Echoing Robert Spencer’s excellent FP piece from last September, Nicholas D. Kristof writes in the New Duranty Times: All countries have rapes, of course. But here in the refugee shantytowns of Darfur, the horrific stories that young women whisper are not of random criminality but of a systematic campaign of rape to terrorize civilians and […]
Bush Administration Allied With Sudan Despite Role in Darfur Genocide
From Democracy Now, with thanks to Giaour: The Los Angeles Times has revealed that the U.S. has quietly forged a close intelligence partnership with Sudan despite the government’s role in the mass killings in Darfur. We speak with Ken Silverstein, the reporter who broke the story, Salih Booker, the director of Africa Action as well […]
UN Human Rights Commission finally approves watered down resolution condemning abuses in Sudan
From AP: GENEVA – The UN Human Rights Commission on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning abuses in Sudan, passing by consensus compromise wording on how to improve the situation in the embattled Darfur region. The resolution had support from Sudan and other African nations, the United States, the European Union and others. It was approved […]
Sudanese Sermons: Rabbis are Fighting with the U.S. Army in Fallujah; The Jews are Like Malaria
Traditional Islam regards Jews and Christians not with the respect due to the People of the Book, but as renegades from the true faith who deserve contempt — and also fear, because they are crafty devils. They must “feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29) as dhimmis in part because they will be, as has been noted […]
IRD’s Church Alliance for a New Sudan Commends Extraordinary Act of Forgiveness
A New Release from The Institute on Religion and Democracy: November 30, 2004 Contact: Faith J. H. McDonnell 202.969.8430 Sudan Council of Churches USA Sends Team to Minister to Darfurian Refugees: IRD’s Church Alliance for a New Sudan Commends Extraordinary Act of Forgiveness Until current peace talks brought a ceasefire, black African Muslims of Darfur […]
Sudanese rebels demand Islam be kept out of Darfur
Just yesterday I came across a Muslim writer (as part of a an attack on this site that was long on rhetoric but short on facts) asserting that the conflict in Darfur has nothing to do with jihad, but is ethnic — despite clear statements from Khartoum indicating otherwise. And now this: secularism must not […]
Less pressure on Sudan despite new Darfur attacks
Why should this be surprising? If the UN can employ Hamas jihadists, why should it go up against jihadists in Darfur? From afrol News, with thanks to Ali Dashti: 6 October – The UN reports that “Sudan has failed to disarm militias or prevent more attacks in Darfur.” Despite this “lack of progress”, the UN […]
Syria tested chemical arms on civilians in Darfur region
Sinister news with extraordinary implications. From AFP, with thanks to Andy: BERLIN : Syria tested chemical weapons on civilians in Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region in June and killed dozens of people. The German daily Die Welt newspaper, in an advance release of its Wednesday edition, citing unnamed western security sources, said that injuries apparently […]
Qaradawi says that international aid agencies in Sudan are conspiring against Muslims
This is, yes, the same Qaradawi who praised suicide bombers in London recently, earning a return invitation. He’s also the one John Esposito praises as a moderate reformer. From AFP, with thanks to Ali Dashti: During a sermon Friday, Qaradawi accused international aid agencies operating in Darfur of using relief distribution to convert the region’s […]
Sudan: Janjaweed vow to fight any intervention by ‘infidels’
In the world of John Esposito and Karen Armstrong, no intervention by “infidels” would be necessary: Islamic states would be ready to clean up the mess in Sudan in the name of the peace and tolerance taught by Islam. So stories like this one show that the world of John Esposito and Karen Armstrong is […]