Jewish scholars.

Apparently they didn't get the memo.