Jabuutawi wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 2:53 pm Wacchi, show me an unbiased source where Oromos participated in the Muslim- Christian wars. Perhaps you participated on the Christian side, certainly you were known as Gallas as recently as the latter part of the 20th century and, if they were any Oromos Muslim at the time, they made no difference numerically in the wars.
Again, name a source where ‘Muslim’ Oromos were part of Ahmed Gurey’s army.
Warya porcupine man, weren’t you spokesman for Isaacs especially Sacad Musse? The condom has been discarded miyaa.
Lol at Khadra Xayd being the catalyst of my posts. Old lady (btw she is older than IOG) got nothing to do with anything.
PS: Waaqi, I will share additional proof of Afars brutality toward Gallas, stay tuned.
) got nothing to do with anything.''According to Somali tradition, he was the illegitimate offspring of a Somali woman and an Abyssinian priest [Touval 1963: 51] in Abyssinian sources.
The Oromos also claim him by citing the names of his relatives and of his birthplace [Hubata], both of which happen to be Oromo.
Still others trace him to the ''Muslim Bejas of Eritrea'' [Adam 1994: 141].
David Laitin [1977: 27] speculates that the Somali Ahmed Gurey and the historical Ahmed Gragn who led the wars against the Christians could be 2 different persons.
He goes further to conclude he was ''not a Somali himself but the leader of Somali troops'' [Laitin 1977: 53].
His troops were NOT purely Somali either since members of other socities reportedly participated in the war led by him [Touval 1963: 50]
Perhaps less controversial is the likelihood that he saw himself as a Muslim first and as Somali 2nd [if at ALL] [Laitin 1977: 53].
The same was perhaps true regarding the self-identification of the DIVERSE member sof his armies.''
[The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
Book by Leenco Lata
Chapter 6: Resonance of Conflicts in the Horn of Africa]
''In 1539 appears Gragn. He is a native of the Harar region, which at that time already belonged to Oromos who had adopted Islam. [we are the majority there, to this very day kind sir].
On the one hand, using the Oromo's desire to occupy Abyssinian lands and on the other hand raising the banner of the Prophet among the Muslim population of the coastal zone and declaring ''holy war,'' Gran invaded Abyssinia, burnign and destroying monasteries and churches.
At first, the Oromos attacked Shoa and the provinces of Menjar and Ankober.
But then, while the Arsi Oromos independently waged war against the tribes of southern Ethiopia, gradually ejecting them and occupying their places, Gran, inspired by the idea of Islam, made his way to North and Central Abyssinia, to the cultural and religious center of the empire, and destroyed Axum.
In 1545, Gran was killed in Damby, at Lake Tana. With his death, the Oromo invasion lost its significance as a religious war.
The Oromo-Muslims who came with him occupied the best land in the province of Wollo.
In the south, too, and in the west, the Arsi Oromos continued to gradually oust the indigenous inhabitants of these lands- Amhara and Sidamo: the first to the north beyond Abbay, the 2nd to the south to the mountains of Kaffa.''
[Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition 1896-1898
By Alexander Bulatovich
Section 2]
From the same book:
''According to the unanimous traditions of the Abyssinians, Oromos and people of Harar, Ahmad Gran was born close to Harar and was an OROMO.
The indication in history that he was king of Adal [the inhabitants of Aussa on the coast of the Gulf of Tajura, located to the north from the Somalis, are called Adalis and Somalis, and they, for a certainty, helped him in his campaigns.
But the main part of his armies were OROMOS.
This is demonstrated by the fact that ALL the conquered Abyssinian lands were settled by none other than the Oromos- Oromos of Wallo/Wollo, Borana, and Tuulama.
In the ranks of his armies were janissaries, Turkish riflemen and artillery, who were sent to him at his request after the defeat inflicted on him by the Portuguese.
I give very little credence to the indication that the Adalis were armed with guns, since if in the last expedition of the Adalis to Aussa, instead of using Rozdan or Italian guns, they preferred to hang them on trees, then, I think all the more that, at that time, they were not capable of operating fire-arms.''
[Section 2]
Let's also look at the Wollo Oromos, who were surrounded by Christian Abyssinian foes, and their resistance to Abyssinia [written by a Somali scholar!]:
''Shortly after his coronation in 1855, Tewodros of Abyssinia marched to Wallo and fought against 3 rival Oromo leaders, killing one, capturing the 2nd, and defeating the third.
For the next ten years, Tewodros marched several times in Wallo, devastating, burning, looting, and massacring the people.
Violent terrorism characterized his campaigns in Wallo.
And yet Tewodros was never able to crush the resistance of the Muslim population in Wallo.
The reasons for the tenacious Muslim resistance were:
Firstly, Tewodros's policy of indiscriminate devastation and destruction of the land and the deportation of some of the people; and secondly, his clearly anti Muslim and even anti Oromo, stance.
The leaders of the rebellion perceived Tewodros' objectives and activities as being directed not only to destroying them as a ruling class, but also to undermining the social, economic and cultural foundation of the Muslim communities themselves.
Encouraged by European Protestant missionary support, intoxicated by his ravenous ambition to destory Islam and the Oromo power, and surprised by the tenacious Muslim resistance, Tewodros spent more than 10 years destroying Wallo, by which he too was destroyed.
The Muslims of Wallo, united by danger and animated by Islam, resisted Tewodros bravely before he was overwhelmed by crisis and destroyed.
Hence,
as far as his stated aim of forcing Muslim Oromos into either accepting Christianity or leaving his kingdom, he utterly failed.
He, not they, gave in. It is not an exaggeration to say that Tewodros committed suicide in 1868, not only because he hated to fall into British hands as a captive kind, but also because he was already virtually an Oromo prisoner in the mountain fortress of Magdala.
Escape was well neigh impossible.''
[In the Shadow of Conquest: Islam in Colonial Northeast Africa
edited by Said S. Samatar, pages 88-90]
