Ethiophobia

This is a response to an article written by the so-called Dr. Muhammed Shamsaddin Megalommatis entitled: “Avert an East African Islamic Terror volcano – break down fake Ethiopia.”*

My objective is to illuminate on the heaps of stereotypes disseminated by anti-Ethiopian agents such as Shamsaddin who have disguised themselves as “Egyptologist, Orientalist, Iranologist; Islamologist, ethnologist, etc., etc.…..”

The age-old indelicate remarks especially about Amharic-speaking Ethiopians, the voluminous built-in distortions and misconceptions need refutation and treatment. The self-called Westerners and the most confused and demoralized Arabs who were not able to colonize Ethiopia have engaged themselves to perpetuate racial baia. Westerners used science and theology to propagate anti-Ethiopian conspiraces.

After the victory of Adwa in 1896, Ethiopians were declared not to be black Africans but “caucasoid” whites colonists from soutwestern Asia (Arabian Felix). The “Hametic and Semitic” white race myths have been systematically fabricated. Any traces of civilization on the African soil south of the Sahara is claimed to be the brainchild of the “Hamites” super race. So the great wall of Zimbabwe was attributed to be the work of ancient colonists of the Middle East. The “Hamaites and the Semites” were assumed to be immigrants from the Middle East. Wainwright (1949) and Jeffrys (1954) propagated the once commonly held idea that the monumental sites of the Great Zimbawe were produced by Oromo invaders from Ethiopia in the ninth century.

West Europeans of the eighteenth century such as Gobineau devised a hierarchy of races in accordance with the theory of social Darwinism. Thereby, whites especially the Anglo-Saxon (Teutons) race was placed in the phyla of “Caucasoid” at the apex, Orientals and Semites in between and the so-called Negroid race at the bottom of the ladder. Besides that the mythology of Indo-Germanic and an Aryan Herrenvolkism was fabricated by “Orientalists” in order to exploit and subjugate the Indian sub-continent. The Bible was used to justify enslavement of black Africans. According to the Jewish Bible and tradition the curse of Noah was the main cause for blackness of Africans.

The non-African paradigm that the Sabean “Semetic colonists” from the Arabian peninsula are the creaters of the Ethiopian civilization, its culture and language is the most pervasive Eurocentric manipulation. This was and is a delibrate distortion of the history of Ethiopia. The exclusion of ancient Ethiopia and Egypt from the rest of Africa had the sole purpose of serving West European expansion and colonization in Africa.

The languages of Africa in general and that of Ethiopia in particulare have been classified based on geography and racial basis. The Semetic and Hametic (Cushitic) dichotomy is an oxidental divisive hypothesis. It is time to rectify these and other misconceptions. For example, the Amharic language cognates more than 70 % to the Agau language of central Ethioipa and yet Amharic is classified by American and European “scholars” as “Semetic” and the Agau language as “ Hametic or Cushitic”. Above all the Ethiopian classical Geez language is of the house of Ham. Geez is not a Semetic language. It did not origin from south Arabia but in the heart of Africa in the Nile Valley. Geez is more ancient and more gramatically superior than Aramaic, Arabic and Greek. There has been a considerable difference of opinion among geniune linguists as to the criteria to be applied when identifing an Ethiopic (Geez) language as a semetic. The late Soviet scholars A.B Dolgopolsky and Igor Diakonoft did not classify Ethiopic as a “south Semetic”.

The original inhabitants of Arabia were Africans and they spoke a Cushitic language. This has been corroborated by the studies of Cheik Anta Diop (1979); Obenga; Hailu Habtu (1987); Tershale Tibebu, Asres Yenesew (1943), Schneider (1976), Ayele Bekri ( 1997), etc.

The different ethnic groups and languages of Ethiopia have become a guinea-pig for western “scholars” who are currently devising “new studies” of divisive ideas. In the name of self-determination of ethnic groups, the ancient black nation has to be partitioned into Bantustans. New vassal states loyal to westerners must be called into existence.The Amhara people of Ethiopia have been seen as an obstacle to the envisaged schem of things in Ethiopia. So their history, language, culture has to be distorted. Their number has been deliberately reduced. Whether anti-Ethiopian forces like it or not, the Amhara make more than 45% of the Ethiopian pouplation. Statistics made by the CIA does not change the objective reality. Many wolves in sheep’s clothing have tried in the name of Islam, Christanity, Western civilization; Self-determination etc. to eradicate Ethiopia from the map of the world. That, whatsoever, did not work and it will never be materialized.

Therefore, psycopathic persons like Shamsaddin had better get medical care by their pay masters rather than meddling in the affairs of Ethiopians.
Following the footsteps of the late Lebanese Druz, Amir Shakib Arslan (1869-1946), who was the paid agents of Italian fascists, Shamsaddin is currently perpetuating the age-old anti-Ethiopian discourse. Based in Geneva, Arslan used to campaign against Ethiopia. During that time fascists portrayed Ethiopia as a barbarous black Christian kingdom that had oppressed Islam and Muslims throught its history. By destroying Ethiopia, Islam and Arab prestige would have been restored. Duce Mussolini called upon the Arabs and Muslims to support his “civilizing mission” in Ethiopia. Furthermore, Islam and Arabism was used by fascists to counteract the British and French occupation of the Middle East. Fascists wanted to control the source of the Nile and aspired also to resurrect the Roman Empire in Africa and Asia.

What an absurd appeal!

Shamsaddin appealed to America to help the Oromo to secede, form an independet country, kick the Amharas out of Addis Abbaba. His abhorent remarks remind me of the Nazi baron Roman Prochazka, who wrote Abessienein: the black danger on the eve of fascist aggression in 1935. Prochazka proposed also to divide the only independent black nation in Africa into many Bantustan regimes loyal to west European white supremacists.

Before lamenting for the Oromos, Shamsaddin had better studied Ethiopian history. The Amharas in Addis Ababa live in the lands of their ancestors. Not only the Amharas but also their Absha kins namly the Gurages, the Agaus, the Argobas, the Hadyas, the Kambatas; the Sidamas, the Gamos, the Tigres, etc., etc were and are the indigenous Absha inhabitants of the Ethiopian plataeu extending from Bali to the coastal regions of ther Red Sea. Addis Ababa was the residence of the great Ethiopian emperors from the 13th to 16th century before the Oromo pastoral nomads began their migration into Ethiopian highland in the wake of the barbaric invasion of Ethiopia by the proxy of Ottoman Turks. Addis Ababa is in the land of the Gurage, Gafat and Amhara of Shoa.

Therefore, Mr. Mohammed Shamsaddin had better asked Americans to divid Sudan into four or more “ independent states”. Help is there urgently needed to kick out Arab Militia (the Djandjawit) from Darfur-Kordofan. They are causing terrible havoc.

Black African different ethnic groups in the former Anglo-Egyptian conglomorate now called the Sudan have been coercively Islamaized and Arabized. The once proud Noba ethnic group, the Dinkas the Nubians; the Bejas in the Red Sea costal regions etc. have all been enslaved by a bunch of Arabized crosbreed cliques.
Shamsaddin and his coalesce are anti-Semetic bigots. Martin Bernal’s Black Athena does not preach anti-Semetism. He rather corroborates that Afro-Asiatic languages and the Nile Valley ancient civilization is the foundamental basis of the Greeko-Roman civilization. Bernal refuted scientific racism, an Eurocentric view of world history and the myth of Aryanism.

Egypt is the splendour of the world. The blackman of Kemit is the pioneer of science, medicine, geometry, law; astronomy, architecture, agriculture, philosophy, etc.
The independent existence of the ancient Ethiopian black nation since time immemorial in the Nile Valley in the heart of Afrika is a thorn in the flesh of all racists and colonial aspirants. For radical Islamists in the Middle East, in the Horn of Afrika and elsewhere Ethiopia is their historical enemy. Ethiopia is a scapegoat for their miserable condition and above all their inferiority complex as a result of being ruled by non-Arab and Christian European masters.

Many Arabs have been traumatized by the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I. Their Turkish masters left them in disarray. Thanks to the French and the British colonial rulers, they tried their best to civilize the Arab nomads to govern themselves. The English estabished the Saudi dynasty and the Anglo-Americans are its custodian to this day. Moreover, the new Hashemite king, Hussein, had come to the throne with British help. In the year 1922 he allowed and taxed the trafficking of slaves. King Hussein refused to stop the slave trade or slavery and objected to the British ships patrolling his waters (Suzanne Miers, et al. 1995).

The Origins of the Ethiopian State

The Ethiopian state and its civilization is the direct descendants of ancient Kemit. Ethiopians have nothing to do with the Sabeans of South Arabia. Keim or Kemet was the native name of Egypt which means the black land. Egypt is a Greek word for the river Nile which came many centuries later.

Before the Arabian peninsula was inhabited, the land of Ethiopia was inhabited by a higly civilized black people of Africa. According to the hieroglophic text an authentic civilization began as early as 2000 B.C in Ethiopia. The successive Punt, Damat and Axumite civilizations have their root in Africa (Jacqueline Pirenne, Du Bois, Drsuilla Dunjee Houstone, Rodolfo Fatovitch, 1987). Ethiopia is the source the Afro-Asiatic language family. The Arabian peninsula was originally inhabited by black people. Proto-Semetic language speakers have lived in the Ethiopian Rift Valley and plateaues since prehistory. A thousand obelisks with hierogliphic signs are widespread in southern and central Ethiopia. Father Azias has studied these ancient monuments extending from Gurageland to Lake Turkana. Ethiopia is the cradle of mankind and civilization.

However, western historians time and again have distorted the history of the African people in general and the Ethiopians in particular. They even separated the ancient Kemet (ancient Egypt) and Ethiopian civilization from the rest of Africa.

Punt the Land of the Abasha

Ancient Egyptians hierogliphic records of more than thirteen centuries bear witness to the existence of the country called Punt and its people called Abesha in North east Africa. Punt was a the holy land (Taneter) and was regarded as an ancestral homeland of the Pharahos. During the reign of Senusert II one of the most interseting records of that age was a group of 37 Aamu of Shu broght a tribute of Kolh. The leader of the delegation leading a tamed ibex, his title and name is before him heq setu Abasha, which means princes of the hill country. Abasha means the father of a present. The inscription of Hammat from the XI Dynasty records the expedition to the holy land of Punt. Punt was one of the countries supposed to be under the jurisdiction of Athor the godess of beauty (nbt Pun). In the inscript of the XII Dynasty reads: uru nu pun, which means the chiefs of Punt greet you the king of Kemet and the son of the nine nations (peoples). Horus had also the nickname nb Pun (Lord of Punt).

The location of Punt and its geographical extent has been precisely been determined (K.A Kitchen,1990). The Gulf of Aden and the Somali coast have been discarded. Any non-African location and fabrication of Punt had been excluded once and forever. The XXVI th Dynasti left a valuable stela which reads:

….. rain fall upon the mountain of Punt – rain was a scarcity in the southern provinces… this month in which its rain was, when it was not the season (for) it, even in the delta towns; your mother (the godess) Neith had brought it for you – a Nile-flood to sustain your forces.

Rain falling in the mountains of Punt and the subsquent Nile inundation into Egypt has shown that Punt was located in the northwest Ethiopian highlands. The ebony obtained from Punt was from the regions of nortwestern Ethiopia. The Abasha people of Punt did not come from Mesoptamia the land between Euphrat and Tigres. They were black, red and brown native Africans. Bas-reliefs in Dayr-al Bahari at Thebes depict the Ethiopians cultivating myrrh and incense in the land of Punt. The people of Punt belonged to the same race as the Kemet in ancient Egypt. There were four types of human races: red, yellow, black and white (H. Brugsch, 1858)

The ancient Egyptian language is related to many Ethiopian languages such as Agau, Amharic, Tigrigna; Kunama; Wolamigna, Keficho, Gonga, Gafat and Geez. They have in common monosyllabic words. The formation of the plural in Amaric is derived from ancient Egyption language ( W.Vyciciil, 1952).
Many Egyptian words and grammer cognates with Amharic, Geez, Tigrigna and Agau. For example:

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The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system like Geez has only first order character. Furthermore, the Merotic Ethiopian alphabet has resemblance with the Geez. A six lines seal of queen Hendike Taktidamini from the ancient city of Merowe is to be seen in Berlin Musem.

Are not Arabs Semetic?

Islam spread to the Horn of Africa through trade and migration of Arabs from Yemen and Oman. In this regard, the Somalis in particular and other Islamized tribes of the Horn in general trace their ancestory to the Arabs. Inspite of common ancestry many light-skinned Arabs have a sense of superiority over blacks, even if the latter were converted to Islam. Although the Koran preached racial equality and was only practiced in the lifetime of the prophet. Blacks (Zanj) were considered to have no Intelligence or knowledge. This racist view has contributed to the negative image of black Africans in the western world.

Arabized Somalis (Jabartis) and Wa Swahili – a crossbreed of Arabs and Africans, were the main slave raiders and traders. The slaveholders of East Africa came from Oman and Yemen. The Sultan of Oman conquered most of the costal regions in the late eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries.
The Cushitic speaking Somalis are not racialy Arabs. The Sultan of Zanzibar sold the Somalis to the Italians in the late nineteenth century. Despite that the confused Somalis are the torch bearer of Pan-Arabism in the Horn of Africa. Somalia and Djibouti are members of the “ Arab League”.

Are not the Arabs in the Sudan and in the Arab Repulic of Egypt Semetic?

According to Shamsaddin account, it seems that the Amhara and Tigrians are the only “Semetic “ people who are opressing the the “Cusitic majority”. The truth of the matter is that the Nubians both in Egypt and the Sudan and other non-Arab ethnic groups have been enslaved and completely lost their culture and language. That is why the freedom loving people of Southern Sudan are fighting against the pan-Arabist regime in Khartoum. In fact the Arabs of Egypt, Yemen and Oman were the main slavetraders of North and East Africa. The Nubian Christian state was ransacked by the Arabs in 15th century and Sudan became the supplier of slaves to the Middle East and India.

Shamsaddin falsely compares Al Bashir, the military Junta leader of the Sudan, with the German Nazi Fuehrer, Adolf Hiter. This is an absurd analogy and reflects his neo-Nazi view of the holocaust. It is an insult to many million victims of Nazi barbarism.

If Shamsaddin were a geniune Egyptologist, he would have then suggested for the Arabic name Sudan to be changed into Nubia and Egypt into Kemit
The Arabs in Egypt have nothing to do with ancient Egypt. The ruling class is not an Arab tribe but a descendant of Albano-Turke crossbreed. The present Egypt is living at the cost of our great great black ancestors. They have stolen our legacy and allowed the selfcalled westernres to loot the graves of the great Pharoahs of ancient Kemit and Punt.

All Pharaohs were black Abasha from Punt land. We Ethiopians are the only direct descendants and the custodian of ancient Egyptian culture, civilization and religion. The institution of divine monarchy and the various traditions of the Nile Valley civilization suvived intact for many thousand years only in Ethiopia.
The minority Copts in Egypt have been exposed for so many centuries to foreign occupation. As a result, they have become a crossbreed with blood of Greeks and Romans. Egypt is the gift of the Abasha people of Ethiopia.

Long live Ethiopia!!
Ethiopia shall rise!!