Qinijit has died and gone to heaven!?
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But has now made a come-back as a spirit!
Following is a funny article on the claim of Qinijit's spiritual status.
Maybe the Catholic chruch should canonize the organization as saintly in the year 2020.
__________________________________By: Mulugeta Aserate Kassa3rd, January 2006.
If Kinijit is a Spirit, then Ethiopia is a bon-fire waiting to happen.
When I first read the extraordinary claim by the paleo-consrvative, not to say ultra-right CUD leadership, that the Coalition of Unity and Democracy has morphed itself into “a spirit,” I just brushed it aside as one of the never-ending gaffes of Kinijit. But now its Diaspora ‘satellites’ have started echoing similar sentiments, I thought it proper to mug it before it strikes again at the minds and hearts of gullible Ethiopians. Mind you, not only are the cemeteries of Addis Ababa full of men and women who had thought that Ethiopia would die the moment their heart-beat stopped, but still alive and kicking are those who vividly remember our political masters of yesteryears making claims to divinity. So what’s wrong with the CUD claiming to be a spirit may sound a plausible argument under the circumstances. But when a supposedly literati-studded party like Kinijit unashamedly claims to be a spirit at the dawn of the 21st century, it is sinful to stand and stare while this spirit of hate and division is attempting to make its presence felt among hyphenated Ethiopians around the world.
The best place to deal with a spirit is none other than the Scriptures where copious readings are available in order to ward us off from harmful spirits. In one of his pastoral letters, the apostle John – who is also the author of the Gospel of John – admonishes us to test the spirits when he said: “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”(NIV) By Jove, do we need to test the spirit of Kinijit!
The Germans who had borne the brunt of Nazi brutality during the Second World War have come up with the word Shadenfreude to describe the unappetizing act of getting pleasure in the misfortunes or embarrassment of others. So, those who insist that Kinijit is a spirit have to come to terms with the naked truth that it is ‘the spirit Shadenfreude.’ How else do you explain the spirit that prompts you to hate a man simply because you don’t happen to like his ethnic back-ground? What kind of spirit urges you to avoid Mr A because Mr A happens to support a party of his choice? How else do you explain the spirit that nudges you to send money to the unemployed of Addis so that he/she would sacrifice their life and limb in a street riot, only to see you secure a position of authority in a government formed by violent, rather than non-violent means? How else can you describe the spirit that made you jump on your feet in London at media reports of the withdrawal of EU aid to unfortunate Ethiopians when, you are, in fact, a beneficiary of the British welfare system yourself? That must be the irony of all ironies! What name do you give to the spirit that glues you to the Eritrean Television at a time when that State is in a state of belligerency not with Meles per se but with your brothers and sisters back home? What kind of a spirit anaesthetized you enough so that you were able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Shabea – who once described gallant Amharas as “Hadgi” (asinine) – outside 10 Downing Street in mid-December 2005?
That is why I staunchly believe that (a) it is incredulous for a party to regard itself as a spirit, and (b) even if its gung-ho and smear-aholic supporters in the Diaspora insists that Kinijit is a spirit, then Ethiopia is a bon-fire waiting to happen.
But has now made a come-back as a spirit!
Following is a funny article on the claim of Qinijit's spiritual status.
Maybe the Catholic chruch should canonize the organization as saintly in the year 2020.
__________________________________By: Mulugeta Aserate Kassa3rd, January 2006.
If Kinijit is a Spirit, then Ethiopia is a bon-fire waiting to happen.
When I first read the extraordinary claim by the paleo-consrvative, not to say ultra-right CUD leadership, that the Coalition of Unity and Democracy has morphed itself into “a spirit,” I just brushed it aside as one of the never-ending gaffes of Kinijit. But now its Diaspora ‘satellites’ have started echoing similar sentiments, I thought it proper to mug it before it strikes again at the minds and hearts of gullible Ethiopians. Mind you, not only are the cemeteries of Addis Ababa full of men and women who had thought that Ethiopia would die the moment their heart-beat stopped, but still alive and kicking are those who vividly remember our political masters of yesteryears making claims to divinity. So what’s wrong with the CUD claiming to be a spirit may sound a plausible argument under the circumstances. But when a supposedly literati-studded party like Kinijit unashamedly claims to be a spirit at the dawn of the 21st century, it is sinful to stand and stare while this spirit of hate and division is attempting to make its presence felt among hyphenated Ethiopians around the world.
The best place to deal with a spirit is none other than the Scriptures where copious readings are available in order to ward us off from harmful spirits. In one of his pastoral letters, the apostle John – who is also the author of the Gospel of John – admonishes us to test the spirits when he said: “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”(NIV) By Jove, do we need to test the spirit of Kinijit!
The Germans who had borne the brunt of Nazi brutality during the Second World War have come up with the word Shadenfreude to describe the unappetizing act of getting pleasure in the misfortunes or embarrassment of others. So, those who insist that Kinijit is a spirit have to come to terms with the naked truth that it is ‘the spirit Shadenfreude.’ How else do you explain the spirit that prompts you to hate a man simply because you don’t happen to like his ethnic back-ground? What kind of spirit urges you to avoid Mr A because Mr A happens to support a party of his choice? How else do you explain the spirit that nudges you to send money to the unemployed of Addis so that he/she would sacrifice their life and limb in a street riot, only to see you secure a position of authority in a government formed by violent, rather than non-violent means? How else can you describe the spirit that made you jump on your feet in London at media reports of the withdrawal of EU aid to unfortunate Ethiopians when, you are, in fact, a beneficiary of the British welfare system yourself? That must be the irony of all ironies! What name do you give to the spirit that glues you to the Eritrean Television at a time when that State is in a state of belligerency not with Meles per se but with your brothers and sisters back home? What kind of a spirit anaesthetized you enough so that you were able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Shabea – who once described gallant Amharas as “Hadgi” (asinine) – outside 10 Downing Street in mid-December 2005?
That is why I staunchly believe that (a) it is incredulous for a party to regard itself as a spirit, and (b) even if its gung-ho and smear-aholic supporters in the Diaspora insists that Kinijit is a spirit, then Ethiopia is a bon-fire waiting to happen.
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