tigrayans & amharas should be pro-balkanisation

[Varriris]

It’s insane that tigrayans & amharas are anti-balkanisation. Whats the longterm strategy for them? muslims are probably half of the population of Ethiopia, and their population is growing at a much faster rate than their christian counterparts. As orthodox christians surely this makes both of them uncomfortable?

the likelihood of them overthrowing the government is very slim, they don’t look like they will dominate ethiopian politics anytime soon. They are now just as politically irrelevant as many other groups, they’ll continue to be marginalized, & g*nocide awaits them if they resist. Now when I think about it Meneliks expansion was the worst thing to happen to them.

do yall think they’ll start advocating for balkanisation too? They stand to benefit from it most imo

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[Shimbiris]

Xabashi Muslims are an odd bunch from what I've been told at least. Appears they're low-key more loyal to their ethnicity than their deen. They'll supposedly align with a Xabashi Christian over a Somali or Oromo Muslim, for instance. Honestly, most Horn African Muslims have historically had a subservient attitude toward Xabashi Christians with the only exception seeming to be Somalis. Afars were their lackeys for centuries:

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But Ethiopia is generally going insane in terms of ethnic sectarianism at least. I remember having dinner a while back with a young woman of Axmaar descent and she told me that you literally can't even drive around the countryside surrounding Addis Ababa because the Oromos there will just kidnap you and hold you for ransom or something.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

Like @Shimbiris said I think people over there are more loyal to ethnicity then religion muslims and Christian’s also intermarry heavily their so many families are mixed

 

[Zak12]

Xabashi Muslims are an odd bunch from what I've been told at least. Appears they're low-key more loyal to their ethnicity than their deen. They'll supposedly align with a Xabashi Christian over a Somali or Oromo Muslim, for instance. Honestly, most Horn African Muslims have historically had a subservient attitude toward Xabashi Christians with the only exception seeming to be Somalis. Afars were their lackeys for centuries:

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But Ethiopia is generally going insane in terms of ethnic sectarianism at least. I remember having dinner a while back with a young woman of Axmaar descent and she told me that you literally can't even drive around the countryside surrounding Addis Ababa because the Oromos there will just kidnap you and hold you for ransom or something.

Scary times ahead for Ethiopia. I really wonder why they can't get along, seems like the country can't go a decade without a civil war. It makes our own qabil spats look like childsplay by comparison.

 

[Sultan Baybars]

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[El Nino]

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[Idilinaa]

You are right.

Multiple states and societies around the world dissolved into seperate states to prevent further conflict and bloodshed and understood it would be in their best interests to work with eachother as neighbors and to share resources.

Ethiopians of all ethnic groups, don't share that way of thinking, they are not fighting for greater autonomy, self-determination. They are fighting to rule Ethiopia and rule over others.

It's a long lasting feudal/medieval state mindset.

 

[berberaboy66]

First of all if both of those two were pro balkanisation if it ever happens they’d have a massive war over border disputes.

Secondly it’s not in Amhara’s interests to be pro-balkanisation. They exert much more influence than their size, Amharic is still the no1 language in Ethiopia and Addis, if balkanisation occurs the city would go to the Oromo.

 

[olore]

It’s not useful for them to be balkanised lets be honest their land locked and who’s going to feed and help these small states in ethiopia they need that unity to survive with each other. I’d love for them to separated but I know these states have no choice but to beg Ethiopia.

 

[DivineMartial]

Xabashi Muslims are an odd bunch from what I've been told at least. Appears they're low-key more loyal to their ethnicity than their deen. They'll supposedly align with a Xabashi Christian over a Somali or Oromo Muslim, for instance. Honestly, most Horn African Muslims have historically had a subservient attitude toward Xabashi Christians with the only exception seeming to be Somalis. Afars were their lackeys for centuries:

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But Ethiopia is generally going insane in terms of ethnic sectarianism at least. I remember having dinner a while back with a young woman of Axmaar descent and she told me that you literally can't even drive around the countryside surrounding Addis Ababa because the Oromos there will just kidnap you and hold you for ransom or something.

Why can't I see the sources in the Twitter thread?

 

[Idilinaa]

Why can't I see the sources in the Twitter thread?

I have actually come to learn that the Afar would often rebel and appeal for help from Awdal but because they were weaker they would be decimated , by the time Portuguese came to the area, they were completely subdued by Chrisitian Abyssinia and were allied with them as an act of ''self-preservation''.

It was brutal the way christian Abyssinians would subdue them, they would place their decapitated heads along roads to show their domination over them.

But yeah i shared a few of the sources i think was used in that deleted thread:

Somalis historically just possessed greater strenght and resource advantage to match against the Christians.

Yeah it was Afar. It was both Al-Hayim the Yemeni called their King Kamil Al-Dankali ''Muslim in name only'' and Murad who called them Muslim Kaffirs

The other source i think is from the another Portuguese that says:

''The Kingdom of Dancale .... The Prince of this Territory is a Friend to the Abyssinians, and Commands the Port of Baylur,, where the Patriarch fent from Rome first Landed and travelled thence into Abyssinia''

'' The King of Adela, Mohumetan(Muslim), a profest Enemy and in the last Century, the Scourge of the Abyssinnians.''

Not sure about the other sources used in the thread.