Al-Bawaba reports (with thanks to "Allah") that Nelson Mandela has just wrapped up a state visit to the Wahhabi kingdom:
Former South African President Nelson Mandela left the Saudi capital of Riyadh Wednesday, according to SPA news agency.At the King Khaled International Airport, he was seen off by the kingdom's Minister of Health Dr. Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Manei and South Africa's ambassador to the Kingdom Abdul-Hameed Khabir, the agency added.
I trust that while he was there he rocked the House of Saud with his trademark eloquent, ringing denunciations of injustice and inequality of rights among peoples. He probably took them apart for their religious discrimination (chiefly against Jews and Christians), slavery, and much more.
What's that? He didn't say a word about any of that? Hmm. Why not, Nelson?
Mandela is a good house slave for the Leftists and Islamists.
"He didn't say a word about any of that? Hmm. Why not, Nelson?"
Well gee..., even Ray Charles can see the reason for that. Mandela is a racist and a socialist; hating the Jewish peoples, whites and anything that's not socialist leaning. A more accurate question would be: Since when has hatred exercised mercy or compassion?
Mandela cozies up to the Wahabbis because Islam has a long history in Africa. Many Africans identify with Islam because many see Christianity as the religion of oppression. Perhaps he thinks that racial solidarity will protect them. They are going to be rudely awakened as this virulent, radical strain supplants the kind that is in most African countries.
The base of Mandela's ideology is communism. He and the ANC have been thicker than hammer and sickle. Mandela is among the least admirable of living humans. Even communists did not like apartheid. They don't want to get rid of the plantation. They just want to change ownership.
Even Nicholas Kristof seems to understand that there is something unpleasant going on in the Sudan, though the ideology of Islam seems not to have entered his head. But "there is not a black left alive in Darfur" was the comment (not verbatim) in his column today. Since Darfur is in the west, and the Arabs of the north have now opened a new area for genocide, perhaps this is the time for Black Africans to begin to speak up a bit more about Islam, and its effects, over a long period, on the people of sub-Saharan Africa. One doubts that Nelson Mandela will be among them; it will be interesting to see how he is greeted, by all the wrong people, and shunned by all the right ones, in Teheran.
Somebody please correct me if I am wrong. Was not Mandela put in prison in the first place--and I do not in any way intend to endorce apartheid-- for planting bombs to disrupt the government of South Africa?