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Itinerary in Imam's Persia - by Cosmas Megalommatis
Οδοιπορικό στην Περσία του Ιμάμη – του Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη
Το άρθρο αυτό δημοσιεύθηκε για πρώτη φορά στο περιοδικό Ανεξήγητο (Μάρτης 1986, σελ. 116-127). Για πρώτη φορά μεταφέρθηκε στο Ιντερνέτ από το σήμερα πλέον απενεργοποιημένο σάιτ technova: http://www.technova.gr/technova/index.php/2012-06-21-03-15-38/afieroma/1927-odoiporiko-stin-persia-tou-imam την Τετάρτη 19 Αυγούστου 2015. Ο φίλος κ. Νίκος Μπαϋρακτάρης αντέγραψε το κείμενο και με άφθονο φωτογραφικό, το οποίο συνέλεξε από το Ιντερνέτ, το ανέβασε ως βίντεο (σε δύο τμήματα) στο σήμερα απενεργοποιημένο ΥΤ κανάλι του. Η μουσική υπόκρουση ήταν δικής μου επιλογής. Χάρη στο υλικό που είχε ο κ. Μπαϋρακτάρης ετοιμάσει, ανέβασα το άρθρο σε δύο μορφές (σε Word doc η πρώτη και σε PowerPoint η δεύτερη) εδώ:
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Τα βίντεο, τα οποία ετοίμασε ο κ. Μπαϋρακτάρης, μπορείτε να βρείτε εδώ:’
{Μουσική / Music accompaniment: Classical music from Iran – Great masters of the setar – Hossein Alizadeh (حسین علیزاده) 00:00 Mahtab 16:17 Avaz-e Abouata Masnavi} και
{Μουσική / Music accompaniment: Shahram Nazeri – Mystified (Sufi Music of Iran) 00:00 – Jewel of Love 10:09 – Desire}
Μπορείτε επίσης να τα βρείτε αντιστοίχως και εδώ:
Путеводитель по Ирану Имама / Itinerary in Imam’s Persia / Οδοιπορικό στην Περσία του Ιμάμη – του Μ. Σ. Μεγαλομμάτη https://ok.ru/video/333170084440
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Путеводитель по Ирану Имама II / Itinerary in Imam’s Persia II / Οδοιπορικό στην Περσία του Ιμάμη II – του Μ. Σ. Μεγαλομμάτη https://ok.ru/video/333172181592
Σε αυτή την ηλεκτρονική αναδημοσίευση παρουσιάζονται για πρώτη φορά online οι ίδιες οι σελίδες του περιοδικού, αν και ασπρόμαυρες.
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Cosmas Megalommatis, Is History Secret?
(Book review of Umberto Eco's book, Foucault's Pendulum); DIAVAZO, fasc. 235 (March 21, 1990), pp. 113-128
Η Ιστορία Μυστική; (Βιβλιοκρισία του βιβλίου του Ουμπέρτο Έκο, Το Εκκρεμές του Φουκώ); Διαβάζω, τεύχος 235 (21 Μαρτίου 1990), σελ. 113-128
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https://www.slideshare.net/MuhammadShamsaddinMe/ss-9cf1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/_b___b_/24720432
From Ferdowsi to the Seljuk Turks, Nizam al Mulk, Nizami Ganjavi, Jalal ad-Din Rumi & Haji Bektash
By Prof. Muhammet Şemsettin Gözübüyükoğlu (Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis)
Pre-publication of chapter XXIII of my forthcoming book “Turkey is Iran and Iran is Turkey – 2500 Years of indivisible Turanian – Iranian Civilization distorted and estranged by Anglo-French Orientalists”; chapter XXIII constitutes the Part Nine (Fallacies about the Golden Era of the Islamic Civilization). The book is made of 12 parts and 33 chapters.
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Russia, China, the Decayed Muslim World, and the Crumbling, Savage Western World - I
By Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Fake states of fake Arabs and fake Muslims
II. Turkey and Iran: the two exceptions
III. Unsophisticated, gullible and ignorant sheikhs and theologians
IV. How Turkey's and Iran's paranoid Islamists are manipulated by Western colonials
V. Russia, China, and the Utilization of the Muslim World by the Western Colonials
VI. What Russia and China must do
Introduction
Fourteen years ago, on 4th December 2007, I published an article under title 'Russia, Islam, and the West', which -within few days- was officially (ИноСМИ / Inosmi) translated into Russian (' Россия, ислам и Запад'). I wanted to briefly elaborate on how things would develop and to also identify possible allies for Russia within the so-called 'Islamic World'.
As the translated version of the article was extensively reproduced, I noticed that it was also well understood. Example: the great portal Centrasia (www.centrasia.org), while republishing the Russian translation, added an over-title for the use of its readers to state the following: "Экспансия западного мира не столько решала проблемы, сколько распространяла их вширь" (The expansion of the Western world did not so much solve problems as spread them in breadth). Indeed, there could not be better summary of my article's contents. The over-title was indeed an excellent reflection of my original perception and ultimate conviction, namely that the West wanted to use the senseless Islamic World against Russia.
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In that article's last part, I put a title that appeared very odd, even to several Egyptian and other African friends of mine (at the time, I was living in Cairo): "Islam is Turkey and Iran". In that part, I explained why only these two countries could possibly be Russia's allies against the Western colonial contamination that threatens the entire world. The reason for this statement is that only these two countries had maintained until that time a correct sense of historical-cultural identity and an imperial-level establishment and diplomacy. As a matter of fact, the rest of the so-called Islamic world is constituted by fake states-puppets of the colonial powers (from Morocco and Nigeria to Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia); unfortunately, the uneducated, ignorant, and idiotic elites of these neo-colonial structures never realized what 'national integrity' means.
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Iran–Turan, Manichaeism & Islam during the Migration Period and the Early Caliphates
By Prof. Muhammet Şemsettin Gözübüyükoğlu (Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis)
Pre-publication of chapter XVI of my forthcoming book “Turkey is Iran and Iran is Turkey – 2500 Years of indivisible Turanian – Iranian Civilization distorted and estranged by Anglo-French Orientalists”; chapters XIV, XV and XVI belong to Part Five (Fallacies about Sassanid History, History of Religions, and the History of Migrations). The book is made of 12 parts and 33 chapters.
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Hsiung-nu soldier from Saksanokhur, Tajikistan
However, soon afterwards, Europe faced two major threats that lasted many centuries: the Islamic armies and the Manichaean subversion. Despite their ferocity and their conquests, at a certain point the Islamic armies were stopped either in Western or in Eastern Europe. But the Manichaean tidal wave that hit Europe back was disproportional and beyond any expectation. Starting from the Eastern Roman Empire and the entire Caucasus region and as early as the 7th c. CE, the Paulicians triggered an enormous religious, social and imperial destabilization across vast lands. The famous Eastern Roman Akritai, i.e. the imperial Eastern Roman guards and frontal forces against the Islamic Caliphate, were – all – Paulicians, having rejected the Christian Orthodox Constantinopolitan theology. Digenes Akritas, the Eastern Roman Empire's greatest hero and Modern Greeks' most revered and foremost legendary figure was a Paulician, not an Orthodox.
Constantinopolitan patriarchs, emperors and theologians persistently described the Paulicians as Manichaeans; they used the same term also for the Iconoclasts. This does not mean that these religious, spiritual and esoteric systems of faith were 'Manichaean' stricto sensu, but they were definitely formed under determinant Manichaean impact. The same concerns the Bogomiles across the Balkans, Central and Western Europe, starting in the 10th c., the Cathars across Western Europe from the 12th c. onwards, and also many other religious, spiritual and esoteric systems that derived from the aforementioned.
The Muslim friends, partners and associates of the Paulicians were also groups formed under strong Manichaean impact and historically viewed as such; known as Babakiyah or Khurramites or Khorram-dinan, the 8th c. religious group setup by Sunpadh and led in the 9th c. by Babak Khurramdin made an alliance with the Eastern Roman Emperor Theophilos (829-842), an outstanding Iconoclast, and not only repeatedly revolted against the Abbasid Caliphate but also fought along with the Eastern Roman army in 837 in the Anti-Taurus Mountains to recapture Melitene (Malatya), and on many other occasions. The Khurramite commander Nasir and 14000 Iranian Khurramite rebels had no problem in being baptized Iconoclast Christians and taking Greek names (Nasir became then known as Theophobos), which shows the Manichaean origins and affinities of the Iconoclasts and the Khurramites.
The state of the Paulicians
The massacre of the Paulicians
Kale-ye Babak, the impregnable castle of the Babakiyah (or Khurramites) near Kaleybar – East Azerbaijan, Iran
Afshin brings Babak as captive in Samarra. from a manuscript miniature of the Safavid times
Babak Khorramdin statue from Babek city in Nakhchivan province of Azerbaijan
Within the context of early Islamic caliphates, the Manicheans prospered, definitely marked by their superiority in terms of spirituality, letters, sciences, philosophy and cosmology. It was relatively easy for them to reinterpret the Quran as a Manichaean scripture; it was totally impossible for the uneducated and naïve early Muslims to oppose Manicheans in open debate or to outfox Manichaean interpretative schemes. Among the leading Muslim erudite polymaths, mystics, poets and translators of the early period of Islamic Civilization (7th – 8th c.), many defended all major pillars of the Manichaean doctrine and even the dualist dogma; Ibn al Muqaffa is an example. The illustrious translator of the Middle Persian literary masterpiece Kalila wa Dimna into Arabic was a crypto-Manichaean Muslim, and surely he was not the only. Ibn al Muqaffa was executed as per the order of Caliph al-Mansur (754-775), but the first persecution of the Manicheans started only under the Caliph al-Mahdi (775-785); however, this was the time many groups and movements or Manichean origin started openly challenging Islam and the Caliphate in every sense. However, it is noteworthy that the greatest Caliph of all times, Harun al Rashid (786-809), had a very tolerant and friendly stance toward Manicheans of all types.
Abu’l Abbas al-Saffah proclaimed as the first Abbasid Caliph: the Abbasid dynasty opened the door for a cataclysmic Iranian cultural, intellectual, academic, scientific and spiritual impact on the Muslim world.
However, it is only as late as the time of Caliph al-Muqtadir (908-932) that the Manicheans, persecuted in the Caliphate, left Mesopotamia in big numbers, making of Afrasiab (Samarqand) and Central Asia the center of their faith, life and activities. This was not a coincidence; many Turanians had already been long date enthusiastic Manichean converts and adepts, whereas several Manichaean monuments unearthed in Central Asia date back to the 4th c. At the time of al-Mansur, the Uyghur Khaqan (: Emperor) Boku Tekin accepted Manichaeism as official state religion in 763; the Uyghur Khaqanate stretched from the Tian Shan mountains and the Lake Balkhash (today's Kazakhstan) to the Pacific. For more than one century, Manichaeism was the state religion across the entire Northeastern Asia.
During the same time, Manichaeism was diffused in Tibet and China. Similarly with what occurred in the Islamic Caliphate, Manicheans in Tibet and China had it easy to reinterpret Buddhism in Manichaean terms. As a matter of fact, Chinese Buddhism is full of Manichaean impregnations. For this reason, several anti-Buddhist Chinese emperors (like Wuzong of Tang in the period 843-845) confused the Manicheans with the Buddhists and persecuted them too. However, Manichaeism was for many centuries a fundamental component and a critical parameter of all social, spiritual, intellectual and religious developments in China. And this was due to the incessant interaction of Turanians and Iranians across Asia. About:
During the Sassanid and early Islamic periods, the central provinces of Iran had to embrace many Turanian newcomers. This was one of the numerous Turanian waves that the Iranian plateau and its periphery had to welcome across the millennia. A vast and critical topic of the World History that was excessively distorted and systematically misrepresented across various disciplines of the Humanities is the chapter of the major Eurasiatic Migrations. Various distorting lenses have been used in this regard. It is surely beyond the scope of the present chapter to outline this subject, but I must at least mention it with respect to the persistent Orientalist efforts to divide and dissociate Iranian from Turanian nations across several millennia.
If one accepts naively the 'official' dogma of Western colonial historiography, one imagines that all the world's major civilizations (Sumerians, Elamites, Akkadians-Assyrians/Babylonians, Egyptians, Cushites-Sudanese, Hittites, Hurrians, Urartu, Phoenicians, Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Dravidians, Chinese, etc.) were automatically popped up and instantly formed by settled populations. Modern historians, who compose this sort of nonsensical narratives, are monstrous gangsters intending to desecrate human civilization and to extinguish human spirituality. All civilizations were started by nomads, and there was always a time when all indigenous nations (each of them in its own turn) were migrants.
But modern Western historians intentionally and criminally misrepresent the major Eurasiatic Migrations in a most systematic and most sophisticated manner, by only introducing - partly and partially - aspects of this overwhelming and continual phenomenon, like spices on gourmet dishes. I do not imply that the Eurasiatic Migrations were the only to have happened or to have mattered; there were also important migrations in Africa, the Pacific, and the continent of the Aztecs, the Mayas and the Incas. However, I limit the topic to the migrations that are relevant to the History of Iran and Turan. So, those who study Ancient Roman History are customarily told that, 'although everything was fine and civilized Romans prospered in peace', suddenly some iniquitous barbarians arrived to invade Roman lands and to embarrass the civilized settled populations altogether; this type of bogus-historical presentations is a Crime against the Mankind, because it distorts the foremost reality of human history, namely that we have all been migrants.
There is no worst bigotry worldwide than that of settled populations.
Yet, every manual of history would be easily rectified, if few extra chapters were added, at the beginning and during the course of the narration, to offer an outline of parallel developments occurred in the wider and irrevocbly indivisible Eurasia.
The discriminatory, truly racist, manner by which the civilized migrants are presented in various manuals of (Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Cushitic, Anatolian, Roman, Greek, European, Russian, Iranian, Dravidian, and Chinese) History helps only reinstate the vicious and immoral axiom that 'History is written by the victors'. Every historian, who does not consciously write in an objective manner to reveal the truth and to reject the paranoia of the aforementioned adage, is an enemy of the Mankind.
Beyond the aforementioned points, many historians today will try to find an excuse, saying that, by writing about let's say the so-called 'barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire', they intentionally reflect the Roman viewpoint, because they rely on Roman historical sources. This could eventually be accepted, if stated in 1820, when the modern science of history had not advanced much, and only few archaeological excavations had taken place. But if this is seriously expressed as an apology today, it constitutes an outrage. The least one can say to these forgers is that they must first obtain an interdisciplinary degree, before publishing their nonsensical manual, or – alternatively - study several paperbacks on the History of the Migrant Nations (in this case: Huns, Vandals, Goths, etc.).
An even greater mistake that modern historians make is that they present the continual phenomenon of Eurasiatic migrations in a most fragmentary manner; this creates, by means of Nazi propaganda, the wrong idea and the distorted impression that all of a sudden, every now and then, new migrants appear in the horizon, coming out of the vast Asiatic 'nowhere'. This is an aberration and a fallacy. The absurd factoid, which is deceitfully called "Invasions of the Roman Empire" and is peremptorily dated between 100 CE and 500 CE, is merely an academic fabrication. Why?
First, there were incessant migrations before and after the said period.
Second, the aforementioned factoid is a fallacy due to the fact that, during the same period, other migrations took also place, but the specialists in Roman History do not mention (or even do not know) them; however, these migrations (that they fail to even name) constitute intertwined phenomena with those that they present in their manuals, and consequently their presentation is a conscious and plain distortion.
Third, the events are always portrayed as a menace of barbarism, as breach of Roman legitimacy, and as violation of a hypothetical right of the Roman Empire to exist. This is an outrage; the Roman Empire was not a sacrosanct institution. In many aspects, its lawless formation, barbaric expansion, and bloody wars constitute some of the World History's bleakest pages. But criminal colonial historians never discussed 'unpleasant' topics with the correct terminology; they did not write for instance about the barbarian Roman demolition of Carthage, the monstrous Roman sack of Corinth, the savage Roman invasion of Seleucid Syria or the lawless Roman annexation of Egypt.
This is the disgusting bias of the Western colonial historiographers: when a negative development takes place against Rome, it is 'bad'; and quite contrarily, when an undesirable occurrence happens to others, it is 'good'. And in order to represent this vicious bias as 'historical truth', they mobilize a great intellectual effort, involving many methods. In this regard, the Eurasiatic migrations are absurdly fractured into many parts, and many of these parts are deliberately concealed, when focus is made on only one of them. The pseudo-academic methods involved to disguise and conceal the topic are numerous.
First, some migrations are not presented as such, but named after the migrant nations; examples: Scythians, Sarmatians, Celts. And yet, these nations are basically known due to their migrations across vast lands.
Second, other migrations are not mentioned as such, but called after the name of the location where excavations brought to light the material remains of a migrant nation's civilization; example: Andronovo culture, Afanasievo culture, etc.
Third, several migrant nations of different origin are regrouped after the geography where they spread; this is totally paranoid, because no one can possibly 'regroup' the Vandals, who crossed Central and Western Europe, reached North Africa, settled in Hippo Regius and Carthage, and then attacked Greece, Sicily, Rome, Sardinia, Corsica and the Iberian coastlands, with the Huns, who crossed Siberia, Russia, and Ukraine, settled in Eastern Europe and attacked the Balkans, Italy and Gaul.
Fourth, several migrant nations are dissociated from one another migrant nation of the same ethnic origin (example: Huns and Turkic nations), whereas in cases of severe distortion, different names of the same nation, attested in diverse historical sources, are tentatively presented as names of two different nations (example: Huns and Hsiung nu whose name is erroneously spelled Xiongnu).
Fifth, several parts of migrant nations are arbitrarily dissociated from their ethnic counterparts and presented separately as settled nations (example: White Huns or Hephthalites).
Sixth, the ethnic origin of several migrant nations is confusingly presented (example: the Bulgars, who were a Turkic nation, are often included in Europe's 'Migration Period' and categorized along with Slavs, whereas they should have been mentioned in the 'Turkic migrations'!).
To the aforementioned inaccuracies, distortions and prejudices, a plethora of false maps is added to comfortably reduce the size of kingdoms, empires and nations whose existence did not happen to please the discriminatory minds of the perverse Anglo-French and American colonial historians.
The end result of this systematization of Western colonial falsehood is that great and highly civilized conquerors and emperors like Attila, Genghis Khan, Hulagu Khan, Kublai Khan, Timur Lenk and others appear as mysterious meteorites, who came from "nowhere", as barbarian invaders, and a "scourges of God", whereas in reality they all (and many others) were far more educated, more cultured, more competent and more heroic than any Greek, Macedonian, Roman or European king or general. To the aforementioned historical reality additional, deceitful tactics and insidious procedures have been added by the criminal, racist, Western European and North American 'historians': they definitely proved to be able to write 100000 words to deplore the destructions supposedly caused to the Human Civilization by Attila, Genghis Khan, Hulagu Khan, and others, but when they happen to write about the fact that Alexander the Great burned Persepolis, they remain malignantly and partially silent, abstaining from any due criticism.
King Attila with the Turul bird in his shield (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
It would be far easier for all to tell the truth: 'Asia is Turan' for most of its territory. And the moral lesson must be drawn: the existence of a 'state' is not a reason for anyone not to invade its lands. States are not sacrosanct; and in any case, the territory occupied by the nation that setup the local state, in all cases of historical states, was also invaded by the ancestors of that nation in the first place.
The biased Western colonial historians carry out all these distortions as tasks in order to promote the lawless interests of their own disreputable states; for this reason they always concealed the following unwavering reality: throughout World History, various fundamental concepts like 'land', 'state', 'nation', 'sacred place', etc. have had different connotations among nations of nomadic migrants and nations of settled populations.
Furthermore, several fundamental concepts, which are valid among settled nations, have no validity at all among nomads and migrant nations, and vice versa. In addition, some basic concepts that exist among nomads and migrant nations start being altered and becoming different if and when these nations happen to settle somewhere 'permanently'. The concept of 'universe' and the deriving imperative of 'universalism' are fundamental notions of nomads and migrant nations; notably, the Akkadians (early Assyrians – Babylonians), who first produced significant literary narratives to detail the concept, were also a migrant nation that had settled only few centuries before writing down in cuneiform texts their world views.
The History of Eurasiatic Migrations, in and by itself, highlights the extensive presence of Turanians in Iran since times immemorial. Thanks to the Turanians of the Achaemenid Empire, the Turkic nations of Central Asia, China and Siberia came to get detailed descriptions of faraway regions and lands, such as Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, the Caucasus Mountains, the Anatolian plateau, the plains of Ukraine and Central Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, and Egypt. Consequently, further the interaction between Iran and Rome progressed, more details about the western confines of Europe reached the Turanian nomads who were moving around Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan), Yenisey River and Baikal Lake (Siberia), Orkhon River (Mongolia), the Tarim Basin (China), the Oymyakon River (Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) and other circumferences. The incessant waves of migrations to the West and to the South were not blind and desperate movements of uninformed barbarians, who ran like crazy on their horses; only the distorted publications of Western colonial historians contain similar, nonsensical conclusions.
The pattern of the Turanian military horsemen and skillful soldiers is absolutely prominent and protruding in the History of the Early Caliphates; but it is merely the continuation of a millennia long tradition. This consists in a very embarrassing fact for all the Western Orientalists specializing in Early Islamic History, and more particularly with focus on the 8th c. CE, the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate, and the rise of Abbasid Baghdad. They therefore constantly come up with incredible assumptions, farfetched arguments, nonsensical explanations, and sly innuendos to explain how and why so many Turanian soldiers and military heads appear in the Islamic Caliphate. In fact, without Turanian military skills, the Umayyad dynasty of Damascus may have not been overthrown.
It is well known that the early Islamic armies advanced up to Merv in today's Turkmenistan (651) and they stopped there. For the next hundred years, the only Islamic advance in Asia was effectuated only in today's Baluchistan province of Pakistan; only at the end of the 7th c. and the beginning of the 8th c., the Islamic armies reached the Indus Delta and Gujarat. But how the Islamic Caliphate started being flooded with Turanian soldiers as early as the last decades of the Umayyad rule, if there had not already been massive Turanian populations in the Sassanid Empire of Iran? If the Turanian nations were confined 'somewhere in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia' (as per the distortions of colonial Orientalists), why did they appear to be so deeply involved in battles and developments that took place in Mesopotamia and Syria during the first half of the 8th c.? The answer to this question is very simple: there were always massive Turanian populations in the Pre-Islamic Iranian empires.
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Benedict XVI and today's Muslims opposite Manuel II Palaeologus and his Turkic Interlocutor
Or why I defended Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 against the thoughtlessly irascible Muslims
When a Muslim writes an Obituary for the Catholic Church's sole Pope Emeritus…
Table of Contents
I. From Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI
II. The theoretical concerns of an intellectual Pope
III. Benedict XVI: A Pope against violence and wars
IV. Manuel II Palaeologus and the Eastern Roman Empire between the Muslim Ottoman brethren and the Anti-Christian Roman enemies
V. The unknown (?) Turkic mystic interlocutor and the Islamic centers of science and reason that Benedict XVI ignored
VI. Excerpt from Benedict XVI's lecture given on the 12th September at the University of Regensburg under title 'Faith, Reason and the University–Memories and Reflections'
VII. The problems of the academic-theological background of Benedict XVI's lecture
VIII. Benedict XVI's biased approach, theological mistakes, intellectual oversights and historical misinterpretations
IX. The lecture's most controversial point
X. The educational-academic-intellectual misery and the political ordeal of today's Muslim states
Of all the Roman popes who resigned the only to be called 'Pope Emeritus' was Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI (also known in German as Prof. Dr. Papst), who passed away on 31st December 2022, thus sealing the circle of world figures and heads of states whose life ended last year. As a matter of fact, although being a head state, a pope does not abdicate; he renounces to his ministry (renuntiatio).
Due to lack of documentation, conflicting sources or confusing circumstances, we do not have conclusive evidence as regards the purported resignations of the popes St. Pontian (235), Marcellinus (304), Liberius (366), John XVIII (1009) and Sylvester (105). That is why historical certainty exists only with respect to the 'papal renunciation' of six pontiffs; three of them bore the papal name of 'Benedict'. The brief list includes therefore the following bishops of Rome: Benedict V (964), Benedict IX (deposed in 1044, bribed to resign in 1045, and resigned in 1048), Gregory VI (1046), St Celestine (1294), Gregory XII (1415) and Benedict XVI (2013).
I. From Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI (18 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was seven (7) years younger than his predecessor John Paul II (1920-2005), but passed away seventeen (17) years after the Polish pope's death; already on the 4th September 2020, Benedict XVI would have been declared as the oldest pope in history, had he not resigned seven (7) years earlier. Only Leo XIII died 93, back in 1903. As a matter of fact, Benedict XVI outlived all the people who were elected to the Roman See.
Benedict XVI's papacy lasted slightly less than eight (8) years (19 April 2005 – 28 February 2013). Before being elected as pope, Cardinal Ratzinger was for almost a quarter century (1981-2005) the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was the formal continuation of the Office of the Holy Inquisition, and therefore one of the most important sections ('dicasteries'; from the Ancient Greek term 'dikasterion', i.e. 'court of law') of the Roman administration ('Curia').
A major step toward this position was his appointment as archbishop of Munich for four years (1977-1981); Bavaria has always been a Catholic heavyweight, and in this regard, it is easy to recall the earlier example of Eugenio Pacelli (the later pope Pius XII), who was nuncio to Bavaria (and therefore to the German Empire), in Munich, from 1917 to 1920, and then to Germany, before being elected to the Roman See (in 1939). Before having a meteoric rise in the Catholic hierarchy, Ratzinger made an excellent scholar and a distinct professor of dogmatic theology, while also being a priest. His philosophical dissertation was about St. Augustine and his habilitation concerned Bonaventure, a Franciscan scholastic theologian and cardinal of the 13th c.
II. The theoretical concerns of an intellectual Pope
During his ministry, very early, Benedict XVI stood up and showed his teeth; when I noticed his formidable outburst against the 'dictatorship of relativism', I realized that the German pope would be essentially superior to his Polish predecessor. Only in June 2005, so just two months after his election, he defined relativism as "the main obstacle to the task of education", directing a tremendous attack against the evilness of ego and portraying selfishness as a "self-limitation of reason".
In fact, there cannot be more devastating attack from a supreme religious authority against the evilness of Anglo-Zionism and the rotten, putrefied society that these criminals diffuse worldwide by means of infiltration, corruption, mendacity, and simulation. Soon afterwards, while speaking in Marienfeld (Cologne), Benedict XVI attacked ferociously all the pathetic ideologies which indiscriminately enslave humans from all spiritual and cultural backgrounds. He said: "absolutizing what is not absolute but relative is called totalitarianism". This is a detrimental rejection of Talmudic Judaism, Zohar Kabbalah, and Anglo-Zionism.
It was in the summer 2005 that I first realized that I should study closer the pre-papal past of the Roman Pontiff whom St Malachy's illustrious Prophecy of the Popes (12th c.) described as 'Gloria olivae' (the Glory of the olive). I contacted several friends in Germany, who extensively updated me as regards his academic publications, also dispatching to me some of them. At the time, I noticed that my Christian friends already used to question a certain number of Cardinal Ratzinger's positions.
But, contrarily to them, I personally found his prediction about the eventuality of Buddhism becoming the principal 'enemy' of the Catholic Church as quite plausible. My friends were absolutely astounded, and then I had to narrate and explain to them the deliberately concealed story of the Christian-Islamic-Confucian alliance against the Buddhist terrorism of the Dzungar Khanate (1634-1755); actually, it took many Kazakh-Dzungar wars (1643-1756), successive wars between Qing China and the Dzungar Khanate (1687-1757), and even an alliance with the Russian Empire in order to successfully oppose the ferocious Buddhist extremist threat.
Finally, the extraordinary ordeal of North Asia {a vast area comprising lands of today's Eastern Kazakhstan, Russia (Central Siberia), Northwestern and Western China (Eastern Turkestan/Xinjiang and Tibet) and Western Mongolia} ended up with the systematic genocide of the extremist Buddhist Dzungars (1755-1758) that the Chinese had to undertake because there was no other way to terminate once forever the most fanatic regime that ever existed in Asia.
Disoriented, ignorant, confused and gullible, most of the people today fail to clearly understand how easily Buddhism can turn a peaceful society into a fanatic realm of lunatic extremists. The hypothetically innocent adhesion of several fake Freemasonic lodges of the West to Buddhism and the seemingly harmless acceptance of Buddhist principles and values by these ignorant fools can end up in the formation of vicious and terrorist organizations that will give to their members and initiates the absurd order and task to indiscriminately kill all of their opponents. But Cardinal Ratzinger had prudently discerned the existence of a dangerous source of spiritual narcissism in Buddhism.
III. Benedict XVI: A Pope against violence and wars
To me, this foresight was a convincing proof that Benedict XVI was truly 'Gloria olivae'; but this would be troublesome news! In a period of proxy wars, unrestrained iniquity, and outrageous inhumanity, a perspicacious, cordial, and benevolent pope in Rome would surely be an encumbering person to many villainous rascals, i.e. the likes of Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Nicolas Sarkozy, and many others so-called 'leaders'. The reason for this assessment of the situation is simple: no one wants a powerful pacifier at a time more wars are planned.
At the time, it was ostensible to all that a fake confrontation between the world's Muslims and Christians was underway (notably after the notorious 9/11 events); for this reason, I expected Benedict XVI to make a rather benevolent statement that evil forces would immediately misinterpret, while also falsely accusing the pacifist Pope and absurdly turning the uneducated and ignorant mob of many countries against the Catholic Church.
This is the foolish plan of the Anglo-Zionist lobby, which has long served as puppets of the Jesuits, corrupting the entire Muslim world over the past 250 years by means of intellectual, educational, academic, scientific, cultural, economic, military and political colonialism. These idiotic puppets, which have no idea who their true and real masters are, imagine that, by creating an unprecedented havoc in Europe, they harm the worldwide interests of the Jesuits; but they fail to properly realize that this evil society, which early turned against Benedict XVI, has already shifted its focus onto China. Why the apostate Anglo-Zionist Freemasonic lodge would act in this manner against Benedict XVI is easy to assess; the Roman pontiff whose episcopal motto was 'Cooperatores Veritatis' ('Co-workers of the Truth') would apparently try to prevent the long-prepared fake war between the Muslims and the Christians.
IV. Manuel II Palaeologus and the Eastern Roman Empire between the Muslim Ottoman brethren and the Anti-Christian Roman enemies
And this is what truly happened in the middle of September 2006; on the 12th September, Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Germany; the title was 'Glaube, Vernunft und Universität – Erinnerungen und Reflexionen' ('Faith, Reason and the University – Memories and Reflections'). In the beginning of the lecture, Prof. Dr. Ratzinger eclipsed Pope Benedict XVI, as the one-time professor persisted on his concept of 'faith', "which theologians seek to correlate with reason as a whole", as he said. In a most rationalistic approach (for which he had been known for several decades as a renowned Catholic theologian), in an argumentation reflecting views certainly typical of Francis of Assisi and of Aristotle but emphatically alien to Jesus, Benedict XVI attempted to portray an ahistorical Christianity and to describe the Catholic faith as the religion of the Reason.
At an early point of the lecture, Benedict XVI referred to a discussion that the Eastern Roman Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus (or Palaiologos; Μανουήλ Παλαιολόγος; 1350-1425; reigned after 1391) had with an erudite Turkic scholar (indiscriminately but mistakenly called by all Eastern Roman authors at the time as 'Persian') most probably around the end of 1390 or the first months of 1391, when he was hostage at the Ottoman court of Bayezid I. In the historical text, it is stated that the location was 'Ancyra of Galatia' (i.e. Ankara).
This Eastern Roman Emperor was indeed a very controversial historical figure; although undeniably an erudite ruler, a bold diplomat, and a reputable soldier, he first made agreements with the Ottomans and delivered to them the last Eastern Roman city in Anatolia (Philadelphia; today's Alaşehir, ca. 140 km east of Izmir / Smyrna) and then, after he took control of his ailing kingdom thanks to the sultan, he escaped the protracted siege of Constantinople (1391-1402) only to travel to various Western European kingdoms and ask the help of those rather reluctant monarchs (1399-1403).
At the time, all the Christian Orthodox populations, either living in the Ottoman sultanate or residing in the declined Eastern Roman Empire, were deeply divided into two groups, namely those who preferred to be ruled by Muslims (because they rejected the pseudo-Christian fallacy, evilness and iniquity of the Roman pope) and the fervent supporters of a Latin (: Western European) control over Constantinople (viewed as the only way for them to prevent the Ottoman rule); the former formed the majority and were called Anthenotikoi, i.e. 'against the union' (: of the Orthodox Church with the Catholics), whereas the latter constituted a minority group and were named 'Enotikoi' ('those in favor of the union of the two churches').
V. The unknown (?) Turkic mystic interlocutor and the Islamic centers of science and reason that Benedict XVI ignored
Manuel II Palaeologus' text has little theological value in itself; however, its historical value is great. It reveals how weak both interlocutors were at the intellectual, cultural and spiritual levels, how little they knew one another, and how poorly informed they were about their own and their interlocutor's past, heritage, religion and spirituality. If we have even a brief look at it, we will immediately realize that the level is far lower than that attested during similar encounters in 8th- 9th c. Baghdad, 10th c. Umayyad Andalusia, Fatimid Cairo, 13th c. Maragheh (where the world's leading observatory was built) or 14th c. Samarqand, the Timurid capital.
It was absolutely clear at the time of Manuel II Palaeologus and Bayezid I that neither Constantinople nor Bursa (Προύσα / Prousa; not anymore the Ottoman capital after 1363, but still the most important city of the sultanate) could compete with the great centers of Islamic science civilization which were located in Iran and Central Asia. That's why Gregory Chioniades, the illustrious Eastern Roman bishop, astronomer, and erudite scholar who was the head of the Orthodox diocese of Tabriz, studied in Maragheh under the guidance of his tutor and mentor, Shamsaddin al Bukhari (one of the most illustrious students of Nasir el-Din al Tusi, who was the founder of the Maragheh Observatory), before building an observatory in Trabzon (Trebizond) and becoming the teacher of Manuel Bryennios, another famous Eastern Roman scholar.
The text of the Dialogues must have been written several years after the conversation took place, most probably when the traveling emperor and diplomat spent four years in Western Europe. For reasons unknown to us, the erudite emperor did not mention the name of his interlocutor, although this was certainly known to him; if we take into consideration that he was traveling to other kingdoms, we can somehow guess a plausible reason. His courtiers and royal scribes may have translated the text partly into Latin and given copies of the 'dialogues' to various kings, marshals, chroniclers, and other dignitaries. If this was the case, the traveling emperor would not probably want to offer insights into the Ottoman court and the influential religious authorities around the sultan.
Alternatively, the 'unknown' interlocutor may well have been Amir Sultan (born as Mohamed bin Ali; also known as Shamsuddin Al-Bukhari; 1368-1429) himself, i.e. none else than an important Turanian mystic from Vobkent (near Bukhara in today's Uzbekistan), who got married with Bayezid I's daughter Hundi Fatema Sultan Hatun. Amir Sultan had advised the sultan not to turn against Timur; had the foolish sultan heeded to his son-in-law's wise advice, he would not have been defeated so shamefully.
Benedict XVI made a very biased use of the historical text; he selected an excerpt of Manuel II Palaeologus' response to his interlocutor in order to differentiate between Christianity as the religion of Reason and Islam as the religion of Violence. Even worse, he referred to a controversial, biased and rancorous historian of Lebanese origin, the notorious Prof. Theodore Khoury (born in 1930), who spent his useless life to write sophisticated diatribes, mildly formulated forgeries, and deliberate distortions of the historical truth in order to satisfy his rancor and depict the historical past according to his absurd political analysis. Almost every sentence written Prof. Khoury about the Eastern Roman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate is maliciously false.
All the same, it was certainly Benedict XVI's absolute right to be academically, intellectually and historically wrong. The main problem was that the paranoid reaction against him was not expressed at the academic and intellectual levels, but at the profane ground of international politics. Even worse, it was not started by Muslims but by the criminal Anglo-Zionist mafia and the disreputable mainstream mass media, the likes of the BBC, Al Jazeera (Qatari is only the façade of it), etc.
I will now republish (in bold and italics) a sizeable (600-word) excerpt of the papal lecture that contains the contentious excerpt, also adding the notes to the text. The link to the Vatican's website page is available below. I will comment first on the lecture and the selected part of Manuel II Palaeologus' text and then on the absurd Muslim reaction.
VI. Excerpt from Benedict XVI's lecture given on the 12th September at the University of Regensburg under title 'Faith, Reason and the University–Memories and Reflections'
I was reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both.[1] It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor.[2] The dialogue ranges widely over the structures of faith contained in the Bible and in the Qur'an, and deals especially with the image of God and of man, while necessarily returning repeatedly to the relationship between - as they were called - three "Laws" or "rules of life": the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qur'an. It is not my intention to discuss this question in the present lecture; here I would like to discuss only one point - itself rather marginal to the dialogue as a whole - which, in the context of the issue of "faith and reason", I found interesting and which can serve as the starting-point for my reflections on this issue.
In the seventh conversation (διάλεξις - controversy) edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the holy war. The emperor must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: "There is no compulsion in religion". According to some of the experts, this is probably one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur'an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the "Book" and the "infidels", he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable, on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”[3] The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he says, "is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...".[4]
The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature.[5] The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped by Greek philosophy, this statement is self-evident. But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality.[6] Here Khoury quotes a work of the noted French Islamist R. Arnaldez, who points out that Ibn Hazm went so far as to state that God is not bound even by his own word, and that nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. Were it God's will, we would even have to practice idolatry.[7]
Notes 1 to 7 (out of 13)
[1] Of the total number of 26 conversations (διάλεξις – Khoury translates this as “controversy”) in the dialogue (“Entretien”), T. Khoury published the 7th “controversy” with footnotes and an extensive introduction on the origin of the text, on the manuscript tradition and on the structure of the dialogue, together with brief summaries of the “controversies” not included in the edition; the Greek text is accompanied by a French translation: “Manuel II Paléologue, Entretiens avec un Musulman. 7e Controverse”, Sources Chrétiennes n. 115, Paris 1966. In the meantime, Karl Förstel published in Corpus Islamico-Christianum (Series Graeca ed. A. T. Khoury and R. Glei) an edition of the text in Greek and German with commentary: “Manuel II. Palaiologus, Dialoge mit einem Muslim”, 3 vols., Würzburg-Altenberge 1993-1996. As early as 1966, E. Trapp had published the Greek text with an introduction as vol. II of Wiener byzantinische Studien. I shall be quoting from Khoury’s edition.
[2] On the origin and redaction of the dialogue, cf. Khoury, pp. 22-29; extensive comments in this regard can also be found in the editions of Förstel and Trapp.
[3] Controversy VII, 2 c: Khoury, pp. 142-143; Förstel, vol. I, VII. Dialog 1.5, pp. 240-241. In the Muslim world, this quotation has unfortunately been taken as an expression of my personal position, thus arousing understandable indignation. I hope that the reader of my text can see immediately that this sentence does not express my personal view of the Qur’an, for which I have the respect due to the holy book of a great religion. In quoting the text of the Emperor Manuel II, I intended solely to draw out the essential relationship between faith and reason. On this point I am in agreement with Manuel II, but without endorsing his polemic.
[4] Controversy VII, 3 b–c: Khoury, pp. 144-145; Förstel vol. I, VII. Dialog 1.6, pp. 240-243.
[5] It was purely for the sake of this statement that I quoted the dialogue between Manuel and his Persian interlocutor. In this statement the theme of my subsequent reflections emerges.
[6] Cf. Khoury, p. 144, n. 1.
[7] R. Arnaldez, Grammaire et théologie chez Ibn Hazm de Cordoue, Paris 1956, p. 13; cf. Khoury, p. 144. The fact that comparable positions exist in the theology of the late Middle Ages will appear later in my discourse.
VII. The problems of the academic-theological background of Benedict XVI's lecture
It is my conviction that Benedict XVI fell victim to the quite typical theological assumptions that Prof. Dr. Ratzinger had studied and taught for decades. However, the problem is not limited to the circle of the faculties of Theology and to Christian Theology as a modern discipline; it is far wider. The same troublesome situation permeates all the disciplines of Humanities and, even worse, the quasi-totality of the modern sciences as they started in Renaissance. The problem goes well beyond the limits of academic research and intellectual consideration; it has to do with the degenerate, rotten and useless mental abilities and capacities of the Western so-called scholars, researchers and academics. The description of the problem is rather brief, but its nature is truly ominous.
Instead of perceiving, understanding, analyzing and representing the 'Other' in its own terms, conditions and essence and as per its own values, virtues and world conceptualization, the modern Western European scholars, researchers, explorers and specialists view, perceive, attempt to understand, and seek to analyze the 'Other' in their own terms, conditions and essence and as per their own values, virtues and world conceptualization. Due to this sick effort and unprecedented aberration, the Western so-called scholars and researchers view the 'Other' through their eyes, thus projecting onto the 'Other' their view of it. Consequently, they do not and actually they cannot learn it, let alone know, understand and represent it. Their attitude is inane, autistic and degenerate. It is however quite interesting and truly bizarre that the Western European natural scientists do not proceed in this manner, but fully assess the condition of the object of their study in a rather objective manner.
In fact, the Western disciplines of the Humanities, despite the enormous collection and publication of study materials, sources and overall documentation, are a useless distortion. Considered objectively, the Western scientific endeavor in its entirety is a monumental nothingness; it is not only a preconceived conclusion. It is a resolute determination not to 'see' the 'Other' as it truly exists, as its constituent parts obviously encapsulate its contents, and as the available documentation reveals it. In other words, it consists in a premeditated and resolute rejection of the Truth; it is intellectually barren, morally evil, and spiritually nihilist. The topic obviously exceeds by far the limits of the present obituary, but I had to mention it in order to offer the proper context.
It is therefore difficult to identify the real reason for the magnitude of the Western scholarly endeavor, since the conclusions existed in the minds of the explorers and the academics already before the documentation was gathered, analyzed, studied, and represented. How important is it therefore to publish the unpublished material (totaling more than 100000 manuscripts of Islamic times and more than one million of cuneiform tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Canaan and Anatolia – only to give an idea to the non-specialized readers), if the evil Western scholars and the gullible foreign students enrolled in Western institutions (to the detriment of their own countries and nations) are going to repeat and reproduce the same absurd Western mentality of viewing an Ancient Sumerian, an Ancient Assyrian, an Ancient Egyptian or a Muslim author through their own eyes and of projecting onto the ancient author the invalid and useless measures, values, terms and world views of the modern Western world?
As it can be easily understood, the problem is not with Christian Theology, but with all the disciplines of the Humanities. So, the problem is not only that a great Muslim scholar and erudite mystic like Ibn Hazm was viewed by Benedict XVI and Western theologians through the distorting lenses of their 'science', being not evaluated as per the correct measures, values and terms of his own Islamic environment, background and civilization. The same problem appears in an even worse form, when Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian-Babylonian, Hittite, Iranian and other high priests, spiritual masters, transcendental potentates, sacerdotal writers, and unequaled scientists are again evaluated as per the invalid and useless criteria of Benedict XVI, of all the Western theologians, and of all the modern European and American academics.
What post-Renaissance popes, theologians, academics, scholars and intellectuals fail to understand is very simple; their 'world' ( i.e. the world of the Western Intellect and Science, which was first fabricated in the 15th and the 16th c. and later enhanced progressively down to our days) in not Christian, is not human, and is not real. It is their own delusion, their own invalid abstraction, their abject paranoia, and their own sin for which first they will atrociously disappear from the surface of the Earth (like every anomalous entity) and then flagrantly perish in Hell.
Their dangling system does not hold; they produced it in blood and in blood it will end. Modern sciences constitute a counter-productive endeavor and an aberration that will terminally absorb the entire world into the absolute nothingness, because these evil systems were instituted out of arbitrary bogus-interpretations of the past, peremptory self-identification, deliberate and prejudicial ignorance, as well as an unprecedented ulcerous hatred of the 'Other', i.e. of every 'Other'.
The foolish Western European academic-intellectual establishment failed to realize that it is absolutely preposterous to extrapolate later and corrupt standards to earlier and superior civilizations; in fact, it is impossible. By trying to do it, you depart from the real world only to live in your delusion, which sooner or later will inevitably have a tragic end. Consequently, the Western European scholars' 'classics' are not classics; their reason is an obsession; their language and jargon are hallucinatory, whereas their notions are conjectural. Their abstract concepts are the manifestation of Non-Being.
VIII. Benedict XVI's biased approach, theological mistakes, intellectual oversights and historical misinterpretations
Benedict XVI's understanding of the Eastern Roman Empire was fictional. When examining the sources, he retained what he liked, what pleased him, and what was beneficial to his preconceived ideas and thoughts. In fact, Prof. Dr. Papst did not truly understand what Manuel II Palaeologus said to his Turkic interlocutor, and even worse, he failed to assess the enormous distance that separated the early 15th c. Eastern Roman (not 'Byzantine': this is a fake appellation too) Emperor from his illustrious predecessors before 800 or 900 years (the likes of Heraclius and Justinian I) in terms of Christian Roman imperial ideology, theological acumen, jurisprudential perspicacity, intellectual resourcefulness, and spiritual forcefulness. Benedict XVI did not want to accept that with time the Christian doctrine, theology and spirituality had weakened.
What was Ratzinger's mistake? First, he erroneously viewed Manuel II Palaeologus as 'his' (as identical with the papal doctrine), by projecting his modern Catholic mindset and convictions onto the Christian Orthodox Eastern Roman Emperor's mind, mentality and faith. He took the 'Dialogues' at face value whereas the text may have been written not as a declaration of faith but as a diplomatic document in order to convince the rather uneducated Western European monarchs that the traveling 'basileus' (βασιλεύς) visited during the period 1399-1403.
Second, he distorted the 'dialogue', presenting it in a polarized form. Benedict XVI actually depicted a fraternal conversation as a frontal opposition; unfortunately, there is nothing in the historical text to insinuate this possibility. As I already said, it is quite possible that the moderate, wise, but desperate Eastern Roman Emperor may have discussed with someone married to a female descendant of the great mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi (namely Bayezid's son-in-law, adviser and mystic Emir Sultan). Why on Earth did the renowned theologian Ratzinger attempt to stage manage a theological conflict in the place of a most peaceful, friendly and fraternal exchange of ideas?
This is easy to explain; it has to do with the absolutely Manichaean structure of thought that was first diffused among the Western Fathers of the Christian Church by St Augustine (in the early 5th c.). As method of theological argumentation, it was first effectively contained, and it remained rather marginal within the Roman Church as long as the practice introduced by Justinian I (537) lasted (until 752) and all the popes of Rome had to be selected and approved personally by the Eastern Roman Emperor. After this moment and, more particularly, after the two Schisms (867 and 1054), the Manichaean system of thinking prevailed in Rome; finally, it culminated after the Renaissance.
Third, Benedict XVI tried to depict the early 15th c. erudite interlocutor of the then hostage Manuel II Palaeologus as a modern Muslim and a Jihadist. This is the repetition of the same mistakes that he made as regards the intellectual Eastern Roman Emperor. In other words, he projected onto the 'unknown', 15th c. Muslim mystic his own personal view of an Islamist or Islamic fundamentalist. Similarly, by bulldozing time in order to impose his wrong perception of Islam, he fully misled the audience. As a matter of fact, Islam constitutes a vast universe that Prof. Dr. Papst never studied, never understood, and never fathomed in its true dimensions.
In fact, as it happened in the case of the Eastern Roman Emperor, his interlocutor was intellectually weaker and spiritually lower than the great figures of Islamic spirituality, science, wisdom, literature and intuition, the likes of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Al Qurtubi, Mohyi el-Din Ibn Arabi, Ahmed Yasawi, Al Biruni, Ferdowsi, Al Farabi, Tabari, etc., who preceded him by 150 to 500 years. But Benedict XVI did not want to accept that with time the Islamic doctrine, theology and spirituality had weakened.
The reason for this distortion is easy to grasp; the Manichaean system of thinking needs terminal, crystallized forms of items that do not change; then, it is convenient for the Western European abusers of the Manichaean spirit to fully implement the deceitful setting of fake contrasts and false dilemmas. But the 15th c. decayed Eastern Roman Orthodoxy and decadent Islam are real historical entities that enable every explorer to encounter the multitude of forms, the ups and downs, the evolution of cults, the transformation of faiths, and the gradual loss of the initially genuine Moral and vibrant Spirituality. This reality is very embarrassing to those who want to teach their unfortunate students on a calamitous black & white background (or floor).
All the books and articles of his friend, Prof. Theodore Khoury, proved to be totally useless and worthless for the Catholic theologian Ratzinger, exactly because the Lebanese specialist never wrote a sentence in order to truly represent the historical truth about Islam, but he always elaborated his texts in a way to justify and confirm his preconceived ideas. Prof. Khoury's Islam is a delusional entity, something like the artificial humans of our times. Unfortunately, not one Western Islamologist realized that Islam, at the antipodes of the Roman Catholic doctrine, has an extremely limited dogmatic part, a minimal cult, and no heresies. Any opposite opinion belongs to liars, forgers and falsifiers. As a matter of fact, today's distorted representation of Islam is simply the result of Western colonialism. All over the world, whatever people hear or believe about the religion preached by Prophet Muhammad is not the true, historical, religion of Islam, but the colonially, academically-intellectually, produced Christianization of Islam.
Fourth, in striking contrast to what the theologian Ratzinger pretended through use of this example or case study (i.e. the 'discussion'), if Benedict XVI shifted his focus to the East, he would find Maragheh in NW Iran (Iranian Azerbaijan) and Samarqand in Central Asia. In those locations (and always for the period concerned), he would certainly find great centers of learning, universities, vast libraries, and enormous observatories, which could make every 15th c. Western European astronomer and mathematician dream. But there he would also find, as I already said, many Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and other scholars working one next to the other without caring about their religious (theological) differences. This situation is very well known to modern Western scholarship, but they viciously and criminally try to permanently conceal it.
This situation was due to the cultural, intellectual, academic, mental and spiritual unity that prevailed among all those erudite scholars. Numerous Western European scholars have published much about Nasir el-Din al Tusi (about whom I already spoke briefly) and also about Ulugh Beg, the world's greatest astronomer of his time (middle of the 15th c.), who was the grandson of Timur (Tamerlane) and, at the same time, the World History's most erudite emperor of the last 2500 years. However, post-Renaissance Catholic sectarianism and Western European/North American racism prevented the German pope from being truthful at least once, and also from choosing the right paradigm.
IX. The lecture's most controversial point
Fifth, if we now go straight to the lecture's most controversial point and to the quotation's most fascinating sentence, we will find the question addressed by Manuel II Palaeologus to his erudite Turkic interlocutor; actually, it is rather an exclamation:
- «Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached»!
This interesting excerpt provides indeed the complete confirmation of my earlier assessments as regards the intellectual decay of both, Christian Orthodoxy and Islam, at the time. Apparently, it was not theological acumen what both interlocutors were lacking at the time; it was historical knowledge. Furthermore, historical continuity, religious consciousness, and moral command were also absent in the discussion.
The first series of points that Manuel II Palaeologus' Muslim interlocutor could have made answering the aforementioned statement would be that Prophet Muhammad, before his death, summoned Ali ibn Abu Taleb and asked him to promise that he would never diffuse the true faith by undertaking wars; furthermore, Islam was diffused peacefully in many lands outside Arabia (Hejaz), notably Yemen, Oman, Somalia, and the Eastern Coast of Africa. In addition, there were many Muslims, who rejected the absurd idea of the Islamic conquests launched by Umar ibn al-Khattab and actually did not participate.
We have also to take into consideration the fact that, in spite of the undeniable reality of the early spread of Islam through invasions, there has always been well-known and sufficient documentation to clearly prove that the Aramaeans of Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine, the Copts of Egypt, and the Berbers of Africa, although fully preserving their Christian faith, preferred to live under the rule of the Caliphates and overwhelmingly rejected the Eastern Roman imperial administration, because they had been long persecuted by the Constantinopolitan guards due to their Miaphysite (Monophysitic) and/or Nestorian faiths.
On another note, the Eastern Roman Emperor's Muslim interlocutor could have questioned the overall approach of Manuel II Palaeologus to the topic. In other words, he could have expressed the following objection:
- «What is it good for someone to pretend that he is a follower of Jesus and evoke his mildness, while at the same time violently imposing by the sword the faith that Jesus preached? And what is it more evil and more inhuman than the imposition of a faith in Jesus' name within the Roman Empire, after so much bloodshed and persecution took place and so many wars were undertaken»?
Last, one must admit that the sentence «Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new!» would have been easily answered by an earlier Muslim mystic of the Golden Era of Islam. Actually, this statement is islamically correct and pertinent. The apparent absence of a spectacular response from the part of Manuel II Palaeologus' Muslim interlocutor rather generates doubts as regards the true nature of the text. This is so because he could have immediately replied to Bayezid I's hostage that not one prophet or messenger was sent by God with the purpose of 'bringing something new'; in fact, all the prophets from Noah to Jonah, from Abraham to Jonah, from Moses to Muhammad, and from Adam to Jesus were dispatched in order to deliver the same message to the humans, namely to return to the correct path and live according to the Will of God.
Related to this point is the following well-known verse of the Quran (ch. 3 - Al Imran, 67): "Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian but he was (an) upright (man), a Muslim, and he was not one of the polytheists". It is therefore odd that a response in this regard is missing at this point.
It is also strange that, at a time of major divisions within Christianity and more particularly among the Christian Orthodox Eastern Romans, the 'unknown' imperial interlocutor did not mention the existing divisions among Christians as already stated very clearly, explicitly and repeatedly in the Quran. Examples:
"You are the best community ever raised for humanity—you encourage good, forbid evil, and believe in Allah. Had the People of the Book believed, it would have been better for them. Some of them are faithful, but most are rebellious". (ch. 3 - Al Imran, 110)
"Yet they are not all alike: there are some among the People of the Book who are upright, who recite Allah’s revelations throughout the night, prostrating in prayer".
(ch. 3 - Al Imran, 113):
To conclude I would add that elementary knowledge of Roman History, Late Antiquity, and Patristic Philology would be enough for Benedict XVI to know that
- in its effort to impose Christianity on the Roman Empire,
- in its determination to fully eradicate earlier religions, opposite religious sects like the Gnostics, and theological 'heresies' like Arianism,
- in its resolve to exterminate other Christian Churches such as the Nestorians and the Miaphysites (Monophysites),
- in its obsession to uproot Christian theological doctrines like Iconoclasm and Paulicianism, and
- in its witch hunt against Manichaeism, …
… the 'official' Roman and Constantinopolitan churches committed innumerable crimes and killed a far greater number of victims than those massacred by Muslim invaders on several occurrences during the early Islamic conquests.
So, when did the Christian Church encounter Reason and when did it cease to be 'unreasonable' according to the theologian Pope Ratzinger?
One must be very sarcastic to duly respond to those questions: most probably, the Roman Church discovered 'Reason' after having killed all of their opponents and the so-called 'heretics' whose sole sin was simply to consider and denounce the Roman Church as heretic!
If Benedict XVI forgot to find in the Quran the reason for the Turkic interlocutor's mild attitude toward the hostage Manuel II Palaeologus, this is a serious oversight for the professor of theology; he should have mentioned the excerpts. In the surah al-Ankabut ('the Spider'; ch. 29, verse 46), it is stated: "And do not argue with the followers of earlier revelation otherwise than in a most kindly manner".
Similarly, the German pope failed to delve in Assyriology and in Egyptology to better understand that the Hebrew Bible (just like the New Testament and the Quran) did not bring anything 'new' either; before Moses in Egypt and before Abraham in Mesopotamia, there were monotheistic and aniconic trends and traits in the respective religions. The concept of the Messiah is attested in Egypt, in Assyria, and among the Hittites many centuries or rather more than a millennium before Isaiah contextualized it within the small Hebrew kingdom. Both Egypt and Babylon were holy lands long before Moses promised South Canaan to the Ancient Hebrew tribes, whereas the Assyrians were the historically first Chosen People of the Only God and the Assyrian imperial ideology reflected this fact in detail. The Akkadian - Assyrian-Babylonian kings were 'emperors of the universe' and their rule reflected the 'kingdom of Heaven'.
If Etana and Ninurta reveal aspects of Assyrian eschatology, Horus was clearly the Egyptian Messiah, who would ultimately vanquish Seth (Satan/Antichrist) at the End of Time in an unprecedented cosmic battle that would usher the mankind into a new era which would be the reconstitution of the originally ideal world and Well-Being (Wser), i.e. Osiris. There is no Cosmogony without Eschatology or Soteriology, and nothing was invented and envisioned by the Hebrews, the Greeks and the Romans that had not previously been better and more solemnly formulated among the Sumerians, the Akkadians - Assyrian-Babylonians, and the Egyptians. There is no such thing as 'Greco-Roman' or 'Greco-Christian' or' Greco-Judaic' civilization. Both, Islam and Christianity are the children of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
And this concludes the case of today's Catholic theologians, i.e. the likes of Pope Benedict XVI or Theodore Khoury; they have to restart from scratch in order to duly assess the origins and the nature of Christianity before the serpent casts "forth out of his mouth water as a river after the woman, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river". All the same, it was certainly Prof. Ratzinger's full right to make as many mistakes as he wanted and to distort any textual reference he happened to mention.
X. The educational-academic-intellectual misery and the political ordeal of today's Muslim states
Quite contrarily, it was not the right of those who accused him of doing so, because they expanded rather at the political and not at the academic level; this was very hypocritical and shameful. If these politicians, statesmen and diplomats dared speak at the academic level, they would reveal their own ignorance, obscurantism, obsolete educational system, miserable universities, nonexistent intellectual life, and last but not least, disreputable scientific institutions.
The reason for this is simple: not one Muslim country has properly organized departments and faculties endowed with experts capable of reading historical sources in the original texts and specializing in the History of the Eastern Roman Empire, Orthodox Christianity, Christological disputes and Patristic Literature. If a Muslim country had an educational, academic and intellectual establishment similar to that of Spain or Poland, there would surely be serious academic-level objection to Benedict XVI's lecture. It would take a series of articles to reveal, refute and utterly denounce (not just the mistakes and the oversights but) the distorted approach which is not proper only to the defunct Pope Emeritus but to the entire Western academic establishment; these people would however be academics and intellectuals of a certain caliber. Unfortunately, such specialists do not exist in any Muslim country.
Then, the unrepresentative criminal crooks and gangsters, who rule all the countries of the Muslim world, reacted against Pope Benedict XVI at a very low, political level about a topic that was not political of nature and about which they knew absolutely nothing. In this manner, they humiliated all the Muslims, defamed Islam, ridiculed their own countries, and revealed that they rule failed states. Even worse, they made it very clear that they are the disreputable puppets of their colonial masters, who have systematically forced all the Muslim countries to exactly accept as theirs the fallacy that the Western Orientalists have produced and projected onto them (and in this case, the entirely fake representation of Islam that theologians like Ratzinger, Khoury and many others have fabricated).
If Ratzinger gave this lecture, this is also due to the fact that he knew that he would not face any academic or intellectual level opposition from the concerned countries. This is so because all the execrable puppets, who govern the Muslim world, were put in place by the representatives of the colonial powers. They do not defend their local interests but execute specific orders in order not to allow
- bold explorers, dynamic professors, and impulsive intellectuals to take the lead,
- proper secular education, unbiased scientific methodology, intellectual self-criticism, free judgment, and thinking out of the box to grow,
- faculties and research centers to be established as per the norms of educationally advanced states, and
- intellectual anti-colonial pioneers and anti-Western scholars to demolish the racist Greco-centric dogma that post-Renaissance European universities have intentionally diffused worldwide.
That is why for a Muslim today in Prof. Ratzinger's lecture the real problem is not his approach or his mistake, but the impermissible bogus academic life and pseudo-educational system of all the Muslim countries. In fact, before fully transforming and duly enhancing their educational and academic systems, Muslim heads of states, prime ministers, ministers and ambassadors have no right to speak. They must first go back to their countries and abolish the darkness of their ridiculous universities; their so-called professors are not professors.
Here you have all the articles that I published at the time in favor of Benedict XVI; the first article was published on the 16th September 2006, only four days after the notorious lecture and only one day after the notorious BBC report, which called the Muslim ambassadors to shout loud:
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HISTORY OF ACHAEMENID IRAN
Tentative diagram of the 40-hour seminar
(in 80 parts of 30 minutes)
Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Tuesday, 27 December 2022
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1 A - Achaemenid beginnings I A
Introduction; Iranian Achaemenid historiography; Problems of historiography continuity; Iranian posterior historiography; foreign historiography
1 B - Achaemenid beginnings I B
Western Orientalist historiography; early sources of Iranian History; Prehistory in the Iranian plateau and Mesopotamia
2 A - Achaemenid beginnings II A
Brief Diagram of the History of the Mesopotamian kingdoms and Empires down to Shalmaneser III (859-824 BCE) – with focus on relations with Zagros Mountains and the Iranian plateau
2 B - Achaemenid beginnings II B
The Neo-Assyrian Empire from Shalmaneser III (859-824 BCE) to Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BCE) – with focus on relations with Zagros Mountains and the Iranian plateau
3 A - Achaemenid beginnings III A
From Sennacherib (705-681 BCE) to Assurbanipal (669-625 BCE) to the end of Assyria (609 BCE) – with focus on relations with Zagros Mountains and the Iranian plateau
3 B - Achaemenid beginnings III B
The long shadow of the Mesopotamian Heritage: Assyria, Babylonia, Elam/Anshan, Kassites, Guti, Akkad, and Sumer / Religious conflicts of empires – Monotheism & Polytheism
4 A - Achaemenid beginnings IV A
The Sargonid dynasty and the Divine, Universal Empire – the Translatio Imperii
4 B - Achaemenid beginnings IV B
Assyrian Spirituality, Monotheism & Eschatology; the imperial concepts of Holy Land (vs. barbaric periphery) and Chosen People (vs. barbarians)
5 A - Achaemenid beginnings V A
The Medes from Deioces to Cyaxares & Astyages
The early Achaemenids (Achaemenes & the Teispids)
5 B - Achaemenid beginnings V B
- Why the 'Medes' and why the 'Persians'?
What enabled these nations to form empires?
6 A - Zoroaster A
Shamanism-Tengrism; the life of Zoroaster; Avesta and Zoroastrianism
6 B - Zoroaster B
Mithraism vs. Zoroastrianism; the historical stages of Zoroaster's preaching and religion
7 A - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) I A
The end of Assyria, Nabonid Babylonia, and the Medes
7 B - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) I B
The Nabonidus Chronicle
8 A - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) II A
Cyrus' battles against the Medes
8 B - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) II B
Cyrus' battles against the Lydians
9 Α - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) III A
The Battle of Opis: the facts
9 Β - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) III B
Why Babylon fell without resistance
10 A - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) IV A
Cyrus Cylinder: text discovery and analysis
10 B - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) IV B
Cyrus Cylinder: historical continuity in Esagila
11 A - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) V A
Cyrus' Empire as continuation of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
11 B - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) V B
Cyrus' Empire and the dangers for Egypt
12 A - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) VI A
Death of Cyrus; Tomb at Pasargad
12 B - Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) VI B
Posterity and worldwide importance of Cyrus the Great
13 A - Cambyses I A
Conquest of Egypt and Cush (Ethiopia: Sudan)
13 B - Cambyses I B
Iran as successor of Assyria in Egypt, and the grave implications of the Iranian conquest of Egypt
14 A - Cambyses II A
Cambyses' adamant monotheism, his clash with the Memphitic polytheists, and the falsehood diffused against him (from Egypt to Greece)
14 B - Cambyses II B
The reasons for the assassination of Cambyses
15 A - Darius the Great I A
The Mithraic Magi, Gaumata, and the usurpation of the Achaemenid throne
15 B - Darius the Great I B
Darius' ascension to the throne
16 A - Darius the Great II A
The Behistun inscription
16 B - Darius the Great II B
The Iranian Empire according to the Behistun inscription
17 A - Darius the Great III A
Military campaign in Egypt & the Suez Canal
17 B - Darius the Great III B
Babylonian revolt, campaign in the Indus Valley
18 A - Darius the Great IV A
Darius' Scythian and Balkan campaigns; Herodotus' fake stories
18 B - Darius the Great IV B
Anti-Iranian priests of Memphis and Egyptian rebels turning Greek traitors against the Oracle at Delphi, Ancient Greece's holiest shrine
19 A - Darius the Great V A
Administration of the Empire; economy & coinage
19 B - Darius the Great V B
World trade across lands, deserts and seas
20 A - Darius the Great VI A
Rejection of the Modern European fallacy of 'Classic' era and Classicism
20 B - Darius the Great VI B
Darius the Great as the end of the Ancient World and the beginning of the Late Antiquity (522 BCE – 622 CE)
21 A - Achaemenids, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, and the Magi A
Avesta and the establishment of the ideal empire
21 B - Achaemenids, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, and the Magi B
The ceaseless, internal strife that brought down the Xšāça (: Empire)
22 A - The Empire-Garden, Embodiment of the Paradise A
The inalienable Sargonid-Achaemenid continuity as the link between Cosmogony, Cosmology and Eschatology
22 B - The Empire-Garden, Embodiment of the Paradise B
The Garden, the Holy Tree, and the Empire
23 A - Xerxes the Great I A
Xerxes' rule; his upbringing and personality
23 B - Xerxes the Great I B
Xerxes' rule; his imperial education
24 A - Xerxes the Great II A
Imperial governance and military campaigns
24 B - Xerxes the Great II B
The Anti-Iranian complex of inferiority of the 'Greek' barbarians (the so-called 'Greco-Persian wars')
25 A - Parsa (Persepolis) A
The most magnificent capital of the pre-Islamic world
25 B - Parsa (Persepolis) B
Naqsh-e Rustam: the Achaemenid necropolis: the sanctity of the mountain; the Achaemenid-Sassanid continuity of cultural integrity and national identity
26 A - Iran & the Periphery A
Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, Tibet and China Hind (India), Bengal, Deccan and Yemen
26 B - Iran & the Periphery B
Sudan, Carthage and Rome
27 A - The Anti-Iranian rancor of the Egyptian Memphitic priests A
The real cause of the so-called 'Greco-Persian wars', and the use of the Greeks that the Egyptian Memphitic priests made
27 B - The Anti-Iranian rancor of the Egyptian Memphitic priests B
Battle of the Eurymedon River; Egypt and the Wars of the Delian League
28 A - Civilized Empire & Barbarian Republic A
The incomparable superiority of Iran opposite the chaotic periphery: the Divine Empire
28 B - Civilized Empire & Barbarian Republic B
Why the 'Greeks' and the Romans were unable to form a proper empire
29 A - Artaxerxes I (465-424 BCE) A
Revolt in Egypt; the 'Greeks' and their shame: they ran to Persepolis as suppliants
29 B - Artaxerxes I (465-424 BCE) B
Aramaeans and Jews in the Achaemenid Court
30 A - Interregnum (424-403 BCE) A
Xerxes II, Sogdianus, and Darius II
30 B - Interregnum (424-403 BCE) B
The Elephantine papyri and ostraca; Aramaeans, Jews, Phoenicians and Ionians
31 A - Artaxerxes II (405-359 BCE) & Artaxerxes III (359-338 BCE) A
Revolts instigated by the Memphitic priests of Egypt and the Mithraic subversion of the Empire
31 B - Artaxerxes II (405-359 BCE) & Artaxerxes III (359-338 BCE) B
Artaxerxes II's capitulation to the Magi and the unbalancing of the Empire / Cyrus the Younger
32 A - Artaxerxes IV & Darius III A
The decomposition of the Empire
32 B - Artaxerxes IV & Darius III B
Legendary historiography
33 A - Alexander's Invasion of Iran A
The military campaigns
33 B - Alexander's Invasion of Iran B
Alexander's voluntary Iranization/Orientalization
34 A - Alexander: absolute rejection of Ancient Greece A
The re-organization of Iran; the Oriental manners of Alexander, and his death
34 B - Alexander: absolute rejection of Ancient Greece B
The split of the Empire; the Epigones and the rise of the Orientalistic (not Hellenistic) world
35 A - Achaemenid Iran – Army A
Military History
35 B - Achaemenid Iran – Army B
Achaemenid empire, Sassanid militarism & Islamic Iranian epics and legends
36 A - Achaemenid Iran & East-West / North-South Trade A
The development of the trade between Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Turan (Central Asia), Indus Valley, Deccan, Yemen, East Africa & China
36 B - Achaemenid Iran & East-West / North-South Trade B
East-West / North-South Trade and the increased importance of Mesopotamia and Egypt
37 A - Achaemenid Iran: Languages and scripts A
Old Achaemenid, Aramaic, Sabaean and the formation of other writing systems
37 B - Achaemenid Iran: Languages and scripts B
Aramaic as an international language
38 A - Achaemenid Iran: Religions A
Rise of a multicultural and multi-religious world
38 B - Achaemenid Iran: Religions B
Collapse of traditional religions; rise of religious syncretism
39 A - Achaemenid Iran: Art and Architecture A
Major archaeological sites of Achaemenid Iran
39 B - Achaemenid Iran: Art and Architecture B
The radiation of Iranian Art
40 A - Achaemenid Iran: Historical Importance A
The role of Iran in the interconnection between Asia and Africa
40 B - Achaemenid Iran: Historical Importance B
The role of Iran in the interconnection between Asia and Europe
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Prof. Erol Manisali's Book Chapter about Me
Erol Manisali'nin Hakkımda Kitap Bölümü - Prof. Erol Manisali's Book Chapter about Me - Глава книги профессора Эрола Манисалы обо мне
1. Giriş – Introduction - Введение
Giriş
Rahmetli Prof. Dr. Erol Manisali (28/7/1940-29/10/2022) 2018 yılında yayınlanan kitaplarından birinde benim hakkımda bir bölüm yazmıştı; Kitabın adı 'Yolumun Kesiştiği Ünlüler'. Bu yeniden yayında, okuyucular art arda aşağıdaki materyali bulacaklar:
1- Türkçe, İngilizce ve Rusça kısa giriş,
2- bölümün metni (Türkçe),
3- resim olarak bölüm sayfaları ve kitap kapağı,
4- bölümün İngilizce çevirisi,
5- bölümün Rusça çevirisi,
6- Türkçe olmayan okuyucular için açıklayıcı notlar (İngilizce ve Rusça),
7- kitap tanıtımı ve verileri (Türkçe, İngilizce ve Rusça olarak),
8- Prof. Manisali'nin kitap bölümünde bahsettiği makalelerime ve kitaplarıma bağlantılar ve
9- Prof. Manisali ile ilgili biyografik notlara ve ölüm ilanlarına bağlantılar.
Mevcut sunum tüm bölümlerinde üç dillidir.
Introduction
In one of his books (published in 2018), the late Prof. Dr. Erol Manisali (28/7/1940-29/10/2022) wrote a chapter about me; the book title is 'Celebrities I crossed in my Path'. In the present re-publication, readers will successively find the following material:
1- the brief introduction in Turkish, English and Russian,
2- the text of the chapter (in Turkish),
3- the chapter pages and the book cover as pictures,
4- the English translation of the chapter,
5- the Russian translation of the chapter,
6- explanatory notes for non-Turkish readership (in English and Russian),
7- book presentation and data (in Turkish, English and Russian),
8- links to my articles and books mentioned by Prof. Manisali in his book chapter, and
9- links to biographical notes about Prof. Manisali and obituaries.
The current presentation is trilingual in all its parts.
Введение
В одной из своих книг (опубликованной в 2018 году) покойный профессор доктор Эрол Манисалы (28.07.1940-29.10.2022) написал обо мне главу; название книги - «Знаменитости, которых я встретил на своем пути». В настоящем переиздании читатели последовательно найдут следующий материал:
1- краткое введение на турецком, английском и русском языках,
2- текст главы (на турецком языке),
3- страницы главы и обложка книги в виде картинок,
4- английский перевод главы,
5- русский перевод главы,
6- пояснения для нетурецких читателей (на английском и русском языках),
7- презентация книги и данные книги (на турецком, английском и русском языках),
8- ссылки на мои статьи и книги, упомянутые профессором Манисалы в главе его книги, и
9- ссылки на биографические заметки о профессоре Манисалы и некрологи.
Текущая презентация является трехъязычной во всех ее частях.
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2. Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis'in dramı
Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis, Fransa ye Almanya'da hem tarih hem arkeoloji doktoralari yapmış, Yunanistan, Kıbrıs, Mısır ve ABD'de öğretim üyeliği olan, Türkçe dahil 15 dil bilen bir deha.
Nasıl mı tanıştık? 1980'1erin ortası ... Aylık İngilizce Middle East Business and Banking dergisini çıkarıyorum; yurtiçi ye yurtdışından yazılar geliyor.
Dr. Andrew Mango'dan Alman profesor Werner Gumpel'e, Doğan Kuban'dan Mümtaz Soysal'a kadar iktisadi, siyasi, sosyal, kiiltiirel yazılar geliyor ye yayımlıyorum.
Dr. Cosmas Megalommatis isimli bir Yunanlıdan Iran üzerine bir makale gelmış; değerli buluyorum ye yayımlanıyor. Daha sonra birkaç yazı daha geliyor.
Birkaç ay sonra kendisi derginin bürosuna geliyor, tanışıyoruz. Çok ilginç bir insan. Bana hikâyesini de anlatıyor. Atina Üniversitesinde asistan kadrosunda; Paris'te bir Fransız profesörle uzun çalışmalar yapıyor; "Hellenizm yoktur, oryantalizm vardır," içerikli bir çalışma ortaya çıkıyor.
Atina'da bir yayıneviyle anlaşıyor, basılacak. Ancak Atina Patriği'nin haberi oluyor ve Atina Üniversitesi rektörüne rnektup yazarak. Dr. Megalommatis'i üniversiteden attırıyor.
Dr. Cosmas çok kızıyor ye Yunanistan'ı terk ediyor. Hatta patriğe kızgınlığından Ortodoks mezhebinden ayrılarak Kahire'de Müslüman oluyor.
Ben bütün bunları gönderdiği yazılar dergide yayımlamdıktan çok sonra öğreniyorum. Levent'deki evime ziyarete geliyor. Sonra KKTC'deki bazı profesör arkadaşlar aracılığıyla Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliğine başlıyor.
Bu arada 1991-1992'de benim Girne'de düzenlediğim konferansta, Türkiye ve Balkanlar konusunda tebliğ sunuyor. Bu geniş kapsamlı tebliğ, Kıbrıs Araştırmaları Vakfı tarafından kitap olarak 1992'de yayımlanıyor.
Bir sure sonra Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi'nde sebebini bilmediğim nedenlerden dolayı ayrılmak zorunda kalıyor ve Istanbul'a dönüyor.
Sık sık Levent'e bana geliyor. Halit Refiğ'le arası iyi, bir anlamda başımıza kalıyor. Bir Halit'te, bir bende.
Sonra Kahire'deki Fransız Arkeoloji Enstitüsü'nde çalışmaya başladığını öğreniyorum. Birkaç yıl sonra ABD'ye göçüyor ve bir üniversiteye kapağı atıyor.
Birkaç defa e-mail atıyor, temasımız çok sınırlı.
2007 yılında Türkiye'deki cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimlerine bir iki hafta kala Beyazit'ta Iktisat Fakültesi'ndeki odamdayım.
Bölüm asistanı Levent, heyencanla, kapıyı dahi vurmadan içeri dalıyor; "Erol Hoca bak bak, Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis Amerika'da seni yazmış". "Benim cumhurbaşkanı adayım Erol Manisalı" başlıklı uzun bir makale, bilgisayar çıktısı elimde. Kendi sayfasında yayınlamış ve bir iki yerel gazete tarafından iktibas edilmiş (www.americanchronicle, ID=24752).
Güler misiniz ağlar misiniz …. Beni gönlünde ve kafasında öyle yüceltmiş ki üstelik, hiç de önemsemediğim bir yere otutmuş.
Beni övdüğü için değil ama hayatımda karşılaştığım, ilginç bölgesel tezleri olan, biraz uçuk da olsa bir "daha"yı, "ünlü olmasa bile ilginç ve önemli kişi"yi, yolumun kesiştikleri arasına aldım.
Bu tür insanlar çok azınlıkta kalsalar bile yeni görüşlerin gizli öncüleri olmuşlardır.
Üstelik Prof. Megalommatis, 15 dünya dilini derinliğine bilen bir akademisyen.
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3. Bölüm sayfaları ve kitap kapağı - Chapter pages and the book cover - страницы главы и обложка книги
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4. Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis' drama
Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis prepared two doctorates in History and Archeology, in France and Germany,
He is a genius, who taught in Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and the USA, and speaks 15 languages, including Turkish.
How did we meet? Mid 1980's ... I publish the monthly English magazine Middle East Business and Banking; articles are coming from home and abroad.
From Dr. Andrew Mango to German professor Werner Gumpel, from Doğan Kuban to Mümtaz Soysal, I receive and publish economic, political, social and cultural articles.
An article on Iran came from a Greek named Cosmas Megalommatis; I found it valuable and it was published. A few more articles followed.
A few months later, he came to the magazine's office and we met. He was a very interesting person. He also told me his story. He belonged to the cadre of assistants at the University of Athens; he had been doing long studies with a French professor in Paris; a study with the content "There is no Hellenism, there is Orientalism" emerged.
He contracted with a publishing house in Athens; the study would be published. However, the Patriarch of Athens was informed and he wrote a letter to the rector of the University of Athens. Dr. Megalommatis is kicked out of the university.
Dr. Cosmas got very angry and left Greece. He even became a Muslim in Cairo by leaving the Orthodox sect, out of anger at the patriarch.
I learned about all these developments long after the articles that he sent were published in the magazine. He came to visit me in my house in Levent1. Then, through some friends, who were professors in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, he started his teaching career at Eastern Mediterranean University.
By the way, he presented a paper on Turkey and the Balkans at the conference that I held in Girne2 in 1991-1992. This comprehensive paper was published as a book by the Cyprus Studies Foundation in 1992.
After a while, he had to leave the Eastern Mediterranean University for reasons I don't know, and he returned to Istanbul.
He often came to me in Levent. He was on good terms with Halit Refiğ3, and in a way he was up to us. Once in Halit's; once in my house.
Then, I learned that he started working at the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo. A few years later, he immigrated to the USA and went to a university.
He sent e-mails a few times; our contact was very limited.
One or two weeks before the 2007 presidential elections in Turkey, I was in my office at the Faculty of Economics in Beyazit4.
My Department assistant, Mr. Levent5, burst in excitedly, without even knocking on the door; "Professor Erol, look! Prof. Cosmas Megalommatis wrote about you in America". I have a long article titled "My presidential candidate is Erol Manisalı", a computer printout. Published on its own page and quoted by a few local newspapers (www.americanchronicle, ID=24752)6.
Would you laugh or cry …. He exalted me so much in his heart and mind that he made me sit in a place that I didn't care at all about.
Not because he praised me, but for having encountered in my life a man with regionally interesting approaches, albeit somewhat eccentric, an interesting and important person, who crossed my path, I included him in this book, although he is not famous.
Such people, though very few, have been the secret pioneers of new ideas.
Moreover, Prof. Megalommatis is an academic who has deep knowledge of 15 world languages.
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5. Драма профессора Космы Мегаломматиса
Профессор Космас Мегаломматис подготовил две докторские степени по истории и археологии во Франции и Германии.
Он гений, который преподает в Греции, на Кипре, в Египте и США и говорит на 15 языках, включая турецкий.
Как мы познакомились? Середина 1980-х ... Я издаю ежемесячный английский журнал Middle East Business and Banking; Статьи поступают из дома и за рубежом.
От доктора Эндрю Манго до немецкого профессора Вернера Гумпеля, от Догана Кубана до Мюмтаз Сойсал, я получаю и публикую экономические, политические, социальные и культурные статьи.
Статья об Иране была написана греком Космасом Мегаломматисом; Я нахожу это ценным, и оно опубликовано. Далее еще несколько статей.
Через несколько месяцев он приходит в редакцию журнала, и мы встречаемся. Он очень интересный человек. Он также рассказывает мне свою историю. Он принадлежит к числу ассистентов Афинского университета; он долго учился у французского профессора в Париже; появляется исследование с содержанием «Нет эллинизма, есть ориентализм».
Заключен контракт с издательством в Афинах, оно будет опубликовано. Однако Патриарх Афин был проинформирован и написал письмо ректору Афинского университета. Доктора Мегаломматиса выгнали из университета.
Доктор Космас очень злится и уезжает из Греции. Он даже стал мусульманином в Каире, выйдя из православной секты, из гнева на патриарха.
Обо всех этих событиях я узнал уже давно после того, как статьи, которые он присылал, были опубликованы в журнале. Он пришел навестить меня в моем доме в Левенте1. Затем через друзей, которые были профессорами в Турецкой Республике Северного Кипра, он начал свою преподавательскую деятельность в Университете Восточного Средиземноморья.
Кстати, он выступал с докладом о Турции и Балканах на конференции, которую я проводил в Гирне2 в 1991-1992 годах. Этот всеобъемлющий документ был опубликован в виде книги Фондом кипрских исследований в 1992 году.
Через некоторое время ему пришлось покинуть Восточно-Средиземноморский университет по непонятным мне причинам, и он вернулся в Стамбул.
Он часто приезжал ко мне в Левент. Он был в хороших отношениях с Халитом Рефигом3 и в чем-то нам подчинялся. Однажды у Халита; однажды в моем доме.
Потом я узнал, что он начал работать во Французском археологическом институте в Каире. Через несколько лет он иммигрировал в США и поступил в университет.
Он отправил электронные письма несколько раз; наши контакты были очень ограничены.
За одну или две недели до президентских выборов 2007 года в Турции я был в своем кабинете на экономическом факультете в Беязите4.
Мой ассистент, господин Левент5, взволнованно ворвался, даже не постучав в дверь; «Профессор Эрол, смотрите! Профессор Космас Мегаломматис писал о вас в Америке». У меня есть длинная статья под названием «Мой кандидат в президенты — Эрол Манисалы», компьютерная распечатка. Публикуется на собственной странице и цитируется несколькими местными газетами (www.americanchronicle, ID=24752) 6.
Вы бы смеяться или плакать .... Он так возвеличил меня в своем сердце и разуме, что заставил меня сесть на место, которое меня совершенно не заботило.
Не за то, что он хвалил меня, а за то, что встретил в своей жизни человека с регионально интересными подходами, хотя и несколько эксцентричного, интересного и важного человека, перешедшего мне дорогу, я включил его в эту книгу, хотя он и не известен.
Такие люди, хотя и очень немногие, были тайными пионерами новых идей.
Кроме того, профессор Мегаломматис является академиком, обладающим глубоким знанием 15 языков мира.
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6. Notlar - Notes - Примечания
Notes for non-Turkish readership in English & Russian:
1. Levent is a district in Istanbul.
2. Girne was also known as Keryneia.
3. Halit Refiğ (1934-2009) was one of Turkey's foremost film directors, film producers, screenwriters and writers.
4. Beyazit is a district in Istanbul.
5. Levent is also a Turkish personal name for men.
6. The correct link would be: https://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/24752
However, the site was hacked and closed down 2014.
Примечания на английском и русском языках (для нетурецких читателей):
1. Левент – район в Стамбуле.
2. Гирне также была известна как Кириния.
3. Халит Рефиг (1934-2009) был одним из ведущих турецких режиссеров, продюсеров, сценаристов и писателей.
4. Беязит — район в Стамбуле.
5. Левент также является турецким личным мужским именем.
6. Правильная ссылка: https://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/24752.
Однако в 2014 году сайт был взломан и закрыт.
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7- Kitap tanıtımı ve verileri - Book presentation and data - Презентация книги и данные книги
Prof. Manisali'nin kitabının adı:
Prof. Manisali's book title:
Название книги профессора Манисалы:
Erol Manisalı, Yolumun Kesiştiği Ünlüler
Erol Manisali, Celebrities I crossed in my Path
Эрол Манисалы, Знаменитости, которых я встретил на своем пути
Kitap hakkında
Prof. Dr. Erol Manisalı akademik çalışmaları sırasında ve yazarlık yaşamı boyunca tanıştığı yerli-yabancı ünlü simalarla ilgili anılarını paylaşıyor. Siyasetçiler, sanatçılar, bilim insanları, işadamları, Manisalı’nın gözlem gücünün süzgecinden geçerek, Türkiye’nin yakın tarihinde bıraktıkları izlerle yer alıyorlar Yolumun Kesiştiği Ünlüler’de.
Bülent Ecevit’ten Kirk Douglas’a, Süleyman Demirel’den Vehbi Koç ve Sakıp Sabancı’ya, Turgut Özal’dan Attila İlhan’a, Mümtaz Soysal’dan İlhan Selçuk’a, General Franco’dan Zekeriya Öz’e açılan yelpazede pek çok ismin adeta resmi geçit yaptığı elinizdeki kitap, hem bir anılar demeti, hem de yakın dönem siyaset notları niteliği taşıyor.
Yolumun Kesiştiği Ünlüler, Avrupa Birliği’yle ilişkileri, Kıbrıs sorununu, Ergenekon operasyonlarını, din sömürüsü ve darbeleri, Erol Manisalı’nın ilk kez dile getirdiği gerçekler ve yaşanmışlıklar temelinde yeniden yorumluyor.
"Yolumun kesiştiği ünlü kişiler ile olaylar arasındaki bağlar bazen üzücü bazen de trajikomik özellikler içeriyor. Bunları kamuoyuna aktarmadığım takdirde, ortaya çıkmaları mümkün olmayacaktı. Sadece benim hafızamda saklı kalmalarını istemedim".
About the book
Prof. Dr. Erol Manisalı shares his memories of famous local and foreign faces he met during his academic studies and throughout his writing life. Politicians, artists, scientists, businessmen take their place in 'Celebrities I crossed in my Path' with the traces they left in Turkey's recent history, passing through the filter of the observation power of Manisalı.
From Bülent Ecevit to Kirk Douglas, from Süleyman Demirel to Vehbi Koç and Sakıp Sabancı, from Turgut Özal to Attila İlhan, from Mümtaz Soysal to İlhan Selçuk, from General Franco to Zekeriya Öz. The book in your hand, in which many names have made an official parade, is both a bundle of memories and notes on recent politics.
'Celebrities I crossed in my Path' reinterprets the relations with the European Union, the Cyprus problem, the Ergenekon operations, religious exploitation and coups based on the facts and experiences that Erol Manisalı first voiced.
"The ties between the famous people I crossed with and the events sometimes contain sad and sometimes tragicomic features. If I did not make them public, they would not have been possible. I just didn't want them to remain hidden in my memory".
О книге
Профессор доктор Эрол Манисалы делится своими воспоминаниями об известных местных и иностранных лицах, с которыми он встречался во время учебы и на протяжении всей своей писательской жизни. Политики, художники, ученые, бизнесмены занимают свое место в «Знаменитости, которых я встретил на своем пути» со следами, которые они оставили в новейшей истории Турции, пройдя через фильтр наблюдательной силы Манисалы.
От Бюлента Эджевита до Кирка Дугласа, от Сулеймана Демиреля до Вехби Коча и Сакипа Сабанджи, от Тургута Озала до Аттилы Ильхана, от Мюмтаза Сойсала до Ильхана Сельчука, от генерала Франко до Зекерии Оз. Книга в вашей руке, в которой многие имена сделали официальный парад, представляет собой одновременно пачку воспоминаний и заметок о недавней политике.
«Знаменитости, которых я встретил на своем пути» переосмысливает отношения с Европейским Союзом, кипрскую проблему, операции «Эргенекон», религиозную эксплуатацию и перевороты на основе фактов и опыта, которые впервые озвучил Эрол Манисалы.
«Связи между известными людьми, с которыми я пересекался, и событиями иногда содержат печальные, а иногда и трагикомические черты. Если бы я не обнародовал их, они были бы невозможны. Я просто не хотел, чтобы они оставались скрытыми в моей памяти».
Kitap verileri / Book data / Данные книги
KIRMIZI KEDİ YAYINEVİ
Yayın Tarihi: 19.03.2018
ISBN: 9786050980936
Dil: TÜRKÇE
Sayfa Sayısı: 120
Cilt Tipi: Karton Kapak
Kağıt Cinsi: Kitap Kağıdı
Boyut: 13.5 x 19.5 cm
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RED CAT PUBLISHING HOUSE
Release Date: 19.03.2018
ISBN: 9786050980936
Language Turkish
Number of Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Paper Type: Book Paper
Size: 13.5 x 19.5 cm
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ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО КРАСНЫЙ КОТ
Дата выхода: 19.03.2018
ISBN: 9786050980936
Язык Турецкий
Количество страниц: 120
Тип переплета: Мягкая обложка
Тип бумаги: Книжная бумага
Размер: 13,5 х 19,5 см
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8. Prof. Manisali'nin kitap bölümünde bahsettiği makalelerime ve kitaplarıma bağlantılar - Links to my articles and books mentioned by Prof. Manisali in his book chapter - Ссылки на мои статьи и книги, упомянутые профессором Манисалы в главе его книги
Prof. Manisalı ile ilgili yazdığım yazının linkleri:
Links to my article about Prof. Manisali:
Ссылки на мою статью о профессоре Манисалы:
![Erol Manisali for President of Turkey (18th April 2007) - [DOCX Document]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b1fe1889d22e1e7ad00ceee4b67e5839/a6ac1736a8f0d038-57/s1280x1920/579ae1d8d0fc10cbc7afa4624eca3eda7e5cf436.jpg)
Prof. Manisali'nin kitabının bölümünde adı geçen konuşmamın ve kitabın yayınlandığı linkler:
Links to the publication of my speech and the book that are mentioned in the chapter of the Prof. Manisali's book:
Ссылки на публикацию моего выступления и на книгу, которые упоминаются в главе книги профессора Манисалы:
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9. Prof. Manisali ile ilgili biyografik notlara ve ölüm ilanlarına bağlantılar - Links to biographical notes about Prof. Manisali and obituaries - Ссылки на биографические заметки о профессоре Манисалы и некрологи
Το Ιράν των Αγιατολάχ: ένα Μασωνικό Παρασκεύασμα - αποκαλύπτει ο Έλληνας Ιρανολόγος καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης
Ayatollahs' Iran: A Freemasonic Fabrication, reveals the Greek Iranologist Prof. Mohammad Samsaddin Megalommatis
ΑΝΑΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΝΕΡΓΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ “ΟΙ ΡΩΜΙΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ”
Το κείμενο του κ. Νίκου Μπαϋρακτάρη είχε αρχικά δημοσιευθεί την 27η Σεπτεμβρίου 2018.
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https://greeksoftheorient.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/το-ιράν-των-αγιατολάχ-ένα-μασωνικό-παρ/ =============================
Οι Ρωμιοί της Ανατολής – Greeks of the Orient
Ρωμιοσύνη, Ρωμανία, Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία
Αναδημοσιεύω εδώ ένα εντυπωσιακό άρθρο του Έλληνα ανατολιστή ιστορικού και πολιτικού επιστήμονα, καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη, ο οποίος διαλύει πολλούς μύθους που υπάρχουν στην κοινή γνώμη σχετικά με το Ιράν ως τάχα ‘αντίπαλο’ της δυτικής Νέας Τάξης Πραγμάτων.
Αρχικά δημοσιευμένο το 2007, το ανατρεπτικό άρθρο αναδημοσιεύθηκε σε πολλά ιρανικά πόρταλς της Διασποράς επειδή οι Ιρανοί κατάλαβαν εύκολα το τι έλεγε για την χώρα τους ο εξαίρετος Έλληνας ιρανολόγος, ο οποίος έχει μελετήσει την ιστορία του Ιράν και έχει περιπλανηθεί στην χώρα εκείνη όσο ελάχιστοι άλλοι ειδικοί.
Ayatollahs’ Iran: a Nationalistic Theocracy as Freemasonic Machination
By M. Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Saturday 22 December 2007
http://www.fravahr.org/spip.php?article411
and https://www.academia.edu/24267250/Ayatollahs_Iran_a_Nationalistic_Theocracy_as_Freemasonic_Machination
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The current theocratic and utterly unrepresentative regime of Iran was not the choice of the peoples and nations of Iran. The events that triggered the fall of Shah and the return of Ayatollah Khomeini were all machinated by an Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that controls part of the French and the English establishments and through them part of the American establishment.
The danger that the late Shah of Iran represented for their eschatological plans was absolutely tremendous. This does not imply that they intended to help establish a pseudo-Shia theocracy in Iran; simply they were not able to completely control the developments. As a matter of fact, the late Shah intended to modernize, industrialize and westernize Iran in the 70s; one could compare his attempt to that of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Turkey, 50 years earlier.
A strong Iran next to a strong Turkey is enough to make the Anglo-French colonial establishments spend years without an easy sleep. Although this would look good for Western geo-political and geo-strategic interests, particularly in containing Tsarist Russia / USSR / Putin’s oligarchy, in real terms of Western Freemasonic conspiracy in the Middle East it is abominable because it would hinder all Freemasonic plans and projects for the Middle East, the area of their primary concern par excellence.
Mossadegh received by Truman
Mossadegh was a Freemason Islamist. His supporters became later the supporters of Khomeyni and founders of the Islamic regime.
It sounds awkward but it is absolutely real: the late Shah of Iran tried with a delay of 17 years (as of 1970) to implement the basic concepts of the Iranian nationalistic policies of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, a great Iranian statesman whom the Freemasonic mass media of the West did their ingenious best to defame and ridicule, while falsely portraying him as … related to the Iranian Communist party!
[In fact, Mohamad Mossadegh was himself a Freemason and an Islamist. His so-called nationalism was no more than an International-Islamism inspired by Freemasonry — Fravahr]
When Madeleine Albright, decades later, admitted that the Eisenhower administration was involved in the Operation Ajax that ended with the Mossadegh’s removal, she did not state any other reason except geopolitical considerations. In fact, these considerations were Freemasonic eschatological approaches to the Middle East, covered by English economic interests, and involved volumes of falsified information produced in order to mislead the gullible and deeply unaware American establishment — through use of pro-English agents who were active in Washington D.C.
The Shah himself must have felt in the early and mid 70s how right Mohammed Mossadegh was. In his last days in Tehran, the Shah must have also remembered his father’s last days in the throne, when in September 1941 the English had forced him to abdicate in favour of his young son, as they could not accept Iran’s neutrality in WW II.
The Freemasonic anti-Iranian conspiracy played on the Iranian peoples’ feelings against the Shah, and involved the return of Ayatollah Khomeini who had spent some months in France. In fact, the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge pushed to the political forefront Iranians who had already lived and studied in France where they had become Freemasons, like Mehdi Bazargan, Khomeini’s first Prime Minister, and Abolhassan Banisadr, the first Iranian President.
They were joined in their effort to canalize the Iranian Revolution by Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who had studied in America, and had travelled with Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris to Tehran on February 1st 1979 to become later Foreign Minister (after Banisadr) and then be arrested and executed (September 1982) as betrayed by President George H. W. Bush. After 1983, Freemasonic influence on Iranian policies has been indirect.
Indirect manipulation involves the mental, spiritual, philosophical, ideological, and therefore political engulfment of the targeted establishment into erroneous perception of the present realities and the future targets of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge within a context that can be rather parallelized with an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Shia Eschatology in contrast with Freemasonic Messianism
Worship of Isis
Freemasonic ritual as on the walls of the Isiac Freemasonic Lodge (Temple of Isis) at Pompeii
The worship of Isis is depicted in this wall-painting from Herculaneum. The high priest stands at the entrance to the temple and looks down on the ceremony beneath him, which is supervised by priests with shaven heads. In the case of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Freemasonic establishment’s arsenal reaches its limits. Drawing from a late Sassanid Zervanism that survived within Shia Islam since the early days of the Islamic conquest of Iran (636: Sassanid defeat at Qadisiyah, 641 Sassanid defeat at Nihavent, 651: arrival of Islamic armies at Merv in Central Asia), Shia Eschatology revolves around the prevalence of Time as determinant element in the Mystic History of the Mankind; this is utterly alien to Western Freemasonic dogmas and doctrines that draw from Late Antiquity’s Gnosticisms, Hermetism, and Messianic Isidism.
With Khomeini’s doctrine based on the termination of the Ghaybah (“Occultation”) of the Shia Islamic Twelfth Imam (the Shia version of the Messiah) by means of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we reach one step closer to what is called in Islam Al Yom al Ahar (“the End of Time”).
Despite the fact that Iran and most of the Islamic World are engulfed in ignorance and confusion due to the academic systems that Freemasonic Europe produced to facilitate the advent of the Freemasonic Messianic, namely the Hellenism, the Orientalism, the Pan-Arabism, and the (Sunni) Islamism, the Shia establishment of Iran, sticking to the completion of the work initiated by Ayatollah Khomeini, have little chance to be misguided and deceived.
Contrarily to the Freemasonic concept of a Horus — Messiah, creation of Isis (as Freemasonry is symbolized within the Freemasonic eschatological doctrine), a Zervan — Twelfth Imam hinges on the absorption of all into a New Aeon with little concern about an Elected People to be saved.
Contrarily to a Horus — Victorious King and Pacifier, the concept of Zervan — Twelfth Imam involves the liberation of every person from the negative energy therein encrusted through various ways; as Zervan Akarana promises a monstrous appearance, yet able to embody the Loftiest of the Divine, the Shia Islamic Twelfth Imam promises no peace and no return for any elected people, but heralds the miraculous transformation of the miserable into luminous sources in the present world (after Al Yom al Ahar) and the Hereafter (Al Yom al Qiyamah).
There is certainly a Manichaean influence on the late Sassanid Zervanism (and through this system on the Shia Islam) but the Western stern rejection of Manichaeism proliferated only confusion and dire practices among the Apostate Freemasons. In fact, the Freemasonic Apostasy is a repetition of an earlier Apostasy that took place in the Late Antiquity, and caused the disastrous descent into the Middle Ages.
Unable to transcend, the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge seems set for disastrous developments that will now cover the entire surface of the Earth. Determined to continue an evil process started by Napoleon and sped up by Edmund Allenby, the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge seems today unable to perceive the impending domino effect that will ensue from an attack on Iran. The Apostate Lodge machinated the Anglo-French colonialism in order to create a false and precarious Israel (for Jews, not Israelites), thus exterminate both Jews and Palestinians (after a supposed final peace), and then set up a true Israel able to accommodate the migrating — because of expected ominous natural phenomena — English, Irish, Scots, French, Belgian, Dutch, and Scandinavians (namely the true descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel). That final Israel that would span between the rivers Euphrates (Assyria) and Nile (Egypt) may simply never come to existence because of the rise of a New Era for the Middle East triggered by an attack on Iran.
The Advent of the End of Time
If Ahmadinejad referred to Mahdi’s advent (which means automatically the End of Time) already in his first speech at the UN (in September 2005), what happened meanwhile that indicates that by now an apocalyptic scenario would follow an American attack on Iran? Why what could happen in March 2006 should not occur in December 2007?
The answer to such a question is at the same time a full response to a great number of eschatological interpretations. The History of the Mankind can also be viewed as a History of missed opportunities. More recently, after 2001, to give an example, the US could have pacified Iraq, if they had the knowledge and the courage to do what it would take. Simply, they were either unaware or misled. Usually, to know how a solution can be found to a historical — political problem, one has to transcend; this mainly means that one has to see the problem in question as a non-problem, or place it within wider frame, or view it through different standpoints, or apply all these methods. Basically, a historical — political problem’s solution involves the non-consideration of a part’s interests.
An answer to the aforementioned question is at the same time a complete rejection of numerous approaches to historical texts of eschatological contents. As a matter of fact, there has always been a vast interpretational literature of the Prophetic books of the Bible, of the Revelation, of the Apocalyptic Hadith, and of the eschatological traditions of various peoples from India to Mexico. With the inception of the web, and the rise of spiritual interest in a post-Communist world, the interpretational interest only multiplied. Specifications and clarifications about the time of the arrival of Mahdi, the Messiah, Jesus as Islamic Prophet, Jesus as Christ of the Christian religion, etc. can be found in great number.
All these approaches emanate from a world plunged into the swamp of Time, a world whereby all people take for granted that Time exists. Yet, the Mankind existed for several thousands of years without shaping the concept of Time. For many great thinkers and wise elders in Sumer, Akkad, Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, Hittite Anatolia, and Biblical Israel, Time simply did not exist. The interaction of Being and Becoming was perceived completely differently, particularly by peoples who used the same word for “day” and “time” (e.g. umu in Assyrian — Babylonian). In a world viewed, perceived, sensed, and experienced diachronically, there is little place for fanaticism and empathy, as all reflect an eternal recapitulation of everything.
In that world, great diachronic (and therefore apocalyptic and eschatological) Epics were compiled for a first and original occasion, and their elements, data, concepts and details were later diffused among later epics, mythical texts and apocalyptic literature. As a matter of fact, there is nothing original that was not already said before Moses. To give an example, it is sheer ignorance for anyone to believe that the concept of the Antichrist goes as back as the Revelation and Daniel.
More than 1500 years before the Revelation, for the Anatolian Hittites the Antichrist (Ullikummi) would rise from the Sea. The author of the Revelation reassessed the same topic, adding only an effort of identification of the Messiah (Tasmisu for the Ancient Hittites — Jesus as Christ for the Christians). More than 2000 years before Isaiah, the concept of the Messiah existed in the Egyptian Heliopolitan Doctrine.
Viewing the present world through the eyes of an Egyptian, Assyrian or Hittite erudite scholar would offer a completely different perspective, and certainly more authoritative as emanating from a diachronic consideration of the Mankind’s and the World’s existence. In most of the cases, this was avoided because of the salacity of Western Orientalists, who instead of serving truth, did promote preconceived ideas either of Freemasonic or Christian Catholic nature. What would destroy pillars of their false faiths had to be covered by silence; this is the “veracity” of the Western universities’ professors.
2007: A Changed World and Iran
In fact, many things have changed over the past 21 months; they are not easily visible to average people and supposed leaders. Even worse, it seems that they are not ostensible to panicked establishments and elites either.
Losing a unique opportunity to be the sole superpower and thus accomplish the wishes of the Founding Fathers, the US will have to become familiar with the reality of a multi-polar world.
If we exclude the nonsensical nuclear mutual destruction, which will be always a possibility, as long as nuclear weapons exist, America’s interests can be hit at any moment. America lost considerably because America allied itself with the only country they should never work together: England.
Discrediting America, exposing the US, while mobilizing others’ forces to contain America and finally avert a long perspective Pax Americana, England convinced the US leadership to pursue the only way that can truly damage the US interests: action against the Moral Principles that the Founding Fathers stipulated so clearly for the then young and promising, Anti-Colonial, nation that would diffuse Freedom, Justice and Democracy to the rest of the world.
The US leadership failed to assess that it would be detrimental to pursue after 1991 immoral practices employed at the times of the Cold War. The policy of double standards (two measures and two weights) would convince all possible adversaries that the US represents a threat, and would mobilize many against America. The enumeration could be very long.
Vice-president Cheney’s trip to Saudi Arabia in November 2006 was certainly taken very seriously by the Iranians — within eschatological context, I mean. The Islamic Messiah will certainly exterminate a cursed, Satanic regime in charge of Haramayn, the two holy cities of Mekka and Madinah.
One would not ask America to believe the Islamic eschatological literature; but one would anticipate America to take it into account, and shape its policy accordingly. The rest is just inane.
Saudi Arabia cannot exist — if Israel is to survive!
It was a pathetic American effort to continue English Colonial policies of division and strife in the Middle East; these policies targeting the existence of the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Iran, if pursued by America, against Turkey and Iran, can guarantee the total disaster of America.
Yet, Prof. Huntington, in a moment of truth, exposed the truth plainly, when he attributed the Islamic Extremism and Terrorism to the lack of a core State for the Muslim world. This was precisely the work of the Anglo-French Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that we already mentioned. America should not be confused with the Anglo-French secondary conflicts, as highlighted by the San Remo arguments between Clemenceau and Lloyd George.
For America’s interests to prevail, for the present state of Israel to survive, for a solution of the quasi-permanent Palestinian problem to be found, America should avoid any direct interference in the affairs of the Muslim World.
Any US attack against Iran would trigger an unexpected and unsuspected reaction that would certainly have a lot to do with Islamic eschatological expectations.
The explosion would immediately bring in other, sizeable, non-Islamic countries that are ready for a severe collapse of the present global economic structures, as their economies are better suited for barter trade. These countries would not necessarily help Iran militarily; they would simply make impossible for America to sustain the cost of a conflict spanning from Yemen and Israel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, at a moment Saudi and Emirati oilfields would not be anymore functional.
America should keep itself outside the Muslim World, and following the instructions of Prof. Huntington, help (with the cooperation of Israel) the rise of a core Muslim country in the Middle East that would eradicate the nefarious colonial deeds of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge.
This country should be a secular and humanist, democratic country that would be committed to the elimination of Pan-Arabism and Islamic Extremism. To support the rise of a vast Oriental State, America should fervently oppose France and England.
This would redraw the map of the Middle East, but ultimately save the present state Israel, offer peace to the Palestinians, and grant concord to the other Middle Eastern countries. Only a vast Oriental State would have no problem in containing Iran and outmanoeuvring the Ayatollah regime.
Otherwise the Death will hit America — in an irrevocable and precipitated way.
Europe would be affected too; and that Apostate Freemasonic Lodge would be severely persecuted in a new — unrecognizable — Europe ruled by a new Iron Man of the North.
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Ορομία, 45 εκ. Ορόμο κι ο Αφρικανολόγος καθ. Μ. Σ. Μεγαλομμάτης, Πρωτεργάτης του Εθνικού – Απελευθερωτικού Αγώνα του Μεγαλύτερου Υπόδουλου Έθνους στον Κόσμο
Oromia, 45 million Oromos, and the Africanologist Prof. M. S. Megalommatis, Pioneer of the National Liberation Struggle of the World's Largest Enslaved Nation
ΑΝΑΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΝΕΡΓΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ “ΟΙ ΡΩΜΙΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ”
Το κείμενο του κ. Νίκου Μπαϋρακτάρη είχε αρχικά δημοσιευθεί την 20η Αυγούστου 2019.
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https://greeksoftheorient.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/ορομία-45-εκ-ορόμο-κι-ο-αφρικανολόγος-κα/ ====================
Οι Ρωμιοί της Ανατολής – Greeks of the Orient
Ρωμιοσύνη, Ρωμανία, Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία
Περίπου 45 εκ. Ορόμο ζουν σήμερα σε όλο τον κόσμο, κυρίως στην Αβησσυνία (που ψευδώς αποκαλείται Αιθιοπία) και στην Κένυα. Η πατρίδα τους είναι η Κατεχόμενη Ορομία. Στην Αβησσυνία (που μόνον πρόσφατα, ψεύτικα και εγκληματικά αποκαλείται Αιθιοπία) υπάρχει μια μεγάλη επαρχία ονόματι Ορομία. Αλλά τα σύνορά της επαρχίας αυτής δεν αντιστοιχούν στα πραγματικά σύνορα της Κατεχόμενης Ορομία και έτσι πολλοί Ορόμο ζουν και σε άλλες επαρχίες του τυραννικού αυτού ψευτοκράτους του οποίου ο σχηματισμός οφείλεται σε πολλές γενοκτονίες διαφόρων αφρικανικών κουσιτικών και νειλοσαχαρικών εθνών κατά τον 19ο και 20ο αιώνα. Ορόμο Διασπορά υπάρχει σήμερα στις ΗΠΑ, στον Καναδά, στην Αυστραλία, στο Σουδάν, στην Αίγυπτο και σε άλλες χώρες.
Οι Ορόμο είναι ένα κουσιτικό έθνος (δηλαδή ανατολικό χαμιτικό έθνος) και οι πιο κοντινοί ‘συγγενείς’ τους είναι τα άλλα κουσιτικά έθνη της σημερινής Ανατολικής Αφρικής: οι Σομαλοί (που είναι επίσης διαιρεμένοι: στην ευρισκόμενη σε εμφύλιο από το 1991 Σομαλία, στο Ογκάντεν της Αβησσυνίας, στην Κένυα και στο Τζιμπουτί), οι Σιντάμα, οι Άφαρ, οι Κάφα και οι Καμπάτα. Τα τελευταία τέσσερα κουσιτικά έθνη είναι και αυτά υποδουλωμένα στην Αβησσυνία. Ιδιαίτερα μάλιστα οι Άφαρ είναι τριχοτομημένοι ανάμεσα στην Αβησσυνία, την Ερυθραία και το Τζιμπουτί.
Ο λόγος για τον οποίο η Σομαλία βυθίστηκε και παραμένει σε εμφύλιο προγραμματισμένα επί σχεδόν 30 χρόνια είναι ο ίδιος για τον οποίο οι Ορόμο αντιμετώπισαν την έχθρα όλων των μεγάλων αποικιοκρατικών χωρών (Αγγλία, Γαλλία, ΗΠΑ) και την άρνηση της κατευθυνόμενης από το παρασκήνιο διεθνούς κοινότητας να ανταποκριθεί στον δίκαιο εθνικό απελευθερωτικό αγώνα τους.
Ταυτόχρονα, πολλά ψέμματα διαδόθηκαν από πανεπιστήμια, εκδοτικούς οίκους, ερευνητικά κέντρα, και ΜΜΕ ώστε να μειωθούν οι αλήθειες που διέδιδαν εθνικά απελευθερωτικά κινήματα όπως το Oromo Liberation Front.
Ο λόγος για τον οποίο δεν ξέρουν για τους Ορόμο στην Ελλάδα, στην Γαλλία, την Αγγλία, την Γερμανία, την Ρωσσία, τις ΗΠΑ, την Κίνα και άλλες χώρες του κόσμου είναι ο ίδιος για τον οποίο οι περισσότεροι άνθρωποι σε όλα τα μήκη και πλάτη της γης ξέρουν μια ψευδέστατη ιστορία, έχουν στρεβλή πληροφόρηση κι έχουν λάθος εικόνα της κατά τόπους υπαρκτής κατάστασης.
Συχνά-πυκνά η παραπληροφόρηση και η αποπληροφόρηση συνοδεύονται από την παντελή αποσιώπηση.
Και στην περίπτωση των Ορόμο ό,τι επιχειρήθηκε επιμελώς να αποσιωπηθεί είναι η γενοκτονία των Ορόμο που είναι ένα σχεδόν συνεχές γεγονός το οποίο άρχισε στα μισά του 19ου αιώνα.
Ορόμο Ουακεφάτα, οπαδοί της παραδοσιακής μονοθεϊστικής και ανεικονικής θρησκείας τους, εορτάζουν την θρησκευτική εορτή Ιρίτσα.
Η διάλυση των αφρικανικών βασιλείων των Ορόμο και η γενοκτονία των Ορόμο οφείλεται στο γεγονός ότι οι κακουργηματικές και σατανικές ηγεσίες των αποικιοκρατικών χωρών του 19ου αιώνα, και πιο συγκεκριμένα οι κυβερνήσεις της Αγγλίας και της Γαλλίας, πούλησαν όπλα στο μικρό κρατίδιο των Αμχάρα και Τιγκράυ, την Αβησσυνία, για να κάνει πόλεμο εναντίον των Ορόμο και άλλων κουσιτικών και νειλοσαχαρικών εθνών, να τα κατακτήσει και να τα προσαρτήσει.
Έχει αποδειχθεί ότι κατά την περίοδο κατά την οποία αυτές οι δυο χώρες διεξήγαγαν μια παγκόσμια εκστρατεία εναντίον του δουλεμπορίου, επέτρεψαν στο μικρό και βαρβαρικό βασίλειο της Αβησσυνίας να διεξάγει δουλεμπόριο ώστε να έχει έσοδα και να αγοράζει όπλα. Οι τότε κατακτήσεις των άλλων ανατολικών αφρικανικών βασιλείων εκ μέρους των Αμχάρα και Τιγκράυ της Αβησσυνίας ήταν κανονικό χασάπικο επειδή εκείνα τα έθνη πολεμούσαν με ακόντια, τόξα, βέλη και σπαθιά. Έχει καταγραφεί από ουδέτερους παρατηρητές εκείνων των χρόνων ότι οι μισοί Ορόμο εσφαγιάσθησαν κατά την αβησσυνική κατάληψη της Ορομία.
Σήμερα μόνον σε κείμενα Ορόμο καθηγητών, ερευνητών και αναλυτών και σε άρθρα του καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη θα βρείτε την αλήθεια σχετικά με το θέμα. Όλοι οι άλλοι ερευνητές και ειδικοί είναι υποχρεωμένοι να σιωπούν γιατί το να μιλήσεις για την ιστορικώς πρώτη, την μεγαλύτερη, και την πλέον μακρόχρονη γενοκτονία των νεωτέρων χρόνων στις ανελεύθερες Ευρώπη, Αμερική και στα εξαρτήματά τους είναι κυριολεκτικά career terminator (τερματιστής σταδιοδρομίας).
Αλλά όταν ανέφερα σε Ορόμο υπαλλήλους κι εργάτες των εταιρειών που διευθύνω εδώ στην Κένυα ότι γνωρίζω προσωπικά τον Έλληνα ανατολιστή κι αφρικανολόγο κ. Μεγαλομμάτη που έκανε επί μακρόν μια media campaign υπέρ των Ορόμο, τα πρόσωπά τους έλαμψαν και μου ζήτησαν να τους τον γνωρίσω, γιατί τα περί των Ορόμο online άρθρα του της περιόδου 2004-2011 τυπώνονταν, μεταφράζονταν από τα αγγλικά στην γλώσσα των Ορόμο, και διαδίδονταν ανάμεσά τους ακόμη και στα πιο απόμακρα χωριά. Και μια φορά, όταν ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης ήταν περαστικός από την Κένυα, τους έφερα σε επαφή και κείνοι τον αγκάλιαζαν και τον φιλούσαν σαν να ήταν εκείνος ένα μέλος της οικογένειάς τους. Και τι έκανε εκείνος; Μιλούσε τέλεια σε Αφαάν Ορόμο μαζί τους!
Αφαάν Ορόμο σημαίνει ‘γλώσσα των Ορόμο’ στην γλώσσα τους, όπως και Αφ Σομάλι σημαίνει ‘σομαλικά’ στην γλώσσα των Σομαλών, Αφαράφ σημαίνει γλώσσα ‘γλώσσα των Άφαρ’ στην γλώσσα εκείνου του έθνους, και Σινταμουάφο σημαίνει ‘γλώσσα των Σιντάμα’ στην γλώσσα του συγκεκριμένου κουσιτικού έθνους.
Αυτά τα αναφέρω για να καταδείξω την εγγύτητα των κουσιτικών εθνών και γλωσσών. Παραλλαγές του Αφ- σημαίνουν ‘γλώσσα’. Δηλαδή είναι όπως η λέξη lingua στις λατινογενείς γλώσσες. Τα Αφαάν Ορόμο, όπως και τα Σινταμουάφο και τα σομαλικά, γράφονται σήμερα με λατινικό αλφάβητο.
Οι Ορόμο χαρακτηρίζονται από θρησκευτική τριχοτόμηση: άλλοι είναι μουσουλμάνοι, άλλοι χριστιανοί και άλλοι Ουακεφάτα, δηλαδή πιστοί της Ουακεφάνα, της παραδοσιακής θρησκείας των Ορόμο.
Προ 200 ετών δεν υπήρχε ούτε ένας Ορόμο μουσουλμάνος ή χριστιανός.
Όταν όμως άρχισε η αβησσυνική κατάληψη που συνδυάστηκε με την εμφάνιση δυτικών ιεραποστόλων και την επιλογή ανάμεσα σε βίαιο εκχριστιανισμό ή θάνατο, πολλοί Ορόμο προσχώρησαν στο Ισλάμ και συνεργάστηκαν με τους Σομαλούς και την ιταλική αποικιοκρατική διοίκηση της Σομαλίας εναντίον των Αβησσυνών.
Σε πλήθος άρθρων του, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης έχει καταδείξει τις στενές σχέσεις και τις ομοιότητες ανάμεσα
α) στην αρχαία αιγυπτιακή θρησκεία,
β) την αρχαία κουσιτική / μεροϊτική θρησκεία στο προχριστιανικό Σουδάν (που οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες αποκαλούσαν ‘Αιθιοπία’) και
γ) την Ουακεφάνα. Ακόμη περισσότερο,
ο Έλληνας αφρικανολόγος έχει ιστορικά αποδείξει την μεροϊτική – κουσιτική καταγωγή των σημερινών Ορόμο της Αβησσυνίας και της Κένυας από το Αρχαίο Σουδάν (την πραγματική Αιθιοπία), έτσι δίνοντας στο μεγαλύτερο σύγχρονο κουσιτικό έθνος μια ιστορικότητα που πάει πίσω στο 2500 π.Χ. και τον πολιτισμό της Κέρμα στο σημερινό βόρειο τμήμα του Σουδάν.
Ουακεφάνα σημαίνει πίστη στον Ουάκο, τον μόνο Θεό κατά τους Ορόμο. Οι μουσουλμάνοι Σομαλοί, αν και χρησιμοποιούν το όνομα Αλλάχ, διατηρούν και την κουσιτικής (Cushitic) καταγωγής λέξη Ουάκο. Συχνά μάλιστα την προσθέτουν μετά από λέξεις με ευεργετικό νόημα: δεν λένε ‘μπαρ’ (: βροχή) αλλά ‘μπαρ Ουάκο’, δηλαδή ‘η βροχή του Θεού’!
Στην συνέχεια παραθέτω μια σειρά από συνδέσμους για πρώτη εξοικείωση με το θέμα (η wikipedia έχει συχνά πολλές ανακρίβειες για λόγους που ήδη προανέφερα: επικρατεί σκοπίμως μεγάλη παραπληροφόρηση σχετικά) και αναδημοσιεύω ένα τεράστιο άρθρο του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη στα αγγλικά, αρχικά δημοσιευμένο στις 2 Μαΐου 2010, με τίτλο Oromo Action Plan for the Liberation of Oromia and the Destruction of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), δηλαδή Σχέδιο Δράσης των Ορόμο για την Απελευθέρωση της Ορομία και την Καταστροφή της Αβησσυνίας (Ψεύτικης Αιθιοπίας).
Το συνηθισμένο στην Ορομία πελώριο δέντρο Οντάα (Odaa) επέχει κεντρική θέση στην κοινωνία, την πίστη και την ζωή των Ορόμο.
https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odaa
Σημειώνω ότι ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης είχε συγκρουστεί με τον αιγυπτιολόγο ακαδημαϊκό και καθηγητή του Jean Leclant, ο οποίος ήταν αυτός που συνέστησε προσωπικά στον φίλο του, τον ματοβαμμένο Αμχάρα τύραννο της Αβησσυνίας Χαϊλέ Σελασιέ, στα μισά της δεκαετίας του 1950 (όταν ο Leclant ίδρυσε την εκεί Γενική Διεύθυνση Αρχαιοτήτων) να αλλάξει το όνομα της χώρας από Αβησσυνία σε Αιθιοπία.
Το γιατί συνέβη αυτό είναι μια μεγάλη ιστορία, η οποία θα απασχολήσει όλο τον κόσμο στο μέλλον, αλλά ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης έχει επανειλημμένα γράψει για το θέμα και γι’ αυτό θα επανέλθω.
Κλείνω ζητώντας σας να μην αποκαλείτε πλέον Αντίς Αμπέμπα την πόλη που είναι πρωτεύουσα του τυραννικού αυτού κράτους. Το όνομα αυτό στάζει αίμα. Αυτή ήταν η πρωτεύουσα ενός από τα βασίλεια των Ορόμο τον 19ο αιώνα και ονομαζόταν Φινφινέ. Οι Ορόμο ακόμη την ονομάζουν έτσι – και μόνον έτσι.
Διαβάστε:
http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/News/2008/Open%20Letter%20to%20HRH.html
http://oromoliberationfront.org/english/oromia-briefs/
http://oromoliberationfront.org/english/finfinne-addis-ababa-is-an-oromo-land/
http://www.genocidewatch.org/ethiopia.html
http://www.voicefinfinne.org/English/History/MB.html
http://www.voicefinfinne.org/English/index_interview.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromia_Region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_conflict
http://free-oromiyaa.blogspot.com/2010/05/oromo-action-plan-for-liberation-of.html
https://oromiatimes.org/2014/01/04/evidence-meneliks-genocide-against-oromo-and-other-nations/
Η σημερινή διοικητική διαίρεση της Αβησσυνίας (Ψεύτικης Αιθιοπίας) εκφράζει τα συμφέροντα των κατακτητών Αμχάρα και Τιγκράυ, των δυο εθνών της Αβησσυνίας που με κατακτητικούς πολέμους και γενοκτονίες επεξέτειναν τον 19ο και τον 20ο αιώνα τα σύνορα του μικρού και βαρβαρικού κρατιδίου τους που εκτεινόταν από την λίμνη Τάνα στην Αξώμη μόνον.
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Oromo Action Plan for the Liberation of Oromia and the Destruction of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)
First published in the American Chronicle, Buzzle and AfroArticles on 2nd May 2010
Republished in the portal of the exiled Oromo Parliamentarians
https://www.oromoparliamentarians.org/English/News_Archive/Oromo%20Action%20Plan%20for%20the%20Liberation%20of%20Oromia.htm
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The present article is not an original, new text; it consists in the merge of eight articles first published in 2008. The text has been slightly modified, edited and updated. As the series was not completed, I will further expand in forthcoming articles in order to extensively describe the types of actions needed to be undertaken by independent average Oromos in view of the liberation of Oromia and the ultimate destruction of the monstrous colonial tyranny of Abyssinia, the world´s most racist and inhuman state. The present article consists of 21 units, as per below:
1. The Search for Oromo Leadership
2. A New Oromo Leadership: A Global First
3. Weaknesses of the Traditional Political Leadership
4. Identification of the Oromo Nation in 2010
5. Who is the enemy of the Oromos?
6. Local – Regional-level Foes
7. Authentic Oromos and Fabricated Amharas; the Total Opposition
8. Direct and Indirect Colonialism
9. Differentiation among Colonial Rulers
10. Anglo – French Colonial Establishment: Arch-enemy of the Oromo Nation
11. Millions of Oromo Leaders Organized in Independent Groups
12. Present Oromo “Leaderships” and their Inertia
13. Key Figures to Be Considered by All the Oromos
14. Biyya Oromo Independent – Whose Work Is It?
15. Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity – GOLA
16. Ground work
17. GOLA Security – Impenetrability
18. GOLA – Commitment
19. GOLA – Function
20. Basic Directions for GOLA Projects and Endeavours
21. Collection of Information Pertaining to the Oromo Nation
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1. The Search for Oromo Leadership
I went very attentively through Mr. Abdulkadir Gumi´s article ´Oromos: unblessed with leaders´ and I do find it as an excellent opportunity to exchange with my friend some ideas and approaches in public. Mr. Abdulkadir Gumi is a young Borana Oromo political activist, who deserves great respect for the help he has offered to many Oromo refugees, penniless refugees, and undeservedly imprisoned asylum seekers. In an opinion editorial, Mr. Abdulkadir Gumi asserted that the Oromo Nation has currently no great caliber political leaders able to “rise above their village, clans, interest”. Little matters whether I agree with the statement or not. Abdulkadir may be right in his comparisons with examples of African leaders, but I would like to pinpoint some yet unnoticed truths.
Point 1 – Worldwide lack of political (and not only) leadership
Searching worldwide, one can hardly find political leaders worthy of their titles. One can go through numerous editorials, analyses and even books about the subject. The issue is not quite new, but I would add that it gets continually deteriorated year after year, decade after decade. I came to first notice it in the 80s, when political commentators in Europe explained that the then generation of statesmen and politicians (Helmut Kohl, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Giulio Andreotti, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Jimmy Carter, etc.) were of smaller caliber and poorer performance than the previous generation of European and American statesmen who reshaped Europe and America in the aftermath of WW II (Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle, etc.).
I would add that ever since the same motif has been repeatedly employed within more specific contexts, academic, artistic, philosophical, spiritual, etc. Viewed as such, it is omnipresent in almost every era and every period of human civilization; only in few periods of zenith it is momentarily forgotten. This is the so-called ´concept of decadence´, according to which the past is always greater, higher, nobler, and consequently, more classic. People have always been familiarized with the concept that in the past ancestors were heroic, epic, and grandiose.
In fact, average people and political leaders change very little and their caliber is generally the same; what changes and in the process confuses our understanding is the era in which we live. Our acts and our thoughts, our quests and our hopes create instantly different contexts within which everything is viewed differently. Sometimes, this is also true, another context is truly a lower context, and then it would be impossible to expect greater thinkers, leaders, intellectuals and visionaries. The context is always reflected in the people who compose it, because they first express in it their deep thoughts, worries and perceptions.
Placing the subject within the context of our times, we can only agree with the approach; our era of conventionalism, materialism, relativism, conformism and subjectivism helps proliferate corrupt statesmen, crestfallen leaders, and conventional thinkers who are held captive of fallacies and forgeries that appear to them as awfully great and therefore impossible to challenge. These are the myths of our times that we avoid to demolish because this would deprive us of the hierarchical approval of our lethargic society where the manipulation is omnipresent and the fraud remains omnipotent.
Befallen societies – real, decomposed social corpses cannot by definition bring forth great leaders; when an overwhelming pan-sexism is matched with cynical individualism, which is measured in millions of dollars and reconfirmed by social bubbles, the so-called leaders and intellectuals are devoid of originality, in-depth knowledge, and humane understanding, let alone wisdom and erudition. Social solidarity takes then the form of soiree de gala whereby caviar and champagne do not allow the attendants to focus on the dramas of billions of impoverished and starving masses.
In the societies of the End, there will be no leader; not because there are not or there cannot be. But because by accepting to lead the present elites, they would defame to very concept of leadership – which they are certainly not ready to consent with. In fact, the situation observed by Mr. Abdulkadir Gumi among the Oromo society hinges on global developments of the last 50 years.
Point 2 – Political leadership and “realistic” solutions
Political leadership does not necessarily mean great personality, but effective delivery of realistic political solutions. This is a point of clash within some Oromo leaders; I believe some of them are truly great people who have been exposed to extreme experience opportunities and formed very strong personalities. The same concerns Oromo theoreticians, academics and intellectuals.
One must have a perspicacious sight in this regard; what is a value for these Oromo leaders and intellectuals is not necessarily a value for our present collapsed world. Delivery of realistic solutions by a political leader and statesman is conditioned by adequate acceptance of the values of the present world. Yet, one can be a great person and fail to deliver a realistic political solution; the measures of this world are such that impose debasement and ignominy as key to success.
People who insist on preserving their integrity have definitely poor chances to successfully deliver.
Point 3 – Political action results from correct plan and timing
Epicenter of efficient political leadership is the well-timed and correctly planned political action. This is not an easy task for leaders of organizations, fronts and movements that struggle for the national liberation of oppressed peoples. Most of them have grown in clandestine conditions without attending a school of political science, thought and action.
Many Oromo leaders of liberation fronts and organizations, before taking a vital decision, ignore the real dimensions of the issue concerned, and are not able to correctly evaluate whether their impending action´s timing is good or not. This can be remedied through collective forms of leadership and through further involvement of the Oromo academics in the various liberation fronts, organizations and associations.
There is a great number of Oromo academics and intellectuals, who except from serving as the oppressed nation´s scholarly assets, could definitely help Oromo political leaders renowned for their strong clandestine experience but also for their political unawareness. For the years ahead, it will be decisive to offer these Oromo academics and intellectuals key positions of councilors and advisors and let them define many non political and political aspects of the Oromo National Struggle for Independence.
In fact, all the Oromos must understand that the real fight starts now! It would therefore be wise to view the ´Oromia Tomorrow´ project from scratch and holistically. There is always time for a comprehensive plan, target prioritization, adversary targets´ analysis, and internationalization of the Oromo struggle for National Independence – which must make the headlines and the breaking news allover the world.
Point 4 – Oromo Voluntarism
At this moment, I will refer to an excellent sample of American voluntarism that is very closely affiliated with Oromo social stance; it is the classic quote from President John Kennedy´s inaugural address (20 January 1960):
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”.
This consists in the best answer to Mr. Abdulkadir Gumi´s call for great and honest Oromo leaders to appear. The best Oromo leaders are indeed the unknown Oromos, all those who spent time in jail, have been persecuted throughout Abyssinia, were mistreated by the Abyssinian agents of secret services abroad, and without losing their faith in the ultimate liberation and the rehabilitation of the Oromo Nation, they are ready to do all it takes to get it done.
This is not a figure of speech; it is literally meant.
The aforementioned quote of the assassinated American President was said for citizens of an established country; for the homeless Oromos, the quote could be paraphrased into the following:
“And so, my fellow Oromos, ask not who will be your leader in the struggle for Independence; ask yourselves how you will be the leader in the struggle for Independence”.
Instead of waiting known and unknown persons to perform and lead the Oromo Nation to Independence, the Oromo youth must truly understand that their contribution to the long desired objective of National Independence is as important as that of any leader.
Through political activism in a great number of fields, pioneering initiatives and proper political monitoring and analysis, young Oormos, acting within small nuclei and impenetrable groups, can exercise a great impact on all the liberation movements, fronts or organizations, and on their leaders.
2. A New Oromo Leadership: A Global First
This will truly be the transcendental approach to the existing need for Oromo leadership; instead of getting involved into endless discussions of the style “we did all we could”, “no, you did nothing”, “you are tribalists without future”, “you want to impose political prevalence of one tribe when the others pay”, “you are sectarian”, “no, you got bribed in order to stay inactive”, “you are wrong in willing to shape an alliance with those” “you are isolated from the rest” and a thousand of possibly true but utterly disastrous sentences like the aforementioned, the Oromos must reflect and emulate their traditions, culture, behavioural system, and historically attested identity.
Almost all the Oromos can be the leaders of the Struggle for Liberation of Oromia. Little matters whether finally some of them will be absent. In this series of articles, I will examine what and how the Oromos should act in order to trigger tremendous changes and momentous political developments that neither their vicious enemies, the racist ´Ethiopianist´ Amharas, nor any possible traditional Oromo leadership could ever outmaneuver, disregard, avert or avoid.
3. Weaknesses of the Traditional Political Leadership
Before proceeding systematically into methodological steps, one should stress a point:
Why is collective leadership, shared by thousands of Oromo political activists and social voluntarists, preferable to traditional political leadership?
I think one does not need much to underscore the importance of this seminal point. Traditional political leaderships involve leaders, and rely extensively on personal leadership. Personal leadership is the weakest point of a liberation struggle; this is not widely known. A person is easily exposed to influence, impact, pressure, demands, extortion, inducement, bribery and blackmail. A traditional leader is engaged in personal contacts, consultations and deliberations.
Consequently, one understands clearly that a traditional leader of a liberation front is exposed to the world of global power (involving mainly diplomacy, administration, military, and financial corporations); the liberation front´s objectives and deeds usually clash with interests of some parts of the world of global power, and then contacts are resumed in order to solve the issues.
In these contacts, the eventual liberation front leader is an extremely weak being compared with the professionals of the world of global power (be they a diplomat, a military, a Chief Financial Officer or a special envoy). Such is the difference that the few first attempts of enticement usually bring a wonderful result and the liberation front leader is then suitably ´bought up´.
There is more to it; the aforementioned eventuality is not immediately detected by the followers or the colleagues of the (already bought up) leader. He then proceeds smoothly (is even advised to do so by his ´buyers´ who now are called ´international support´) and in the span of a few months, he suddenly expresses a strange and unexpected suggestion; he may then influence all the rest or he may not. But even before that, the change is detected by the opponents of his earlier interlocutors. Who are they? Well, practically speaking, anyone belonging to another part of the world of global power. Do not view this situation necessarily limited within the frame of a well known concurrence in Africa, such as US – China, Europe – China, US – Europe; it can be an internal European or American group of power that is opposed to the one that first contacted and bought the liberation front leader.
What happens in this case is a counter-negotiation, a counter-blackmail, and a counter-bribery; with more money in his pockets (I am sorry, rather read Swiss bank accounts), the leader acts differently and accommodates himself in another country. With all the divisions that the new situation may create, as the world of global power has enough money for all; when colleagues separate from leaders there is always an enticement – counter-enticement issue involved.
Few leaders have today the strength of Che Guevara; people become smaller when the world of global power becomes stronger. Usual thoughts of today´s liberation front leaders, who have been bought up, are theoretical questions like the following:
Why being assassinated, when one can live a nice and comfortable life, have position, climb up to a world class respectability, and even hear acclaim and finally enjoy posthumous fame?
One could expand up to the level of an encyclopedia on this execrable issue that delineates the world corruption just ´minutes´ before an excruciating disaster sends all these illegal and inhuman interests to the Hell they deserve, but this is not the subject of this article.
From the aforementioned it becomes clear that collective leadership, established out of simple people who first situated the center of their activities in small independent cells of work before merging them, can avoid the entire chapter of enticement and blackmail attempted by the world of global power at the prejudice of personal leadership. Simple people, who worked in simple groups of volunteers and all together meet the representatives of the world of global power, automatically cancel the possibility of these shameful representatives to act in their customary way.
Let´s study a hypothetical, yet possible case. If 10 representatives of a union of activists´ groups meet with one or two French or English diplomats, what sort of colonial tactics can be attempted? They will reject the bribe offered (if the offer is ever expressed) and thus they will effectively interrupt the shameful negotiations. The representatives of the world of global power will be in total despair because they will have no means to influence this union of activists´ groups as the personal contact and the evil exercise of enticement and blackmail practices would prove to be impossible. The representatives of the world of global power become powerless if they cannot isolate one person out of an entire group or union of groups. With the 10 representatives rejecting the bribe, the representatives of the world of global power would not know whom to contact and how to influence this headless union groups. They would have to interfere in more expensive, painful or uncomfortable ways; their bias would be then revealed more easily.
There is more to it; before reaching the level of being convoked by some representatives of the world of global power, the union of activists´ groups will have already done tremendous work which would be absolutely disproportional to the fainéant and indolent pseudo-leaders of the traditional political leadership. Absolutely colossal work can be done, and will have been done even before the level of the establishment of the union of activists´ groups; the essential and background work must be done first, and will have to be done by the activists´ groups and isolated cells. Never forget, the representatives of the world of global power very often ask their puppets precisely this: to stay inactive. This helps tremendously their agendas at times.
This has very prejudicial side-effects. If one considers the work that needs to be done and the work that has been done by all the existing Oromo liberation fronts, one realizes automatically why Oromia has not yet been liberated. The detrimental comparison (certainly less than 1%) is due to the fact that the indolent leaders render the entire Oromo Nation indolent as well. Why bother if you think that a leader and an organization will manage it altogether? Relax! Contemplate the wonderful lines of the Oromia mountains´ peaks in the horizon, and expect the liberation to fall from the sky!
On the contrary, if you know that the liberation of your country is simply your own affair – and none else´s – then you are bound to act, ceaselessly, passionately and wholeheartedly. And who is the Oromo who would not give everything to see the black – red – white flag in the UN General Assembly?
4. Identification of the Oromo Nation in 2010
Before going ahead with the necessary fields of Oromo grassroots revolutionary cells and groups of work, we have to make a clear-cut demarcation of who can be members of such a group. In fact, only Oromos, either in Oromia or the Diaspora, can be members in these cells. Who can be considered as Oromo native in 2008?
Every person whose origin involves an Oromo father and/or mother, every person who speaks Afaan Oromo as native language, and every person who in addition to the aforementioned conditions is totally committed to the Struggle for the National Liberation and Independence of Oromia is an Oromo. Abiding by Gadaa social and behavioural values, rules and activities is imperative, and if for any possible reasons some Oromos may have partly or totally forgotten, neglected or abandoned Gadaa, related training and education must be offered to them – which is one more concern for the activists´ groups.
In addition to the aforementioned compulsory and incontrovertible conditions of Oromoness, one should provide for the integration within the Oromo society of all the people married with Oromos, and of their children, as long as they abide by the second and the third of the previous three conditions. Abiding by Gadaa values, rules and activities is always imperative, and related training and education must be offered to them as well.
Furthermore, for people exposed to and victimized by racist policies of assimilation, carried out by Oromos´ enemies who targeted the diachronic existence of the Kushitic Oromo Nation, there must be a provision. As result of the criminal anti-Oromo policies imposed tyrannically over the span of the last ca. 130 years, several Oromo natives lost their Afaan Oromo linguistic skills and even their identity. They should undergo – if this is explicitly demanded by them – an intensive course of Oromo identity rehabilitation which will also be a matter of concern and endeavour for the activists´ groups. They will have to learn Afaan Oromo, integrate themselves within exclusively Oromo social and professional context, and adhere to one of the two traditional Oromo religions, Waaqeffannaa or Islam. Not only a concern for their Oromization must be shared, but a vivid effort of de-Amharanization must be applied (upon their request), and their rejection of any element of the terrorist, racist theory of ´Ethiopianism´ must be total and absolute. Abiding by Gadaa values, rules and activities is imperative for them too, and related training and education must be offered to them. Under these conditions, and following their 18 to 24 months long training, they could be considered Oromos, and then participate in the Oromoo activists´ cells and groups of volunteers.
Finally, a provision must be made for the eventual Waaqeffannaa proselytes, and all those who may find in Waaqeffannaa a system of beliefs and practices that suits their mindsets and visions best, under condition of learning Afaan Oromo, and permanently ascribing themselves to Oromo social values, rules and activities (Gadaa).
Before focusing on the ways to establish Oromo cells of political activists and social volunteers, we must analyze a critical point; the lack of independence for the entire nation is not the result of mere coincidence. Real, criminal enemies have existed and are currently active against the Oromo Nation. No success will ever mark a socio-political project if foe identification is neglected or undermined.
5. Who is the Enemy of the Oromos?
This question can be phrased only by true Oromos; this means that not a single individual, who does not see his life purpose included in the effort for the Liberation – by all possible means – and National Independence of Oromia, has the right to speak in this regard.
As we already stipulated, there may be people whose ancestry is only partly Oromo; however, one cannot accept them as properly speaking Oromos (either they speak Afaan Oromo or not), as long as they do not fully admit the National Need for Independent Oromia and do not acknowledge that for them top life priority is the Liberation – by all possible means – of Oromia.
Consequently, people who are not Oromos, have no right to participate in the debate about Oromos, their liberation, and their enemies´ elimination. These pseudo-Oromos are alien, sick and evil elements that must be cut off from the Oromo Nation and adequately – and paradigmatically – punished.
In the same way an Englishman or a Russian will not tell the Georgians who their enemies are and what their national objectives should be, a non Oromo – by virtue of his rejection of, or opposition to, Independent Oromia – has nothing to say and should therefore be properly isolated.
In addition to the Native Oromos, historians and political scientists, analysts and commentators, fully committed to unadulterated truth and objective stance, have to participate in the national Oromo debate, and contribute to a critical political subject, such as the Oromos´ foe identification.
At this point, we must direct our analysis´ efforts to two different levels, first the local – regional platform, and second the regional – global arena.
6. Local – Regional-level Foes
Over the past few months, we observed an Abyssinian governmental effort to fuel disputes among Oromos inhabiting different parts of the occupied Oromia and other subjugated nations of the obsolete Abyssinian colonial state. There were clashes with the Sidamas, the oppressed nations of the Benishangul province, and others. Are these nations enemies of the Oromos?
This is a viciously setup trap; these nations have been incorporated in the obsolete Abyssinian colonial state without their political willpower and personal determination.
Other tyrannized nations are not enemies.
These oppressed nations have been forced to accept the reality of their lands´ invasion, their historical rulers´ and leaders´ physical annihilation, their properties´ confiscation, their houses´ destruction, their ancestors´ assassination or slavery, and their culture´s, religion´s and language´s prohibition. In brief, they have lived a dark national and personal experience similar to that of the Oromos.
Their socioeconomic and political manipulation by any Abyssinian tyrannical administration helps only further victimize them; the Oromos must understand that since they form the largest nation within the colonial hell Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´), the criminal tyrannical rulers will certainly try repeatedly to oppose them by using all possible means – not only the governmental oppression.
1. Tigray Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Abyssinians are not enemies.
Many analysts and commentators use the term ´Tigray-led´ to describe Meles Zenawi´s tyrannical administration. There is no doubt about the origin of the Abyssinian dictator; equally, there is no doubt about the increased proportion of Tigrays hired and present in Abyssinia´s public administration. Under conditions of democratic rule, the Tigrays should not outnumber the Ogadenis hired in the public sector, ´elected´ in the parliament, and appointed in the government and the military, as the two nations´ total population comprised within Abyssinian borders is the same.
It would be inaccurate to identify the entire Tigray nation with Meles Zenawi´s tyrannical administration. First of all, the Tigrinya and Tigre speaking people live in great numbers outside Abyssinia, forming the majority of Eritrea.
Second, the Tigray Muslims, who represent a significant portion of the Tigray nation, are systematically persecuted in Abyssinia, and methodically kept out of the government.
Third, and more importantly, the Tigrays, as an independent nation with different identity, historical heritage, culture and traditions, are equally targeted by the state-imposed, historically false, and politically racist dogma of ´Ethiopianism´, which was setup by the Amhara Monophysitic Abyssinians in order to ensure the criminal project and evil plan of the assimilation (amharanization) of all the subjugated nations of Abyssinia with the Amharas.
In a way, Tigray traitor Meles Zenawi contributes to an Anti-Tigray, Anti-Abyssinian racist theory that greatly and irreparably damages his own nation. The same concerns all his followers, as well as every Tigray ascribed to the evil theory of Ethiopianism which is promoted by the Ethio-fascist crooks of Kinijit and Ginbot-7, Hitler´s children in Africa.
But there are Tigrays who reject the evil Amhara racism and their bogus-historical dogma, and Oromos must reach out to them and setup structures of future cooperation to comprehensively destroy Ethiopianism, and isolate the evil Amhara racists.
2. Amharas: the Insidious Invaders, Criminal Settlers, and Monstrous Tyrants
Before explaining why the Amharas consist in the focus of evil and anti-Oromo criminality, I want to quote an excellent study carried out by Sandra F. Joireman and Thomas S. Szayna, researchers of the Rand Corporation, who drew pertinent conclusions as regards the nature of the Amhara ideology, as ´insidious´: (http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1188/MR1188.ch5.pdf):
“The long stretch of Amhara leaders in Ethiopia has led to two inaccurate and insidious ideas among the Amhara. The first is the association of a particular Amhara “type” with the definition of Ethiopian: by this notion, an “Ethiopian” is a slight, light-skinned, Christian, Amharic-speaking farmer. The second is a sense of manifest destiny: an idea that the Amhara are somehow ordained to rule a “Greater Ethiopia.” These ideas are insidious because they give no quarter to the majority of the population who do not fit this “type” linguistically, religiously, or ethnically”. (p. 12)
7. Authentic Oromos and Fabricated Amharas; the Total Opposition
The historical reality is simple and easy for all the Oromos to learn, understand, admit and thence use as basis for their political orientation. It is encapsulated in the foreign points:
1. Oromos and Amharas originate from different ethno-linguistic groups which opposed one another over the ages; the former are the descendants of the indigenous Kushites, the real ancient Ethiopians who developed a most ancient and illustrious civilization on the Nile´s banks in Northern Sudan (the real Ethiopia of the Ancient Greek and Latin sources) from the 3rd millennium BCE down to the middle of the 2nd millennium CE (involving three great Ethiopian Christian states, Nobatia, Makuria and Alodia). The Amharas are an Ancient Yemenite, Semitic, offspring that crossed the Red Sea and settled in the Eastern African coastland of today´s Eritrea before expanding in the inland.
The difference between Amharas and Tigray Abyssinians may even reflect different Yemenite settlements in Eastern Africa, but the Ethiopian Kushites had been in constant conflict with the Abyssinians even before the Abyssinian invasion of Ethiopia (Northern Sudan) and destruction of Meroe (the last pre-Christian Ethiopian capital) at 360 CE.
2. African Oromo Kushitic opposition to the Abyssinian Semitic presence in Africa is noticeable throughout the Christian, Islamic and Modern periods of Eastern African History. Quite characteristically, although Christian Abyssinians invaded Meroe, they failed to be accepted by the indigenous Ethiopians, the ancestors of the Oromos, and to diffuse Christianity in the Nile´s valley. Christianity was diffused in Ethiopia (Ancient Sudan) through Egypt.
3. The interconnection between the three Christian Ethiopian states and Christian Abyssinia was minimal, if not inexistent, until the demise of the Abyssinian Axumite state in the advent of Islam (ca. 650).
4. The three Christian Ethiopian states survived during the first period of Islamic expansion, whereas Christianity in Abyssinia was demolished with the rise of Islamic control over the Eastern African coastlands in the Red Sea area. The contacts between the isolated remnant of inland Axumite Abyssinia with the three Christian Ethiopian states were very limited.
5. The rise of the Kushitic Agaw Christian dynasty in the middle of 10th century in a small part of the present Tigray and Afar provinces´ territory helped Christianity survive in Abyssinia, but it consists in an abrupt dynastic, cultural, and national discontinuity. The Christian Agaw state was small and equally isolated. It resumed few contacts with the two Christian Kushitic Ethiopian states (Nobatia and Makuria merged to confront the Islamic pressure in 10th century Upper Egypt, whereas Alodia was comfortably far). However, it was deeply reviled by the disparate, revengeful Abyssinian elements that were wisely kept out of control. It finally collapsed because of their conspiracy.
6. The subsequent rise of the barbaric, criminal, adulterous, and evil pseudo-Solomonic dynasty in the 13th century opened the gates of the Hell for a multitude of civilized African nations who – with the Agaws first – became the target of the criminal Amhara forgers who introduced the counterfeit, spurious theory that the Axumite Abyssinians king had descended from the Biblical Queen of Sheba, an unhistorical Ancient Yemenite ruler (known as Balqis in the Islamic traditions that reshaped the Biblical and the Talmudic references), and the Ancient Israelite king Solomon.
7. There is not a single pre-Agaw or Agaw evidence (religious-historical, archeological or philological) that pre-Christian and Christian Axumite Abyssinians had ever believed that they had any sort of connection with the mythical Yemenite queen and the historical Hebrew king. It is all a criminal lie that kills millions of humans, and enslaves and tyrannizes all the rest who may come to an encounter with it.
8. This bastard theory reflected the projection of illegitimate needs of the Semitic Amharas on the Kushitic Agaw throne, and was used as political ideology by the theocratic, lunatic Amhara kingdom´s elite in their effort to serve and promote their heinous, utterly inhuman and antihuman objectives, namely Anti-Islamic hatred, Anti-African odium, and systematic barbarization and assimilation of all the Eastern African nations.
9. Following historical clashes with Christian and Muslim nations (Agaw, Afars, Somalis, Hadiyas), the Amharas – who did not bother to save the ailing Christian kingdom of Alodia (the last Christian Ethiopian kingdom in Sudan) when it was (ca. 1500 – 1520) attacked by the Funj Muslims – engaged in confrontation with the Oromo Nation, which lasted for centuries before the Oromos were (almost in their entirety) enslaved by the Abyssinians.
10. A pattern of the utmost importance in this confrontation is the persistent Amhara malignancy to act in premeditated manner matched with hypocrisy, duplicity, mendacity and to intentionally target the very existence of the Oromo Nation.
11. The fact that during the long historical process some disoriented, deceived or disenchanted Oromos entered into any sort of contact and relationship with the Amharas, involving even royal marriages, does not change in anything the reality that for every Amhara action and/or initiative there has always been a proven Amhara plan of racist, anti-Oromo nature, which was unveiled after each planned event had been unfolded.
12. The eventuality of a half-Oromo ancestry for an Amhara ruler means nothing but an Amhara Anti-Oromo plan. It would be otherwise only if, due to the eventual half-Oromo ancestry, the Amhara ruler denied the heretic, pseudo-Christian Monophysitic Abyssinian Church and introduced Waaqeffannaa religion among the Amharas.
If such an action had been taken, then we could have discussed about the fair and bi-dimensional character of the relationship between the two nations. When an Oromo gets absorbed within the Amhara socio-behavioural system (do not call it ´culture´), he / she becomes a non-issue and a non-subject for the Oromo National History.
13. Part of the Amhara pseudo-royal obscenity was the permanent practice to force marriages between people of supposedly noble origin and vulgar felons to enable the permanence of the theocratic control over the supposed ´palace´ of the Amhara Abyssinia. The practice started with the first pseudo-king of the bogus-Solomonic “dynasty”, Yekuno Amlak, who was the son of nobody, but was presented as the descendant of the last king of Axum, which would make even chimpanzees laugh!
14. On all this background, 13 – 14 decades of deliberate, coldhearted genocide perpetrated against the Oromos by the Amhara invaders, the terrorist Amhara settlers, the notorious Nafxagna, and the accompanying cruel soldiers was added to irreversibly stamp an irreconcilable relationship, which will end only with the liberation of the Oromos, the total separation of the two nations, the expulsion of the Amhara settlers from Finfinnee, Shoa and Gojjam, and the UN patronage of the two separate states´ relationship.
The Amhara anti-Oromo animosity reflects today a 2-millennium long opposition between the indigenous, African, Kushitic Ethiopians and the emigrant, Semitic, Yemenite Abyssinians. It should however be clearly understood that the Amharas are not the only enemy of the Oromos. Simply, the propinquity makes them more reviled.
For a subjugated nation, a faraway enemy can be more harmful and perilous; one can generally call the case ´colonialism´; however, this phenomenon is vast and nuanced. There can be direct and indirect colonialism. This is one point; the other point is that not all the colonial powers have been equally detrimental to the colonized peoples. It is essential to illuminate these two point before proceeding with the identification of the Oromos´ regional – global enemies.
8. Direct and Indirect Colonialism
Yemen, as integral part of the Islamic World for no less than 900 years, became normally an undisputed province of the Ottoman Empire, when the Sultans of Istanbul became Caliphs, and the Ottoman forces arrived in Yemen. Colonialism in Yemen started in the 1830s with the British invasion of Aden in their vicious plan of encircling and destroying the Islamic Caliphate – quintessence of the Islamic World. This example is a typical direct colonialism. The departure of the British brought an end to the direct colonial rule.
The British had also colonized the Ottoman province of Sudan in the second half of the 19th century; but to do this, they involved the Egyptians who were by then under a particular regime of a Viceroy who was nominally subject to the Ottoman Empire (as Egypt had been an integral part of the Caliphate for almost 300 years / 1517 – 1798) and essentially controlled (and therefore colonized) by the combined colonial forces of France and England. The military and economic presence of Europeans in Sudan was pseudo-legitimized by the idiotic cooperation of the Viceroy (Khedive), who was not even an Egyptian but Albanian of descent. This case is a composed, indirect and direct colonial, regime.
In the case of the colonial Abyssinian expansion at the prejudice of numerous African nations which lost their independence in the process, we have sheer French and English offer of support, technical assistance, financial aid, military know how transfer, and key intelligence info handed over the Abyssinian tyrannical rulers.
Both, France and England, wanted Abyssinia to expand colonially in order to
1. contain the Italian colonial expansion in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa region, and
2. balance their own colonial expansion in the aforementioned area. The French were pushing from the West (Sahara and the territories of today´s Central African Republic and Chad), and the English were trying the establish a colonial axis from the North to the South of the Black Continent.
Consequently, the nations that have been subjugated by the Abyssinians, have been indirectly colonized by the British and the French. This is a key point to take into consideration.
In fact, indirect colonialism can last longer and take different forms; England colonized India, and after more than 200 years of colonial conspiracy, presence and rule, the English left. By dividing their previous colony, through a disreputable UN involvement, into many countries, the English managed that an entire nation, the Baluchs, be divided among three states, namely Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
The treatment that the Baluchs have received within Pakistan is purely colonial, but the direct colonial presence of the Pakistani authorities in Baluchistan does not minimize in anything the indirect – still present – English colonialism.
A similar case can be noted in NW Africa, whereby the ongoing, indirect French colonialism left the Kabylian Berbers without a state.
9. Differentiation among Colonial Rulers
Colonialism itself is a vast issue that does not belong exclusively to modern periods of the History of the Mankind. In the Antiquity, we easily identify Egyptian, Phoenician, Assyrian – Babylonian, Aramaean, Persian, Yemenite, Greek, Hebrew and Roman colonies.
The reasons that bring the settlers to faraway places vary; from commercial motifs to military conquest, and from interest for exploration to flight due to tyranny, many varied motives bring people – sometimes in great numbers – to distant places.
In modern times, colonialism started with the efforts of the kings of Spain and Portugal to reach out to India in order to break the Ottoman monopoly over the commercial routes to the spices, fragrances, incense and other products of the Orient. Spanish colonialism proved to be extremely brutal as it took the form of intentional genocide of the Mayas, the Aztecs and the Incas, who were forced to Christianity.
Holland, France, and England followed on the Spanish and Portuguese colons´ footprints; contrarily, great maritime powers of the Mediterranean, like Genoa and Venice, remained confined within the same geographical area and gradually lost their significance. Although parts of Africa and Asia had been colonized by some of the five European colonial powers, first America was completely colonized (by Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, England and Russia), and then the competition was transferred in Africa where for centuries the Ottoman Empire controlled lands inhabited by Muslims that totaled an area of more than 8 million km2.
As all African Muslims (with the exception of the Moroccans, the Malians and other Muslims of the Western confines of Africa who were organized in at times sizeable states) from Algeria to Egypt to Somalia viewed the Sultan – Caliph and the Sheikh-ul-Islam as their political and spiritual leaders, we cannot possibly discuss of Ottoman colonialism.
In Africa, Western colonialism took an openly anti-Islamic form which has left an irreversible impact down to our days. Spain and Portugal had already expanded tremendously, that´s why their involvement in Africa was not momentous; however, Portugal´s involvement was early and critical as it saved the tiny Abyssinian state from extinction. Holland had great interests elsewhere; in Europe itself, Belgium was a Dutch colony, whereas faraway Indonesia was truly immense for the small European kingdom. In fact, Africa was the continent of the harshest Anglo-French competition. Italy and Germany were late newcomers, and the overall picture was completed with Portugal, Belgium and Spain.
Colonialism had more limited success in Asia; three great, old states, namely the Ottoman Empire (last but not final metamorphosis of the Roman Empire and its Oriental part), Iran and China were never colonized. Of course, the three countries were terribly weakened, as they were targeted by nearly all the then competing European colonial empires, Russia, France, England. With the aforementioned three empires, plus Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan and the United States competing for a larger colonial portion in China, started WW I that was a shock for the 19th century colonialism.
It was absolutely duplicitous for the American establishment to fight so resolutely against the Spanish colonial empire in the last decades of the 19th century and humbly – and shamefully – agree with the expansion of the French and the English colonial empires at the prejudice of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of WW I.
With the demise of the colonial dreams of Germany, with the rise and the fall of the Japanese and the Italian colonial empires, with the transformation of the colonial empires to postcolonial authorities, and with the emergence and the dissolution of the Communist world, we were ushered into our global times.
How can we differentiate among the colonial empires?
There are two levels of evaluation, namely physical and socio-behavioural – cultural.
1. Physical Level
Brutality is a sign of insanity and inhumanity; wherever we attest a high degree, great extent and long duration of brutality, we realize that we face a merciless colonial empire ruled by cruel racists. This is the case of Spain in Mexico and Peru, this occurred in Tanganyika at the times of the German occupation, and this was encountered in the Eastern confines of Asia at the times of the Japanese empire. It is essential to add that the same brutality was employed by the Amharas against the Oromos, and by the Russians against the Uzbeks and the Turkmen.
2. Socio-behavioural – Cultural Level
Contrarily to the Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese cruelty, the classical French and English colonialism is mainly directed against the socio-behavioural, cultural and national values of the colonized nations. Instead of killing or expelling anyone who opposed the colonial orders and rule, the French and the English deployed a great effort to socially infiltrate and culturally alter the subjugated nations. They extended this approach to the local elites, anticipating the logical social impact and ramifications of an advanced de-formation, de-education, and de-identification of the local elites.
The French and English approach targeted the colonized peoples´ national identity, historical heritage, cultural authenticity, religious traditions, socio-behavioural soundness, and proper existence. The approach is mainly French of concept and the English have been distant second in this regard. The French intentionally tried to turn all the colonized peoples – victims of the French expansionism and imperialism to mere copies of (certainly unauthentic) Frenchmen. They projected among the colonized nations prefabricated ideas – ´bon pour l´ Orient´ and tried to convince that allover the world ´culture´ is the French culture.
The English did not reach that level; however, they used the French effort in order to project general considerations of and viewpoints on the commercial – economic exchanges and the international economic order. This attitude ushered us into the world of global economy on which English liberalism rather than French dirigisme left a strong impact.
Italy – more preferable than Amhara Abyssinia for Oromos
Compared with the English and French colonial rule as it was exercised in a variety of Middle Eastern and /or African countries (such as Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco), Italy proved to be a far more human colonial power. Italian colonialism in Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and Abyssinia was rather an expression – not imposition – of Italian daily lifestyle.
Although Italy represents within the European continent a far older and far more determinant culture than France and England (Renaissance alone would reconfirm the aforementioned statement), the Italians did not force the Libyans or the Somalis to perceive the world as possible to view only through the eyes of Boccaccio or Dante, nor did they constrain them to share the esthetics of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
In fact, the Italian humanist attitude can be attested in the return of the Axum stele (hawalti), and in the most recent deal with Libya, involving formal apology and reparations for the colonial occupation.
The English and the French reactions against the pertinent Berlusconi – Qadhafi deal, as encapsulated in numerous articles in the world press (f. i. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1838014,00.html), demonstrate the evil and racist nature of the French and English establishments.
It is essential for every Oromo activist and political volunteer to understand that tactical mistakes have been made in the past; when the Italian colonials attacked Abyssinia in 1936, they did not represent a threat against the Oromos, the Afars, the Sidamas and others, but a menace against the evil monarchical state of Abyssinia, and its cannibalistic pseudo-king Haile Selassie.
In fact, at those days, the Abyssinian invasion of Oromia had just been completed, and the last king of Jimma had died before just 4 years (1932); it was too early for the Oromos to have formed a strong resistance organization and liberation front. If this had been the case, an alliance between the Oromos and the Italians (stronger than the rather unmotivated cooperation of Abba Jofir with the Italian administration of the subjugated Abyssinia) could have brought liberation to Oromia in more rapid and anodyne way.
10. Anglo – French Colonial Establishment: Arch-enemy of the Oromo Nation
Why is the Anglo-French colonial establishment an enemy of the Oromo nation? Without understanding this reality, the Oromos have little to minimal chances to achieve national liberation and independence, as they will fail to identify their primary foe´s real motives.
The Anglo-French colonial establishment is selective and partial in its expression of political support; their American puppets, the pro-European part of the US establishment, are equally partial, and this has been repeatedly reconfirmed through proper study of their differentiation tactics. The recent story of anti-Zimbabwe hysteria is typical.
The ruler of Zimbabwe did not carpet bomb villages and towns of his country, but the Abyssinian cannibal Meles Zenawi did. However, the US and EU African policies and rhetoric are full of venomous focus for Zimbabwe but seem to be totally oblivious of the criminal practices of the Abyssinian tyranny. The US duplicity reaches the level of criminality for immoral and wicked elements like Jendayi Frazer, the disreputable accomplice of the Abyssinian butcher Zenawi.
The only US and EU policy as regards the Oromos involves the continuation of the barbaric and inhuman Abyssinian dictatorship and the prolongation of the tyrannical imposition of the fallacious, racist and Satanic dogma of ´Ethiopianism´. In other words, the Anglo-French colonial establishment definitely and passionately seeks the extinction of the Oromo Nation.
Why such evilness?
The issue to be plainly answered would involve a great number of volumes; it is essential for Oromos to understand the evil nature of the Anglo-French colonial establishment. In fact, it is wrong to confuse it with mainstream Christianity as many Islamists unfortunately do – misguiding themselves only.
The evil Anglo-French colonial establishment turned repeatedly against many Oriental Christians, and contributed greatly to the physical and spiritual genocide of the Aramaean Nation.
In fact, they would turn – with evil intention for ultimate extinction – against anyone, against any nation that by its existence consists in sheer rejection of their perfidious concepts and ideas, and in definite opposition to their messianic and eschatological plans and related practices.
More particularly with respect to the Oromos, the existence of the Gadaa system is a superb demonstration that the Western democracy (not as heralded and envisioned by the Enlightenment philosophers but as practiced in the 20th century) is a fake, tyrannical system whereby hidden groups of power can easily advance their agenda by perpetrating – in front of the outright majority of the otherwise blind societies – detrimental conspiracies that go unnoticed. The nature of the secret societies that control the Western world involves undetected, secret support and solidarity – expressed in public – among these societies´ members that are not identified by the rest as such (which would illustrate to all the rest the real motives behind their decisions and acts). In this way, with untied hands, members – initiated into conspiracies against the rest – support partially their ´brethren´ in order to facilitate the materialization of the objective of their secret society to put every social and political activity under control.
This abhorrent reality is in total contrast with the openness, the fairness and the humanity of the Gadaa system that does not leave space for secret groups of individuals to be formed as a cancerous tumor in the society.
An independent state ruled by the Gadaa system consists in a supreme danger for the Anglo-French colonial establishment; if average citizens and specialists of the Western world studied a society ruled by Gadaa, they would propagate its benefits among the Western societies and this could cause a thunder far more menacing that Lenin´s October revolution.
If the advantages, the morality, and the humanity of the open system became a reason for many to demand dissolution of the Western secret societies like the Apostate Anglo-French Freemasonic lodge, this would announce the beginning of the end for the Western World.
Even worse, within an Oromo state organized by Gadaa, the Anglo-French colonial establishment would fail to infiltrate and impose its norms, inflecting the international stance of the country, and dictating choices and decisions.
For them, the existence of a genuine Oromo state and society would gradually trigger their end.
On the other hand, an independent Oromia would be the first, ideologically and culturally Kushitic, state, and yet their perverse reading of the Bible makes them believe that they must never allow the descendants of Ham rule their countries.
The continuation of the slavery of the Kabylian Berbers in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya clearly demonstrates their Anti-Kushitic empathy. This issue is vast, but here we can conclude that there will never be an independent Oromia, if Oromos fail to understand that the main adversaries they have to face are the manipulators of the Western societies: the Apostate Anglo-French Freemasonic Lodge.
11. Millions of Oromo Leaders Organized in Independent Groups
There will never be one Oromo leader to bring liberation and national independence to the Oromo Nation. On the contrary, there will be many millions of Oromo leaders who will make it happen, and only thanks to them, Oromia will emerge again – and soon!
With the aforementioned in mind, I will proceed now in the main part of this recapitulative article in which I intend to emphasize that today´s Oromos do not need to spend time in describing possible wrongdoings of this liberation front or that movement for independence, do not need to waste time for pertinent or impertinent observations on the various Oromo leaders´ inconsistencies and eventual compromises, and do not need to wait from them anything in the future.
Relying on few or – even worse – one leader is essentially anti-Oromo, as it contradicts the responsibility in which every Gadaa member – of any age – is vested. Within democratic systems like Gadaa, it is important to always bear in mind that out of a 100-person group, 99 members have to carry out 99% of the total work, and nothing less than that.
In Gadaa, there is no – there cannot be a – leader from whom people await their ´salvation´; one (1) member of a 100-person group delivers 1% of the total work – eventually the hierarchically top 1% of the work, but that is all.
Expectations that someone else (be he the leader or the king) will deliver the bulk of the work, hopes that a miraculously capacitated person will do it almost all, and anticipations that without communal effort few leaders will get it done, are all genuinely anti-Oromo attitudes, concepts and approaches.
It is rather preferable for the Oromos to forget them as soon as possible.
12. Present Oromo “Leaderships” and their Inertia
If one views today´s Oromo political leaderships, one will be amazed by the existence of a huge number of leaders and the little, minimal, infinitesimal work done. The following questions will illuminate this critical ascertainment.
Question 1
Has ever a comprehensive, analytical list of Human Rights violations been established to classify – per type of activity – all the diverse oppressive policies carried out against the Oromo Nation?
Question 2
Has ever a comprehensive repertory been established to enlist in chronological order all the types of oppressive acts carried out against the Oromos – on daily basis?
Question 3
Has any Oromo liberation organization written down analytically all the aspects of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Oromos by the successive (monarchical, pro-communist, and pseudo-republican) Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian regimes?
Question 4
Has any Oromo liberation organization presented a complete catalogue of every Abyssinian act that consists in desecration of the land of Oromia, involving the illegal building of Abyssinian churches, the prohibition of religious acts related to the Oromo religion (Waaqeffannaa), the profanation of holy shrines and holy places throughout Oromia, and other similar practices?
Question 5
Has any Oromo liberation organization compiled an analytical directory of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian anti-Oromo literature, plus a separate index of acts related to the dictatorial, tyrannical imposition of the aforementioned literature by the Abyssinian state (fallaciously called ´Ethiopia´)? It is clear that the directory should involve every historical falsification compiled by the racist and criminal Abyssinians and printed in school books and manuals for the primary and secondary education (either written in Amharic, Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Af Somali or Qafar af), magazines, reviews, newspapers, and books or presented in radio and TV programs.
Question 6
Has any Oromo liberation organization composed a list of Amharic and Tigrinya texts (selected among the aforementioned literature) that demonstrate (beyond the simple falsification level) the existence of a racist, anti-Oromo hatred among the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians, and the subsequent systematic elaboration of purposefully adjusted historical falsification, geared to serve the evil target? One can expect several thousands of pages to be collected like that out of already existing literature– only to be duly submitted to the UN and the UNESCO.
Question 7
Has any Oromo liberation organization composed the Atlas of Amhara and Tigray atrocities as narrated by every single Oromo who lived a dreadful life experience in the form of violation of his/her Civil and/or Human Rights? What does it matter if this opus would necessitate more than one million (1,000,000) pages to be printed? Would this testimony be much less than all similar documents accumulated by tyrannized Jews in Nazi Germany?
Question 8
Has any Oromo resistance ´elite´ – around past and present Oromo leaders – worked in order to diffuse all the aforementioned documentation (assuming it is produced, of course!) to all governments, administrations, embassies, political parties, deputies, senators, international organizations, NGOs, cultural associations, academies, universities, colleges, unions of authors and intellectuals, educational and religious institutions, heads of municipalities, financial institutions and sizeable corporations of the world?
Recording the oppression, the odium, the barbarism, the inhumanity and the bestiality of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians, and diffusing the data, may constitute one axis of activities, but there is more than that to be done! One should therefore proceed through following questions.
Question 9
Has any Oromo liberation organization recorded the Oral Oromo Literature, the traditions, the narrations, the songs, the historical records, and the memoirs of the elders? Here, I do not mean academic recording for further ethnographical research; I simply stress the need of just writing down in Afaan Oromo what risks being lost with the disappearance of the elder generations. Records should encompass narratives about traditional professional activities (written down as performed on annual basis), social events and circumstances, private life dealings and actions, popular wisdom (proverbs, sayings, admonitions, and narratives), all types of prose and poetry, songs and dances, traditional beliefs and interpretations of natural, social and personal phenomena, description of traditions and customs.
Question 10
Has any Oromo liberation organization collected memoirs of Oromo resistance and fight among simple people who participated in various phases of the Oromo efforts for national liberation? At this very moment, there are still alive a few Oromos, who may have lived as young children and/or adolescents at the times of Abba Jifar II (died 1932), and even more numerous Oromos who may remember details from the days of Abba Jofir (died in the 60s).
Every act related to the last Oromo kings should be recorded as kept in the memories of Oromo elders who are still alive. The memoirs of the Oromo Elders should be recorded in hundreds of volumes. With the emergence of the Internet, all the material can be available online with minimal cost (if compared to what would be needed in a printing house).
Useless to add here that this great work, if carried out, is – for all the Oromos – millions of times more important than the disreputable Amhara forgery of Kebra Negast.
Question 11
Have any Oromo liberation organization, with members fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindi and other languages, undertaken translation projects for material related to the aforementioned questions 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1?
Question 12
Have any Oromo liberation organization, with members fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and other languages, undertaken dictionary projects in the languages they are fluent in?
Question 13
Have any Oromo liberation organization undertaken a much needed anti-Amhara Monophysitic Abyssinian campaign at the Internet level, and more particularly at the level of Wikipedia where irrelevant, ignorant, and miserable forgers of Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian origin insist on diffusing a fallacious presentation of all entries related to ´Abyssinia´, ´Ethiopia´, ´Oromo´, ´Amhara´, ´Ethiopian History´, etc., etc., etc.?
Question 14
Has any Oromo resistance ´elite´ – around past and present Oromo leaders – worked in order to diffuse all the aforementioned (questions 9, 10, 11 and 13) documentation (assuming it is produced, of course!) to all governments, administrations, embassies, political parties, deputies, senators, international organizations, NGOs, cultural associations, academies, universities, colleges, unions of authors and intellectuals, educational and religious institutions, heads of municipalities, financial institutions and sizeable corporations in the world?
Question 15
Has any Oromo resistance ´elite´ around past and present Oromo leaders worked in order to help establish 10000 (ten thousand) websites of purely Oromo content? Am I exaggerating? Certainly not! If an Oromo does not believe that it is of vital importance for all the Oromos to launch for instance an independent website http://www.moti.com (where one would analyze – in Afaan Oromo and 10 international languages – the principles, the ideals the concepts of the Oromo royalty, its co-existence with Gadaa system, its dependence on Waaqeffannaa, its role as the beacon of Oromo noblesse, and the History of the Oromo Kingdoms, with maps), then certainly this Oromo will probably forget his Oromoness sooner or later.
13. Key Figures to Be Considered by All the Oromos
Most probably all the Oromos have heard about the Palestinians; another people, in another continent, in another occupied land. A people that already got a shadowy international recognition, not yet a seat in the UN Assembly General!
I do not want to establish parallels, suggest interpretative approaches or even discuss the ´Palestinian issue´. I want only to make a comparison between my search efforts in Google today.
For an estimated population of 12 million Palestinians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people), which means less than one third (1/3) of the entire Oromo population (erratically, malignantly and vindictively reduced to just 30 million people by the criminal Amhara forgers who wrote the filthy, false and disreputable article of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_people, although it oscillates between 37 and 43 million people, according to several trustworthy calculations), my Google search brought the following results:
Palestine 26.200.000 references
Oromia 159000 references
Palestinian 21.100.000 references
Oromo 1.580.000 references
Palestinians 5.410.000 references
Oromos 42100 references
I don´t know what your conclusions may be (spend some time, checking Google as number of references), but mine are direct, fast and clear: Oromia will not become independent under similar circumstances.
Not a single Oromo can possibly accommodate himself/herself with this dire reality – which can and will be reversed in order to let Oromia emerge among the world´s great nations (leaving aside the barbaric tiny Amhara state with less than 15 million people – contrarily to the filthy, false and disreputable article of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara_people that makes of them a bubble of 20 million).
It is sure that many among the aforementioned questions concern non-political issues, at least if we use the term ´political´ stricto sensu. This would make several people ponder whether it is necessary for a liberation front and resistance movements to encompass issues of cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious order. They could eventually be right.
However, allover the world the interconnectedness between the strictly political and the cultural (including the educational, the religious, the academic, the intellectual, the artistic, and the religious) elements becomes stronger and stronger.
Even more so for the Oromos, as the political – economic tyranny to which they have been exposed is merely a reflection of cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious tyranny, because the racist Amharas target the historical existence, the cultural integrity, and the national continuity of the Oromos, whom they want to absorb into the – worst than Hitler´s plans for the World Jewry – monstrous and bastard fabrication of the non-existing notion of ´Ethiopia´, the world´s most racist and most evil theory.
As it can be easily understood, the fact that a nation is not politically independent does not necessarily imply that their historical existence, cultural integrity, and national continuity are targeted. The Flemish are part of Belgium but their existence is not threatened.
This is not the same with the Oromos. Consequently, a sizeable part of the Oromo National Liberation Struggle will be fought on cultural, educational, academic, intellectual, artistic, and religious grounds.
14. Biyya Oromo Independent – Whose Work Is It?
Others may contend that the scope of the aforementioned 15 questions is so wide that only an independent state, the Kushitic Republic of Oromo Ethiopia, could possibly offer a creditable support for these projects. I would call this approach as the hypnosis of the highly suggestible, the hallucination of the greatly gullible, and the lethargy of the commendably coward.
There will never be a chance for an independent Biyya Oromo to come to exist if the aforementioned projects are not undertaken.
Please do not misread me; I say ´undertaken´, not ´completed´. On the other hand, I have to stress that I did not say that an independent Biyya Oromo will come to exist, only through these projects; there has to be clandestine movement, manifestations, riots, attacks on military camps, an entire revolution. But the aforementioned projects consist in an indispensable phase of preparatory work. They set the strong foundations on which the national independence struggle will be placed, involving military clashes between Oromo rebels and the regular army of tribal Amhara and Tigray gangsters.
Finally, some will maintain that the various Oromo liberation fronts, resistance movements and political parties, even if they wanted, could not possibly hire the employees needed to carry out this wide range of groundbreaking endeavours. They are right; the only able to undertake this momentous effort are the Oromos in their entirety.
Oromia will be liberated by them, and only partly the credit will go to the liberation fronts, the resistance movements and the political parties. There are millions of Oromos who need no money, no salary and no reward to engage themselves in the most noble effort for the Oromia Independence and Renaissance. Their recompense will be the new great African state, the Kushitic Republic of Oromo Ethiopia.
To reach this destination any Oromo who wants to contribute to the great effort must have ready his mind, his culture, his background, his body, as well as the time and the money he can spend; the latter will be of minor importance.
The vehicle to take the Oromos to the Independent Biyya Oromo is called GOLA, which means ´section´ in Afaan Oromo; it will stand in English as the initials for ´Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity´.
How the GOLA will be incepted, how they will function, and how they will keep Amhara intruders faraway we will discuss immediately.
15. Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity – GOLA
Thanks to the above 15 questions, I presented a picture of missing endeavours and projects that the existing liberation fronts and independence movements failed to either completely materialize or partly promote. The dire comparison of online references (searched in Google) to Palestinians and Oromos says it all: although triple in terms of population, the Oromos remain mainly unknown to the rest of the world.
Who can help you, if they don´t know you?
To mend the situation, I believe that all the Oromos must contribute to the formation of Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity – GOLA, which will be the vehicle to take the Oromos to the Independent Biyya Oromo. I will examine now how the GOLA will be incepted, how they will function, and how they will keep Amhara intruders faraway.
Every three or four Oromos who personally know one another well can form one GOLA unit. This already means that all three or four are determined to do all it takes to bring Oromia as independent state back to life. They should be ready to die for this holy purpose or even physically eliminate any Abyssinian invader and settler, any foreign, illegal and inimical resident of Oromia´s territory.
The struggle for National Independence and Liberation is not a salon for pleasant stories and nice narratives; those who are not ready to physically eliminate any Abyssinian invader and settler, any foreign, illegal and inimical resident of Oromia´s territory, should desist and live as slaves, because they are slaves and not free humans.
In all parts of the world, a struggle for National Independence and Liberation means blood, killings, fights, attacks and violence. The same will happen in the mountains, the plains and the plateaus of Oromia that will prove to be the field of ultimate decimation and extermination of the criminal racist gangsters, the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian invaders. Every Oromo must be ready for the most brutal act that will be needed in order to eradicate the filthy racist invader out of the Holy Land of Oromia.
However, a struggle for National Independence and Liberation does not reach its culmination in the very beginning but after a great, preparatory work; so, one must not think that the three or four people who will set up a GOLA unit will be immediately versed into attacks against the criminal and illegally present in Finfinnee Amhara racists.
In a liberation struggle, the question of time plays a key role; no one will take you seriously, if you suggest that it will last 40 years! That´s too much. But it will not happen in 6 months, and certainly this minimal span of time is not enough for the case of GOLA that launches a fresh approach, starting from scratch.
At this point, it is important to ask ourselves how much time has been spent for the liberation struggle in Oromia; if we consider the establishment of the OLF as a marking point (1973), it has already been 37 years! How fast has the time passed! If we go back to the death of the last king of Jimma, we will be constrained to count approximately 77 years! It looks long…
The aforementioned serves as basic understanding; when one starts from scratch, time does not matter. As it is known, the Oromo liberation struggle has already lasted for some parts of Oromia more than 140 years; consequently, the Oromos who passionately want to set up the different GOLA units and lead the Oromo liberation struggle must forget the issue of time; it may be 10 years, it may be 15 years. Does it truly matter? Already more than 15 years of anti-Oromo Woyane regime have passed! And already more than 37 years have passed since the establishment of the OLF…..
As I suggested, just few people, three or four, who personally know one another very well are enough to set up a GOLA unit. This may look extraordinary and many may have the willingness to ask me the question “how three or four people will be able to overthrow an entire criminal regime?” and many other similar points.
The answer to this sort of questions is very simple; three or four people can truly overthrown an empire, if they believe they can (if you don´t believe it, stay at home and do nothing, just expect your death) and if they do the right thing at the right moment.
In fact, empires are idiotic and the Amhara criminal gangsters have been the most besotted people in the world; they are all intoxicated by the trash pseudo-theories of their illiterate and barbaric elites. The Truth in the minds, the thoughts, and the beliefs of the Oromos is an incomparable strength that can help outmaneuver the devices and the schemes of many. The reason Oromia has not yet been liberated is due to the lack of the correct know how.
It goes without saying that, if throughout Oromia only three or four people set up one GOLA unit, then certainly the effort will bring some fruits, but it will fall short of bringing the end of the illegal Amhara occupation of Finfinne and Oromia.
I personally believe that a great number of Oromos in occupied Oromia and in the Diaspora can set up dozens of thousands of GOLA units, thus advancing fast in the path of national liberation and independence. Again, this does not mean that, if within a month 1 million GOLA units will be formed, the liberation struggle will meet a successful end within a year! But the number of 1 million of Oromos being involved in the GOLA units is great; it means ca. 250000 units!
16. Ground work
One has to truly understand that ground work has to be carried out first; this is what was not done by the so far existing Oromo independence movements and liberation fronts, and this is the reason Oromia has not yet been liberated. Unless the ground work is done, even if Oromia is liberated through foreign intervention, the new, ´independent´ country will not truly be independent but a tool in the hands of the great powers that found interest in creating a new country in order to use it for some purpose of theirs; what a jolly and promising future!
That´s why when three or four Oromos meet in a room and set up a GOLA unit, the time disappears, and the interest about Oromo political parties, liberation movements, leaders and the likes, evaporates; there cannot be even a concern about what other Oromos do, and who is organized in another GOLA unit and who is not.
All that matters for the three or four Oromos, who are ready to form a GOLA unit, is their security and the work they may wish to carry out and thus contribute to the liberation of Oromia. The choice is free.
17. GOLA Security – Impenetrability
Security of a GOLA unit is a critical matter; perhaps not for the beginning but for a second stage of fight and struggle that may come after a year or two. However, the proper measures must be taken from now, from the very first moment, from the inception time of the GOLA unit.
All the Oromos may remember very well various narrations about, and denunciations of, Amhara fifth column inside this or that Oromo organization; this has nothing to do with solely the Oromos or Amharas, but it pertains to traditional forms of political leadership, which even when clandestine, can be successfully deviated from its original objectives. The entire story relates to infiltration tactics that consist in an entire chapter of the World Military History (typical modern use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column).
GOLA units can prove to be Oromos´ only impenetrable organizations, and this is a sheer point of superiority vis-à-vis the current political formations. As I said, a GOLA unit can be established out of three or four people – only. There is – practically speaking – no need to have ten (10) people involved in a unit, at least in the very beginning. They will not make it stronger, but weaker.
Proper clandestine organization that remains impenetrable needs few, determined people at its original stage; suffice it that they know personally one another very well. Three or four people is a good number because what matters in the very beginning is the following:
1. the unit should be impenetrable by Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians, and
2. a great part of basic work has to be carried out.
The three or four persons, who agree to form a GOLA unit, must have known one another for many long years, eventually since their childhood; they must have shared for many long years the same approach to their Oromo identity, the same belief in the rise of an independent state of Oromia with capital at Finfinnee, the same conviction that the criminal Amhara and the Tigray – who are still today illegally on Oromia´s soil – must be expulsed by force out of the Land of Oromia that they sully through their barbaric presence, their fake and debilitated ideas, and their racist, anti-Oromo attitudes, schemes and hatred.
Never suggest to participate in a GOLA unit to someone whom you don´t know for many years, to anybody whose ideas have not been very well known to you, and to anyone who never expressed an explicit denial of the Amhara barbarism and anti-Oromo racism! You risk to fail dramatically.
Never imagine that, after having set your objectives, you will materialize them earlier than anticipated by inviting people whom you came to know just last week. There is no rush! Last week´s new acquaintance will acquire functional importance after five years of personal relationship.
And there is no need for interpersonal enthusiasm! Enthusiasm is very important at the level of the beliefs, the ideas, and the convictions; and enthusiasm is of seminal importance at the level of the work, the endeavour, the projects set as target.
Enthusiasm for the liberation of Oromia means passion for performance of (self-) assigned tasks, fervor for ceaseless contribution to the Common Cause, ardor for daily dedication to the GOLA projects, and excitement for result delivery; enthusiasm for the liberation of Oromia does not mean stupid joy for enrolling members, silly satisfaction for gathering in big numbers (when the necessary work is still not done) and inane happiness for raising funds at the time of mismanagement.
There is always a possibility that many are ineffective, whereas many times few prove to be the most effective; this must be always brought back in mind.
Top guarantee for effectiveness is security; never involve people whom you met recently. You can still be good friend with someone who will never know your involvement in a GOLA unit.
Useless to add that there is no need for publicity about you being a member in a GOLA unit. All that matters is the work you carry out – and its publicizing, as I will further analyze.
18. GOLA – Commitment
Another guarantee for effectiveness is commitment; do not get involved unless you are ready to give to the GOLA unit in which you belong all that is needed from your daily time, care, concern, and eventually some financial support.
At the first stage of work, there will be involved only Oromos who can write and read; only at the second stage of work, uneducated Oromos will be involved. In any case, literacy programs will have to be the purpose of work of several GOLA units.
Bear in mind, before establishing a GOLA unit, that you are bound only to the subjugated Oromo Nation, the traditional Oromo values and principles, ideals and rules. No law of the Abyssinian occupation forces is, or can ever be held as, of a certain value for you. The laws and the regulations of the racist state of fake ´Ethiopia´ are the world´s most disgusting excretion of governmental racism, bestiality and paranoia.
Anything that violates a law in Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´) is an auspicious act; anything that helps utterly demolish the criminal pseudo-state ´Ethiopia´ is an act blessed by God. Simply, every Oromo engaged in a GOLA unit should be ready to do his/her ingenious best in order to escape Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian malignancy and evilness.
A GOLA unit must be launched at any time; today, tomorrow, after tomorrow, whenever three or four Oromos set up a meeting to discuss the idea, and to take the decision to see Oromia´s liberation as their own concern, work, and duty.
The number of works and endeavours, projects and undertakings needed at the first level is very high; of course, we cannot properly count them, as every project may be divided and subdivided into many. In fact, the necessary projects and endeavours may be at the level of some thousands of separate points. I will further expand on the subject in forthcoming articles.
What matters to be clarified here is that in fact there can be hundreds of thousands of GOLA units; they would involve millions of yet not mobilized Oromos whose commitment is essential for the national liberation effort.
Of course, when three or four people meet and decide about what task to assign to themselves, without contacting any other Oromo, it is very clear that they cannot know whether the subject they assign to themselves as task for a period of let´s say two years has already been undertaken by others in another part of Oromia or among the Diaspora. But this does not matter. It is of truly minor importance; some sections of the overall Oromo liberation project will certainly be available in duplicate or in a greater number of copies. This is to be expected, and there is nothing wrong in it.
When three or four Oromos meet to launch a GOLA unit, they must agree once forever for the time and the effort they are ready to accord to the project on daily basis. This must be an irreversible agreement, and must certainly involve an occupation of 3 to 5 hours on daily basis, and for at least five days per week. Relevant to the very patriotism of the involved Oromos, this commitment should be viewed as the top life choice, and all the rest must be consequently considered as secondary.
It will be better if, in every GOLA unit, small tasks are assigned (through an approach of subdividing endeavours and projects), and then following the completion of the first assignment, a second task could be agreed upon.
19. GOLA – Function
Now, I will expand on the function of the Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) and focalize on the projects and endeavours that Oromos have to undertake, organizing themselves in numerous small GOLA units, in order to lead the struggle for National Independence.
As every GOLA unit consists of three or four Oromos, they will have to arrange their time schedule under best terms of time management. With the subdivision of the work done and agreed upon, they will be able to arrange the sequence of their meetings and the proceedings of their work.
Some GOLA units will need Internet connection, whereas others will necessitate simple PCs for their projects´ elaboration. When a project will be completed, then Internet connection will be needed for the proper diffusion, but this may come after six months, or more – one year or two.
Several GOLA units will definitely have to be established in Finfinnee and will involve contacts with embassies and consulates; other GOLA units will need to be close to remote villages or their members will have to travel often to these places.
There will be GOLA units with such a project scope that it will be up to Diaspora Oromos to undertake their formation and proceedings.
These initial notes help clarify that in this effort of the entire Oromo Nation, all the Oromos have to contribute according to their possibilities, advantages, knowledge, and relevance. This is critical, because it helps harmonize all parts of the Oromo Nation. I will therefore give an example.
There is a need to write down traditional Oromo poetry that has been preserved orally – through the ages.
And there is a need to write letters to US Senators and Congressmen to inform them about issues of Human Rights violations carried out against the Oromos.
The common understanding is that three Oromos in Dembi Dollo may not have the facilities and the capacity needed to properly address US Senators and Congressmen in English; perhaps they may have no Internet connection or not even a computer. There is no need for them to assign this task to themselves.
On the contrary, they can certainly collect and write down all the traditional Oromo poetry that can be possibly registered in Dembi Dollo. They can write it on paper or, if they happen to have a computer, in many Microsoft Word documents. They can even raise among themselves the fund needed for video and tape recording of samples of the local poetry. Part of the fund raised may at the end be used for a trip to Finfinnee, as this will be needed in order to facilitate contacts with others and the uploading of the project on the web (blog and website).
Through this, it becomes clear that everyone willing to contribute to the Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) and the liberation of Oromia should configure his/her tasks on the basis of his/her possibilities.
The aforementioned approach demonstrates also the need for some GOLA units of awareness; but this is part of the projects and endeavours that should be undertaken by several GOLA units in occupied Oromia. Oromo villagers living in remote areas should be contacted and mobilized by the GOLA units of awareness. Thus, although in remote places, they will be stimulated to form their own GOLA units and carry out the tasks that they can possibly undertake.
However, on the other hand, two GOLA units may carry out projects that are related to one another, without the GOLA members obligatorily knowing one another; one GOLA unit may undertake the project ´Violations of Civil Rights in Parts of Borana´. They may launch a (UK – based) website (as one member may be in London, one in Finfinnee and two in Borana) specialized on this.
Three other Oromos, living in three different European capitals, although totally unrelated to the aforementioned GOLA, as soon as they notice the project and the website, may assign to themselves the regular translation of the website´s texts to German, Italian, Dutch and French, and the management of the four respective websites.
Again, another four Oromos, unrelated to the aforementioned two GOLA units, may give themselves the task of diffusing the news, reports, features and articles of the aforementioned websites (the original and those dedicated to its translations) to all the members of parliaments, all the political parties, members of academies, professors of faculties of Economics and Politics, NGOs, religious, cultural and social associations in all the countries involved and many more.
What projects, endeavours and tasks must be carried out at the primary stage in order to promote the Oromo liberation struggle and drive the Oromos to the most desired, ultimate goal of National Independence?
20. Basic Directions for GOLA Projects and Endeavours
There are four basic directions of activities to undertake, two internal and two external; by ´internal´ I mean activities to be carried among Oromos, which implies that mere knowledge of Afaan Oromo is enough as qualification (not for all of them however). Furthermore, the term ´external´ refers to outreach activities vis-à-vis all independent states and all other subjugated nations.
The four basic directions of activities of the GOLA members are the following:
1. Propagation of the Oromo Cause at the international level. This is an external direction.
2. Denigration of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinian barbarism, racism, totalitarianism, historical forgery, inhumanity, sociopolitical misery and meanness, obduracy and malignancy at the international level. This is also an external direction.
3. Collection of information pertaining to the Oromo Nation (from Human Rights violations to cultural, historical, economic, political and social issues). This is an internal direction; it is clearly understood that without this range of activities, the aforementioned type no 1 of activities will be very difficult or impossible to materialize (or poorly materialized and ineffective).
4. Promotion of the Oromo solidarity and political – military cooperation. This is also an internal direction.
The Oromo struggle for liberation and national independence hinges on wide propagation of any Oromo – related issue. There must be more than 20 Departments of Kushitic and Oromo Studies throughout the world. The activities carried out by GOLA units will not create these departments, but will certainly make the need felt by different academic, intellectual and journalistic establishments in various countries.
Oromo – related issues must become the subject of precipitated bibliography, frequent articles and features, reports, lectures and public speeches, radio and TV emissions throughout the world.
Some Oromo must give themselves the challenging task of learning a foreign language and becoming sort of ambassadors of good will for the sake of their subjugated nation.
Further advancing, I will now enumerate the basic tasks per category of activity as per above. I will focalize on possible projects and endeavours (the list is not exhaustive), starting by direction no 3 in the previous article of the series.
21. Collection of Information Pertaining to the Oromo Nation
As I already said, this covers a very wide range of issues and topics from Human Rights violations to cultural, historical, economic, political and social issues. This direction is of seminal importance because the result of activities deployed in this circle will greatly affect those working in the propagation of the Oromo Cause at the international level (referred to as direction no 1 – external, in the previous article).
The following points are just indicative of what can be delivered by small groups of Oromo activists working within a Group of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) unit.
Point 1. A Repertory of All Oppressive Acts Carried Out (in a Particular Area) Against the Oromos on Daily Basis
It goes without saying that a single GOLA unit cannot cover the entire Oromia. In fact, many GOLA units must be established, perhaps one per town, and at times one per village. They must set up a list in chronological order, starting with the day of the GOLA unit inception; the list must contain every act of oppression, every action of discrimination carried out by governmental authorities (of any level – federal, regional, local) against every single Oromo. The area for which the task will be assigned by the GOLA unit members must be screened and monitored on daily basis. In regard with the area concerned, the GOLA unit must become the primary and most authoritative source of information.
The list must be linked with the repertory´s main part in which analytical description of every case listed will be available in Afaan Oromo; if the GOLA unit members working on the Human Rights violations repertory project are able to translate the material to English, it will be fine.
Otherwise, beyond their ceaseless and careful monitoring, beyond their vast contacts with local people (who will be their real source of information), and beyond their analytical description of every case (involving eventually pictures and video clips), all they have to do is to put everything on the web.
This means that it would be perfect if this type of GOLA units consisted of 2 or 3 Oromos living in occupied Oromia (preferably in provinces) and 1 Oromo from the Diaspora, who would help with the website (or blog) without the cruel and inhuman, totalitarian authorities of the Abyssinian tyranny being able to control anything.
If the founding members of a GOLA unit happen not to know any Oromo living abroad, and they are not residents in a large city, everything is still possible. They will have to raise a small fund that will enable one member to travel to a big city with Internet connection, and there manage to upload everything on the web. Contacting Oromo websites´ and portals´ webmasters and bloggers will be the way for the little experienced in the Internet to get familiarized and manage to upload their critical importance data and work on the web. Uploading could be periodical on weekly or bi-monthly basis.
One may contend that it would be enough for the GOLA unit member to upload the data in the form of an article written in Afaan Oromo, which could be published in any major Oromo portal, like Ayyaantuu, Bilisummaa, Oromoindex, oromiatimes.multiply.com, free-oromia-free-oromia.blogspot.com, etc. Although this would be logical and sensible, it is not advisable. The reason is simple. The number of existing Oromo websites, fora, portals and blogspots is very small. It must get increased tenfold as soon as possible. That´s why a new Oromo website, particularly if it is specialized in a subject, matters much. The big Oromo portals and selected world media, and NGOs must be contacted and informed at a later stage, but this would be the work of another GOLA unit.
The danger in this sort of work is the normal inclination of everyone to deliver more, to cover a wider span, and to demonstrate a more comprehensive data record. There will always be the tendency to set up a GOLA unit with focus on a very wide area, let´s say the entire Borana Land or Arsi Land, instead of a particular – geographically small – area. This attitude does not offer more, as many may surmise, because more width signifies less depth, and this is particularly wrong.
In fact, when it comes to reports of Human Rights violations perpetrated against Oromos, what matters is in-depth monitoring, complete cataloging of every act, and analytical narrative of every case. This can be successfully done by a small group of 3 or 4 Oromos only if they focalize on daily basis on a very small part of Oromia.
The entire Oromia may need more than 3000 GOLA units to be properly covered, with every unit being specialized on a small part of the country´s territory.
But, what level of global awareness about the Oromos would we have already reached, had 3000 websites (specialized on Human Rights violations perpetrated against Oromos) been established by (just 12000) Oromo activists ready to dedicate 4 or 5 hours from their daily program to the Oromo Cause?
Point 2. Oppression Against Oromos – Repertory Classification
This is a secondary level of work, executed on the aforementioned, but it can be done as soon as Point 1 activities have admittedly been undertaken by several hundreds of GOLA units.
The Repertory Classification (per type of oppression and discrimination) would provide with a classification of the different types of Abyssinian oppression and discrimination practiced against the Oromos; with the acts of tyranny and oppression presented under this form, the Abyssinian tyranny, which is exercised throughout Occupied Oromia, would become known allover the world. As the Point 1 repertories would be getting enlarged on daily basis, the classified repertory should be adjusted on daily basis as well.
Point 3. A Black Book of the Illegal Abyssinian Occupation of Oromia
This does not concern the present and the future but the past; instead of representing a type of scholarly research made on the basis of the existing bibliographical documentation and historical sources, it should emanate out of an ethological – sociological approach, involving the collection of hundreds of thousands of interviews with Oromos who experienced the vicious and inhuman, perfidious and pernicious, racist character of the Abyssinian tyranny and illegal occupation.
Before its liberation from the barbaric and evil Abyssinian pestilence, the Oromo Nation needs to deliver this historical opus to posterior Oromo generations. In fact, all the Oromos should participate in this project that can support the establishment of 25000 GOLA units (so, a total number of 100000 Oromo activists may be needed to work on this).
The project should start with the recording of memories of the elders and the experience of the aged people, involving pictures, tape recording and video clips. Any personal memorabilia related to Oromos´ personal exposure to the Abyssinian tyranny should also be mentioned and photographed. In fact, the entire Oromo Nation must speak out narrating all types of experience they have been exposed to. The project could easily reach the level of millions of printed pages, and it will be of unsurpassed impact at the international level.
Interviewees should also be asked about tyranny and oppressive policies practiced against their ancestors; killings, tortures, humiliation, imprisonment, land expropriation, property usurpation and any denial of Civil and Human Rights must be recorded and classified separately from every interviewee´s confessions.
The best way to carry out this enormous project is to focus on personal, family and neighborhood levels; several GOLA units may assign to themselves the task of examining whether remote villages and hamlets have been taken in charge by locally established GOLA units; if not, GOLA units established by Oromos in big cities must take care of the remote villages´ populations and of their experience of the Abyssinian tyranny.
Useless to add, the collection of material should be here followed by the uploading of all the data on separate websites of blogs on the web. The overall project is perhaps the largest to be undertaken, and could thus take up to five (5) years to be completed for several parts of Oromia.
Point 4. Aspects of Cultural and Spiritual Genocide Perpetrated against the Oromos
Contrarily to the previous project that evolves around people and their experience (as well as that of their ancestors), this project concerns facts pertaining to cultural and spiritual genocide that took place in the past.
Desecration of Oromo shrines and holy places, perturbation of Oromo religious ceremonies, illegal building of Abyssinian churches, prohibition of Oromo religious practices, interruption of social traditions and practices, governmental acts contradicting the Oromo social hierarchy and its rules and regulations are to be recorded and related narratives collected, properly classified, and finally uploaded on the Internet. The correct approach would be topographical. Every GOLA unit should concentrate their efforts in collecting data and narrations from a certain limited area, some villages or a town. As this category of data involves narratives, pictures, tape recording and video clips should become a matter of concern.
This project can be very widely publicized on the web; in fact every event – act of genocide – for which a long narrative is collected, along with pictures and possible audio and video files, could be accommodated in a separate website or blog.
Point 5. Oromo Literary Heritage
This point can become the reason of existence for a great number of GOLA units. It should involve the complete recording of the Oromo Oral Literature. Popular wisdom (proverbs, sayings, admonitions, and narratives), all types of prose and poetry, from fairy tales to wedding songs, and from popular prayers to any type of incantations has to be collected and comprehensively made available on the web. Here, I do not mean academic recording for further philological research; I simply stress the need of just writing down in Afaan Oromo what risks being lost with the disappearance of the elder generations.
Point 6. Oromo Cultural Heritage
This is an even vaster subject; it involves the complete recording of the Oromo traditional social and family life. The work needed should not be of academic standards as it will not be the source of an ethnographical research. What is needed is proper recording – at the very first level only in Afaan Oromo – of what risks being lost with the disappearance of the elder generations.
Records should encompass narratives about the traditional professional activities (written down as performed on annual basis), the social events and circumstances, the private life dealings and actions, interpretations of social and personal phenomena, descriptions of traditions and customs, historical records, and the personal memoirs of the elders. Every act related to the last Oromo kings should be recorded as kept in the memory of Oromo elders who are still alive.
Point 7. Oromo Religious Heritage
Another critical circle of topics that have to be recorded thanks to the volunteering work of a great number of GOLA units is Waaqeffannaa, the historical Oromo religion. Recording traditional beliefs narrated by elder Oromos, writing down prayers and rituals, expanding on religious interpretations of natural phenomena, and offering polarizations around any topic of theoretical context are some of the tasks numerous GOLA units can ascribe to themselves, launching a great number of related websites and blogs.
Point 8. The Pantheon of the Oromo Resistance
Any nation, particularly if still not independent, has to honour heroes and pioneering leaders who contributed greatly to the nation´s survival, progress and reassertion. At this very moment, there are still alive a few Oromos, who may have lived as young children and/or adolescents at the times of Abba Jifar II (died 1932), and even more numerous Oromos who may remember details from the days of Abba Jofir (died in the 60s); furthermore, the memory of Oromo poets, like Jaarso Waaqo, and generals, like Waaqo Guutuu, must be kept alive forever. The collection of narratives from the part of people who lived along with these immortal Oromos has great value, and should be undertaken by several GOLA units.
With respect to the Collection of Information Pertaining to the Oromo Nation, the aforementioned eight points are of seminal importance, without being however exhaustive.
Resistance and national liberation groups and fighters must understand that a subjugated nation does not have the privilege of waiting the independence day in order to save its historical records.
On the other hand, these historical records, properly and adequately diffused worldwide, consist in the best branding for a nation in struggle for independence.
Instead of waiting to be known as rebel groups fighting against the invader´s army, the Oromos must first do their ingenious best to become worldwide known as the custodians of Africa´s Supreme Originality and the paragons of the Kushitic Ethiopian Heritage that the barbaric, cannibalistic Amhara Monophysitic Abyssinians cannot and should not be allowed to further sully by usurping it, fallaciously portraying it as relevant to them, and illegally evoking it.
In a forthcoming article, I will expand on the remaining three directions of activities that other Group of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) units should be committed to support and promote.
Note
All the original articles, titles and links:
The Search for Oromo Leadership
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-search-for-oromo-leadership.html
A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part I
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/a-transcendental-approach-to-the-need-for-oromo-leadership-part-i.html
A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part II
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/a-transcendental-approach-to-the-need-for-oromo-leadership-part-ii.html
A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part III
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/a-transcendental-approach-to-the-need-for-oromo-leadership-part-iii.html
Every Oromo: A Leader in the Oromia Liberation Struggle (Part IV)
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/every-oromo-a-leader-in-the-oromia-liberation-struggle-part-iv.html
Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) and the Liberation of Oromia (Part V)
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/groups-of-oromo-liberation-activity-gola-and-the-liberation-of-oromia-part-v.html
What the Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity (GOLA) Must Do to Liberate Oromia (Part VI)
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-the-groups-of-oromo-liberation-activity-gola-must-do-to-liberate-oromia-part-vi.html
Groups of Oromo Liberation Activity – Ground Work for the Liberation of Oromia (Part VII)
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/groups-of-oromo-liberation-activity-ground-work-for-the-liberation-of-oromia-part-vii.html
Note
Picture: The present administrative map of the colonial, pseudo-federal state of Abyssinia is a fake. All eastern and southern regions of the so-called Amhara province belong to Oromia. The same for areas of the said province that are close to the Sudanese borderlines; Amharas inhabit only in the central parts of today´s administrative province Amhara.
From:
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/ethiopia/
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Κατεβάστε το άρθρο του καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτη στα αγγλικά:
https://www.academia.edu/35060233/Oromo_Action_Plan_for_the_Liberation_of_Oromia_and_the_Destruction_of_Abyssinia_Fake_Ethiopia_-_2010
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Κατεβάστε την αναδημοσίευση σε Word doc.:
https://www.slideshare.net/MuhammadShamsaddinMe/45-250694441
https://issuu.com/megalommatis/docs/oromos_and_oromia.docx
https://vk.com/doc429864789_621529122
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Κοσμάς / Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Ρωμιός ανάμεσα στη Χριστιανωσύνη & το Ισλάμ
ΑΝΑΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΕΝΕΡΓΟ ΜΠΛΟΓΚ “ΟΙ ΡΩΜΙΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΗΣ”
Το κείμενο του κ. Νίκου Μπαϋρακτάρη είχε αρχικά δημοσιευθεί την 16η Φεβρουαρίου 2018.
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Κοσμάς / Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Ρωμιός ανάμεσα στη Χριστιανωσύνη & το Ισλάμ
https://greeksoftheorient.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/κοσμάς-μουχάμαντ-σαμσαντίν-μεγαλομμ/
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Οι Ρωμιοί της Ανατολής – Greeks of the Orient
Ρωμιοσύνη, Ρωμανία, Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία
Από τη συζήτηση που έγινε στο μπλογκ του καθ. Δημήτρη Κιτσίκη με βάση την ερώτηση ενός σχολιαστή.
https://endiameseperiochenea.blogspot.com/2018/02/405.html
Ioannnis February 12, 2018 at 5:29 AM
Γνωρίζετε γιατί ο κος Μεγαλομμάτης, άλλαξε πίστη από χριστιανός σε μουσουλμάνος, και από Κοσμάς σε Μουχάμαντ;
Απάντηση
Περίπου. Αν και είναι ένα θέμα για το οποίο ο ίδιος ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης, μουσουλμάνος από το 1992 και επίσημα από το 1994, δεν έχει ποτέ γράψει το παραμικρό. Επειδή έχω την τύχη να τον έχω γνωρίσει από κοντά, θα σας μεταφέρω τι μου είπε στην ερώτησή μου γιατί έγινε μουσουλμάνος.
Κοσμάς / Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Χριστιανός Ορθόδοξος που γίνεται Άθρησκος
Αλλά πριν από αυτό, θα πρέπει να διορθώσω κάπως την ερώτησή σας η οποία είναι σωστή μόνον κατά το ήμισυ. Ναι, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα από δύο χριστιανούς ορθόδοξους γονείς γεννημένους στην Ιωνία και στην Παφλαγονία και βαφτίστηκε χριστιανός ορθόδοξος με το όνομα του πατέρα του πατέρα του, Κοσμάς. Και ναι, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης σήμερα είναι μουσουλμάνος με τα δύο ονόματα Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν (κυρ. ‘ο ήλιος της θρησκείας’). Αλλά, και αυτό είναι ιδιαίτερο, αντίθετα με το τι λέτε στην ερώτησή σας, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης δεν “άλλαξε πίστη από χριστιανός σε μουσουλμάνος”.
Το ελληνικό επώνυμό τους επήραν οι πρόγονοί του φθάνοντας στην Ελλάδα στην δεκαετία του 1930. Στην Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία και στην Τουρκία η οικογένεια ονομαζόταν Gözübüyükoğlu (Γκιοζουμπουγιούκογλου) και το Μεγαλομμάτης είναι η σωστή ελληνική μετάφραση. Ήταν γεννημένοι στην Κασταμονή ο πατέρας του και στην Καισάρεια ο παππούς του μεγαλέμπορος ζάχαρης στην Τουρκία και χρηματιστής στην Ελλάδα. Στην οικογένειά του, όπως σε πολλές οικογένειες των ενδοτέρων της Μικράς Ασίας υπήρχαν και μουσουλμάνοι και χριστιανοί.
Μιλάει γι’ αυτό ο ίδιος σε μια online συνέντευξή του σε ένα πόρταλ ορισμένων Ορόμο επιστημόνων στις ΗΠΑ (οι Ορόμο είναι ένα μεγάλο, 45 εκ. πληθυσμού, υπόδουλο έθνος μοιρασμένο από τους αποικιοκράτες στις ψευτο-χώρες Αβησσυνία και Κένυα): ” I am Greek citizen of Turkish origin; my father, my mother and my grandparents were all born in the Ottoman Empire. During my childhood, I became familiar with a trilingual phenomenon – Turkish at home, Greek in the streets, and French in school. I belong to a family that had Muslim and Christian members who did not have difficulty in changing their faith while preserving their deepest cultural personality intact – an uncle to my father, named Murad, fought against the British at Basra in 1916, but easily became Christian, and was renamed as Evdokimos when the family decided to move to Greece 14 years later! I belong to a family of merchants – my paternal grandfather was a big sugar merchant from Caesarea of Cappadocia, and later owner of a Brokerage and Securities company at the Athens Stock Exchange. I belong to two families, I mean paternal and maternal, whose members were familiar with extensive travels throughout the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus area, and Central Asia at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th centuries. They were the first to describe to me, when a child at Athens – Greece, all the marvels of the Orient, the pyramids of Egypt, the zikkurat of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, the great palaces of Assurbanipal at Nineveh, nearby Mosul, the ruins of Persepolis, the great Phoenician temple of Baalbek, the majestic Islamic sites of Najaf – Iraq, Shiraz, Esfahan, Samarkand, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Cairo, the wilderness of Baluchistan, the magic coasts of the Red Sea, and of course what was home to them, the majestic and bewitching cities of Anatolia, Caesarea, Castamone, Sebastea, Konya, Malatya, Urfa, Erzerum, Diyarbakir, and of course Istanbul. My mother’s family had a maritime vocation, moving from Izmir/Smyrna in the Western coast of Turkey to the Aegean Sea islands of Cassos and Carpathos, before settling at Athens. It was only normal consequence that before 10 I knew in three languages the real meaning of terms such as ‘Hieroglyphic’ and ‘Cuneiform’ scriptures. And it was only normal for me to accept that ‘borders’ mean nothing to anybody – except the rulers, of course – and that the best way for anyone to see things is to go to the other side of the ‘border’, and see things from there as well!”
http://www.voicefinfinne.org/English/Interviews/Interview_Mega1.htm
Προσέξτε ότι θείος του πατέρα του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη ήταν μουσουλμάνος αξιωματικός του οθωμανικού στρατού και πολέμησε τους Άγγλους στη Βασόρα και την Βαγδάτη! Και 14 χρόνια αργότερα, για να ακολουθήσει την οικογένεια του αδερφού του έγινε χριστιανός ορθόδοξος κι άλλαξε το όνομά του από Μουράτ σε Ευδόκιμος.
Θα βρείτε ολόκληρη την συνέντευξη αναδημοσιευμένη εδώ:
https://www.academia.edu/23432753/Voice_Finfinne_Organization_-_Interview_with_Professor_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis_on_the_Oromos_Ethiopia_Sudan_Abyssinia_and_East_Africa
Μιλώντας σε μένα για το παρελθόν της οικογένειάς του, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης μου είχε χαρακτηριστικά πει: “ήμασταν πάντοτε μία οικογένεια ανάμεσα σε δύο κόσμους”. Αλλά αυτό ήταν μόνον το παρελθόν. Ένα παρελθόν που συμπληρώνεται από την αμειγώς χριστιανική οικογένεια της μητέρας του που είχε γεννηθεί στη Σμύρνη, όπως και η μητέρα της, ενώ ο εκ της μητρός παππούς του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη είχε γεννηθεί στο Κιρκαγάτς του Αξαρίου (Άκ Χισάρ) δηλαδή τα Θυάτειρα. Αυτό το τμήμα της οικογένειας του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη έζησε την μικρασιατική καταστροφή και την πυρπόληση της Σμύρνης. Εγγονή ιερέα, του παπα-Μάρκου Πλυτά που είχε ιερουργήσει στην Σμύρνη, την Κάσο και την Κάρπαθο, η μητέρα του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη ήταν μία βαθειά θρησκευόμενη χριστιανή.
Ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης μετά τις σπουδές του στην Φιλοσοφική Αθηνών (1974-1978) φοίτησε σε μεταπτυχιακό επίπεδο στη Γαλλία (1978-1981), την Αγγλία (1981-1982), και το Βέλγιο (1983-1984) και ειδικεύθηκε σε 4 διαφορετικούς κλάδους ανατολιστικών επιστημών (ιστορία, ιστορία θρησκειών, αρχαιολογία), δηλ. ασσυριολογία, αιγυπτιολογία, χιττιτολογία και ιρανολογία, και σε πολιτικές επιστήμες (σοβιετολογία), παίρνοντας πολλά μεταπτυχιακά διπλώματα. Παράλληλα παρακολούθησε σεμινάρια σε φοινικικά, βιβλικές επιστήμες, αραμαϊκά, αρχαία υεμενικά, γκεζ (αξωμικά αβησσυνικά), ανατολικούς χριστιανισμούς, γνώση και μανιχεϊσμό.
Μετά την πρώτη συνάντησή μου μαζί του, όταν κύτταξα το βιογραφικό του στο σημείο σχετικά με τα μεταπτυχιακά του μου έκανε εντύπωση πόσο πολλά σεμινάρια και διαφορετικούς τομείς είχε παρακολουθήσει (λεπτομέρειες: https://www.academia.edu/34760195/1_Curriculum_August_2017_-_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis) και τον ερώτησα σχετικά. Μου είχε απαντήσει ότι επί τρία χρόνια στο Παρίσι, ‘παρακολουθούσε μόνον’ 60-65 ώρες μαθήματα και σεμινάρια την εβδομάδα. Σκεφθείτε το επιπλέον διάβασμα! Στο σύνδεσμο θα βρείτε και ονόματα καθηγητών του ανά χώρα.
Στη συνέχεια, το 1984 άρχισε την ετοιμασία της διδακτορικής διατριβής του στη Γερμανία, σπουδάζοντας παράλληλα σε Συρία, Ισραήλ, Ιράκ, Ανατολική Τουρκία, και Ιράν, μελετώντας τους εκεί αρχαιολογικούς χώρους, και επίσης δημοσιεύοντας δημοσιογραφικού επιπέδου άρθρα.
Οπότε, την διαφορά έκανε στην αρχή η βαθειά ιστορικο-θρησκευτική μελέτη του. Όταν κάποιος διαβάζει στο ασσυροβαβυλωνιακό πρωτότυπο το Ενούμα Ελίς (που ως Γένεση είναι ποσοτικά εκτενέστερη και ποιοτικά ανώτερη περιγραφή της αντίστοιχης βιβλικής) και περνάει διαγωνισμούς σε ιερογλυφικά κείμενα – αιγυπτιακούς μονοθεϊστκούς ύμνους του Αχενατόν (των οποίων αυτούσια μετάφραση στα αρχαία εβραϊκά είναι πολλοί ψαλμοί της Βίβλου), όταν κάποιος σπουδάζει ισιακές λατρείες, μιθραϊσμό, και γνωστικισμούς, τότε βλέπει και την θρησκεία του Αρχαίου Ισραήλ και την Χριστιανωσύνη μέσα σε ένα ιστορικό πλαίσιο πολύ μεγαλύτερο αυτού που είναι γνωστό σε σημερινούς Ιουδαίους και Χριστιανούς. Σ’ αυτό προσθέστε και την ιστορική κριτική των πηγών της Χριστιανωσύνης και την μελέτη των ανατολικών χριστιανισμών, από τους οποίους ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης ήταν και είναι κοντύτερα στον νεστοριανισμό.
Οπότε, ήδη από το 1984, στα 28 του, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης είχε πάψει να είναι χριστιανός ορθόδοξος. Ο ίδιος μου έχει πει αλλά και αρκετά κείμενά του συνηγορούν στο γεγονός ότι έβλεπε πολλά σημεία της Ιστορίας και της Καταγωγής της Χριστιανωσύνης παράλληλα με τον Γάλλο ιστορικό θρησκειών και κορυφαίο ελεύθερο τέκτονα Robert Ambelain.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ambelain
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Амбелен,_Робер
Προσέξτε πόσο μεγαλύτερο είναι το κείμενο της ρωσσικής wikipedia! (προσωπικά έχω μάθει ρωσσικά τα τελευταία 2-3 χρόνια επειδή ζούμε μαζί εδώ στην Κένυα με τους Ρώσσους -από το Καζακστάν- συνεταίρους μας). Εσείς μπορεί να μην ξέρετε ρωσσικά αλλά και μόνο η διαφορά μεγέθους του λήμματος για ένα μάλιστα ‘ξένο’ στη Ρωσσία επιστήμονα θα σας δείξει την ουσία του βάθους της διαφοράς που βλέπετε σε πολιτικο-οικονομικό επίπεδο ανάμεσα στην Γαλλία και τη Ρωσσία. Στη διάρκεια των μεταπτυχιακών του στο Παρίσι, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης μου έχει πει ότι είχε συναντηθεί και συζητήσει επί μακρόν και για πολλές φορές με τον Robert Ambelain.
Προσέξτε, φερ’ ειπείν, μια σειρά από εκλαϊκευτικά άρθρα του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη αρχικά δημοσιευμένα στη δεκαετία του 1990! Εδώ φαίνεται να ακολουθεί από κοντά σχετικά δημοσιεύσεις του Robert Ambelain:
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης – Οι Χριστιανισμοί Το Άγνωστο Παρασκήνιο της Δημιουργίας της “Νέας” Θρησκείας Οι Επισημασμένες Αντιφάσεις μεταξύ των Πηγών του Χριστιανισμού: Ευαγγέλια, Πράξεις, Επιστολές
(Και εδώ σε PDF: https://www.academia.edu/49282705/ΟιΧριστιανισμοίΤοΆγνωστοΠαρασκήνιοτηςΔημιουργίαςτηςΝέας_Θρησκείας_1)
Εδώ όμως είναι μια καθαρόαιμη ‘μεγαλομματική’ ιστορικο-θρησκευτική προσέγγιση:
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης – Οι Χριστιανισμοί Το Άγνωστο Παρασκήνιο της Δημιουργίας της “Νέας” Θρησκείας Οι Τέσσερις Ιουδαϊκές Τάσεις & τα Βασικά Θρησκευτικά Ρεύματα της Εποχής
(Και εδώ σε PDF: https://www.academia.edu/49285956/ΟιΧριστιανισμοίΤοΆγνωστοΠαρασκήνιοτηςΔημιουργίαςτηςΝέας_Θρησκείας_2)
Πολλές φορές πρέπει κάποιος να ξέρει να διαβάζει τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη σωστά. Εδώ δεν εξιστορεί (ούτε υπερασπίζεται) την θρησκευτική θέση των Αχμαντίγια (στο Πακιστάν δεν τους θεωρούν καν μουσουλμάνους αλλά οι ίδιοι πιστεύουν ότι είναι κι ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης τους υπερασπίζεται σε πολιτικό επίπεδο) περί τον Ιησού (ότι τάχα απεβίωσε στο Κασμίρ) αλλά την ιστορία της θέσης αυτής, δηλαδή πως αυτή προέκυψε ‘ξαφνικά κι από το πουθενά’ και ποια γεωστρατηγικά συμφέροντα εκπροσωπούσε:
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης Τα σκοτεινά χρόνια της ζωής του Ιησού. Τα ταξίδια του σε Περσία, Ινδία & Κασμίρ
(Και εδώ σε PDF: https://www.academia.edu/49291062/ΤαΣκοτεινάΧρόνιατηςΖωήςτουΙησούταΤαξίδιατουσεΠερσίαΙνδίακαιΚασμίρ_)
Και εδώ δίνει το όλο ιστορικό πλαίσιο των χρόνων του Ιησού από τα βρεταννικά νησιά (ρωμαϊκή επικράτεια) μέχρι την Ινδία:
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης – Από την Ιουδαία στο Κασμίρ
(Και εδώ σε PDF: https://www.academia.edu/49293803/ΑπότηνΙουδαίαστοΚασμίρ_From_Judaea_to_Kashmir)
Σου λέει δηλαδή ότι, ναι, είναι αληθοφανές (plausible) ότι ο Ιησούς θα μπορούσε να είχε πάει εύκολα στο Κασμίρ. Δεν ήταν ούτε ‘μακριά’ για τα τότε μέτρα, ούτε ‘επικίνδυνο’.
Οπότε, όπως μου έχει πει ο ίδιος, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης, με σχετική δήλωσή του, απέρριψε τον Χριστιανισμό το 1985 και απέκτησε μια νέα ταυτότητα όπου στην ένδειξη ‘θρήσκευμα’ έγραφε ‘άθρησκος’. Καταλαβαίνετε βέβαια ότι αυτό δεν έχει καμμία σχέση με αθεΐα.
Κοσμάς / Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Άθρησκος που αναζητάει να βρει μια θρησκεία
Το πιο ενδιαφέρον ωστόσο (σε μένα που δυστυχώς τον γνώρισα ‘πρόσφατα’, το 2011, και έκτοτε προσπαθώ να βρω και να διαβάσω άρθρα του δημοσιευμένα στα ελληνικά και σε άλλες γλώσσες στις δεκαετίες του 1980 και 1990) είναι ότι, από τότε που ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης γίνεται άθρησκος, στα άρθρα του είναι εμφανής (τουλάχιστον σε μένα, τώρα) μια προσπάθεια έρευνας, αναζήτησης και ταύτισης μιας πλέον χαμένης θρησκευτικότητας.
Κυττάξτε αυτό:
https://www.academia.edu/23010978/ΜουχάμαντΣαμσαντίνπρώηνΚοσμάςΜεγαλομμάτηςΟδοιπορικόστηνΠερσίατου_Ιμάμη
https://www.academia.edu/23010128/ΟδοιπορικόστηνΠερσίατουΙμάμητουΜουχάμαντΣαμσαντίνπρώηνΚοσμάΜεγαλομμάτη
Εδώ μπορείτε να το δείτε σε βίντεο (δύο συνέχειες) το οποίο ανέβασα επειδή μου άρεσε ιδιαίτερα:
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wB2Ze1v_uA8
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XCLjynFKcCU
Τα δύο βίντεο βρίσκονται εδώ:
https://vk.com/video429864789_456239043
https://ok.ru/video/333170084440
και
https://vk.com/video429864789_456239044
https://ok.ru/video/333172181592
Αρχικά δημοσιευμένο το 1986, δείχνει ένα νεαρό άνθρωπο που ψάχνει στα πλαίσια του κόσμου στον οποίο ζει την αλήθεια και την πνευματικότητα σε παραμύθια ειπωμένα στο μακρινό χωριό, μακριά από τις μεγαλουπόλεις, την τεχνολογία, τον μοντερνισμό, και τον εκδυτικισμό. Ήταν ηλίθιο που μερικοί, όπως έμαθα από φίλους, τον θεώρησαν τότε φιλο-Ιρανό διαβάζοντας και παρερμηνεύοντας το άρθρο αυτό.
Ναι, υπάρχει αναφορά στην αυτοθυσία των πολεμιστών αλλά το όλο κείμενο περνάει φευγαλέα από τις μεγάλες πόλεις, επικεντρώνεται στα βουνά, τις παραδοσιακές αξίες, τη ζωή κοντά στη φύση, με τα ζώα, την αγροτική καλλιέργεια, τα δάση, παραδοσιακό ετήσιο κύκλο στη φύση, και καταλήγει στην απόλυτη απόρριψη κάθε νεωτερισμού των τελευταίων αιώνων.
Σε ένα βαθμό, το άρθρο αυτό ήταν και μια αντιπολίτευση στον Χομεϊνί της οικονομίας, της πολιτικής, της εξόρυξης υδρογονανθράκων, και του πολιτικοποιημένου σιιτικού ισλάμ που είναι – όπως λέει ο ίδιος ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης – μια υλιστική ψευτο-θρησκεία όπως κι όλες οι άλλες οι σημερινές που όλες τους είναι “πολύ μακριά από το τι είναι μια πραγματική θρησκεία, δηλαδή μια ψυχοσωματική ένωση και μια υπερβατική επικοινωνία με τον αληθινό κόσμο, τον ψυχικό κόσμο, χωρίς τις σκέψεις, τις θεωρίες και τις ιδεολογίες του υλιστικού περιβάλλοντός μας”.
Προσέξτε εδώ ένα 29χρονο επιστήμονα να επικεντρώνει τις αναζητήσεις του στην τοπογραφία του ….. ασσυροβαβυλωνιακού Κάτω Κόσμου με πολλά αιγυπτιακά, εβραϊκά κι αρχαιοελληνικά παράλληλα:
Τα Σπήλαια: Χθόνιος Χώρος στις Σημιτικές Αντιλήψεις
και https://www.academia.edu/23213198/ΤαΣπήλαιαΧθόνιοςΧώροςστιςΣημιτικέςΑντιλήψειςΤουκαθΜουχάμαντΣαμσαντίνπρώηνΚοσμά_Μεγαλομμάτη
Σημειώνω πάντως ότι στα χρόνια εκείνα, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης δεν πορεύθηκε σε ευθεία γραμμή προς το Ισλάμ. Ο ίδιος μας έχει πει ότι στο Ισραήλ (για μεταπτυχιακά, προετοιμασία διατριβής, και έρευνα – με υποτροφία του ισραηλινού κράτους) έκανε μπαρ μιτσβά (Bar Mitzvah), ενώ ο συγχρωτισμός του με τους Γιαζίντι βόρεια της Μοσούλης είχε περιέλαβε σαφώς και κάποια μύηση.
Διαβάστε τις σελίδες 104-110 από το βιβλίο του Έξι Άστρα της Ανατολής (στο τέλος του κεφαλαίου Άμιδα, δηλαδή σχετικά με το Ντιγιάρμπακιρ) όπου αρνείται ολότελα τις διαδόσεις μουσουλμάνων περί του σατανισμού ως θρησκείας των Γιεζιντί και θα καταλάβετε:
και (σε PDF)
https://www.academia.edu/49409404/ΆμιδαΝτιγιάρμπακιρΈξιΆστρατης_Ανατολής_Amida_Diyarbakir_The_Six_Stars_of_the_Orient
Οπότε, όντας για μία περίοδο 7-8 ετών άθρησκος, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης προσχώρησε στο Ισλάμ, προφέροντας στο σουνιτικό τζαμί του Καΐρου Αλ Άζχαρ τα γνωστά ‘λα ιλάχ ιλά Αλλάχ’ και ‘Μουχάμαντ αρ-ρασούλ Αλλάχ’.
Ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης στα χρόνια των αναζητήσεων
Ντιγιάρμπακιρ (Άμιδα) 1984 – έξω από τα τείχη και με φόντο τον Τίγρη
Σαούρ, χωριό κοντά στην Μιντυάτ της επαρχίας Μάρντιν – 1985
Κοσμάς / Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Άθρησκος που ‘προσχωρεί’ στο Ισλάμ
Χαρράν – Κάρραι, Ούρφα (Έδεσσα Οσροηνής) 1994
Εσκί Σουματάρ, Ούρφα 1994
Ο ίδιος ορίζει στο σύντομο βιογραφικό του τα εξής: “Born Christian Orthodox, he adhered to Islam when 36, devoted to ideas of Muhyieldin Ibn al Arabi”.
https://independent.academia.edu/ShamsaddinMegalommatis
Τουρκία 1994
Εδώ πρέπει να σημειώσω προκαταρκτικά ότι ο Μοχυιεντίν Ιμπν Άραμπι, ίσως ο πολυμαθέστερος μουσουλμάνος όλων των εποχών, ήταν ένας σπάνια ανατρεπτικός φιλόσοφος ο οποίος στη διαμάχη Φαραώ – Μωϋσή (θέμα κοινό σε εβραϊκή θρησκεία, Χριστιανωσύνη και Ισλάμ) υποστήριξε τον Φαραώ, λέγοντας ότι ήταν πιο σωστός από τον Μωϋσή κι ότι η Θεϊκή Παρουσία ήταν υπέρ αυτού!
Πνευματικός πατέρας του Τζελαλεντίν Ρούμι (ιδρυτή του τάγματος των Δερβίσηδων), ο Ιμπν Άραμπι υπήρξε ο κορυφαίος μύστης του Ισλάμ και στις Μεκκικές Ενοράσεις (Αλ Φουτουχάτ αλ Μακίγιε) – που είναι μόνιμος σύντροφος του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη (περισσότερο από το κοράνι) – περιγράφει ασύλληπτες ψυχικές εμπειρίες, μετακινήσεις του στον χρόνο, επικοινωνία με ψυχές παλαιοτέρων γενεών (προ του Αδάμ) και άλλα απερίγραπτα θέματα που η σημερινή παγκόσμια τυραννίδα έχει καταδικάσει τον περισσότερο κόσμο σε άγνοια και συνεπώς καθολική παραπληροφόρηση.
Εννοείται ότι ο Ιμπν Άραμπι είναι ‘κόκκινο πανί’ για τα τέρατα του πολιτικού Ισλάμ (Αδελφούς Μουσουλμάνους) και των Ουαχαμπιστών (‘σαλαφιστών’).
Αλλά ας αφήσουμε τον Ιμπν Άραμπι!
Θεραπειά (Ταραμπυά) Σταμπούλ 1995
Προσέξτε τα ρήματα! Η διαφορά από το convert στο adhere είναι χαοτική. Άλλο ‘μετατρέπομαι’ ή ‘προσηλυτίζομαι’ και άλλο ‘προσχωρώ’. Σαφώς πρόκειται για επιλογή θρησκείας εκ μέρους ενός αθρήσκου.
Αλλά δεν έχει να κάνει τίποτα με σύγχρονους σεΐχηδες και ιμάμηδες τους οποίους ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης θεωρεί αμόρφωτους ψευτο-μουσουλμάνους, όπως άλλωστε θεωρεί όλες τις σημερινές θρησκείες υλιστικά εκτρώματα που απομακρύνουν τον μέσο άνθρωπο από την εναργή αίσθηση της ψυχής του, την ένωση μαζί της, και την λειτουργία του ανθρώπου ως ψυχοσωματικής ενότητας ικανής να εννοεί, να αντιλαμβάνεται και να δρα σε υλικό και σε ψυχικό επίπεδο.
Πολύ καλός γνώστης των λατινικών, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης κάτι δηλώνει με την αποφυγή του cum- (convert) και την προτίμηση του ad- (adhere).
Τασουτζού (Taşucu), Μερσίνη 1996
Από τις μεταξύ μας συζητήσεις μπορώ να σε διαβεβαιώσω ότι ο ορισμός της Πίστης, τον οποίο δίνει ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης, βρίσκεται στους αντίποδες του τι ο κόσμος νομίζει ως ‘πίστη’ σήμερα και ταυτίζεται απόλυτα με την σήμερα ξεχασμένη και παρανοημένη, πλην όμως απολύτως κυριολεκτική και σε φυσικό επίπεδο, πρόταση του Ιησού “ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον σινάπεως, ἐρεῖτε τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ μετάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖ, καὶ μεταβήσεται, καὶ οὐδὲν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν” (Κατά Ματθαίον, ΙΖ’ 20).
Δηλαδή, δεν είναι η Πίστη μια απλή θεωρητική /ιδεολογική παραδοχή απόψεων, αφηγήσεων, γνωμών, θεωριών και αντιλήψεων του στυλ “εσύ πιστεύεις στον κομμουνισμό”, “εγώ πιστεύω στο ναζισμό”, “αυτός πιστεύει στον βουδισμό”, “αυτή πιστεύει στον μονισμό”, “αυτοί πιστεύουν στον υπαρξισμό” κι “αυτές πιστεύουν στον χριστιανισμό”, κοκ. Πίστη είναι κάτι άλλο. Μια λειτουργία του ψυχικού κόσμου.
Ναι, ερώτησα τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη, σε μια από τις πρώτες συναντήσεις μας, νομίζω εδώ στην Κένυα το 2012, γιατί έγινε μουσουλμάνος. Μου είπε ότι ποτέ δεν είχε γράψει ή πει σε κάποιον κάτι το σχετικό, ούτε και επρόκειτο, “επειδή η Πίστη είναι μια απολύτως προσωπική λειτουργία και πραγματική, δηλαδή ψυχική, επικοινωνία με τον Θεό, οπότε από τη φύση της δεν μπορεί να αφορά άλλους”.
Στη συνέχεια μου είπε ότι το να τον ρωτάω κάτι τέτοιο ήταν σχεδόν οξύμωρο επειδή, για να κατανοήσω μια ενδεχόμενη απάντησή του, θα έπρεπε να σπουδάσω και να μελετήσω όλα όσα εκείνος είχε μελετήσει, σπουδάσει και αντιληφθεί ως Χείρα Θεού μέσα στις λίγες χιλιετίες της Ανθρώπινης Ιστορίας.
Αλλοιώς θα ήταν σαν να του ζητήσω να μου μιλήσει σε ασσυροβαβυλωνιακά, μια γλώσσα στην οποία δεν κατέχω ούτε μία λέξη. Οπότε συμπεραίνω προσωπικά ότι η προσχώρησή του στο Ισλάμ, στο ιστορικό Ισλάμ των χρόνων της ακμής της Βαγδάτης και της Ανδαλουσίας και όχι στο σημερινό ψευτο-ισλάμ, ήταν συνάρτηση των ιστορικών, αρχαιολογικών, ιστορικο-θρησκευτικών ερευνών, μελετών και συμπερασμάτων του από την μία πλευρά και υπόθεση υπερβατικών ψυχικών αναζητήσεων από την άλλη.
Στην συνέχεια, τον ερώτησα αν θα μου συνιστούσε να γίνω και γω μουσουλμάνος και μου απάντησε ρητώς “ασφαλώς και όχι”. Συνέχισε λέγοντας ότι ο καθένας έχει τον δικό του δρόμο για την επικοινωνία και την συνένωση με τον Θεό και για την ολοκλήρωση της αποστολής του εδώ, και ότι δεν υπάρχει θρησκεία η οποία στο αρχικό της ή στο κορυφαίο της σημείο να μην είναι ικανή να οδηγήσει ένα άνθρωπο επιτυχώς στον απώτατο στόχο: το υπερπέραν (και βέβαια εννοείται ότι οι κατά τόπους πολυθεϊσμοί δεν αποτελούν ποτέ θρησκεία για τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη αλλά αλλοίωση και ξεπεσμό θρησκείας).
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Μουσουλμάνος που υπερασπίζεται τους Αραμαίους Χριστιανούς κι απαιτεί ανεξάρτητο αραμαϊκό χριστιανικό κράτος σε Συρία-Ιράκ
Στην αρχή της γνωριμίας μας, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης μου είχε δημιουργήσει μεγάλη περιέργεια επειδή ακριβώς δεν μπορούσα να τον εντάξω κάπου (κι αυτό ήταν αδύνατο) και επειδή σύντομη έστω συζήτηση μαζί του δείχνει ότι και ξέρει πολύ καλά και την Χριστιανωσύνη και το Ισλάμ και τις πρότερες και νυν θρησκείες της Ανατολής, και εύκολα βρίσκει συγγενή προς εκείνον άτομα, στοιχεία, θέσεις και εκφράσεις παντού.
Στην Χριστιανωσύνη έλκουν τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη πολύ διαφορετικά μεταξύ τους πρόσωπα και ρεύματα. Αλλά μόνον εκείνος θα μπορούσε να εξηγήσει πως συνδυάζει τον Ιωάννη Χρυσόστομο με τον Ιερό Αυγουστίνο, τον Εφραίμ Σύρο με τον Νεστόριο, τον Μιχαήλ Ψελλό και τον Κοσμά Ινδικοπλεύστη. Και ασφαλώς θα είναι ο μόνος μουσουλμάνος με μεγάλη εκτίμηση για τον Ιωάννη Δαμασκηνό, από τον οποίο ωστόσο θεωρεί ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης ολόκληρη την σημερινή Ορθόδοξη εκκλησία ως απομακρυσμένη και συνεπώς ως αλλοιωμένη.
Και βέβαια, ακριβώς επειδή ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης (κι επανέρχομαι στην ίδια την ερώτησή σας) δεν ‘απέρριψε την Χριστιανωσύνη για ν’ αποδεχθεί το Ισλάμ’, δεν υπάρχει στον ίδιο κανένα είδος αντίθεσης ή αντιπαράθεσης με την Χριστιανωσύνη. Όταν κάποτε τον είχα ρωτήσει ποιος είναι πιο κοντά στον Θεό, ένας μέσος χριστιανός ή ένας μέσος μουσουλμάνος, μου είχε πει ότι ο πιο κοντινός στον Θεό είναι …. ὁ ποιῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.
Και όταν τον ερώτησα, αν πιστεύει ότι οι θεωρητικοί στυλοβάτες του Ισλάμ είναι πιο ορθοί από τους αντίστοιχους της Χριστιανωσύνης και ότι το Ισλάμ είναι περισσότερο μονοθεϊστική θρησκεία από την Χριστιανωσύνη, τότε μου είπε ότι εξετάζω τις θρησκείες πολύ επιφανειακά και ότι αυτό οδηγεί πάντοτε σε λάθη, και όταν ζήτησα περισσότερες εξηγήσεις, μου έκανε την εξής ερώτηση:
– Κατά πόσον μια θρησκεία με πιο ορθούς θεωρητικούς στυλοβάτες και περισσότερο μονοθεϊστική από μιαν άλλη είναι καλύτερη από την άλλη, αν της άλλης θρησκείας οι οπαδοί είναι πιο ηθικά, πιο ευσεβή και πιο κοντινά στον Θεό άτομα;
Κάϊρο 2002
Και αυτό νομίζω δίνει και την ταυτότητα του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη που βλέπει συνέχεια στο τι υπάρχει πίσω από τις θρησκείες-συστήματα και κηρύγματα. Γι’ αυτό άλλωστε και ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης συστηματικά και με εκτεταμένη αρθρογραφία ζήτησε από το 2004 και το 2005 την ίδρυση αραμαϊκού χριστιανικού κράτους στον χώρο του Ιράκ και της Συρίας, και ολόθερμα υπερασπίστηκε τους Αραμαίους Μονοφυσίτες (Ενοφυσίτες) και Νεστοριανούς και τους Κόπτες της Αιγύπτου. Αυτούς για τους οποίους ψευτο-πατριάρχες, ψευτο-μητροπολίτες και ψευτο-χριστιανοί δεν έχουν πει ούτε λέξη!
Αλεξάνδρεια 2003
Γι’ αυτό και η μεγάλη αραμαϊκή οργάνωση Αράμ Ναχρίν (‘Αραμαϊκή Μεσοποταμία’) τον τιμάει και τον υπερασπίζεται, επειδή οι αλήθειες τις οποίες αποκαλύπτει ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης καταστρέφουν αποικιοκρατικά έργα, ατιμίες, εγκλήματα και γενοκτονίες αιώνων:
http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Iraq.htm
http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Insults_Assyrian_Terrorists_27_6_2007.htm
Αλεξάνδρεια 2006 με την Ευρωπαία Επίτροπο Benita Ferrero–Waldner και τον Αιγύπτιο υπουργό Εξωτερικών Άχμεντ Αμπού ‘λ Γέϊτ (Ahmed Aboul Gheit)
Και συμφωνούν μαζί του ότι τίποτα δεν βαραίνει την Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, το Σαφεβιδικό / Κατζάρ Ιράν ή την σύγχρονη Τουρκία και ότι για όλα τα εγκλήματα στην ευρύτερη περιοχή οι μόνοι ένοχοι είναι η Γαλλία, η Αγγλία, κι η Αμερική. Αναδημοσιεύουν δε σωρεία άρθρων του στα αγγλικά και μεταφράζουν πολλά από αυτά στα ολλανδικά (επειδή υπάρχει μεγάλη συρο-λιβανο-ιρακο-ιρανο-τουρκική αραμαϊκή χριστιανική κονότητα στην Ολλανδία), και εδώ είναι κατάλογοι:
http://www.aramnaharaim.org/English/opinion_analyse.htm
http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/Issue_Iraq.htm
Αμπού Δάμπι 2012
Αναφορές θα δείτε και εδώ:
http://www.aramnaharaim.org/English/ (κεντρική κολώνα)
http://www.aramnahrin.org/English/index_en.htm (κάτω δεξιά)
Μογκαντίσου 2013 – στα δεξιά, μαζί με συναδέλφους του Σομαλούς σε εκδήλωση του πανεπιστημίου στο οποίο εργαζόταν ως μόνος ευρωπαϊκής καταγωγής καθηγητής σε όλη την Σομαλία
(στα αριστερά)
Στους δρόμους του Μογκαντίσου 2013 – σε αυθόρμητη πολιτική εκδήλωση οπαδών του μόλις τότε απελθόντος προέδρου Σεΐχ Σερίφ Σεΐχ Άχμεντ τον οποίο ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης είχε συστηματικά υποστηρίξει από το 2007, όπως στα εξής άρθρα:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=58660
και
https://pemot5.blogspot.com/2011/05/geeska-africa-somalia-ogaden-oromia.html
Μογκαντίσου 2013 – με Σομαλούς φοιτητές του στην παραλία Λίντο
Σημειωτέον ότι ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης είχε υπερασπιστεί τον Πάπα Βενέδικτο ΙΣΤ’ ενάντια στις κατηγορίες που είχαν εκφράσει μουσουλμάνοι εναντίον του το 2006. Ενδεικτικά:
https://www.academia.edu/24775355/Benedictus_XVI_may_not_be_right_but_todays_Muslims_are_islamically_wrong_By_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/24778178/Lord_Carey_Benedictus_XVI_and_todays_decayed_Islam_-_Prof._Dr._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/24779064/What_Benedict_XVI_should_say_admonishing_Muslim_Ambassadors_-_by_Prof._Dr._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/24779960/Can_Benedict_XVI_bring_Peace_and_Concord_-_by_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
Επίσης:
https://www.academia.edu/25317295/Benedict_XVI_between_Constantinople_and_Istanbul_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/25317609/Benedictus_XVI_between_Istanbul_and_Nova_Roma_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Μουσουλμάνος που δίνει προτεραιότητα στην Ουακεφάνα, παραδοσιακή θρησκεία των Ορόμο, κι όχι στους Ορόμο Μουσουλμάνους
Επίσης, μια χαρακτηριστική προσέγγιση του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη σε κοινωνικά – πολιτιστικά θέματα και καταστάσεις των Ορόμο, ενός μεγάλου (45 εκ. πληθυσμός) και ιστορικού κουσιτικού αφρικανικού έθνους ακόμη υπόδουλου στην Αβησσυνία και την Κένυα, δείχνει πολλά.
Οι Ορόμο σήμερα έχουν ένα είδος τριχοτόμησης. Είναι το μόνο έθνος στον κόσμο που, παρά το όμαιμον και το ομόγλωσσον και το μεγάλο παρελθόν του, πιστεύει σε τρεις διαφορετικές θρησκείες: την Ουακεφάνα (παραδοσιακή, μονοθεϊστική θρησκεία των Ορόμο για την οποία έχει συγγράψει αρκετά ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης βρίσκοντας πολλά παράλληλα με αρχαία αιγυπτιακά μονοθεϊστικά δόγματα), το Ισλάμ, και τη Χριστιανωσύνη.
Αν μάλιστα προσέξουμε ότι και οι Χριστιανοί Ορόμο είναι διαιρεμένοι σε προτεστάντες και καθολικούς (που δέχθηκαν τα κηρύγματα δυτικών ιεραποστόλων), καθώς και σε μονοφυσίτες (στους οποίους επιβλήθηκε μια κοπτική αίρεση ως θρησκεία κατά την κατάληψη των Ορόμο βασιλείων από τους Αμ(χ)άρα κατά το δεύτερο μισό του 19ου αιώνα), καταλαβαίνουμε ότι η ‘τριχοτόμηση’ είναι στην ουσία θρησκευτική κατάτμηση.
Όμως και η Χριστιανωσύνη και το Ισλάμ μόνον πρόσφατα διαδόθηκαν ανάμεσα στους Ορόμο: τα τελευταία 150-170 χρόνια.
Όταν οι Αμ(χ)άρα κατκατητές προσπαθούσαν να επιβάλουν την κοπτική αίρεση που πιστεύουν, πολλοί Ορόμο, γνωρίζοντας το αντι-ισλαμικό μένος της αμ(χ)αρικής εξουσίας, από αντίδραση έγιναν μουσουλμάνοι καθώς γειτνίαζαν με τους Ογκαντένι Σομαλούς, παραδοσιακούς μουσουλμάνους για πάνω από μία χιλιετία.
Κάϊρο 2014 σε εκδήλωση Ορόμο προσφύγων, βασικός ομιλητής ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης περιγράφει το κουσιτικό – μεροϊτικό παρελθόν των Ορόμο και φοράει τη μπλούζα με τα σύμβολα του Oromo Liberation Front και τον χάρτη της Ανεξάρτητης Ορομία που θα αποσχισθεί από την Αβησσυνία παίρνοντας επίσης εκτάσεις της Κένυας.
Πάνω σε όλο αυτό το υπόστρωμα, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης (που έχει γράψει εκατοντάδες άρθρα για την Ιστορία, τον πολιτισμό και την ανεξαρτησία των Ορόμο τα οποία αναδημοσιεύουν πολλά Ορόμο πόρταλς, ακόμη και των εξόριστων στην Ευρώπη Ορόμο κοινοβουλευτικών), αν και μουσουλμάνος, δίνει προβάδισμα στην Ουακεφάνα, θεωρώντας την ως πιο αυθεντική έκφραση της Ορομούμα (Ορομό-τητας) του μεγάλου έθνους. Ενδεικτικά:
Oromo Action Plan for the Liberation of Oromia and the Destruction of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)
http://www.oromoparliamentarians.org/English/News_Archive/Oromo%20Action%20Plan%20for%20the%20Liberation%20of%20Oromia.htm
(https://www.academia.edu/35060233/Oromo_Action_Plan_for_the_Liberation_of_Oromia_and_the_Destruction_of_Abyssinia_Fake_Ethiopia_-_2010)
For the Oromos, it´s Now or Never!
http://www.oromoparliamentarians.org/Dhaamsa_bara_haaraa/For%20the%20Oromos,%20it’s%20Now%20or%20Never.htm
(https://www.academia.edu/35056747/For_the_Oromos_it_s_Now_or_Never_2010_)
Kushitic Oromos’ Ancestry in Ethiopia (: Ancient Sudan) vs. Semitic Amharas’ & Tigrays’ (Abyssinians’) Ancestry in Yemen
http://www.oromoparliamentarians.org/English/Facts%20about%20Oromo/Muhammad%20Shamsaddin%20Megamlommatis.htm
(https://www.academia.edu/34046949/Kushitic_Oromos_Ancestry_in_Ethiopia_Ancient_Sudan_and_Semitic_Amharas_and_Tigrays_Abyssinians_Ancestry_in_Yemen)
THE TRUE ETHIOPIA IS SUDAN & THE OROMO NATION, NOT ABYSSINIA
http://www.oromoparliamentarians.org/English/Facts%20about%20Oromo/Oromo-%20Kush.htm
(https://ar-ar.facebook.com/pg/Gadaa-Getachew-Jigi-1658210391147316/posts/?ref=page_internal
και
https://www.academia.edu/34046949/Kushitic_Oromos_Ancestry_in_Ethiopia_Ancient_Sudan_and_Semitic_Amharas_and_Tigrays_Abyssinians_Ancestry_in_Yemen)
Επίσης:
https://www.academia.edu/35057013/The_Astral_Voyage_to_Sublime_Finfinne
Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης: ένας Μουσουλμάνος ικανός για θρησκευτική και ιστορική αυτοκριτική
Αν τα παραπάνω δεν είναι αρκετά, θα πρέπει να προσθέσω και τα υπόλοιπα. Σε μία ερώτησή μου αν το κοράνι είναι το τελικό βιβλίο της Θείας Αποκάλυψης, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης μου απάντησε αυτόματα:
– Μα αυτό δεν το δεχόταν ούτε ο Γαζάλι, ο οποίος αν και πολέμησε την Μουτάζιλα, απέτυχε να αποδείξει ότι το Κοράνιο είναι αδημιούργητο και σύναρχο με τον Θεό. Οπότε, κατέληξε ότι στο Πλήρωμα του Χρόνου θα υπάρχει μια πιο ολοκληρωμένη, μία πληρέστερη αποκάλυψη του Θείου.
Κάϊρο 2016
Έτσι, προχωρώντας σε μουταζιλικές θέσεις, ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης συνέχισε παραβάλλοντας την αναμενόμενη από αρκετούς μουσουλμάνους φιλοσόφους έσχατη αποκάλυψη κατά το Πλήρωμα του Χρόνου με την αναφορά του Ιησού στο Πλήρωμα του Χρόνου, κατά το οποίο – μόνον – καὶ κηρυχθήσεται τοῦτο τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ εἰς μαρτύριον πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι, καὶ τότε ἥξει τὸ τέλος (κατά Ματθαίον, ΚΔ’ 14).
Αυτή η πρόταση του Ιησού, εμφανώς τοποθετημένη μέσα σε πλαίσια αναφορών στο Πλήρωμα του Χρόνου, δείχνει ότι δεν κηρύχθηκαν από την επίσημη χριστιανική εκκλησία όλα όσα εκείνος έλεγε και ότι αυτά θα κηρυχθούν για πρώτη φορά τότε, φέρνοντας μάλιστα το τέλος.
Την Έσχατη Αποκάλυψη, την οποία περιμένουν μετά το Κοράνιο, στο Πλήρωμα του Χρόνου, ορισμένοι μουσουλμάνοι φιλόσοφοι των χρόνων της ακμής του Ισλάμ, και στην οποία αναφέρθηκε ο Ιησούς, ταυτίζει ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης με την αναφορά στο δέκατο κεφάλαιο της Αποκάλυψης σε ένα ‘βιβλιδάριο’: “Καὶ ἡ φωνὴ ἣν ἤκουσα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, πάλιν λαλοῦσα μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ καὶ λέγουσα· ὕπαγε λάβε τὸ βιβλιδάριον τὸ ἀνεῳγμένον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ τοῦ ἀγγέλου τοῦ ἑστῶτος ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. καὶ ἀπῆλθα πρὸς τὸν ἄγγελον, λέγων αὐτῷ δοῦναί μοι τὸ βιβλιδάριον. καὶ λέγει μοι· λάβε καὶ κατάφαγε αὐτό, καὶ πικρανεῖ σου τὴν κοιλίαν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν τῷ στόματί σου ἔσται γλυκὺ ὡς μέλι. καὶ ἔλαβον τὸ βιβλίον ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ ἀγγέλου καὶ κατέφαγον αὐτό, καὶ ἦν ἐν τῷ στόματί μου ὡς μέλι γλυκύ· καὶ ὅτε ἔφαγον αὐτό, ἐπικράνθη ἡ κοιλία μου”. (Αποκάλυψη, Ι’ 8-10)
Η μουσουλμανική ταυτότητα του κ.Μεγαλομμάτη είναι λοιπόν σε έντονη αντιπαράθεση με τις πολιτικο-κοινωνικές εκφάνσεις του σημερινού “Ισλάμ των μεγαλουπόλεων”, όπως το αποκαλεί (αναφερόμενος είτε σε ουαχαμπιστές / ‘σαλαφιστές’, είτε στο ‘πολιτικό Ισλάμ’ / Αδελφούς Μουσουλμάνους).
Κι επισύρει έντονη αυτοκριτική η οποία προξενεί διπλή αντίδραση: οι μεν παραδοσιακοί μουσουλμάνοι που ζουν μακριά από αστικά κέντρα και μεγαλουπόλεις, εκείνοι που δεν καταδέχονται να ασχοληθούν με την πολιτική και την ευτέλειά τη, εκείνοι που περνούν τη ζωή τους χωρίς σύγχρονη τεχνολογία και χωρίς εκδυτικισμό στην καθημερινότητά τους, τον αποδέχονται σχεδόν αυτόματα. Αντίθετα, μουσουλμάνοι που ζουν σε μεγαλουπόλεις συχνά εκφράζουν πρωτοφανή οργή εναντίον του και η έχθρα τους θυμίζει λύσσα.
Η διεισδυτική ματιά του κ. Μεγαλομμάτη στις ιστορικές πηγές τον βοήθησε να βγει έξω από το δυτικό αποικιοκρατικό ψέμμα αναφορικά με την πρώϊμη διάδοση του Ισλάμ. Αυτό το ψέμμα δημιουργεί τους πόλους μιας τεχνητής σύγκρουσης παγκοσμίων διαστάσεων: τους αμόρφωτους αντι-μουσουλμάνους δυτικούς μοντερνιστές και τους αγράμματους αντι-δυτικούς ψευτο-μουσουλμάνους και ψευτο-μοντερνιστές, δηλαδή δύο τεράστια σύνολα που έχουν και τα δύο απόλυτα απωλέσει την ταυτότητά τους και δει τον ‘άλλο’ μέσα από παραμορφωτικούς φακούς. Προσέξτε αυτά:
https://www.academia.edu/25491609/The_Aramaeans_rise_will_transfigure_the_Middle_Eastern_Chessboard_2005_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/25552905/Islam_the_Cultural_Aramaization_of_the_Arabs_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/25553198/Aramaeans_vs.Arabs_The_fight_between_Civilization_and_Barbarism_within_Islam-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/35195555/Modern_Arabic_the_Anglo-French_Tool_of_Islamic_Terrorism_Promotion_2006_
https://www.academia.edu/23699776/Pan-Arabism_the_inhuman_progenitor_of_Islamic_Terrorism_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/25606449/Syria_A_Non-Arabic_Aramaean_Country_Ruled_by_the_Pan-Arabist_Puppets_of_Zionism_and_Freemasonry
https://www.academia.edu/24440473/Syria_Assad_US_Turkey_and_the_Concealed_Reality_the_Aramaean_Identity_of_Syria_-_By_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
Και κυρίως:
https://www.academia.edu/24440061/Arab_Nation_Hoax_Geared_to_Falsify_Islamic_History_Ruin_Varied_Nations_disfiguratively_Named_Arab_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
Κυττάξτε λοιπόν πως ο μουσουλμάνος κ. Μεγαλομμάτης ολότελα απορρίπτει την σημερινή πολιτικοποίηση και χρήση του χετζάμπ/νικάμπ ως ποταπή υποκρισία:
https://www.academia.edu/34460297/About_the_Islamic_Veil_and_the_related_False_Dilemma_and_World_Deception
Γυμνόστηθες, αναφέρει και αποδεικνύει, κυκλοφορούσαν οι μουσουλμάνες σε θερμά κλίματα πριν από 200 χρόνια και δεν υπήρχαν ούτε βιασμοί, ούτε πανσεξισμός, ούτε πορνεία!
Και στα ελληνικά σε δημοσιευμένη απάντηση σε Κερκυραίο παλιό αναγνώστη του στο Τρίτο Μάτι που συμπτωματικά συνάντησα εγώ στο ΥΤ κι έφερα σ’ επαφή με τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη: https://www.academia.edu/34450027/ΗσημερινήκατάστασητουΙσλάμκαισεποιουςοφείλεται
Το πιο τρομερό είναι το πως κατακρίνει τους περισσότερους μουσουλμάνους για την καθημερινότητα και την ψεύτικη, επίπλαστη λατρεία τους ως υποκριτές και ως στερούμενους κάθε πνευματικότητας υλιστές. Ψεύτικο το Ραμαζάνι και αισχρά τα απερίγραπτα τσιμπούσια μετά το ηλιοβασίλεμα, τονίζει ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης.
Δεν γινόταν έτσι πριν από 1000 χρόνια το Ραμαζάνι. Δούλευαν κανονικά και νήστευαν. Σήμερα, δεν πάνε στη δουλειά τους και κοιμούνται ολημερίς για να ξυπνήσουν και να φάνε! Κι αυτή τη βρωμιά την αποκαλούν Ραμαζάνι και Ισλάμ.
Ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης πρώτα τους εγκαλεί να καταργήσουν το ψευτο-Ραμαζάνι τους και στη συνέχεια καταγγέλλει τους τυραννικούς ψευτο-μουσουλμάνους σεΐχηδες που θέλουν να σκαρτέψουν και να εκσατανίσουν όλους τους μουσουλμάνους υποχρεώνοντάς τους να υποκρίνονται και να ενεργούν έτσι όπως δεν επιθυμούν. Σε δυο συνέχειες:
https://www.academia.edu/25906093/Abolish_your_fake_Ramadhan_stupid_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
και https://www.academia.edu/26051016/Tyrannical_Ramadhan_as_part_of_Islamic_Terrorism_-_by_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
Ασουάν 2018
Όσο για την ισλαμική τρομοκρατία, διαβάστε την εκπληκτική τετραλογία για την τρομοκρατική επίθεση στις Βρυξέλλες (2016) όπου κάνει λόγο για ισλαμιστές τρομοκράτες στην Σταμπούλ του 1580! Κάτι που όλες οι αποικιοκρατικές χώρες, Γαλλία, Αγγλία κι Αμερική, γνωρίζουν πολύ καλά αλλά προσπαθούν να αποκρύψουν από τον μέσο άνθρωπο ανά τον κόσμο επειδή η γνώση της αλήθειας αυτής καταστρέφει τα απειλητικά κατά της ανθρωπότητας σχέδιά τους:
https://www.academia.edu/23602094/Brussels_Terror_Attack_Due_to_Western_Misperceptions_Part_I._By_Prof._Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis
https://www.academia.edu/23641124/Brussels_Terror_Attack_Due_to_Western_Ignorance_of_Evil_Theological_Systems_-_Part_II
https://www.academia.edu/23685704/Brussels_Terror_Attack_Due_to_Western_Ignorance_of_the_Barbaric_Darkness_of_Ibn_Taimiyas_theological_system_-_Part_III
https://www.academia.edu/23706216/Brussels_Terror_Attack_Due_to_Western_Ignorance_of_the_Turning_Point_of_Islam_from_Civilization_to_Barbarism_Part_IV
“Δεν υπάρχει καταναγκασμός στην θρησκεία” είναι το ύπατο αξίωμα του Ισλάμ, ορίζει ο κ. Μεγαλομμάτης.
Κλείνοντας την εκτενή απάντηση θα πρότεινα να ρίξετε μια ματιά σε μια παλαιότερη αναφορά μου στον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη:
Ποιος είναι ο καθ. Μουχάμαντ Σαμσαντίν Μεγαλομμάτης;
https://greeksoftheorient.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/ποιος-είναι-ο-καθ-μουχάμαντ-σαμσαντίν/
(και πλέον: https://www.academia.edu/34415843/ΠοιοςείναιοκαθΜουχάμαντΣαμσαντίνΜεγαλομμάτης_)
Και για να κατανοήσετε τις υπερβατικές έρευνες, ασκήσεις και δραστηριότητες, στις οποίες μας έχει δείξει τον δρόμο, θα πρέπει ασφαλώς να προσέξετε αυτόν τον πίνακα κεφαλαίων και οδηγό υπερβατικών αναζητήσεων:
https://www.academia.edu/34399625/ΘεματολογίαΨυχικώνΕπιστημών_-_Seminars_in_Spiritual_Exercises_Handouts_in_Greek
Για ο,τιδήποτε περισσότερο, μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε με τον κ. Μεγαλομμάτη εδώ: megalommatis@inbox.ru & mshamsaddin@inbox.ru
Έχετε υπόψει όμως ότι από μεθαύριο θα βρίσκεται στο Σουδάν και σε πολύ απόμακρες κι υπανάπτυκτες επαρχίες, οπότε η επικοινωνία θα καθυστερεί διότι οι περιοχές εκείνες είναι εκτός δικτύων τηλεπικοινωνιών και χωρίς ηλεκτρισμό.