How come Ethiopia is not part of the ICC?

How come Ethiopia is not a Muslim majority country?

• Being so close to the Arabian peninsula, one would imagine Islam would have spread to Ethiopia like it did in neighboring countries like Sudan or Egypt. How was Ethiopia able to remain a Christian-majority country?

• Answer:

  Basically it's because of two reasons. 1. Strong presence of Christianity. Christianity arrived in Ethiopia earlier before Prophet Mohammed was born and has already established a strong hold there. By the 4th century AD the kingdom of Aksum was a Christian nation. It's really hard to bring a new religion and oust a thriving existing one that has other Christian allies such as the Roman Empire. Besides, the Kingdom of Aksum was somewhat of a super power then, frequently compared to the Roman Empire, Persia and China. It ruled over South Arabia, though internal power struggle challenged its continued rule and lost the region at some point. So it's not easy to force something that especially is as consequential as religious conversion on it. Even during its decline around the 9th century, when it was the only time when the Muslims managed to convert a significant number people through trade and other means, Christianity has already set deep roots. It's presence is still strong today, though so is Islam's. 2. Prophet Mohammed's orders not to attack Abyssinia Other knowledgeable Muslims may correct me on this or clarify more. There is a tradition that says that due to king of Aksum's reception and protection of the Muslims that fled to Aksum during the migration to Abyssinia (Hijira), in return Prophet Mohammed ordered his followers not to attack Abyssinia. So, whatever conversions the early Muslims had to make was through peaceful means, unlike say Egypt, where there was a strong community of Coptic Christians that were subsequently outnumbered by Muslims. I believe it is likely because of this that you hardly hear any Muslim conquests done in Ethiopia, except for one case of civil war during the Medieval period between the Christian Ethiopia and the Muslim Sultanate of Adal that was subject to it. But then again, though religious lines were used to separate them, and the Portuguese and Ottoman Turks were involved as well, the character of the conflict was not similar to that of the early Muslim expansion. It was really a case of one nation trying to oust another one, more similar to the conflict between the Portuguese and Ottoman Turks.