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Eritrean Muslim people have enough scholars of their own who do such a great job. They are from them, speak the same language, have the same culture, the same history etc. They are the best for their people.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Aselamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa barakatuhu,

The Muslims of Eritrea have been oppressed for many decades, first under the rule of Christian Orthodox king Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (also known as Habasha حبشة) then under the communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, now under the Orthodox Marxist President Isaias Afewerki. This dictator of Eritrea has jailed hundreds of islamic scholars and marginalized the Muslim populations that inhabit the lowland areas of Eritrea. Muslim Eritrean youths are forced to join the military at age 18 and stay forcefully conscripted and doing hard labor for military generals until about age 60. Muslim Eritrean women are not allowed to wear hijab in the military and all muslims are forbidden from prayer, punishable by jail & sometimes even death. Majority of the Muslims flee the country because they want to keep their deen, and hundreds of thousands of us are languishing in refugee camps in Eastern Sudan, Ethiopia, and even Egypt.

This terrorist government jails people with impunity because the minority Tigrinya tribe full of Orthodox Christians fear the day the Muslim majority take power, so they support their government with all they can, financially, physically, militarily, etc. The highest echelons of the ruling party of Eritrea (the PFDJ - people's front for democracy and justice) are all Orthodox Tewahedo Christians (similar to the copts of egypt). The PFDJ led by brutal dictator Isaias Afewerki has implemented many abuse and hardship on the muslims of Eritrea, very similar to Bashar Al Assad and the Alawites of Syria. for example:


Eritrean Government Arrests Muslim Teachers, Students
Awate - Gedab News
By Gedab News - Aug 13, 2009
About 30 religious Eritrean Muslims, including teachers and students, were rounded up last week from Asmara by government security officers. They have not been charged with any crimes, and their whereabouts are not known.


Included in the group is Shaikh Abdella, a man in his 70s, who is a graduate of the Al Azhar University in Cairo. He used to provide regular afternoon derse (short Islamic lectures) at the Masjid Khulafa Al Rashidin, (Asmara’s Grand Mosque) after the Asr prayers, until such lessons were banned by the Eritrean government in 2002.

The arrest may be related to an intra-Muslim feud that has been going on in the Mai-chehot neighborhood of Asmara between the traiditional (Suffi) practitioners of Islam and the more strict (Selefi) proponents. Their differences had become so irreconcilable that the Selefists had splintered and founded their own mosque.

A key figure in the co-ordination of the wave of arrests is claimed to be the deputy Mufti, Salem Ibrahim Al-Mukhtar. Ironcially, when Eritrea’s Muslim elders petitioned the government to name Salem Ibrahim as a successor to the current Mufti, Alamin Osman, they had hoped that he would show the wisdom, independence, compassion and great courage that his father, Ibrahim Al-Mukhtar Ahmed Omer (bio), showed as Eritrea’s first Mufti (1939 – 1969), making him one of Eritrea’s most revered Muslims. However, thus far, Salem has been earning a reputation as an enforcer of PFDJ’s unpopular policies.