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Minister is upsetting a large number of Muslims through the excesses of his
campaign against Wahhabism.
May 25, 2012
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There is a risk of strong tension throughout the country as worshipers leave
the mosques on 11 May. There could be demonstrations, comparable with the
one in Addis Ababa on 4 May which gathered a crowd of several thousand. This
movement is protesting against the government's Ahbashism campaign that uses
Lebanese Muslim clerics to fight against Ethiopian preachers considered too
close to Wahhabism (
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http://www.africaintelligence.com/ION/politics-power/2012/03/24/meles-zenaw
i-takes-on-wahhabism,99998920-ART> ION 1329). However, these reactions were
fuelled by the brutal repression, resulting in deaths, of other
demonstrations last week in the town of Assasa.
The government, for its part, is arguing that it is only campaigning against
preachers who have links to the
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http://www.africaintelligence.com/search/search.aspx?keywords=al> al
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http://www.africaintelligence.com/search/search.aspx?keywords=Qaeda> Qaeda
terrorist movement. On 4 May it expelled two of them from Arab countries who
were allegedly calling for jihad in front of the Anwar grand mosque in Addis
Ababa. Many Muslims place little credence on this story, which is too
convenient for the government, looking much as if it has been devised
specifically to
<
http://www.africaintelligence.com/article/read_article.aspx?vsenvid=ION&doc
_i_id=101805508&service=GRA&Context=PUS&shorturl=/ION/politics-power/2012/05
/12/meles-upsets-the-muslims,101805508-GRA> confirm the administration's
line. In the run up to May 11, the State media portrayed future
demonstrations as actions manipulated by the opposition.
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