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Ethiopia: Ethiopian Muslims Protest Ahead of Islamic Council Election

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10/07/12

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Ethiopia: Ethiopian Muslims Protest Ahead of Islamic Council Election

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Ethiopian Muslims Protest Ahead of Islamic Council Election

Source: VOA News

By Marthe Van Der Wolf

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian Muslims will elect a new Islamic Council this Sunday, October 7. The election has stirred protest among many Muslims who believe the government is trying to influence the Council.

A protest erupted after the Friday prayer at the Anwar mosque, the largest mosque in Addis Ababa. People were waving yellow papers, symbolizing a warning card for the government and the crowd was chanting for about 20 minutes, shouting slogans such as “let our voice be heard” and “release the prisoners.” Dozens of protesters were brought to a police station during and after the demonstration.

The anger behind the protest started earlier this year, as some Muslims accused the government of interfering with religious affairs by trying to promote a more liberal form of Islam from Lebanon, known as al-Abhash. More than 100 people were detained in previous protests and many of them are believed to still be behind bars.

Government spokesman Shimelis Kemal says that most demonstrators have been misinformed about the situation.

“Many people who had been confused or had been misinformed joined this protest," he said. "The government has no right under our constitution to set up Islamic elections or to interfere in any religious matters.”

Shimelis also says accusations that the government is trying to interfere in religious affairs are fabrications started by extremist groups.

”These extremist groups in Ethiopia are exploiting the situation in order to advance their hidden agendas," the spokesman said. "They started all kinds of accusations, stating that the government is using its institutions to coerce and to systemically wipe out Islamic religion from Ethiopia. And even stated that all the developmental activities are targeted at diminishing the Muslims in Ethiopia. This was a wild accusation.”

Some Ethiopian Muslims mentioned that they feel pressured to vote on Sunday as people from local government are going door to door. For the first time, Muslims will have to vote in their districts instead of in the mosques. Representatives of the districts are allegedly telling Muslims that not voting will have consequences.

Shimelis says that these accusations are false as well and that it’s the extremist groups that are threatening the Muslim community, as they want more power.

”Controlling such an institution would help legitimize, theological legitimize, its activities,” he said.

Members of the Islamic Council committee preferred not to comment on the matter.

Ethiopia has often been praised for being a peaceful multi-religious nation. According to government statistics, the majority of Ethiopians are Christian, while about one-third of the population is Muslim.

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114 comments

Comment from: C'est moi senait [Visitor]
Why is it these weyannes involved in Musliems matter? Let them solve their problem accordingly their way as they did in past hundreds years. I think it is these pintcont ,Protestant, mormoons pagans and all these new Christian invaders who came here for the last 20 years are now creating this division and bring caose in Ethiopia society.

To all Ethiopia do not be fuller by weyannes propaganda and fals allegation on musliems. Ethiopia musliems know what is good for them,ofcource there are few individuals who are influenced by some oil rich nation to bring their dirty here but that is not the magerity of true musliems Ethiopia who want o exercise their religion in peaceful manner as they did in the past.
Let the Muslims run their own affair without any interfer by weyanne or pentcont PM
10/07/12 @ 13:21
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Dear C´est moi senait (visitor),

Muslims’ affair is to kill, to convert Christian children to Islam, to marry multiple wives, to produce millions of children every year, and finally to take the entire country and put it under their Sharia law. They want to change Ethiopia and put it under Islam. The Muslims we have today are not the same Muslims we used to have many years ago: the present Ethiopian Muslims are brainwashed by the Saudi Wahhabis; therefore, they should not be allowed to go their own way: Their own way is the way of Satan, the way of the Jihadists, the way of the Egyptian Muslims, and the ways of many Islamic countries, such as Sudan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, and others.
10/07/12 @ 13:41
Comment from: termoose [Visitor]
the so called protesters has nothing to do with religion. Behind the religon cutin there is ther agenda involve with it. government just faciliatate the request they made for councul to be elected. this so called religon activistes are tied up with opposition in diaspora to interup the ongoing developent of ethiopia. Election for the consul has been set for today if they want to elect has to go to thier respective kabele and elect. other wise if they claim any teror act ethiopis independent country will take an action despite the toxic diaspora barking!!
10/07/12 @ 13:43
Comment from: termoose [Visitor]
Assta B. Gettu [Visitor)

Are you serious? Hate dosn't take you no where. you better stsy in your parking booth and still. Leave the muslim matter to muslims. Moron toxic diaspora!!
10/07/12 @ 13:56
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
10/07/12 @ 13:56
Comment from: C'est moi senait [Visitor]
Assta B. G

Islam teach us peace and Harmony among human beings. It is sad to see a few fanatics who use Islam to their devil goal. But we should be proud of our musliem heritage who for the last century lived and still live with us in peace and harmony.

I do not know where you got that idea but it is clear to me that you are misguided by western new christanity and their media.
The Ethiopia muslems are not like those crazy Arabs or Pakistani with religion full of hate to others. If I were you I worry about these parasites new christians who are converting Ethiopian orthodox to hoxxxxmo and phedoxxxxphle Christians
Whom do you think that replaced Melese ? Not the musliems but these new Christians who are now so powerful and turn a nation like us to what they want. Be aware of the new comers like mormorons ,Protestant etc......they are spreading in Africa like a wild fire......

10/07/12 @ 14:09
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
10/07/12 @ 14:26
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
C´est moi senait (visitor),

You are a deluded and a lost person in the ocean of Islam, and you need someone to take you out of that dark ocean. Anyone who supports Islam and the cause of Islam is a friend of the great Satan and the archenemy of Ethiopia, and that person is you in disguise. Tell me what kind of legacy Ethiopian Muslims have left for their host country – Ethiopia? The legacy Ethiopia got so far from the Muslims in Ethiopia is the destructions of our ancient Churches, monasteries, and our indispensable documents by their Jihadist leader, Gragn Muhammad. Perhaps your ancestors might have come from him and that is why you hate the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. You have also a blood from Yodit Gudit, the mother of all evils.

I would prefer the Protestants to the Muslims in Ethiopia to live in Ethiopia and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Protestants believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came to this world and was crucified for the sins of the world; however, Muslims do not believe that Jesus had died on the Cross and that he was the Son of the Almighty God. Muslims tell us Jews are the enemies of Christians because they had killed Jesus Christ, but still we love the Jews, and we hate the Muslims because the Muslims are still killing millions of Christians; the Jews, however, never killed Christians except Jesus Christ.

C’est moi senait, if you support the Muslims, then, you are not a friend of either the Jews or the Christians. You are just an opportunist who believes in the Saudi King for some leftover food.
10/07/12 @ 14:55
Comment from: Moyale [Visitor]
*****
Assta B. Getu
You moron always beating drum for nothing, by hating muslims and islam you can't dare extinguish the true light of Allah. The almighty is always standby protecting islam and for sure it will come to true perfection. As the saying goes "Empty vessel makes loudest noise" you and your fake religion is all in vain, but keep barking like your dog..,
10/07/12 @ 15:05
Comment from: masetewale [Visitor]
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The way the government of Ethiopia is going is correct
10/07/12 @ 15:18
Comment from: Loveforall [Visitor]
Come on, people. Wake up. Stop hating each other because of religion. Ethiopia has been known for its tolerance all over the world. The muslims have been a good example for many countries. Now they should keep it up that way. The muslims should not be deluded by the so called 'islamic awakening'. It is for radicalizing the muslims. Some wohabi movements started in Ethiopia. Be aware of their teachings. You should use your rational thinking. You do not need to be blinded like those irrationals who hate education, democracy, modernization, the west for unknown reason. Ethiopia will be the next economy power of east africa if unity and peace is maintained in the country.
10/07/12 @ 15:26
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Sorry Assta same treatment for you too.

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Igzer EtyoP'yan And' Yargat, Kek'fum YiT'ebikat.
Wakes up every day proud that I'm an Ethiopian.
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10/07/12 @ 17:28
Comment from: nostra daimus [Visitor]
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@ Senait
I am not sure if you are Ethiopian but WE are Ethiopian first. Just because you hate Woyane
you do not wish Ethiopia calamity. The muslim problem is an imported one with foreign players. It is dangerous. This will be a time when all of us must Stand United or Divided we will fall.
Egziabhier aynishin yikfetlish,
AMEN
10/07/12 @ 17:54
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
wepE, መዋቲ፤ሸታቲ፤መሎቲ፤ሰበይቲ፤ገኧቲ፤ሰንካቲ፤መስሗቲ፤ጸላኢመንግሥቲ፤ናይጸልማት ኧፈይቲ፤ሓሳዊ ምእቲ ብምእቲ፤ጨናዊ ሽንጉርቲ (visitor),

Dear readers! I warn you nazret.com is run by wepE, the dumbest person in the whole world, and he is able to erase my comments against Islam. He was unable to stand up with Gragn Ahmed, the great commentator, and finally wepE, the uneducated, got rid of Gragn Ahmed.

Good bye wepE the devil! I didn’t know nazret.com is run by you, the diffident and the ugliest person. I should have known this wicked man long time ago: it is mea culpa!

You can erase this comment at your disposal as you have done to many other educational comments.
10/07/12 @ 19:03
Comment from: MIMI [Visitor]
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HYPOCRISY...THEY'RE SPOILED IN ETHIOPIA...LOOK HOW ISLAMIC NATIONS MURDER AND RAPE CHIRISTIANS.
10/07/12 @ 19:32
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Assta: Hahahahaha u mad bro? You can't troll while mad dumbass. Calm down a bit, gather yourself and see the oxymoron for a comment you put here for all to see...Lulz. And no I don't run nazret not even close my dear fortune teller.
You sad gragn is gone? why don't you join him? you get your boyfriend back and you leave the rest of us alone, everyone wins...good idea?
10/07/12 @ 19:33
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Moyale (visitor),

Who is Allah? Are you talking about the moon-god Allah? This Allah is one of 360 idols in Mecca picked up randomly by the prophet Muhammad the rapist to be the god of the Muslim world. Who is the true light of Allah – the moon-god? Is Muhammad the killer the true light of the blood-thirsty Allah?

Your blood-thirsty Allah taught Muhammad: “If anyone disputes with you about Jesus being divine, flee them and pray that Allah will curse them” (Quran 3:61). On the other hand, the Christian Holy Bible teaches us: “Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it” (psalm 34:14). Your Quran tells us: “Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends” (Quran 5:51). Your Quran also says: “Slay them (the Jews, the Christians) wherever you find them and catch them, and drive them out….” (Quran 2:191). I can go on and on quoting from your satanic Quranic verses hundreds of crimes perpetrated by your prophet Muhammad (may curse be upon him).

Muslims in Ethiopia are now in millions and they are ready to drive out all the Christians from the Christian land of Ethiopia because, according to their prophet Muhammad, “Two religions cannot coexist together….” (Tabari VIII: 130). The two religions in Ethiopia are Christianity and Islam; therefore, the Muslims, whenever they become the majorities, they will drive out the Christians from the Christian land of Ethiopia. I am certain about this simple fact.

My fellow Ethiopian Christians – Protestants, Catholics, and other minority Christians – do not be fooled by what some Muslims and Christians say to you: They would say: “Christians and Muslims have lived together in peace for a long time.” That is true because the Ethiopian Muslims have not been the majorities, but as their number grows every day, they walk out every Friday and demonstrate for more rights, rights such as building a grand Mosque in the Holy City of Axum and in many other holy places.

Therefore, Moyale, you go and cheat someone else, not the Ethiopian Christians any more!
10/07/12 @ 19:37
Comment from: Ethiopiawinet [Visitor]
nostra daimus
I was unable to comment because of nazret. Let me try in short.

C'est moi Senait has a brain to her shoulder. She is not hate monger neither islamophobic like you.
If you hate Ethiopian Muslims then get the fu#$k out of their lands. Remove your imported religion from there. Look at Ertirea you shut your mouth and they are free forever. Do you remember how you used to harass them? All gone with the wind.

Now Muslims will take Eritrean path so that you will shut your filthy stone age, cave man mouth forever. Wait and see. You will see it in your life time as Eritrea.
Ethiopian Muslims can import, export, can worship stone, whatever it's not your business as far as they did not bother you. So stay away from their land settler.
10/07/12 @ 19:47
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
WepE (member),

I have never met Gragn Ahmed, but I know him vicariously on the Internet, and I like him the way he firmly defends his religion that he believes in, dies for it, and finally gets those pretty virgin girls in paradise. However, you have no interest in your religion, and you cannot defend it as he does. When I try to defend my Christianity, you delete my comments without any reason, and you have been doing this for a long time. Why don’t you let people express their thoughts freely? I am sure you can learn many good things from their comments you assume they are bad. What is bad for you may be good for the other person; therefore, let the commentators talk and fight on this web site – a battle field for the heroes. I ask you to bring Gragn Ahmed in and let me fight with him. I know he had defeated you badly when he was Jesus wife, his new screen name. I was watching both of you, but you finally tried to delete his comments. Don’t do it, please!
10/07/12 @ 20:47
Comment from: Shamane [Visitor]
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This is not about being christain or muslim, this is about national security and ethiopian muslims defending their traditional islam from evil wahabi drunk by oil dollar. the government has been trying to encourage moderate islam, Im not a member of eprdf nor into religion but as a citizen it does concern me. some of you guys blinded by political correctness you don't see what is coming fast until to late. i know some of you folks oppose the regime 200% but becareful what you wish for, my enemy of my enemy is not always my friend will backfire on you, if you don't careful ethiopia will have Mali's faith the nutcase islamists are taking over the whole country destroying historical places like Timbuktu women are forced to cover top to bottom men forced to grow beard they want to live primitive life. In Nigeria bombing churches and institutions demanding for separate states for muslims free from western education. In sudan wahabis are taking over through sponsoring colleges and universities, in tunisia from liberal society going backward after got rid of dictatorial rule, Libya, Somalia, etc.

10/07/12 @ 20:50
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Assta: And now you're normal again, did you just take your pills? And your boyfriend defeated me how did you say? He was vomiting garbage all over the place about “Jesus” and that makes him your hero? You two can merry each other.

Assta you don't advance your agenda at the cost of others. If you fight for your religion then do it by preaching how peaceful yours is, not by labeling the other side as creepy cult or whatever. As long as you do not verbally violet Islam or Christianity I've no axe to grind against you two. Besides who am I to stand in the way? Keep it clean and nice and you won't even hear me whisper.
10/07/12 @ 21:24
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
wepE,
layoff with the insult!

Assta has a very strong point you just didn't grasp it!

He may have couched it in the way that turned you off but believe me, if you knew the background, the truth would hit you like a tone of bricks!

Islam for Dummies:
The agenda of Islam is world conquest! Did I mention it is by force? It is! The targets are the infidels - Christians and Jews. You don't believe me? Read the Kuran!
They are also multiplying their offspring in every continent and country - especially the Western world.

In Iran, Shia, the minority sect of Islam, they are preparing millions of martyrs for end time showdown. Israel is scrambling to stop that!

You ARE on the menu!

Having said that, we have to love the followers of Islam - Muslims - because they are deceived and sucked into this counterfeit and violent religion. We have to pray for them and show them the truth of Jesus Christ from the Bible.

Many Muslims in the Middle East, where persecution against Christians is intense, get converted after an encounter with Jesus Christ in a dream or vision!

Jesus Christ loves the Muslims as much as He loves you and me!

If you haven't made Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life, call on Him repent your faults to Him and invite Him into your heart. Buy a Bible, start reading it in the New Testament and pray. You will start to experience wonderful things! Join a Bible believing and solid church. You will find a rest for your soul! (Jesus Said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.")

The foregoing is just the tip of the iceberg!
10/07/12 @ 23:05
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
wepE (Member),

Same-sex-boy friendship is not an Ethiopian culture: it is a western culture that you are familiar with, but I am not. Yes, I take some pills when someone like you annoys me and gets my nerve.

Gragn Ahmed has the right to say anything he wants about Jesus Christ as I have been saying so many unpleasant things about Muhammad the prophet. This is the beauty of free speech that allows us to say good or bad about religion, about government, about the president, about the Pope, and about Jesus and about Muhammad. I know you are scared to death when someone talks openly about Jesus, but I am not because my Lord Jesus Christ knows my heart how much I love him; therefore, it doesn’t bother me if Gragn Ahmed brings something new such as Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus Christ. I should have proven to him that Jesus never had a wife, and there is no any solid evidence that he had a wife. Nevertheless, you got angry with him and changed his screen name, and your unjustified action shows how much you hate “freedom of speech” and love dictatorship because you were born and grown up in a country where there is no such thing as democracy and the rule of law.

Do you think Jesus will get mad when someone insults him? Did he get mad when the Jews spit on his face, flogged him, kicked him, mocked him, and finally crucified him? He never did; in fact, this is what he said: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34).

However, you didn’t know what you were doing when you changed Gragn’s new screen name without his permission. You might have thought Jesus would love you for humiliating Gragn Ahmed: Jesus would have loved you more if you had respected your fellow man – Gragn Ahmed. I am talking here about the injustice you have done to Gragn Ahmed; you may do it again to someone else what you have done to him. Therefore, be advised not to do it again!


10/07/12 @ 23:32
Comment from: Moyale [Visitor] Email
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Dear muslim readers
Please ignore the comments of the Devil Assta b/ce it infact lowers our dignity to urge with an ignorant creature like him whose mind is long locked by the Almighty "the worst of living creatures are the deaf & dumb who understand not. Had Allah known of any goodness in them, He would indeed have made them listen; and even if He had made them listen, they would have turned away with aversion. Quran 8: 22, 23" whats more for Assta is that he is always abnormal as the tej/alcohol makes him unconcious. So simply ignore him.
10/08/12 @ 00:19
Comment from: borid [Visitor]
feel ashame boys you talked about ahmad grag you forgot that harrar arrssiee jimma afar qgaden benishamgul wallo and orpmia in general and majority of the south guragies all these are muslims land invaded by minilik he was killing 10 thousands per day childern and women from these muslim then he can have morning coffee just keep quite nation are taking liberty and freedom serious now days and ethiopia has no exception no more deception go to this web site learn your own true christianity to save yourself and your family from hell fire which PAUL blindly taking you into it www.leveltruth.com by dr.lawrence brown is an american not wahabies you will discover for the first time that the teaching of MUHAMMAD ,JESUS and MUSES peace and blessing upon them all is from one source only ALLAH ALMIGHTY THE CREATOR of life and death and life and death who owns anythings and everythings living or unliving know yourself and your country and your believe stoooooop nagging without knowledge
10/08/12 @ 00:42
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
borid,
Your wrote: "MUHAMMAD ,JESUS and MUSES peace and blessing upon them all is from one source only ALLAH ALMIGHTY THE CREATOR... "

You can believe that all you want but Biblical Christians don't believe that!

The God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac as revealed in the old and new testaments is NOT the Allah of Islam!


10/08/12 @ 02:04
Comment from: Gondar [Visitor]
from: C'est moi senait [Visitor]

This time i disagree with you,My
advise before all please try to
read Qur'an,first,
10/08/12 @ 02:09
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
Islam for Dummies (chapter 2):

Islam doesn't know love but force!
It's language is: Subjugation, domination, conquering! (no surprise there!)

That is why Muslim Men oppress their women; Muslims dominate non Muslims;
Arab Muslims oppress/dominate African Muslims;

(Now you know why our women in the Arab countries are driven to suicide?)

The only thing that conquers Muslims is the love, forgiveness and the cross of Jesus Christ! Once they understood that, they would be converted instantly!

"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." - John 3:16

Indeed love conquers anything!

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails!"
- I Corinthians 13:8
10/08/12 @ 02:45
Comment from: C'est moi senait [Visitor]
Well to all here and there.

Ethiopia/abbysinia was the only nation who gave shelter to Mohamed followed. If it was not for Ethiopia hospitality to Mohamed followers during their persecution ,the Muslim religion would not survive until today. Thank to Ethiopia who opens it's hand and allowde them to stay and practice their religion. I am aware of a few fanatic stone age thinkers of Arab oil infected new religion who are spreading their poison all over the world in the name of holy Islam. But these are not the majority at all and we have to be very careful to categorise all musliem as they are now targeted by west media and security. I am taking about Ethiopian musliems whom we lived in harmony and peace.


GONDAR

I respect your disagreement, I know well the life of Mohammed and Jesus.

ASSTA. B. GETTU

if you live in Jerusalem, then you know well things that are hiding to others. Do not read what these western Devil believers write about Jesus. Mary Magdalene was an Ethiopia woman who grew up with Jesus and was a close member of his family. She took care of Marry and Jesus loved her as his sister. But today,she is a victim of all religion because of her colour and background.

No hard feeling bro.




10/08/12 @ 03:10
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
Shimelese the Government Afekelate said:

“Many people who had been confused or had been misinformed joined this protest," he said. "The government has no right under our constitution to set up Islamic elections or to interfere in any religious matters.”

The one who is confused and trying to inpose their confusion on the majority is you and your wonbede goverment made up of Thugs,liers and looters..
When you spread your propagandas day and night on ETV and the rest of mass media you have monopoloy on and telling the Muslims what to do and what not do that is intereference in my book or any other one with right mind.

Aye Woyane, you put in prison all the leaders and call for election at Kebeles. So who does the counting? those who did the 99.6% win of your government?
10/08/12 @ 03:23
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
Assta Ebdu the homo deacon,

Are you back?
when did you come out of prison?
a while back I heared the FBI was looking for lunatic Coptic Deacon which fits your descrition for extortion,Money loundering and Identity theft.
How was the prison life? Did you find your match aka boy friend in Prison? I heared there was another criminal Copts in Prison with you.
10/08/12 @ 03:35
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
Tee [Visitor]

How about spreading your sermons to unsuspecting Sunday morning crowd?

This is not the midium for it.There are a lot of paid right wing media's avialable for you.

The funny thing, Statistics shows that with all these Right Wing and neo Nazi paid media,it has not increased your followers even a bit. That is why we see the churchs are empty on Sunday Mornings and that is why we see you here on Sunday.
10/08/12 @ 03:57
Comment from: Hater [Visitor]
Asta,

You are a very honest and intellegent persone. Any one who doesn't take the danger of muslims in Ethiopia is an idiot. Everyone had told the government not to allow the builing of so many mosques. They never listned and now these salafists have made mosques an anti Christian Ethiopia gathering place.

Now the question is: Are muslims going to use the mosque every Friday as a political whore house? If so the people have to tear down all new Saudi built mosques. Look at you tube on how Ethiopian muslims support Alqaida and collect money in the name of Benladin, the martyr. These are people we are dealing with. We have to get rid all muslims out of Addis and tear down all the new Saudi built mosques.

Wepe,

Never knew that you are a muslim too like Ce Moi Senait. Stop your hate campaign on the most honest and blessed person, Asta.
10/08/12 @ 05:12
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
Seattle,

"Right wing, Neo Nazi, etc., etc..."
What a weak argument!

When you can't challenge the subject argue ad hominem!

Per chance you didn't know, you are spreading and preaching your venomous name calling! Yes on Sunday too!

Clueless obtuse!

lol


10/08/12 @ 05:19
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]

tee from the Tea party,
Well,Once in a while stupid deacons with only one side view of the world come to this website to argue their point. I don't know if you are the same retard with different name or a new fresh graduate of School of theology aka school for retards and confused, but you all act and talk the same.

Your lie and deceptions were proved wrong on many occations on this and other websites. No need to repeat again and again
when you have time, read all the previous posts. As I said earlier this is not the medium to argue who is on straight path and who stray out of it.

Here is one little thought though to chew on for tonight. Your number is decreasing rather than increasing?
I wonder why? I wonder why all the churches are empty with all the billions of dollars of evangilists money spent to spread the "word"?

You have a lot of explaining to do on that front.



10/08/12 @ 05:53
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
nostra daimus.

Did you say an imported problem? I wonder who imported that problem - May I say from Lebanon - in the first place?

Divide in Kilels and conquer will not work this time. Actually, it backfired on you.

10/08/12 @ 06:12
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
Seattle, a little nobody!

Did you look up the word, "obtuse?"
I think you should. I doubt you are sophisticated enough to know the word.

And secondly you keep repeating, this is not the forum blah, blah, blah...

I don't think you know me...and besides who are you to set the agenda for the forum?...you are just spouting off as you wish.

In addition, I comment on topics that interest me and this happens to be one of them.

Please get it through your thick skull that church is not the only place you talk about the Word of God. In fact that is a place you learn and listen to a sermon, so that you can share your faith everywhere else including here....capice?

I hope before you check out this planet some of what I say will permeate through your dead spirit!

You asked me to explain why people are less spiritual, etc., and the numbers dwindle. There is no surprise there, that is to be expected because it is already written in the Bible:

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God"

And there are many verses about false teachers and wolves in sheep's clothing these days.
10/08/12 @ 07:15
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
Ethiopia has often been praised for being a peaceful multi-religious nation. According to government statistics, the majority of Ethiopians are Christian, while about one-third of the population is Muslim.


peaceful religious nation????? only by force. only one third of the Ethiopia is Muslim? That is recipe for peaceful existence???
who counts our number???


“Many people who had been confused or had been misinformed joined this protest," he said. "The government has no right under our constitution to set up Islamic elections or to interfere in any religious matters.”

Shimelis also says accusations that the government is trying to interfere in religious affairs are fabrications started by extremist groups.

Those are words used by Shimeles Kemal are real words that are showing intolerance. If you write againt government or against Shimeles you are exteremist.
10/08/12 @ 12:01
Comment from: What is religion? [Visitor]

How can you prove that Thora/bible/kurhan are from God?

How can you prove that Mohamed and Jesus are a profet?, maybe they are just a guy like you and me?

Which one is the right religion? Christian(Catholic,Protestant ,orthodox,Mormon,jovha ,......)/ Islam(Suni, (whabist, Salafiest,....),Shiha ...)/Budist/Hindu/Shintoism/confusionist/Satanist/Bahist/....... You name it...?

Is there any chance to have other religion than Muslim if you born Saudi, Somale or Afgan?

Is there any chance to have other religion than Christian or unbeliever if you born Swedish, Germany, Espanol, Danish, italy?

How many of you choose your religion? Or just got it from your family by default and blelieve in it?

Are you being ruled(controlled) by fears?

Where is the truth?

What is religion ?


/BR
10/08/12 @ 12:50
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Moyale (visitor),

You wrote: “Please ignore the comments of the Devil Assta b/ce [sic] it in fact [sic] lowers our dignity….”

Any person who believes in Islam does not have any dignity because Islam teaches its followers to maim, to humiliate, to stone, to flog, and to kill the non-Muslims – the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the heathens, and the many other Jihadist haters. If Islam takes away the dignities of the kafirs, then Muslims who believe in Muhammad and his Allah have no dignities of their own.

What are the dignities of Jihadist Muslims? The killings of over 3,000 innocent New Yorkers on September 11, 2001, the continuous bombings of the Nigerian Christian Churches, the acid burnings of the Indian girls, the humiliating and the raping of the Christian girls, the honor-killings of innocent people, and the recently cold-blooded murder of the United States Ambassador to Libya are the true dignities and emblems of honors of the Arab-Muslim world. Those are the dignities, those are the heritages, and those are the undeniable histories of Moyale’s Jihadist Muslims, followers the prophet Muhammad.

Now, let me examine the Quran verses Mr. Moyale recited and quoted as if they were good lessons to follow; the fact is they are not. “Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the deaf, the dumb, who have no sense” (Quran 8:22). The true Christian God never condemns the deaf, the dumb, and never calls them “beasts” as the Muslim Allah did.

By the way the Christian God warns us this way: “But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell” (Matthew 5:22).

Muslims are not limited to their fury and anger: they go beyond their violent angers – they kill the non-Muslims mercilessly.

Quran 8:23 says: “Had Allah known of any good in them He would have made them hear, but had He made them hear they would have turned away, averse.” The Muslim Allah, according to this verse is not an omniscient God; if he were, Quran 8:23 couldn’t have said “Had Allah known any good in them….” We already know the Muslim Allah is the moon-god Allah, not a real God.

Quran 8:23 is supported by Quran 8:55 that say the same thing: “Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” The people who do not believe that Muhammad is the last prophet of God and that the Quran is a revealed book are the Christians, the Jews, and the other non-Muslims; therefore, the prophet Muhammad calls them “the worst of beasts.”

In Quran Chapter 8, we find the following offensive verses:

1. “And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell” (Quran 8:36)

2. “And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah” (Quran 8:39).

3. “And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the kinsman…” (Quran 8:41).

4. “O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty steadfast they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a hundred (steadfast) they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are a folk without intelligence” (Quran 8:65).

5. “It is not for any prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land” (8:67).

Mr. Moyale, how come you forget to tell us those satanic verses with an authentic explanation? Has Dr. Zakir Naik, your second Muslim Muhammad, failed you to teach you the exact meanings of those Quranic verses? Some of the good verses in Quran are the ones that Muhammad the prophet had plagiarized from the Christian Old and the New Testaments.
My friend, Mr. Moyale, why don’t you go and ask Dr. Zakir Naik about those Satanic verses? I know why you are not going to ask someone about those verses you cannot understand because Quran 5:101 says: “Believers! Do not ask questions about things which if made plain and declared to you, may vex you, causing you trouble.” That is the main raison Muslims do not ask questions about their religion because they know their religion is defective and full of contradictions.

My friend, I am not an abnormal person: I am a person who is trying to help the misguided billions of Muslims and bring them to Jesus Christ, the only Savior and Mediator. I know Muslims do not believe in Salvation through Jesus Christ. They believe they can go to paradise by force as they have taken many Christian, Jewish, and Hindu lands by force. They kill the non-Muslims so that they could go to paradise and enjoy life with those immaculate paradise girls, if such girls really exist paradise.


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10/08/12 @ 12:59
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Correction:the main reason,not raison
10/08/12 @ 13:10
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
Ethiopian Shimeles is a new boy in town blabering about modifying the religion Islam. He openly talked about it during a meeting for Muslim journalists of fake government Wayane.


Ethiopians lived in harmony? only during the King of Axum negash. After that what happened? Cruelty, savage, barbarism, bigotry took over during the reigns of Yohannes IV, Menelik II, Haileselasie, Gelawdios, Lebne Dengel, Naod and Tewodros. All of them put Islam under siege.

So, is this the harmnoy we call in Ethiopia? Yes, Muslims enjoyed a guest status and a welcome hospitality but then things changed quickly and the kings of Solomon bought the idea so much that they were more loyal to their jew masters than to the people of Ethiopia the Muslims. King Negash was Ethiopian an Axumite and Muslims are related to him and our fore fathers welcomed Islam. But we don't agree with subjugation of the people of Muslim Ethiopians by die hard fanatics who right from the beiginning protested against the welcoming of Muslims in Ethiopia. Their descendants are noe living in many places including the west such exemplary fellows are the hero and well outspoken defender of christianity Assta Getu who is never afraid to speak up his mind whatsoever and his hate for Islam is in his blood and he is born with it. Like a true hero he loves his nemesis tenacity and heroism. Well done if it was not for him I would have smashed all nazret.com visitors with my pen sword. Then there are others the Yohannes IV admirers., the Menelik II collaborators, the rast teferi fanatics who constantly attack Islam.
Today Axum Muslims have no right to build the Mesjid in Axum.

Today we Muslims don't have a permanent Synodos like Ethiopian orthodox. We Muslims have a three year permit to work for Mejlis. If Ethiopian Muslims are true Ethiopians why you give them permission to work on conditions of three year contract? Who said Ethiopian orthodox should be licensed on permanant basis?

Why would Muslims be compared to Saudi if they are Ethiopian unless they have no say for their future?

Why would Haileselasie call them Muslims found in Ethiopia not Ethiopian Muslims?

Let us see if the orthodox will love the protestants and allow them to build a church is Axum. Remember allow not a right.

Who would be interested to see this kind of injustice? Who would expect to see a Prime Minister of pente only 10% unless it is an attempt to silence Muslims who are at least 50%.

At any rate, we are going to wait for Orthodox to act nice and balanced because through our 1400 year of our existence they are the first to betray us, to prey on us, to conspire against us. We fed Meles while he was in Sudan, and Somalia and Egypt but he conspired to bring Ah Bash using the name of an Ethiopian person of Harar heritage. It is so sad that he even now wants to baptize all of us he did not say it in public but that was his mission. We are glad he is dead. Now is the time for the death of Assta Getu and wepe the hater of insult against christians but the coward and sissy when it comes to Muslim insult. He will never erase any single word of hate speech against our prophet.


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10/08/12 @ 13:28
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
we are not going to wait.....
10/08/12 @ 13:36
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Tee (visitor),

You are doing an excellent job on this web site, and I enjoy your comments and analysis about the true nature of Islam. I wish every Ethiopian got a chance to read the Quran and the Hadith that have been the main sources of violence for 1400 years, encouraging the Muslims to dominate the world and make the world home. People are now waking up, thanks to the Internet, and watching the horrors the Jihadist Muslims are bringing to our planet.

Please, continue posting, and may our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!


C’est moi senait (visitor),

I have no any ill-feelings about you, dear sister! You can criticize me and correct me at any time. I like people who talk and write. You have been posting on this web site for a long time, and I adore your terse comments.


Hater (visitor),

Thank you for the compliment!


Edited
10/08/12 @ 14:38
Comment from: Ethiopiawinet [Visitor]
C'est moi senait
Your analysis is completely wrong. You gave in to devil evil hater Assta.
Be careful those kind of evil people are the cause for human sufferings.
Just ask him to debate scholars and he will tell you this cave man that there are no scholars. His eye blinded by hate. He earns his living on this and do not be tricked sister.
10/08/12 @ 15:09
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Gragn Ahmed (visitor),

Welcome back, Gragn Ahmed! I thought wepE had strangled you and thrown you into the Mediterranean Sea your ancestors crossed long time ago to come to the land of milk and honey – the Christian land of Ethiopia. I had tried to send a rescue team to the sea to find your dead body and bury it inside the Anwar Mosque in Addis Ababa. To my dismay, you are here now commenting on a dead issue that there was king in Axum by the name “Negash,” which is not true.

Many Arab-Muslim writers do not mention the name Negash; instead they write negus, king: it was the Ethiopian Negus who accepted the first Muslim converts of Mecca who came to Ethiopia under their leader Jafar ibn Abu Talib, one of the uncles of Muhammad the prophet. The name of the Ethiopian king at that particular time was Armah, or simply Negus, not Negash.

So scared and terrified that Armah might send him and his followers back to Mecca and be persecuted and killed by the citizens of Mecca, Muhammad’s uncle, Jafar ibn Abu Talib, deceived King Armah by telling the king that he (Jafar) and his followers believed that Mary by the Holy Spirit gave birth to Jesus, a holy prophet, and in addition to this assertion, Jafar read a verse from Quran 4 that says: “In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful” and so on and on. Then the king thought these strange people were not far from the Christian faith; therefore, he granted them permission to stay in Ethiopia. Had the king asked Jafar more questions about the deity of Jesus Christ, he would have gotten a disturbing response.

We know it is an insult to all Muslims to say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; however, the king did not ask Jafar about the divinity of Jesus Christ that all Muslims deny; had he asked questions such as: Is Jesus the Son of God? Is he God? Was Jesus crucified on the Cross? And the answer the king would have gotten from Jafar and his followers would have been negative, or it could have been positive in order to save his own life and the lives of his followers through deception or taqiyya. Any way, it was the Ethiopian Christian king who was deceived by the eloquent Muslim speaker, Jafar.

In many ways, Gragn Ahmed, you are that Jafar, the deceiver and the lover of new screen names: you are really one of Muhammad’s Jinn. I don’t know for how long you are going to stay on this earth!

You never stop complaining about any thing: You complain you are not allowed to bury your dead in the Holy city of Axum; you complain you are not permitted to be the prime minister of Ethiopia; you complain all the previous Ethiopian Christian kings had oppressed you; you complain Emperor Yohannes had killed many Muslims who refused to convert to Christianity; you complain the Ethiopian authorities have refused to erect a statue for Gragn Muhammad in Addis Ababa; you complain the Ethiopian Orthodox Church had rejected the appointment of Lij Iyasu to be the king of Ethiopia; you complain that the Rastafarians have attacked the Ethiopian Muslims; you complain the Axum Muslims are prohibited from building a new Mosque near the Holy City of Axum; you complain the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church has a valid license to manage her ecclesiastical affairs but not the Muslims’ Mosques; you complain that Muslims have no say in Ethiopia, but they are considered second citizens; you complain the Ethiopian government should not interfere in the Muslims’ affairs; and there is no end for your worthless complaints, and none of your complaints will be accepted by the Ethiopian authorities because they are mixed up with politics: you just want to take over the Christian government of Ethiopia, which will never happen.

Don’t forget Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews never eat pigs or anything unclean (Leviticus 11:1-46).

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10/08/12 @ 16:01
Comment from: Magdala [Visitor]
The ethiopian government is right this time. We have to control fundamental islam. Islam is not a self-regulating religion at this time. Ethiopian muslims are infiltrated by wahabism - Saudi Arabian Fundamental Islamist Group.

Our muslim brothers and sisters should support the government of Ethiopia. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and other radical muslim countries are intervenng in Ethiopia and her muslim population. We have to stop the spreading of fundamentalist tendencies in Ethiopia until we see a self-regulating patriotic muslim leadership.
10/08/12 @ 16:53
Comment from: Boris [Visitor]
Wait habasha the Muslims Oromo are going soon with their region oromia and Ogadenes who are all Muslims they are leaving too afar will do the same the south will do the same the benishangul and gambilas for sure they will return back to their motherland Sudan they will leave jumping around that stupid lalibela like monkeys. Stop a busing Muslims cuz if mislims want to take over the country it doesn't take days just Muslims committed to the respect of 7 th century king of Abyssinia who converted to Islam himself at the end that why Muslims leaving alone then leave Muslims alone they will leave you alone if bother them they teach you in forgotable listons habasha for Muslims is a most respect nation for many reasons one is neighborhood 2nd the king of habasha at the time was generous with prophet Muhammad puh companions 3rd about 16 of the prophet companions buried in habasha 4th around 25 of the prophet companions are originally from habasha 5th the mother of the prophet Muhammad after his mother ummo ayaman may Allah pleased with her from habasha the prophet use to visit her all time as his mother the same did the companion till she pass away there fore don't think Muslims ruled far as Spain and France for 8 centuries Asia the same do you think Ethiopia was far just what Mentioned to you if start torturing Muslims don't wonder for the reaction just blame yourselves
10/08/12 @ 17:41
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Tee: how original of you eh, try something new, go get some fresh air.

You hate ridden bunch of dangerous scums have in no time managed to perfectly screw this page up so badly it not recognizable but now a storm coming up, Ladies and Gents hold on to your hats and skirts.
10/08/12 @ 18:07
Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]
True to form, the followers of the 'religion of peace' are at it again.
10/08/12 @ 18:23
Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]
'wepE' said:

"Tee: how original of you eh, try something new, go get some fresh air."

This wepE fellow is always on the wrong side of the divide. Typical of what Lenin called a "useful idiot'.
10/08/12 @ 18:27
Comment from: ETHIOPIA [Visitor]
Denounce extremisim and terrorism in Ethiopia.

Long life to the real Ethiopians
Death to its enemies such as VOA reporters.
10/08/12 @ 18:33
Comment from: What is religion? [Visitor]


Bible and Queran edited from Tohra(the Jewish holy book)?

Is Tohra written by different kind of Jewish ansisters?

Is that just a Jewish customized social life history and there thought or God gave them?

For how long the people of Jewish and Arabs they have been in the world? for >100 000 years? When was the first Adam/Adem came to earth? For 4000 years a go?


How many people has died fighting for the sack of religion? 100 millions maybe bellions?

Why do we need religion?

Who creat religion?

What is religion?
10/08/12 @ 18:54
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Marcus: Good, you're living up to your end of the bargain.

"This wepE fellow is always on the wrong side of the divide."

Translation: He is not a hater like me so he is wrong.

So yes I'm on the wrong side because wrong to your kind would be anything that exists outside your limited sphere of tolerance and humility. Hate is your middle name, you've been made to hate and you think it's your turn to make others hate, when does it end? When you're finished killing muslims off this earth? I've come to terms with the fact of how the likes of Assta and Gragn just have to spoil it for everyone, trolling around to piss people off for the fun of it but why would YOU, a seemingly intelegent person would take part in hate mongering? Oh I'm sorry you're "outing" the real agenda of Muslims right? educating as so to speak because you know the secrets...I honestly think you can spend your time doing something more useful.

What is religion?: "How can you prove that Thora/bible/kurhan are from God?" I'm not sure if you're being funny or I'm missing something but there is a reason a belief system is termed 'religion', if you can "prove" it then it's not a RELIGION but a mere historical, scientific, philosophical...fact.
10/08/12 @ 18:55
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Gragn Ahmed (visitor),

Welcome back, Gragn Ahmed! I thought wepE had strangled you and thrown you into the Mediterranean Sea your ancestors crossed long time ago to come to the land of milk and honey – the Christian land of Ethiopia. I had tried to send a rescue team to the sea to find your dead body and bury it inside the Anwar Mosque in Addis Ababa. To my dismay, you are here now commenting on a dead issue that there was king in Axum by the name “Negash,” which is not true.

As I said before, many Arab-Muslim writers do not mention the name Negash; instead they write negus, king: it was the Ethiopian Negus who accepted the first Muslim converts of Mecca who came to Ethiopia under their leader Jafar ibn Abu Talib, one of the uncles of Muhammad the prophet. The name of the Ethiopian king at that particular time was Armah, or simply Negus, not Negash.

So scared and terrified that Armah might send him and his followers back to Mecca and be persecuted and killed by the citizens of Mecca, Muhammad’s uncle, Jafar ibn Abu Talib, deceived King Armah by telling the king that he (Jafar) and his followers believed that Mary by the Holy Spirit gave birth to Jesus, a holy prophet, and in addition to this assertion, Jafar read a verse from Quran 4 that says: “In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful” and so on and on. Then the king thought these strange people were not far from the Christian faith; therefore, he granted them permission to stay in Ethiopia. Had the king asked Jafar more questions about the deity of Jesus Christ, he would have gotten a disturbing response.

We know it is an insult to all Muslims to say that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; however, the king did not ask Jafar about the divinity of Jesus Christ that all Muslims deny; had he asked questions such as: Is Jesus the Son of God? Is he God? Was Jesus crucified on the Cross? And the answer the king would have gotten from Jafar and his followers would have been negative, or it could have been positive in order to save his own life and the lives of his followers through deception or taqiyya. Any way, it was the Ethiopian Christian king who was deceived by the eloquent Muslim speaker, Jafar.

In many ways, Gragn Ahmed, you are that Jafar, the deceiver and the lover of new screen names: you are really one of Muhammad’s Jinn. I don’t know for how long you are going to stay on this earth!

You never stop complaining about any thing: You complain you are not allowed to bury your dead in the Holy city of Axum; you complain you are not permitted to be the prime minister of Ethiopia; you complain all the previous Ethiopian Christian kings had oppressed you; you complain Emperor Yohannes had killed many Muslims who refused to convert to Christianity; you complain the Ethiopian authorities have refused to erect a statue for Gragn Muhammad in Addis Ababa; you complain the Ethiopian Orthodox Church had rejected the appointment of Lij Iyasu to be the king of Ethiopia; you complain that the Rastafarians have attacked the Ethiopian Muslims; you complain the Axum Muslims are prohibited from building a new Mosque near the Holy City of Axum; you complain the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church has a valid license to manage her ecclesiastical affairs but not the Muslims’ Mosques; you complain that Muslims have no say in Ethiopia; you complain the Ethiopian government should not interfere in the Muslims’ affairs; and there is no end for your worthless complaints, and none of your complaints will be accepted by the Ethiopian authorities because your complaints are mixed up with politics: you just want to take over the Christian government of Ethiopia, which will never happen.

Don’t forget Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews never eat pigs or anything unclean (Leviticus 11:1-46).

I will discuss the alleged love affairs between Jesus and Mary Magdalene in some other times.

Note: nazret.com, do not delete my comment; if you do, give your reasons. Otherwise, I will stop commenting on this web site. It is not a great deal at all for me!
10/08/12 @ 19:42
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Marcus (visitor),

Welcome back my friend Marcus!

wepE is terrorizing the nazret.com commentators with threat and intimidation: he is a godless person, very disturbed inside; I don’t think he is an Ethiopian. He is a lost and a confused creature who thinks there is happiness without Jesus. How ignorant and diffident he is! I really hate to see him on this web site. If I leave this web site, it is because of him; I am sure his face is like his screen name. His heart is darker than the devil’s face, and his thought is the thought of an immature person. What a low-level person he is!
10/08/12 @ 20:08
Comment from: Me [Visitor]
*****
You're all sick, this noting to do politics, nor terrorism !!! we all understand your hidden agenda, but we Ethiopian Muslims don't intimidated by thugs. I'm proud of Ethiopian Muslims
10/08/12 @ 20:37
Comment from: Abu Ahmed [Visitor]
I could not find a mosque to pray in Axum, that was then.. No Mosque there, but then again, I was born in this city but the city I was born tells me I no longer belong yet again. Any chance that a mosque will be built in my city for all believers to worship?
10/08/12 @ 20:44
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Nazret.com,

When you edit some one’s comment, you must do it right.

For example, I wrote “If such girls really exist in Muhammad’s false paradise…”

You, the editor, says: “If such girls really exist paradise”

You see, your editing technique doesn’t make any sense at all.


10/08/12 @ 20:46
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Dear Abu Ahmed (editor),

I went to Mecca for a vacation, and I could not find any Church where I could go and pray to my Lord Jesus Christ. Why is that there is no a single Church in Mecca? In Tigray province there are many Mosques. Some of these Mosques may not be closer to where you live. If it is too far to go to those Mosques, then you could pray in your house five or hundred times a day. But I am not sure whether your Allah could hear your prayer when you pray in your house. You better ask your Imam of those Mosques.
10/08/12 @ 21:03
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Correction:visitor, not editor
10/08/12 @ 21:05
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
wepE,

You wrote:
"You hate ridden bunch of dangerous scums..."

wow!
That comment is gratuitous, because I preached love and understanding with respect to Muslims, whereas at the same time I exposed the fact that Islam is about force, conquest, domination and destructive agenda!

Could you tell me where I went wrong to be labelled, "hate ridden?"

Or do you just mindlessly spout off anything your empty head tells you to do?!


10/08/12 @ 21:44
Comment from: djz12 [Visitor]
Let me get this straight. So muslims want to built a mosque in Axum? What I find most fascinating about this is the muslims always disregarding and disrespecting other religion as long as they fulfil thier mission. What an hypocrite they are? In saudi non muslims not even allowed to gather and celebrate in their private house. 35 Ethiopian Christans prosecuted and jailed and beaten for celebrating Christmas in their home. If you think about building a church in saudi you will probablly be killed. That is what I don't get it. they want forcefully others to respect their religion and holy places. and not allowed to build a church and gather in private house and celebrate holiday. But they want to bulit their mosque in other religons holy places and if they not allowed well, probablly they will cry and declare jihad and kill non muslims. Please muslims respect other religions.
10/08/12 @ 23:58
Comment from: Degenatu [Visitor]
***--
I am worried about the blanket support the so-called Muslim leaders are getting just due to the hate most Ethiopians have for the government. My concern is based on what happened in Libya and Egypt. The Americans helped the rebels to overthrow the dictator; the first person the Islamist attacked and killed was the American Ambassador who devote his life to support their cause long before becoming Ambassador.

My question is simple; what do you know about these Muslim leaders you are propogating, their links to foreign supporters, their real agenda, their view on religious equality, their sources of funding of all those mosques they are building, their stand on Ethiopian unity, etc. We need to know where these leaders stand on all these issues to support or oppose them. This is also the role of the "Journalists" that propogate their cause to cover it. We need to have compete information to support this cause so that we do not be duped like Americans.
10/09/12 @ 00:01
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
Assta B. Gettu,

Thanks!

You did most of the work!

Keep it up!

10/09/12 @ 00:04
Comment from: ahmed [Visitor]
anchi c'st moi(who F ing your name is)
Qoy anchi yemen shalle nesh?
why ar u all over nazret.com on every topic thats mentioned?
ar you really that cheap of habesha shellowech that Iknw irin nazret katema?

all your post are just pure hatred wether politics or religion
name everything your there to hate it

stop it and think about it instead of going ranting on things that are not even related to you.
you want to defend tigre and those gangesters runing the show back home fine. there are pple who are defending hitler in universe any way, but stop preaching hatred.
you dont knw shit about any religion let olone ISLAM
u only thing you knw is what you grew up with,
you need to think out of the box, i have habesha freinds who just came from home I dont hate them i help them becouse he is ma homie.
but reading comments like yours make me think probably these guy might have the same veiw as yours toward ethiopian muslims.

10/09/12 @ 01:41
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Assta,

I like how you write. I also like how you're fighting the censorship on this site which I didn't know existed.
Judging by the deplorable content which is the usual fare in the comments section, I'm surprised this is a moderated site.

Anyhoo, I just couldn't agree with the point you're trying to make; namely that "Christianity is a religion of peace while Islam is violent." You tried to choose and pick quotes from the Quran and the bible to support your claims. I don't buy it.

Somebody called you a deacon - man of the book. Let's see how you defend the following argument.
I'm going to say the Bible is as intolerant and violent as they come. To paraphrase Dawkins, your god is one of the most vile characters in all of fiction.

What says you about "Numbers 31: 1-54" where genocide, murder, rape and slavery are condoned by God and performed by Mosses?

Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.)

Don't make me go on quoting scripture to prove that the bible is as violent as you claim Islam to be.
Somebody has already done the work. Go google the "Skeptics annotated bible".
You'll find the deplorable content in the Quran in there too.
Don't reply that was old testament and we're more loving now. NOT!!

My point: Faith is currently the greatest danger to humanity. I can't find a conflict in the world that can't be framed in a religious context. Same throughout history. Same in Ethiopia. Christians and Muslims killing each other over religion.
We learnt history not to repeat it. But once again we find ourselves on a precipice of a religious war.
I have no doubt this will be the next pot to boil in Ethiopia.

And Assta, Tee and wepE to some extent are fanning the flames guised in some sort of peaceful religious overtones.
GTFOH with that shit. Save us the sermons. You're just as extremist and intolerant as what you're fearing.
Given the chance, you will all slaughter each other with machetes in one hand and bible/quran in the other.
10/09/12 @ 02:25
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Tee: Would you be happier if I said "fear ridden"? Sorry for lumping you up with the rest, you do sound sharp and seem to be posting to teach others and education purpose but what if I told you that muslims have been coexisting with the rest of the world for centuries? On some level I do understand you, the need for “them” and “us” almost seems to be intrinsic to the human mindset. But what if there exists a bigger threat to humanity and have been there all along, Christians and Muslims alike have contributed and been shaping the world up until the last century. The ones the running the world currently should you hold responsible for what is happpening today. For instance I know for fact that Somali women have underwnet a four-stage radicalization, process. Pre that process you would for starters NOT use the phrase; "That is why Muslim Men oppress their women" unless of cource incorrectly. On the other hand Arabic culture have been influencing and talking over all others in the name of Islam and that should be discouraged but that is my opinion. I'm in a rush so bear with me...
10/09/12 @ 04:34
Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]
wepE said:

“So yes I'm on the wrong side because wrong to your kind would be anything that exists outside your limited sphere of tolerance and humility.”

wepE, do you still believe that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’?

Do you still believe that Ethiopia is exempt from “Islamic Jihad”?

If so, you are trying to escape from reality.

The Sunan Abu Daud quotation you brought last time will never be taken seriously by any Muslim. There are a lot of fabricated or inaccurate Hadiths in Abu Daud. That is why it is not called a Sahih meaning authentic. The two most trusted Hadiths, by Muslims, are Sahih Bukari and Sahih Muslim.

So, wepE, your insurance policy is based on a false premise and a worthless Ahadith.

Islam is nothing but Bedouin Arab supremacy and nationalism. At the pledge of Aqabah Muhammad had declared to wage war against humanity until the entire World submits to Islam. To Muslims this is eternally binding.

For example, ask any Muslim if Qur’anic verses such as 9:5 and 9:29 are still valid today. Ask them to give a straight answer without any ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’; also verify what they do in practice.

By treating Islamo fascists such as Gragn Ahmed and Christian patriots such as Assta B. Gettu in the same manner, you are creating moral equivalence between evil and good. In so far as the Islamo fascists are concerned, after the patriots are silenced, you will be their next target or next on their menu.
10/09/12 @ 04:43
Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]

Assta B. Gettu said:

“Marcus (visitor),
Welcome back my friend Marcus!
wepE is terrorizing the nazret.com commentators with threat and intimidation”

Assta, it is great to hear from you! Keep up the hard work as it will help many to wake up from their deep slumber and coma.

Unfortunately, the politically correct liberal and misguided ‘wepE’ is on the wrong trajectory. When he sees an arsonist who sets his friend’s house on fire, ‘wepE’ refuses to get off his liberal horse to help his friend.

Why? Because ‘wepE’ thinks helping his friend might offend and upset the arsonist and may even fan the flames more. This is flawed logic.

It has been seen, again and again, in history that liberals are always next on the menu of the Islamo-fascists.
10/09/12 @ 05:05
Comment from: fact [Visitor]
This is the work of EPRDF. For the last 21 years, EPRDF let the muslims to be a hardliners in which they never been before. They let them to use a scarf/for women and a beard for men . This never happened in Ethiopia. Most muslim population was around Merkato area. I remember during derg era our muslim brothers fight derg along with OTHER CHRISTIANS. tHE MOST POPULAR WAS DURING THE STRUGGLE OF EPRP AROUND MERKATO. That time there was no muslim or christian difference instead fighting the brutal Derg as Ethiopians. Merkato was a popular place during EPRP struggle. Muslims die as Ethiopian not as a muslim. The arrogant EPRDF create this mess and the extreme muslims by the help of Arabs try to promote extreme Islamism in Ethiopia. I advice our muslim brothers to ignore both EPRDF and extereme Arab outsiders not to promote differences between christian brothers as well as a blood shade in our country. We christians and muslims lived as one for better and worse for the past hundred+ years. How in the hell we let either EPRDF or sick Arabs split us for worse? didn't we died together for one reason during Derg/EPRP? Didn't we played together when we were child as an Ethiopian? common and fight extremism for better.
10/09/12 @ 05:38
Comment from: Mohamed Somali [Visitor] Email
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Listen up people! For I have something important to share with you. Whether you like or hate one another, truth is that your destiny is intertwined. You (Muslim, Christian, Animist or whatever) All Ethiopians are bound by fate and common destiny. A destiny you unfortunately are unable to escape from. The choice is yours; fight one another, kill one another, insult one another, live in hate filled place, poor, under developed Ethiopia or find each other and work together for a better Ethiopia. The choice is yours! This message is important, because I have been on the other side you are so much in a hurry to arrive. It is not a good place.
10/09/12 @ 07:18
Comment from: Eht [Visitor]
*****
Has anyone had the chance to read this letter called "JESUS LOVES MUSLIMS":

http://www.scribd.com/doc/92547049/Jesus-Loves-Muslims

I hope you can spread it around to all people in Ethiopia.

Jesus is God. God is love 1 John 4:16.
10/09/12 @ 10:00
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
y dear friend Assta Getu thank you for welcoming me as always a true hero never wishes his nemesis a silly and unheroic death. Indeed thank you for sending me a rescue team filled with Uraguale betekristain preachers who are angry at the presence of Anwar Mesjid in the middle of their supposedly holy turf. Indeed a wicked person and coward and un heroic person will never kill a hero of Ethiopian Muslims Gragn Ahmed unless by some chance. Indeed the unheroic wepe now wants to ban me and decimate me by chaning my name to antagonize Muslims with others just through his demonic website called nazret.com.

As usual Assta Getu however did not reply to my question if really magdala the black Ethiopian was not his favorite wife. Indeed, God was close to her and married her, really? This will be a very major sin in Islam and totally against the essence of religion after all.

We are not sure if you are going to give us a real clear answer on that one the biggest liar Asstae Getu.

Jafar was a noble eloquent person who at the time explained to the King how the new religion was persecuted for just saying that Jesus was the Prophet of God. Jafar is not a liar and he did not have to use teqiyaa because not telling the truth would have made the King not convert to Islam. Plus Jafar went as far as risking his life into a new territory so he can spread the truth without fear. If he had to use Teqqiya he could have stayed where he was nad deceived the Mecan pagans.

Instead you complian on this website accusing our prophet that
he was not a prophet.
that islam is barbaric.
That Ethiopia is land of christians
That power belongs to Christians
That Islam never contributed any thing to Ethiopia.
Islam is unwelcomed in Ethiopia.
That Islam is unfari to women
That Islam is terrorism.
That Islam is dishonest.
That Islam is monopoly of the world.
That Muslims hate jews and christians.
That Allah is a name of moon God.
That Allah is one of the names of the 360 idols of Mecca.
That Kaaba is a stone that is kissed by Mulsims.
That Islam is not a religion.
That our prophet was a child.... for marrying our beloved mother of Islam Aisha the most benevolent, brave and knowledgeable woman of all the time as pedophile. Do you know that the life expectancy of women in Arabia was low. A case in point 34 of the daughters of our beloved Prophet died in their 30 and less. Do you see how early marriage in hot and desert places is a matter of necessity especially at the time?
That Muslims don't deserve Axum equal treatment?
That Muslims can not go into politics.
That Muslims can not be artists.
That Muslims can not be doctors, generals.
That Muslims are coward and now they are majority they will swallow us?

Asssta Getu you simply have exhausted all attacks against Islam and you got nothing out of it because these all questions were raised by all old medieval Western scholars of the West. All they did was fabricate accusation that had no bases. Thanks to the internet now people are now seeing the true colors of these people and now Islam is spreading like crazy in the West. The prime Minister of Blair in-law now is a Muslim. I don't doubt that Azeb Mesfin will follow soon. The Royals of all Western people are now at least seeing a Muslim in their family. White House now has a Muslim background christian convert Obama. Thomas Jefferson was the first Muslim lover President who used Quraan as source of constitution and kept it in his Library. UN has just put the letters of Ali Abu Talib the fourth Caliphate and cousin of the Prophet Mohamed as one of the most valuable documents of humanity and the rule of Law and governance on the planet. No other religion contributed not even the book of jesus any documents that are useful for humanity like Islam did.

Ali was the most just govenor or Calpih after the death of our Prophet like the other three Calpihs. These four kaliphs cared about people and they sacrificed for them their lives. But the jes plotted against these Calpihs every time they stood for the truth. Did not Jews tried to kill all their Prophets which they succeeded? Indeed, Jews are every die hard people, and very pugnacious.

http://www.alnajaf2012.com/en/permalink/3623.html


http://www.human-rights-in-islam.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200:united-nations-on-imam-ali-ibn-abi-talib&catid=35:political&Itemid=53








10/09/12 @ 13:02
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
TheInfidel,
Thank you for raising relevant questions!

Let me give a few pointers!

1. God is a sovereign God and CAN do anything including the taking of lives; In so doing he can use people to deliver the judgement. In the Old Testament you see such incidents. (You cannot dictate to Him on how to be God!)

2. Since 2000 years ago, according to the Bible we are in a Grace Period where God doesn't exercise immediate judgement against offenders but differs it to the time of judgement at the very end. (Example: for a limited time, IRS forgiving your debt as long as you file taxes, something like that.)

3. In this time of Grace, Jesus message is about love and mercy. That is why He allowed others to crucify him and never revenged, and in fact prayed for his abusers.

4. During this time of Grace, anyone can come and ask for forgiveness and start to follow Jesus, whereby the Jesus' righteousness will be imputed on that person, and will declared just.

5. But one day, Jesus will come back and deliver justice Himself.

6. Many are confused when people or groups commit horrible acts in the name of Christianity. These people certainly didn't get their mandate from Jesus Christ, that is for sure.
These people actually don't know Jesus Christ! (example: crusaders, Bush invading Iraq, etc...)
(Example: continuing the IRS tax forgiveness example, some companies/groups posing as IRS and extorting money from individuals who owe money. But in reality they owe no taxes, etc)

7. Jesus never committed an act of terror or violence or instructed anyone to use violence or apply force to convert people, much less take lives. In fact Jesus instructed to overcome evil with good. (Refer to the Sermon on the Mountain, should anyone slaps you give him the other cheek, so on and so on) to endure hardship, show others mercy and forgiveness almost infinitely.

As a rule and principle Islam applies violence to advance its cause - this is incontrovertible. In fact Mohammad himself beheaded infidels and instructed his followers to follow suit.

I hope the foregoing clarifies some things.

Thank you.

10/09/12 @ 13:07
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
What is the liberal to a Muslim? Does wepe love Muslims more than his extremist Muslim haters? does liberal mean equal to a moderate Muslim? Does a liberal christian mean equal to a liberal christian? Does a liberal ever give hand more a moderate Muslim? Does a liberal christian help a moderate Muslim more than he does to an extremist christian? Does a liberal christian believe in freedom of speech as equal to a freedom of speech that is given to an extremist Assta Getu? Does a liberal christian love his countr first and his religion second or did he enterwine his religion with his patriotism? Does he distinguish his love of Allah is first and his country next? Does he believe in his patriotism first and golablization next (Umah)? Does he believe in the right of Muslims? Or does he believe in the right of a citizen irrespective of religion? Does he promote feminism according to Western culture or does he believe in an independent Western culture? Does he have a western eye glassed mounted on his eye or does he really have a clear Allah given eye? Does he think in liberal interpretation of the Bible and Quraan and sanctity of scriptures or does he really think Allah's words are unmutable? Doe she believe that the there is no diety and secularism is the option of the rule of governance or does he believe firmly in supremacy of Allah over all of our affairs? Does he have the morality and character of a religious person?

etc.....

Can someone elaborate on all or some of the above pertinent questions?

I would be glad to see the wepe bastard who banned me is still in his own words a man of freespeech, guradian of all faiths and a liberal, or he is a very intolerant and sensitive and very racial or ethnic fragile brood of a liberal christian who is readily available for switch into conservative and Muslim hater, a political opportunist.



10/09/12 @ 13:17
Comment from: Ethiopiawinet [Visitor]
wepE
I feel sorry for you. Lenin would have loved to coin you as .... I hate to offend you. But do

remember South Africa when it was ruled by whites. They said all bad staffs to indigenous blacks that the haters(whose middle name is hate)above nag us here about Ethiopian Muslims.
The Haters (I can add fascist, blood thirsty to their middle names) tell us that:
1) All lands in Ethiopia (Somali, Afar, Oromo, Harari, etc) belongs only to copts even though they are hallucinating do you know what-else they say they want all those differ from them have to be miserable, slave, and in general take their soul.
Just for common sense would you claim somebody's wife as yours? Really this is madness and out of touch and incomprehensible.
"Aine ya wata woushet, lebinet'
Thiefs, thugs, shameless liars.
2) They are expert on others religion but they fear to debate like a civil society. If you say this they will tell you that Eth. Muslims are not civil only haters are.
So there is no way to confront the reality on the ground for they are evil doers on earth.

They earn their living on this and they are not real like you. They spend whole day on writing evil to cause turmoil in Ethiopia

Assta be quitto is not an Ethiopian neither an Eritrean. He is an Egyptian copt who entered Ethiopia during the feudal ruler time of H.Selassie. What a loss to a country!
10/09/12 @ 14:08
Comment from: Moyale [Visitor] Email
*****
Assta Getu
Know that i am not intending to waste my valuable time with you, rather i read the Golorious Quran. Just to remind you; please look for anti-rust to clean your heart since it is as dark as an oven. It is the Almighty who can guide to the right path. You are very good, keep barking!
10/09/12 @ 14:24
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Tee,

My man!!
Thank you so much for answering!
I was expecting slander but I got a lucid argument.

Let me refute your allegation that "Jesus never committed an act of terror or violence or instructed anyone to use violence or apply force to convert people, much less take lives."

I will just do one quote from each of the gospels.

Mark 6:11
Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Luke 10: 10-15
Jesus says that entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" his disciples.

John 3:18, 36
People are damned or saved depending only on what they believe.
John 15:6
Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be burned.

Matthew 11:20-24
Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching.

I can not think of a more intolerant preaching than that. Believe in me or burn in hell forever.
Is that what you call love? Grace period towards a guaranteed doom? Isn't that what you are saying to the Muslims or anyone who doesn't share your Christian views?

The rest of your arguments don't get us anywhere because they can be applied to the Muslim side verbatim. When "believers" fly planes into buildings or kill in the name of the Qur'an, the "moderates" will say "that's not our religion. Those were the misguided ones." When Bush or Israel does reprehensible acts, you also put forth the same arguments.

You said "Mohammad himself beheaded infidels". Didn't I just show you Moses raped, killed and enslaved 32,000 Mennonites with direct instructions from God in my earlier post. Numbers 31: 1-54? You defended that by saying God is sovereign and I can't judge him. Lame! You, using your god given brain, can judge that was "wrong". I'm only judging him by the standards set by Christianity doctrine itself. He's defined as an "omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and benevolent."

Funny you said "God CAN do anything" and capitalized CAN.
CAN God create a stone so heavy that he himself can't lift it? haha.

You can't run away from the horror of the Old testament by saying we're in a grace period.
Everything in the new testament is a fulfillment of the prophecies of the old testament.
Down to the details where if a prophet said "the messiah will ride in an ass", there goes Jesus following the script.

Oh oh! Houston/Vatican, We have a problem with the "Jesus" script! It turns out the whole fairy tale is a blatant plagiarism of the old Persian Sun god, Mithra.

* Born on December 25 from the virgin Anahita
* Born in a manger, attended by shepherds.
* A great traveling teacher and preacher with 12 disciples.
* Performed miracles. Sacrificed himself for world peace.
* Ascended to heaven.
* blah, blah, blah - down to the Eucharist and baptism.

Now you, Tee, our educated, logical, eloquent brother takes that fairy tale whole, put a horrific torture device around your neck, call yourself a peace-loving Christian and call the other "fairy tales" unbelievable, violent, enemy-to-humanity, etc ...

Paraphrasing Pascal, I'm sorry I was so verbose with this post. I didn't have enough time to be concise ;)

10/09/12 @ 15:27
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Gragn Ahmed,

Let me try to tackle some of your thought provoking questions from the "infidel's" point of view.
The question that caught my eye was "Does he think in liberal interpretation of the Bible and Quraan and sanctity of scriptures or does he really think Allah's words are unmutable?"

I think that question itself will answer most of your questions regarding "liberal" and "moderate" for both religions. Liberal and moderate sound like good terms but I will tell you why they are loaded with contradictions.
If you are a religious liberal or moderate, it means you are picking and dropping scripture. In one hand, you believe the books are words of god, but on the other had you gloss over or discard the parts you don't like.
For the bible, it could be things like "stone your child for cursing" for the Qur'an, it could be something about spreading the word by the sword. A liberal or moderate will try to justify those parts by redefining them according to his taste or saying something like those were rules for 2000 years ago.
That is a theological dilemma. It leads to retranslation of the "word of God" that y'all all agreed upon.
If you're an extremist, you take those words literally. You believe the words are unmutable. Then you get the Taliban, Al Shahab, Sharia law and etc. On the other side, you get the fundamental right. I give props to the extremists for at least not being duplicitous. They believe it is a word of god and they follow it to the letter.

The best we have reached in the west is religious tolerance (at least the US).
That sounds good but it really is not. How can you tolerate another religion when their books says you get salvation by eliminating infidels? Religious tolerance is still a mid-step in the final goal of elimination of religion.
You can't hide behind "tolerance" and believe whatever crap you want to believe. Well you can, as long as it doesn't affect me.
I should be able to call a spade a spade. I should be able to call your religion crap - whatever flavor it is. Personal belief is one thing. You can say "why don't you let me believe what I want?". You can - but it doesn't stay there, does it. Then you want to teach creationism in school or pray in a public school or on a bigger scale, you support Israel for mostly religious reasons.

Of course the solution is also in one of your questions:Does she believe that the there is no diety and secularism is the option of the rule of governance or does he believe firmly in supremacy of Allah over all of our affairs?
I think you believe the right answer deep in your heart as you asked the question.

Western Europe, especially Scandinavia, is leading the way. As secular as you can get at present. Bravo.
In the US, where I live, Atheists are barely 15% and we are more hated than rapists and Muslim terrorists.
You can't still run for office, over 70% don't believe in evolution, etc …
How do we get from here to there? Stop brainwashing your kids.
Like "What is religion?" asked "if your'e born in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia or Somalia, do you have a choice but be a Muslim?" Wow! How nicely put! Still in the US, as religiously retarded as it is, I can openly call myself an "Infidel". Try that in any Muslim country.
The programming and the indoctrination is too deep and permanent for all you theists to accept logic at this point.
But save the kids, please.

Your final question is golden. Does a non-believer have the morality or character of a religious person?
haha. Don't even get me started on this point. You get your morality because you fear hell as your book tells you?
There is only one rule humans should live by: Do unto others as you do unto others. You don't need hell or a deity to learn/teach that.
With over 90% of humanity infected with one form or another of the religion decease, you would think we would be really moral creatures.
10/09/12 @ 16:30
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
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TheInfidel,

You overlooked what I said.
The fact that you missed my pointers by a mile tells me you are not serious. You just want to appear cute while muddying up the discussion; a hint you may be resisting to be persuaded.

Let me try one more time:
Those Biblical verses you gave are about impending judgments AFTER the grace period is over! (Remember the IRS example I gave?? Once the forgiveness period is over accountability period begins.)

And also please stay on message, the topic is to determine which faith (Christianity or Islam) is a religion of peace. Don't mix apples, oranges and tutti fruity.

And some of your other comments are frivolous or cop-outs also. For example your statement: "Can God create a stone heavy enough he can't lift," sounds cute but inane.

10/09/12 @ 17:05
Comment from: nostra daimus [Visitor]
*****
Thanks Nazret le medreku!
@etiopiawinet
You are another demented Eritrean. If you were Ethiopian, you would think about the Unity of Ethiopia first. You are a foreign saudi agent that would like to force it's infernal religion on a CHOSEN PEOPLE.
@ Getu I respect your extensive knowledge of Muslims and their intentions.
To all Muslims that hate my opinions, if you want me to respect you...
Love your neighbour don't bomb him.
Help whomever needs help. I have yet to see any projects or NGO of Muslims that help anybody.
Just change your Image, Deeds and be Good in the eye of the God of everybody.
10/09/12 @ 19:11
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Dear TheInfidel (visitor),

Your comment indicates there is a double standard in Christianity by making itself free of violence and at the same time labeling Islam as a violent religion. This is the summary of your comment in a single sentence if you agree.

I am with you in this crucial question: Which religion is violent and which one is peaceful? Are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have ever taught their adherents to go to war and destroy other human lives and possess the lands of their enemies by force? The short answer is yes!

Judaism:

Moses fought the Egyptians by performing ten Miracles: the tenth one was the severest miracle that destroyed many lives: “At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead” (Exodus).

After Moses and his brother Aaron performed wonders, they left Egypt and God promised them he would put seven nations under their control – the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. God told Moses to destroy these seven nations completely. He was also told not to make any treaty with them and never to show them mercy (Deuteronomy 7:1-2).

After Moses’ death, Joshua continued the fight under the direction of God: “Then, the Lord said to Joshua, ‘See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men.” Following God’s order, Joshua destroyed Jericho completely except Rehab and her family (Joshua 6:1-27). Rehab was saved because she had helped Joshua’s spies who came to Jericho to learn the strength and weakness of the citizens of Jericho (Joshua 2).

Judaism never stopped the Jews from fighting their enemies until the present day. I hope you remember the Arab-Israeli war that happened in 1967, which is called the Six-Day War. The Jews are still in war with those Arab countries that refused to recognize the state of Israel as an independent nation.

Christianity:

The same thing like Judaism, Christianity never deterred the Christians from waging war against those who did not accept Christianity. The main difference between the Christian war and the Jews’ war is that the old Jews’ war was directed under the war strategist, Yahweh, the God of Israel. The Christian war was performed under the leadership of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the most powerful Church in the old days as well as in our time.

When we think of the Christians’ war, what comes to our memory is, first, the Crusade that was fought hard by the Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims’ control. The second one is the Christian Inquisitions that destroyed many lives in the name of religion. The Inquisitions were performed by the Catholic Church against those who refused to accept Christianity and against those whom the Church considered heretics. Many people were burned alive and some, especially the Jews, were sent into exile.

I am sure, the Catholic Church might have regretted about her past dark history and apologized, particularly, to the Jews who had been persecuted severely by the Catholic Church. Since then, the Catholic Church had never acted as a violent Church except when she blessed the Fascist army to invade the Christian land of Ethiopia.

Islam:

The unforgettable and the unnecessary war waged by Muhammad the prophet was the war against the Jewish tribes who lived in Yathrib (Medina) and those who lived a little bit farther from Yathrib. As Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1976, pp.
100-107) reported that Muhammad had ordered that “…the grown-up males should be put to death and the women and children subjected to slavery. Consequently, trenches were dug in the market-place in Medina, and the men of Qurayza were brought out in groups and their necks were struck.6 Estimates of those killed vary from 400 to 900.”

Starting from Muhammad the prophet to the Ottoman Empire and to this day, Muslims have never stopped killing the non-Muslims. There is a reason for that. Most Muslims think, one day, the entire world will be under the Muslims’ domination. Till that day materializes, it is a Muslim duty to wage Jihad and to conquer the whole earth and make Sharia the law of the world.

Christians and Jews do not have such ambitions: we don’t see Jews stoning an adulterous woman to death; neither do we see them using the Old Testament rule that says, “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot…” (Exodus 21:24). However, we see the Muslims cutting off the hands of a thief, flogging one hundred times an adulterous man, and stoning to death an adulterous woman. The shocking think here is that the man who committed the same crime as the adulterous woman was sent free with just one hundred lashes, but the woman was sentenced to death.

Christians and Jews are no more using the harsh rule used in the old days; nevertheless, Muslims have refused to modify their religion as far as their barbaric Sharia law is concerned. At present, Islam is not a religion of peace, and it had never been.

You may ask why God ordered Moses and Joshua to destroy so many people and to possess their lands. This is a valid question. And the answer for this question is very simple.

As reported by the prophet Malachi, God has said: “Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals” (Malachi 1-2-3). Is there anything wrong that Esau had done? I don’ think so. Let us find the exact answer for those questions. St. Paul says: “But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'why did you make me like this?’” (Romans 9:26). Therefore, we cannot ask God why he ordered Moses and Aaron to destroy and burn other people’s towns and cities. We cannot ask God why he hated Esau and loved Jacob.

My friend, it is sad that we cannot live together in peace because of Islam’s old baggage that says, “If you leave Islam, you will be killed” (Quran 4:9). In Christianity and Judaism people are free to leave their religions if they want to, but in Islam you are a prisoner and live under fear for the rest of your life. Forget about the unfairness of Islam toward women when it comes to inheritance and equality.

Take care, my friend, and don’t let our disagreement about certain issues bothers you at all, because, at the end of the day, we know we belong to one country – Ethiopia – and must live in harmony, if it is possible; if not, we can live, at least, a symbiotic life.




10/09/12 @ 19:26
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Tee,

I didn't miss your points. I got the IRS analogy. Bravo, good point. Did you expect me to say "I'm persuaded now" after that?

Whether you defer the penalty or not, you're still preaching "Believe in Jesus or you'll go to hell." That too me is not a tolerant, peaceful and loving religion. You are promising hell to about 4 billion people.

As far as staying on point, "which religion is more peaceful?", I'm kind of on point. They both have intolerant and violent parts. We can quote scriptures from both sides until the cows come home.

My friend, you are asking a useless question. It's like asking to chose between diseases: would you prefer throat or prostate cancer?

The rest of the tutti fruti was to show you how silly your religion is.
I picked Christianity but my beef is with "faith" of all kinds. They were also an answer to Assta's claims about moon god, etc ...
You guys are like the kettle calling the pot black. Kids arguing whether superman will beat batman.

You thought my question about the heavy stone was inane? Why not give a shot at an answer?


10/09/12 @ 19:36
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Correction: Have, not are, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ever taught…
10/09/12 @ 19:41
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Assta,

Yes, you've captured my position in a single sentence. You have also convinced me on one point: "At present, Muslim has a more radical/violent leanings". If this was an Oxford style debate, you would have scored mucho points on this one.

You said Jews and Christians don't follow the violent parts of the bible. Why? Because they picked and chose scriptures. That's why "moderate", "liberal" in religion means revisionists. If you're a Christian and don't stone your kid to death if he utters the word "shit", you are a revisionist. Yeah, it's a word of God, but I just don't like that part.

If you take the Abrahamic religions at word value, you find out they are as barbaric as the time they were written in.

Why are modern Jews and Christians so laid back, moderate and liberal? Starting with the moors defeat in Spain in the 15th century,Islam has been losing ground in influence. Basically the Jews and Christians won the war that was started with the Crusades. At a power of position, you can afford to be magnanimous, pick your favorite scriptures and call the down-and-trodden religions barbaric.

How can you say Don't judge God's behavior in the old testament. I'm using the brain he gave me ;) I'm using the Christian "moral balance" I was indoctrinated in. I was told to kill, murder and rape was wrong. How can I not apply those same standards to Moses and Joshua? What did those seven nations you mentioned do, except no believe in Jaweh?
10/09/12 @ 19:59
Comment from: wepE [Member] Email
Marcus: Get past the immediate illusion of an enemy, be it a Muslim, Whites, Somali, Eritrean, Ethiopian or whatever gets you going and see your real enemy. I’m not willing to share my view of this weird world on this public forum. I’m however willing to discuss some the things I find interesting and worth taking a second look at. Instead of getting anxious about religions which humanity has been caring away for millennia you should ask yourself why the world looks like it does today.

I used to harass and verbally insult people for following a different religious path than I did and at times those who didn’t or couldn’t fit my monolithic world view. Nowadays my mind is preoccupied with superficially not very interesting topics like why cash is becoming obsolete while little me being left with the impression that it’s a progress that is a logical next step and natural in every aspect of the word but is in reality nothing but engineered.

Why a tech, RFID, Americans soundly resisted got modified and made its big entrance in the form of NFC with the third gen smartphones, Why a single device called smartphone is becoming the only thing I need already having the capabilities to become my door and car key, credit card, gps, ID, passport, camera, newspaper, music player, to some extent replacing my laptop, desktop and TV while yet still overcoming their limitations and what not!?

Why the teenage tech giant we all love and call google bought all there is to buy as far as small facial recognition software businesses are concerned, what's the real purpose behind its driverless car along with the fairly new “google glass”, why the company likes investing in the biotech, clean tech… industry, how it’s able to build the largest library about, why it wants to track my every move, storing records of my whereabouts while I’m being left with fees for the data traffic enabling it to do just that without my consent…at because that's the case, at least for users who registered for its services before the 1st of much this year (just to be clear, I'm not one of them).

Why the 8 years old facebook is succeeding in doing what the CIA, KGB, MI6 and every other intel. agencies have been trying to do for more than half a century and mostly failed, which is a database of actual individuals reduced to profiles accurately being identified while the activity and service cutely coined a ‘social networking’ which incidentally is the last phrase these sites are to be associated with. We are voluntarily being monitored and we don’t even care. Those who decide not to participate would eventually feel left out and give in. Btw if it was a boy/girl Google has not hit puberty as of now but is more powerful than all the tech industry companies combined and it’s getting used to getting away with taking pics of naked kids, people vomiting, sniffing our WiFi networks without our approval and save the data and next thing you know is they will want to bury the latest derivative of a NFC down your optical nerve so much for the don’t be evil mantra. Words like SOPA, ACTA , PIPA are my headaches, the sudden urge to get the kill switch of the internet under the direct command of the US president is what I would lable worrisome.

Information is the new currency and it will evolve beyond our wildest dreams and most of what is essential today will lose its relevance in the near future but the question is how it relates to the religious end time prophesies and more importantly the DIVINE nature of our CREATOR? Yes you would label me paranoid or sick if you were in a position to do so but luckily you’re not. Do you ever wonder why the Vatican is the biggest enemy of "christianity"? And ohh NO NEW AGE STUFF, Illuminati, mind controll crap here! I've not ignored your questions I just am too tired, if you insist that I've to repond to it then feel free to post your request. Finally hoping this comment will serve its purpose I will end it here asking you if Lenin by chance was talking about himself when he coined "useful idiot", because if he is not a useful idiot, in fact THE most useful idiot for the folks running this world today I don't who is, you and your like belong to that category too only not as useful as he was.
10/09/12 @ 21:02
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
"The Infidel, what is your point? What's your agenda? Are you here to be cute and dilute the conversation? Or to spew your heathen ideas on us god-fearing folks? What do your points have anything to do with Ethiopian Muslims and their current situation? Why spend time writing stuff on some obscure corner of the net?"

These are all valid questions that could be asked on this forum.

My point is simple: faith is the greatest danger humanity is currently facing.
It is a road block to reason and logic and should go the way of polio.
Forget past history - look at the current events and see which ones can be framed in a religious context: The whole middle east issue, Israel's very existence, the Palestinian plight, nuclear face-down between India and Palestine, near religious civil war in Nigeria, Bosnia, Al-Shabab and the Taliban, the whole US war on terror.
Look - we are all atheists when it comes to the thousands of gods that had existed through out history; Zeus, Baal, that tree, etc … Some of us just go one God further. The last remaining Abrahamic God - Yahweh, God, Allah - whatever.

So what do I do about it? What can I?
Very little.

1. I fight ignorance wherever I can. I live in a country where I can speak my mind. Thank God for that :) I argue, I write, call spades a spade and ask tough questions of theists. I delay court proceedings because I can't be sworn in on any book.
2. I use the legal system to my full advantage: you want to have a prayer in public schools? You want to display your religious paraphernalia on public grounds? Your spire or mosque blocks my view or sun-light? Your mosque is noise polluting? You want to legislate religious based laws like abortion? I would be the first to sue you. I feed a lot of hungry lawyers this way. For example, if a history teacher in a public school said, the point we are arguing i.e "Islam is more violent than Christianity" - I would sue him out of existence. That is preaching. I salivate just thinking about such an opportunity.
3. Keep your religion away from my kids. This is the biggest problem. We were all brainwashed as kids. We were born Christians or Muslims. Think about it. It's not like you read the books and chose the most logical one. Once you brainwash a child, it takes a lot of work to get it back.
4. Keep state and religion separate.
5. Keep your religion private. You want to use it as my 2 year old uses his blankie, fine by me. Just don't start any argument, saying "the blankie dictates …"

I'm not trying to persuade anybody here.
I know it's easier to herd cats than to talk logic with a theist.
The brainwashing is too permanent once you're past your teens.
The future is in the next generations to come.
But if one person on nazret.com, goes and googles the "Skeptics Annotated Bible" after reading my comments, I would call that a worthwhile time spent.

I loved WepE's new definition of religion - I'm going to use it from now on.
He defined it as something that is not a fact.
He was answering "what is religion?" to "what is religion?" with a straight face and a condescending tone.
"Duh - if it were proven, it would be a fact." I laughed out loud on that one. Good one.

10/09/12 @ 21:14
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
TheInfidel,

There is a world of difference between "Jesus teaching his followers to engage in violence or he himself engaging in violence during the grace period" versus "Jesus himself coming back to deliver justice, after the grace period is over." In fact the two are light years removed from each other. (I made all these clear in my first response. I think you are a tad slow.)

Whether you like it or not every wrong will be righted some day and every person will give an account of his life. That is what the Bible promises!

I said staying on message and muddying up the discussion because you brought up the question of validity of the scripture mid-stream. Don't you think that should be another topic? (I call that "Girigir Mefter")

If you question the validity of the Bible you should not even quote from it yourself!
10/09/12 @ 22:32
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Dear TheInfidel (visitor),

The essence of every thing, as I see it, is time. With time, almost every thing changes: some people, when they see someone with a prolonged illness, would say, “Time is the healer.”

Yes, Judaism had sacrificed thousands of rams with ten thousand rivers of oil as Micah 6:7 said, and even human sacrifice was made: “He (Ahaz King of Judah) burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable ways of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites” (2nd Chronicles 28:3).

As time went by, the Jews had stopped their old practices thy used to do to please their God, and Christians had no more any interest in marching to capture Jerusalem from the Jews. They had stopped burning the heretics or the atheists. In the same way, I am hoping, the Muslims will change their cruel habits toward the infidels – the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, and toward many other non-Muslims. I know Muslims have been sick for 1400 years, and still time is the healer for their prolonged sickness, not my preaching or someone’s sermon on the Mountain of the Internet.

I have never thought man will land on the moon and go beyond the moon, farther to the deep space and measure the distance of the black hall. Yes, time is the healer, and time is the essence of everything.

The Scripture says: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth,” but we do not know exactly when he created them; however, time, if we are patient, will tell us the exact day when the whole universe was created.

I totally understand God has given us minds that think, ask, investigate, explore, and reason with God, our creator. However, the knowledge we have is very limited to the knowledge our creator has. Why we have a limited knowledge but a better one than the wild animals’ is beyond my comprehension.

Those seven nations I mentioned did not recognize that God exists. They worshipped idols instead of God, who created heaven and earth, so God wanted them to be destroyed, and they were destroyed. Why didn’t God send them Moses and Aaron to teach them the existence of God instead of destroying them? The answer is: “Who am I to know God’s plan for his creature? We are his clays and he can do whatever he wants to do with us – his clays. We must have faith in him, and he would tell us how he created heaven and earth and for what purpose. He would also tell us which religion is the correct one, and if he says Christianity is the correct one, he may not probably destroy the Muslims and the Jews for sticking with the wrong ones for a long time. He would simply correct their beliefs and give them the correct ones.
10/09/12 @ 22:55
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]

It is funny, any time the subject of Muslims brought to this site, every vermin crawl out from under the rocks to get the sunlight then they get chased out to their fox hall for another opportune time.

Deacons of the church, former and recent graduates of School of Theology, lie, confusion and deception,
Say whatever you want to say here, you like it or not, The Ethiopian Muslims are determined to fight for their right to the end. You can’t keep half of the population locked in forever and you can’t lord over more than 40 million people to the end of the time. There is already a big crack in flood gate and the train has left the station. You can't stop it now. Your brouhaha here will not change the outcome either. If anything, learn from the past mistakes of your Orthodox brethren in Serbia and Lebanon.
In this peaceful demonstration, The Muslims in Ethiopia are showing to the rest of Ethiopians how break the Woyane Kelil line. We all know Woyane without divide and conquer is a fish without water. It wouldn’t last long.
That's why the regime in Addis is so scared and paranoid. They never imagined that in their life time the Oromo Muslims will unite with Gurage, the Gurage will cross the Kelil line and unite with Afars, The Afar with Amhara, and Amhara with Somali under one banner in Ethiopia. That is what happening now.

10/10/12 @ 03:52
Comment from: Ethiopiawinet [Visitor]
Assta (I won't label you evil)

You said "you have never thought man will land on the moon,..."

Well, well, the so called "moon god" you evil label it teaches you in Quran this will happen. Do you want know the verse or no?
This is what your dead, cultural, confused religion lacks but let you worship angels, Gabriel, Mariam, tree, all your ignorant illiterate ancestors bestowed on your little penut brain.
You keep this fake religion dear instead of weeding them out.

Your cave god teaches you nothing but hate, lie, fascism (Yohannes), oppression, inhumanity, narrow minded of me, me, me, right.

'wa alemen nasa ma lem yalem.' Do you the meaning of this?

10/10/12 @ 08:07
Comment from: Ethiopiawinet [Visitor]
correction:
Do you know the meaning of this?
And not = Do you the meaning of this?

Assta
Secularism is a good medicine for your brain. Hate and war mongering takes you no where. What makes you different from mass murderers, genociders,red terrorist of Serbia or 19 terrorists? No fine line beween you and them so I put you in one pot.

Nostra daimus

You have absolute right to debate and know about Islam. I myself went to different churches in USA with my class mates (white) and also back home. I have never insulted your little god or your tree, etc you worship that handed over to you by your Ethiopian ancestors who are very ignorant.

Now let me respond to your questions:
1) You said about "unity". I can see in your comments and others that you are not that sophisticated person may be that is the reason for Ethiopia to be at the bottom of the world in every thing including hunger. Now Al Amouding is moving the country and not the government.

You said if Muslims believe in "unity".
let us said if the government run by Ethiopian Muslims instead of copts and treat you as copts treat Ethiopian Muslims since they lost their land in 1887.
Would you care for unity or strive for independence? I leave this for you if you are a wise person.

Again you and your likes bring always trash and repeated things like Saudi, bomb, etc. Even asked about NGO. You really think 100% coptic controlled government will allow Muslim NGO? You must be crazy or just ignorant idiot.
Have you seen or heard a single bomb going on during 11 months of Ethiopian Muslims demonstration despite killing them, torturing, jailing them. So where did you get this? May be you heard it on media at the end of the world and refer it to this new country called Ethiopia. or you simply lie for your hate you have.
How come we work together when you foment war, death, chaos to serve your own trusted ends. To oppress the majority that you fear the most so called Ethiopian Muslims. You don't see them as your bother and sister. Why? As mentioned above. You use religion to oppress them. You use Saudi to ruin their life, you use every thing at your reach to make life hard for them. This is Africa specially Ethiopia.
I am not defending Islam but I am fighting arrogancy, lie, hate, oppression and ignorancy.
With freedom like Eritrea or South Sudan then Assta be quittu & co will disappear from the equation and nobody cares if he & co insulted our religion. Muslims will be free from oppression forever.
10/10/12 @ 08:53
Comment from: Greater Somali star [Visitor]
This place is a center of anti islam & muslims, anti oromos, anti somalis, and to no habashas, where extremist chritian amharas and tigres meet.

Why amharas and tigres are like this? why dont they just go back to their home land to their country if they are so proud. they want live on muslim land migrate all over afar, somalis,oromos and so on.

if you are so proud like this, why dont you go back to your caves in gojjam and gonda, and mekel. go back there, and stay there. Dirty minded people
10/10/12 @ 09:10
Comment from: TheInfidel [Visitor]
Tee,

Usually the first person to engage in name calling is the loser of the debate. Do I sound slow to you? Au contraire, mon frere.

I think your final stance is "Christianity is a peaceful religion because Jesus himself never committed violence or preached violence".

Is that it? I will give you that point. I couldn't find any blood on Jesus' hands per se (I looked).
If that was the crux of your argument, you won. Celebrate. Lame!!

But Jesus supported and condoned everything in the old testament.
He tells you in Matthew 5:17 that he came not to change a single law or prophesy but to fulfill it. Remember my example about stoning your kids for cursing. You know what Jesus said about it. Check out Matthew 15:4-7. Dude is actually chastising the Pharisees for not stoning their kids to death as the old book stated.

He preached doom and gloom. Exclusionist by definition.
Like father like son.
I'm the only God or you'll burn in hell.

P.S. Validity of scripture? Dude I'm quoting this crap because it's the language you speak. That's the best way to argue with theists. Show them the horror in their own book. Don't accuse me of validating this googlygook because I'm quoting from it.

With that, I will leave you in the capable hands of C'est moi Senait, et. al.

Assta/Tee, Thank you so much for engaging in a civilized discussion. I enjoyed it. I shall now slither back into the atheist rock I crawled out of.
10/10/12 @ 13:04
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Jesus and Mary Magdalene

No person in his right mind marries a woman possessed by evil spirits, and such a woman was Mary Magdalene. One of Jesus’ ministries was to heal the sick, to open the eyes of the blind, and to drive out the bad spirits from those possessed by them. Jesus Christ drove out seven bad spirits/Demons from Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:1-3). From that time on, Mary Magdalene joined the other women who followed Jesus Christ in providing Jesus’ material needs from their own resources.

When Jesus was crucified, standing at a distance, there were many women saddened by the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross, and Mary Magdalene was one of theses women (Mark 15:40; Matthew 27:56). In fact, the Apostle John testifies: “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple (John) whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ‘Dear woman, here is your son,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother” (John 19:25-26).

According to the Gospel of John, Jesus pleaded with John to take care of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Jesus didn’t say to John: “Take care of Mary Magdalene, my wife.” If Mary Magdalene had indeed been the wife of Jesus, Jesus would have told John to take care of Mary Magdalene, too. We should remember also that the disciple whom Jesus loved was the apostle John, not Mary Magdalene.

After Jesus died on the Cross and was buried somewhere, Mary Magdalene was one of the women, desperately searching to find out where Jesus was buried (Mark 15:47), and when she and the other women found out where Jesus was buried, she and the other women sat for a while opposite Jesus’ Grave (Matthew 27:61).

Having known precisely where Jesus was buried, Mary Magdalene and her companions left the grave and went to their homes and rested for the Sabbath. After the Sabbath was over they came back to Jesus’ grave (Matthew 28:1). This time they brought with them some spices they had bought from the market so that they could anoint his body as the Jewish custom required (Mark 16:1).

Mary Magdalene was the first eyewitness to announce to the other disciples that the stones on Jesus’ grave were taken away and that Jesus Christ had appeared to her and that he had risen from the dead (John 20:1; Mark 16:9). Mary Magdalene had, indeed, brought good news to the other depressed disciples when she said to them: “I have seen the Lord” (John 20:18).

All the Four Gospels had recorded accurately Mary Magdalene services to Jesus’ ministries, and none of them had said anything that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus Christ.

What does it take for a man to have a wife? The man must have a steady job, must have a home, and must have some money in the bank. Jesus had none of these things: he never had a steady job; he never had his own home; in fact, when someone asked him to follow him, Jesus said: “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20). Jesus never had money in the bank or in his pocket. He was poor. When he was asked to pay taxes to the government, this is what he said to Peter: “…go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours” (Matthew 17:27). Jesus was always on the move, and he had no time to flirt with Mary Magdalene or with the other women. Jesus could have make plenty of money if he had charged his patients he had cured from their various critical illnesses, but he never charged any one of them; He simply would say to them: “…Come! Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life” (Revelation 22:17).

However, some indolent and addle-pated persons, such as Karen King who claimed she had recently discovered a fragmented papyrus that mentioned Jesus had a wife, distort the fact that Jesus had never had a wife according to the Four Gospels writers. Jesus never had any love affairs with any one of those women who followed him throughout his divine ministry. The papyrus doesn’t mention Mary Magdalene: it simply says “Mary,” and its authenticity has not yet been proven. It is just a speculation, and in the past there were many agnostics who speculated that Jesus had a wife, but they had failed to prove their apocryphal books. Therefore, we should not be fooled by the enemies of Christianity and be misguided by their faulty analysis of Jesus’ earthly life – a sinless life, a faultless life, and a life that ended on the Cross to save us from our transgressions and a life that came back again, defeating death and proclaiming salvation to all of us who believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer.

Glory to him forever and ever! Maranatha!

10/10/12 @ 13:10
Comment from: Tee [Visitor]
TheInfidel.

You wrote:
"He (Jesus) preached doom and gloom."

Do you want the truth or a lie that pampers you?

What I accused you of is your style of arguing: switching the subject midstream, forgetting what you are told and so on...

The first one that exits the debate is the real loser!

I kinda understand what and why you are running from...you are fearful of the truth! You can call the Bible all kinds of names, but that won't make it so. It is the truth! And you can't handle the truth!


10/10/12 @ 15:27
Comment from: abuomer [Visitor]
ethiopian moslims are sleeping(politically),its not in the interest of the ethiopian government waking them up - a continuous provoking of the moslims community by interfering in their affairs will lead them to braking silence barriers and resorting to violence - many countries suffering from the political islam committed the mistake of provoking moslims.
10/11/12 @ 00:17
Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
Abu omer,
Right. We slept and we totally avoided politics and we became slaves. Now why on earth would wayane conspire against innocent Muslims who performed their faithful duties and never cared who fought the war suddenly became target of conspiracy. Wayane picked a fight where there was no fight.


Assta Getu,

Your whole idea does not make sense. The closer one gets to a woman it is natural to deveolop intense feeling of relationship especially for a woman. Jesus being 30 it does not make sense he did not have sexualt urge. The point is once again it proves those fanatic die hards that jesus was not God. He was a human in all aspects of his personalities and single quality that makes him God. Mary Magdelene was sorrowly deepened by her lovers death that she left for Europe. I don't know where she ended up.

Assta Getu no amount of cover up will help your point. The evidence is out there and "yaltefesa ayshetem". I congradulate those who exposed the Amhara princess Magdele was the wife of jesus.
10/11/12 @ 10:28
Comment from: doro mata [Visitor]
it looks like Assta and Gragn are the same person
10/11/12 @ 15:30
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Thanks, nazret.com for deleting over ten times my response to my friend Gragn Ahmed’s comment.
10/11/12 @ 16:27
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
My dear Gragn Ahmed (visitor),

I have enjoyed your comment for a number of years, and I have never stopped responding to your very interesting comments, but this time is different. Nazret.com doesn’t let me discuss certain issues with you; therefore, you may not see me on this web site again, but I urge you to continue posting your opinions. Some one my give you an answer to your comments.

Goodbye, my long time friend!

10/11/12 @ 16:42
Comment from: Nostra Daimus [Visitor]
*****
@etiopiawinet
If you muslims we so Godly and loving as you claim to be, how come I have not heard of any Muslim Imam or organization come forward and denounce what you did on 911?
Yes I say it again you Muslims have not done one ayota in the world to help the poor, only to decimate them!
10/11/12 @ 18:37
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
Assta Ebdu Said!

"Goodbye"

I say Goodbye and Good Riddance My Lunatic Deacon!

There are lot of websites out there serving people just like you

folks, give him a few days and I am sure he will come back when his medication ran out.
10/12/12 @ 01:53
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Seattle, ጅላጅል፤ቂላቂል፤የኃማኖት ቁስል፤የእውቀት ቁንጽል፤የመሐመድ ግልገል፤የስልምና ቅማል፤የሰይጣን መሰላል፤የቅጥፍና አክሊል፤ፈውስ የለሽ ጠበል፤የኃጢአት አገልግል፤የማያድን ጠበል፤የጠነባ እንቁላል፤የዲያብሎስ ወኪል, (visitor),

I gave you few days ago the following correct statements to prove they are not correct by giving clear evidence either from the fictitious Quran or from the true word of God, the Holy Bible. Now I will give you few days to give your views on those statements:


1. Islam is not a religion.

2. Muhammad is a false prophet.

3. Quran is a fiction.

4. Hadith is a fairy-tale-Arabian Nights.

5. The Sharia Law is the law of the devils.

6. Muhammad is an adulterer and a child molester.

7. Muhammad is a terrorist.

8. Muhammad is a dead woman fucker.

9. Aisha was a violent woman and a murderer.


Good luck!!!


I am not going to leave until all Muslims denounce their religion.
10/12/12 @ 11:20
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Seattle (visitor),

How many sins have you committed since you joined Islam?

A new book published in German and English by author Zahid Khan, titled “The Criminal Acts of Prophet Mohammed” lists the following 32 sins committed by Muhammad the false Prophet:

1. I ordered the veiling women, which was never ordered by God

2. I ordained polygamy, which was not God’s plan

3. I also conceived the special dispensation for me to marry any woman I wished

4. I made many pronouncements that were driven by my lust for women

5. I even captured and raped Jewish married women and kept them in my harem

6. I determined that a woman’s testimony only counted as half that of a man

7. I ordained that men could beat their women if they were disobedient
8. I began attacking caravans (at Nakhla) against God’s wishes

9. I ordered the killing of poets who criticized me

10. I made God angry by refusing to make peace with Jews and Christians

11. I authorized and participated in the beheading of 900 Jewish men

12. I made a law authorizing the murder of non-believers, against God’s will

13. I called Jews “rats” even though they were descendants of Abraham

14. I, at the end of my life, refused God’s request that I clean up the Quran of all the corrupt laws I had written into it

15. I refused God’s request that I divorce myself from all the women except Aisha

16. I refused God’s request that I go to Rome and unite with the Christian church

17. I wanted my religion to wipe out all other religions

18. I refused God’s request to work towards uniting Islam with Judaism and Christianity, because I did not like it

19. I ordained that Muslim men could have up to four wives so the Muslim population would increase quickly

20. I saw God’s form but did not witness this to my followers

21. I refused to partner with Jesus because I wanted my own religion

22. I left Archangel Gabriel with no choice but to form a new religion

23. I ignored the words of God transmitted through Archangel Gabriel

24. I refused God’s request to edit out my own passages in the Quran

25. I acknowledge responsibility
for the hostility between Israel and Palestine to this day

26. I exiled Jewish tribes from their land without sympathy or compassion

27. I refused God’s request that I love the Jewish people as I loved my own family members

28. I ordered the killing of all other prophets so that I would be the last prophet

29. I extracted draconian commands from the Old Testament and old Arabian laws, despite signs from heaven calling on me to have more compassion

30. I authorized men to divorce their wives simply by saying “I divorce you” three times

31. I forbade anyone to marry my widows because I was afraid they would abandon me in the spiritual world

32. I knew the promise of virgins in Paradise for martyrs was valid only during my lifetime, but I never informed my followers of this limitation.

“Of course,” the author says “these were only the sins that Muhammad actually acknowledged in the book. There are many more, like raping nine year old Aisha or extorting jizyah from non-Muslims, that could be added to the list. Still, the thirty-two admissions put this Prophet in a class – all by himself.”
I believe him there are more covered up and revealed sins Muhammad had committed, such as his having sex with menstruating women and with a dead body of a woman.
10/12/12 @ 11:29
Comment from: Grang Ahmed [Visitor]
I really enjoy your attack which is unfair but still worth responding because of your fierceness and because of your love and passion for what you do which is a debate skill I have never noticed in any forum and podium. As I watched the vice presidential debate last night I noticed how Americans like to debate but at times they miss the skill that yo possess in debating me. Most of the things that you address against Islam have been fiercely defended by Muslim scholars. These were found to be fruitless but at the same time they were found to be also very disturbing for the niave and novice to religion of Islam. As you know both Muslims and Christians of Ethiopia possessed a great authentic religion that no other civilization had been able to get a chance to. However, many Muslims and orthodox are now flocking to the young reformed religion of pentes. It is sad to see that such phenomenon is now common everywhere. When I came to this website I learned however that there are deep hate for Islam and Muslims and it was one of you. I hope by now you have realized that Islam got defenders. This is the nature of Muslim loving Ethiopians.

I saw that you never pass any single comment without being addressed. If I found you in my Muslim country I would have treated you nice and I would have asked you why you hate Muslims and why you love jesus deeply and christians in general and jews in particular. I would have challenged you that jews wer the ones who killed the one person you love Jeus most and yet they are the only ones who hate him the most. Muslims love jesus as much if not more than christians do. So I would have asked you how you lived with such contradiction and how it can give you peace of mind.



At any rate even though you hate my Prophet who loved the Ethiopian christian King Arema who later converted to Islam, I don't think you deserve to die. Through your hate comment we learned how we lived with evils.

I learned a lot from you but nazret.com showed that they were unablle to tolerate Muslims when they insult christians religious figures.


10/12/12 @ 11:47
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Dear Gragn Ahmed (visitor),

I am glad you watched the fiery debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: they both tried hard to empress the public, and one of them did. Who do you think it was? It was the young debater who had never debated before in front of such a big crowd, and that person was Paul Ryan. He was very respectful to the old man, Joe Biden. Joe Biden, as a mean, aggressive, and superficial person, worked hard to intimidate the young Paul Ryan, but he failed to do so, and, sometimes, he didn’t know what he was talking about. He simply would say “bunch of staff” instead of telling us what that bunch of staff was; therefore, Joe Biden has failed in showing us his debating skills, but he has succeeded in showing us his artificial smiling teeth. To my judgment, last night’s debate would help the Republicans and hurt the Democrats.

Gragn Ahmed, the old Ethiopian Muslims had been good Ethiopians, but the young ones are brainwashed by the Saudi Wahhabis; therefore, they don’t have any respect to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church; I really don’t hate Muslims: the only thing I hate is Islam, a very violent religion. Don’t you see what is going on in Nigeria and in the old city, Timbuktu, in the name of Islam? Don’t you see what happened to the 14-year-old Indian girl who encouraged other girls to go to school?

I like the Jews because Jesus Christ was a Jew, and all the Patriarchs and the prophets were Jews: only one Jew killed Jesus Christ, and not all the other Jews participated in the killing of the Lord Jesus. There are many Jews who like Jesus Christ, for example, the Messianic Jews. Also, there is a strong relationship between the Jews and the Ethiopians. We have the Jewish culture in most of the things we do in Ethiopia, especially in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.

My problem with the Muslims is they don’t accept Jesus as a God: they simply give him a second status to Muhammad the prophet. Jesus is greater than any other prophets who were sent by God to us.

Even though you are a Muslim who has been defending Islam not the type of Islam the ancient Ethiopian Muslims used to have but the young Muslim generation Islam, I always respect you as a human being, and I will never consider you an enemy of Assta B. Gettu. You have your own views about Islam and Christianity, and I have my own views about the two religions.

Have a peace!
10/12/12 @ 19:15
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Correction: Pakistani girl, not Indian girl
10/12/12 @ 19:20
Comment from: yehiwot medhanit [Visitor]
Jesus came as a lamb of God to shed his blood for the sins of humanity. the only sin that we will be accused of is that not accepting Gods only Son. he will come back again as the Lion of Judah and King of Kings and as the mighty judge. this is the only thing that matters in life. please accept Jesus' invitation into His life and forget all this other rubbish..the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe in Jesus, lest the light of the Gospel of Jesus shine upon their life. one day, there will not be anymore religion in this world. only the Father and His children. Lions with lambs, total peace, total harmony, Wake up people.
10/12/12 @ 19:52
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]

I spoke too soon.
Assta Ebdu the pedophile and homo deacon is still here.

Guess his medication ran out sooner than I expected. Someone need to ship him some more before he goes to his daily posting binge.

"you may not see me on this website again" KKKKK

Lemayawkish
10/13/12 @ 02:49
Comment from: Seattle [Visitor]
Here is another joke of the day from the resident Deacon Assta.

"really don’t hate Muslims: the only thing I hate is Islam, a very violent religion"

Would anyone on their right mind believe any word coming out of this man?







10/13/12 @ 03:02
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
Seattle (visitor),

Too bad you are burning inside your brains as you see my precious and anti-Islamic name on this web site. I assure you I will continue exposing to the world your deceptions and lies.

Today’s news in brief:
“Pakistan, Karachi – a teenage Christian boy’s home devoured and the furniture set on fire by a mob led by Islamic clerics.”
“Films on Muhammad would be the Last Nail on the Coffin of Islam” (10/10/2012), a must-read article by Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
I was trying to post the article, but the Islamic web site, nazret.com, objected to posting it. I think, nazret.com wants to give the Jihadist Muslims a peace of mind by refusing posting anything that exposes the atrocities of the terrorist Muslims on the non-Muslims.
10/13/12 @ 12:34
Comment from: Assta B. Gettu [Visitor]
A very interesting analysis of the debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan:


“SAN DIEGO, October 12, 2012 — Much is being made of Joe Biden’s laughter, smiles, and constant interrupting during the debate with GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Congressman Paul Ryan. There was plenty to smile about. Nuclear missiles in the hands of Iran can be pretty funny stuff. And when intelligence reports contradict the Obama narrative about four dead Americans in Libya, the conversation becomes downright hysterical!
Yes, without a doubt, Biden came across ruder than an eccentric uncle who dominates your dinner table conversation once a year during those obligatory family Thanksgivings. We witnessed an absolute outrage last night but we must be careful not to quickly dismiss our Vice-President as a man coming unhinged. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Biden did not lose control of himself. Instead, he offered a cold, calculated performance. It worked, even though personal popularity may have been a casualty. Although many were turned off by Biden’s gestures and expressions, that alone doesn’t hand the trophy to Congressman Ryan. A debate is won or lost on substance. It is not fair to say Biden lost the debate simply because people were irritated by his demeanor.
On the other hand, if people were unable to follow Ryan’s points due to the distraction of Uncle Joe’s arrogant smiles and canned laughter, we can certainly call a foul. Bad manners alone may not disqualify an opponent, but when such manners violate debate rules, that is another matter altogether.
Unfortunately, the “keeper of the rules” ABC News correspondent, Martha Raddatz broke etiquette herself by also interrupting Ryan. It usually happened when Ryan was about to respond to one of Biden’s accusations. Before Ryan could defend himself, Raddatz, by an incredible coincidence, decided it was time to move on to a new subject.
Where as Biden’s obvious marching orders were to regain the control Obama lost last week with Romney, Raddatz apparently had an agenda of her own. She decided to take better charge than previous moderator, Jim Leher. Ironically, when Leher lost control, we accidentally witnessed something closer to a real debate. Romney and Obama had plenty of time to speak and respond to each other without being sidetracked by a three-way argument with their moderator.
Americans need to see that kind of exchange more often. The candidates alone should be deciding what to question each other about. A moderator is there to make sure both opponents stay within their time frame and not interrupt each other. Raddatz accomplished neither. For that reason, we did not witness a real debate. The evening was not supposed to be about Martha Raddatz. It was not her place to participate in the debate by sparring with the candidates under the guise of asking “objective questions” such as “Now, we’ve reached the recruiting goal for Afghan forces, we’ve degraded Al Qaida. So tell me, why not leave now? What more can we really accomplish? Is it worth more American lives?”
While Raddatz’s own behavior left much to be desired, she was also the enabler for Biden’s abuse. A real moderator would not have allowed him to interrupt. Laughing or making other weird gestures while Ryan talked should also have been included in the definition of interrupting.
In any event, since Raddatz failed to do her job, Biden fulfilled his role as a faithful attack dog. He may have lost in terms of personal favorability but the very fact that more people are remembering Biden smirks rather than Ryan points means his mission was accomplished.
Stealing attention away from Ryan was only part of the strategy. Biden’s flamboyant manner and fast paced draw also deflected his multiple lies. He wasn’t worried because he’s used to talking off the cuff and living within the moment. It usually works. Sure, the fact checkers always catch up with him, but most people don’t study post debate commentary. They form an impression during the debate itself and that is what remains in their minds. If a man expresses himself with passion, he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.
Still, for those interested in finding some truth beneath the performance, a whole litany of Biden flaws can be subjected to the microscope. The variety itself is quite stunning, from a willingness to throw our intelligence agency under the bus, to a down right lie about taxing only millionaires, unless 250,000 dollars a year is the new definition of “million.”
Two of the more subtle moments in the debate deserve special attention. When asked how his Catholic faith affects public policy, Biden offered the usual drivel about how he personally is against abortion but cannot turn such a conviction into a law:
“My religion defines who I am, and I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life. And has particularly informed my social doctrine. The Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who -- who can't take care of themselves, people who need help. With regard to -- with regard to abortion, I accept my church's position on abortion as a -- what we call a (inaudible) doctrine. Life begins at conception in the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews, and I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the -- the congressman.”
Nobody bothered to ask if obeying Catholic social doctrine about “taking care of those who can’t take care of themselves” through wealth redistribution or other government policies was also wrong because the government, through taxation, is imposing its religious view on others. Only the protection of an unborn baby causes government intrusion in the view of our Vice-President. Can a case be made that unborn babies are also “people who can’t take care of themselves?” Yes, but who stops to notice when Biden is busy sucking all the oxygen out of the room?
Another interesting moment took place when Ryan said we could “cut tax rates by 20 percent and still preserve these important preferences for middle-class taxpayers.”
Biden rebuked the congressman, saying his math didn’t add up.
“It is mathematically possible,” Ryan insisted. “It's been done before.”
Biden replied by saying, “It’s never been done before.”
Ryan stood his ground. “It's been done a couple of times, actually.”
Then for effect, Biden repeated himself. “It’s never been done before!”
When Ryan said it had been done by President Kennedy, Biden decided that it might be wise not to argue the point any longer. Instead, he offered a zinger: “Oh, now you're Jack Kennedy?”
It was a clever maneuver. Biden quickly changed the subject by making it look like he was staying on the subject. After all, he included Kennedy in his response. The line was more popular when Lloyd Bentsen used it on Dan Quayle but Biden’s objective was still accomplished. He avoided admitting that facts have little to do with his debating skills.
Those are only small samples from a much larger smorgasbord of lies. The fact checkers probably needed a few cans of Red Bull just to stay awake last night and catalogue them all. Every misstatement should be studied, even though the list looks longer than a doctoral dissertation.
Remembering only the rudeness itself let’s Biden off the hook. He should instead be remembered as a loud, lying, disingenuous blowhard who avoided being nailed only by sabotaging any semblance to an authentic debate and guessing (correctly) that a liberal “moderator” would let him get away with it.”
Bob Siegel is a weekend radio talk show host on KCBQ and columnist. Details of his show can be found at www.bobsiegel.net.
10/13/12 @ 13:06

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