Re: Earth Map

--- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

> AFAIK, the Eritreans are Muslims, as are Somalis
> etc, though, so far,
> of a fairly laid-back direction. BTW, couldn't you
> argue that the Horn
> of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti etc.) might be IF, too

Somalia, probably.  It's currently got large active
cells of Al-Quaeda operative.  Djibouti, definitely.  

> Certainly, their main present-day enemy is Ethiopia,
> which is PAU. Why
> should they join up with them ?

Their issues with Ethiopia today are minor and consist
of a couple miles worth of disagreement.

Eritrea has a multi-ethnic and multi-religious
population.  They are about 50% Muslims, about 40%
Christians, and a handful of animists.	They are far
more united by being Eritrean than divided by
religious issues.

Which doesn't fit into a flaming-nutcase Muslim
Islamic Federation.  

In order to get even a tiny fraction of the tribes of
Africa to get together long enough to agree on what
language to write the Union Declaration in (probably
French), the PAU would have to settle pointless idiot
tribal disagreements like an issue of 25km one way or
another of semi-arid near-wasteland.  Either that, or
there'd have to be some overwhelming threat.

John

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