Though poverty is mentioned several times in the article, an official notes that "the terrorism problem shows up differently in North and Western Africa in comparison with other parts of the world. In the Sahel, for instance, extremists are not always the poorest of the poor, but rather — as is the case in northern Nigeria — educated young people..."
"Al-Qaida's new African alliance watched," by Katherine Shrader for the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON - U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.
[...]
One senior U.S. intelligence official said the new al-Qaida-focused GSPC is more dangerous than its predecessor because its links to bin Laden boosted morale and its new focus on government buildings and suicide attacks is a shift in targeting.
"We should be worried about it. It hasn't really blossomed yet," the official said.
While the group probably could not attack the U.S. homeland yet, the official said, it could attack U.S. targets in North Africa such as embassies, tourists and people on business.
The U.S. focus on the group comes as the Bush administration finalizes plans to create a new military command in Africa, called AFRICOM. The continent now falls under the direction of three different military commands.
Officials from the Defense and State departments toured six Africa countries in April, trying to ease concerns about feared increases in U.S. troops and resources. Pentagon officials say the new command does not mean a dramatic boost in either. A recent Congressional Research Service report found that the command raises questions for Congress, including how to ensure that military activities do not overshadow U.S. diplomatic efforts.
[...]
U.S. officials say GPSC support cells have been dismantled in Spain, Italy, Morocco, and Mali, and the group maintains training camps across the Sahel grasslands.
After linking up with al-Qaida, the group carried out a suicide bombing in Algiers last month targeting a high-profile Government Palace and a police station. Thirty-three people died in the first suicide attacks in Algeria in a decade. The group has promised to target non-Muslim foreigners who it deems to have exploited Muslim lands — specifically diplomats, business people and tourists in North Africa.
[...]
Analysts do not yet consider North and Western Africa a safe haven for terrorists in the way Afghanistan was under Taliban rule.
In a recent examination of current and future safe havens, not discussed publicly before, counterterrorism officials concluded that al-Qaida's main organization does not have many options outside of the Afghan-Pakistani border region. It is unlikely to lose that base soon, the senior U.S. intelligence official said.
[...]
While the region lacks population, accessibility and hospitable living conditions, officials said the area still makes sense as an al-Qaida location in the Islamic Maghreb because of its porous borders, lax government oversight, poverty and political unrest.
Officials say such concerns are complicated by other factors, including:
- Money from Persian Gulf and Middle East. U.S. officials say private Saudi donors have funneled money to Sunni Muslim schools and mosques in the region. But one intelligence official noted much of the money is intended to counter the influence of Iran, which also funds Shiite interests in the region.
- A sizable population of potentially impressionable young people. West Africa is roughly half Muslim, with higher concentrations in the Sahel. With its extensive links to the Middle East, the region is fertile ground for radical ideas.
- Areas of instability. Morocco and Algerian-backed Polisario Front rebels have disputed desert lands of the largely Muslim Western Sahara for decades, forcing 100,000 people into refugee camps in Algeria. In Nigeria, which has a large Muslim population in the north, elections last month have been largely discredited. The issue has been overlooked greatly, even though the country is Africa's largest oil producer and is on the brink of becoming a failed state, especially in its southern Delta region, the official added.
This official noted that the terrorism problem shows up differently in North and Western Africa in comparison with other parts of the world.
In the Sahel, for instance, extremists are not always the poorest of the poor, but rather — as is the case in northern Nigeria — educated young people, the official said.
And, of course, they're not all al-Qaeda, either.
Rep. Jane Harman, who as a member of the House Homeland Security Committee has traveled often to Africa, said she once thought North Africa was a fragile place from which extremists could threaten Europe. Harman, D-Calif., said she now thinks it could be a staging ground for attacks worldwide.
For years, she said, Africa got too little attention. "I think we have underestimated the capabilities of al-Qaida to get a beachhead there," Harman said.
According to mr bono, and other liberal elites, we are not giving enough of our hard earned tax money to corrupt African nations. oops sorry they never say corrupt, its just those poor African countries, you know like Zimbawae that use to feed the Africans, and now is a nation with their hands out for money since they kicked out their productive farmers.. yeah they were the bad white farmers. but they are now gone, and their country is starving.
only money going to these countries need strings attached with democractic goals makers to be followed.
Note the part about Saudi and Iranian funds supporting radical forces. Once again, the oil money fuels the Global Jihad. Let's shut it down once and for all!
Zena...lets give them some green houses to.
Today the minaret was capped on the Boston mosque, amid the cries of 2,000 voices screaming in the middle of Boston "Allahu Akbar" and women ulutating, and the sense of triumph, of the establishment of a Beachhead in Boston for Islam was palpable. Yet Mayor Menino, who originally hailed the building of this Fort Islam -- for that is how it should intelligently be regarded --as spreading "diversity" when what it helps to spread is an ideology that despises true diversity, will take advantage of for the moment but if it were ever to dominate would put an end to genuine pluralism. For as the Shari'a demands (see Antoine Fattal, "Le status legal des non-musulmanes en pays d'Islam"; see the books on the dhimmi states by Bat Ye'or; see the works of a hundred Western scholars of Islam, c. 1870-1960), non-Muslims may be permitted to live, and even practice their religion, but they are necessarily to be subject to a regime that requires the payment of protection money (the "Jizyah"), and subject to a host of financial, legal, and social disabilitites that together add up to a status of permanent humiliation, degradation, and physical insecurity. The textual sources in Qur'an, Hadith, and sira, from which the Shari'a was derived by the jurisconsults, are clear. The 1350-year history of islam, from Spain to the East Indies, shows the same treatment of non-Muslims, and indeed those who were not "ahl al-kitab" (people of the Book), that is not fellow monotheists, were subject -- see what happened to the Hindus -- to mass murder on an industrial scale, in a pre-industrial world.
In the 19th and early 20th century, Western power and pressure attempted to force, with some mild success, to get the Ottoman rulers to treat non-Muslim subjects better, even with legal equaliuty. It went against the grain, and not only did many officials not carry out the so-called "reforms" as they pertained to non-Muslims, but the reaction of Muslims often led to massacres -- of the Maronites in Damascus in 1860, of the Armenians in 1894-1895, and again, on a much larger scale, beginning in 1915.
Some local Christians tried to lie low, and quite afew Arab Christians tried to fit in however they could with the always-menacing Muslims. Ba'athism begins partly in the dream of Michel Aflaq, a Christian from Damascus, to concoct out of European models (Fascism, Communism) an ideology which, with a heavy base of "Arabness," would be open to Christians as well as to "secular" Muslims --- a word with a sliding scale of meanings, but essentially signalling doubts about the wisdom of the full application of the Shari'a and even unexpressed doubts about the complete relevance of Islam to a modern state.
Aflaq's "Ba'athism" came to dominate only two countries, and for two similar reasons. The first was Syria, with a large Christian population, and with a powerful military caste, the Alawites, who were not regarded as orthodox Muslims, were indeed disliked by orthodox Muslims for the obvious elements of syncretism in their worship (go to an Alawite village and see the pictures of Mary everywhere), Alawites who had been miserable under the Turkish rule but under that of the French formed part of the Troupes speciales, and were trained to fight, and when the French left, the Alawites remained in the army, and the air force (Hafez al-Assad) and gradually took over, in the way that people or groups always take over in the Muslim Middle East -- through the application, or threat, of military force. In Syria Ba'athism disguises, is the facade, for the rule by the Alawites.
In Iraq, Ba'athism took a different turn. There, the Sunnis knew that they were numerically far inferior to the Shi'a, but they were put in control of modern Iraq, by the British, and never lost their grip.
The Hashemite king, Feisal a Sunni, was put in control of Iraq, and aided throughout the 1920s by British troops, and such British civilians as the celebrated Gertrude Bell, until finally, the expense of suppressing the tribes, and the obvious hopelessness of it all, caused the British to leave. It was Winston Churchill who described Mesopotamia (Iraq) as an "ungrateful volcano." And when the British left, the local Arabs solemnly promised not to harm the local Christians, and five months after the last British troops pulled out, Muslim Arabs killed up to 100,000 largely helpless Assyrians. (William Saroyan wrote a book about it).
[When the British placed Feisal on the throne of Iraq they also placed his younger brother, Abdullah, on the lesser thorne -- an "emirate" not a "kingdom" -- of Transjordan. Transjordan itself was carved from Eastern Palestine. 1921 Great Britian, that had been assigned the Mandate for Palestine, shocking the League of Nations' Mandates Commission, unilaterally closed off Eastern Palestine to the express provisions of the Mandate about facilitating Jewish immigration and settlement, and thus was Abdullah's desire for his own place to rule satisfied. And the Mandates Commission could, as far as the British were concerned, simply scream all it wanted).
Saddam Hussein used the Ba'ath party, as did other Sunnis before him, to make the rule by Sunni Arabs, over Shi'a Arabs (and the Shi'a not only outbred the Sunnis, but some of the formerly Sunni tribes became Shi'a as well -- the Shi'a, apparently, proved good at proselytizing, which no doubt explains some of the worries of Sunnis outside Iraq today) and over non-Arab Kurds, more palatable. All "were welcome" into the Ba'ath Party -- so "secular" Shi'a, Kurds willing to play ball, and even some Christians (Tariq Aziz), could join the Party, thus expressing their loyalty or, more accurately, expressing their willingness to acquisce, in Sunni Arab rule disguised with the facade of Ba'athism.
And now, in Iraq, the Sunni despot, and the facade of Ba'athism, are gone. All sides think they can win. Al Qaeda thinks it can win. The Sunni "patriots" who at the moment are also at odds with Al Qaeda think they can win, despite constituting less than 20% of the population.
Some American officers -- not all, but some -- have placed exaggerated hope in some kind of permanent "alliance" with the Sunni tribs against Al Qaeda. But they are mistaking the temporary disaffection, and the need of the Sunni tribes to have American weaponry and support, for some kind of desire, on the part of those Sunni tribes, to embrace the vision for Iraq that the Americans have. They may now be fighting Al Qaeda, but just like another Sunni group, this one not in Anbar Province but in Baghdad itself, that fought with Al Qaeda and has now made up, the loyalties of the tribes are in the end to fellow Sunni Muslims and, in the long run, must always be given to fellow Muslims as opposed to Infidels, especially American Infidels. to fellow Muslims, and never conceivably, for all to American Infidels. The wary private or sergeant who has learned this from fighting in Iraq understands this better than "counterinsurgency expert" Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, with his bright summations ("It's all about this" and "It's all about that..." is a favorite way of speaking), and his little-lawrence-of-arabia routine ("I know these people. I know what moves them. I know their local complaints, their local grievances. I know we can 'disaggregate' here and there and everywhere, because in the end all politics is local." No, Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, in the end it isn't all local. In the end, as a doubly-totalitarian system, making claims to the whole world, and making claims to regulate every area of life, Islam matters to Believers, fashions their world-view, divides that world for them into Believers and Infidels, in a way your doctorate in anthropology and experiences in Indonesia and desire to derive "general rules" of counterinsurgency have ill-prepared you).
So here we are in Africa. What "surprises" American officials should never have surprised them, had they understood the power of Islam, the power of those who spread Islam, and when you spread the idea of Islam, when you flip someone's loyalty so that one day he is loyal to the nation-state of Infidels, and the next day is loyal, not to a different state, but to Islam and to the umma al-islamiyya, you have not merely lost a potential defender against Islam, but have seen him enrolled, under your very eyes, by recruiters for the Army of Islam. And these recruiters are clever, and numerous, and of course well-financed.
Everywhere Muslims spreading Islam are careful to present it as the vehicle for whatever grievance the potential local converts may have. If it is black prisoners in the United States, then Islam is presented as the vehicle both of "social justice" (see how Muslim ruling classes everywhere seize the national wealth, see how the poor are treated in Muslim countries), and against "racism.” And the Infidels do little or nothing. Have you seen any campaigns of deliberate counter-Da’wa anywhere in the prisons or elsewhere? It would be easy to show, and to keep showing, perhaps by organizing the “Lost Boys” of the Sudan, that anti-black racism, of the purest and most virulent kind, is found among the Arabs. Anyone who has studied in an Arab country returns amazed at what is said, and not a few are shaken. Anyone who looks into the history of African slavery soon discovers that the Arab slave trade began earlier, and ended later, than that of the Europeans – or rather, ended formally later, but actually continues, in several countries, to this day. Why is this not screamed from every housetop? Why have the countries of the advanced world, that have poured $400 billion into aid to black Africa, not tried to halt the spread of the most retrograde force, a force which encourages the habit of mental submission, and which, in its inshallah-fatalism, is in fact fatal to economic development,not tried to stop the spread of Islam? If they have the wellbeing of black Africans at heart, they must begin to understand, and to share their understanding, that Islam has been, is, and always will be, a force that hinders, with that inishallah-fatalism and that habit of mental submission, any possibility of either economic or intellectual development.
The evidence is there. What sustained the Musoims for centuries, at a low level, was simply the acculated intellectual capital of those peoples whom they conquered, and slowly leached of life, and of property as well. Now North Africa and the Middle East are virtually without the non-Muslims who once provided a certain supply of Jizyah, and what sustains the Arabs and Muslims are two things, and only two things; the new disguised Jizyah of Western foreign aid (which should be ended, and used to meet the new expenses of monitoring Muslim populations in the West), and the manna of oil wealth, entirely undeserved, and the only conceivable way that the Arabs and Muslims might acquire great wealth – through an accident of geology. Are the peoples of black Africa misled into thinking that they, too, somehow share in that wealth?
There was a very large and intelligent, because it focused on small-scale, doable projects, aid effort by Israel in black Africa. It was the most successful of all such foreign aid efforts. It was widespread. It was widely welcomed. But it came to an end, after the Six-Day War, under Arab pressure, and bribery – the same bribery that caused several dozen African states, under Arab command, to break diplomatic relations with Israel. Some of those African states no doubt thought that the Arabs would share just a little of that vast unearned wealth – if only to replace what Israel, a tiny country, had so remarkably provided. It was not to be. It will never be. The Arabs are trying in Africa to dominate the Continent. They are patient. They are methodical. In West Africa, where Islam is already dominate, as in uranium-rich Niger, they have transformed the easygoing, syncretistic practice of Islam to something much more akin to what can be seen in Saudi Arabia. And everywhere mosques are becoming subject to the strictures of those who pay for them, or pay the imams – and that usually means the Saudis. In some countries that once had a clear Christian majority, such as the Ivory Coast, the Christians are feeling besieged by Muslims who come in from the north, and the French government under Chirac supported not the local black Christians, and understood their fear, but rather attempted to appease the world’s Muslims.
In East Africa, when the black Africans rose up against their Arab masters in Zanzibar and Pemba some decades ago (the slave trade by the Arabs in East Africa had been centered there – indeed, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman had for a time ruled directly from Zanzibar), little was made of this in the West. No one discussed the long history of the Arab slave trade, with its practice of castrating black children when they were first caught, and then taking them by slave coffle or dhow to the slave markets of Islam, a trip which about 10% survived (see “The Hideous Trade” by Jan Hogedorn). And so the Arabs have continued their march southward. The Sudan had very few Arabs in the southern part one hundred years ago. But steadily they have taken territory, pushed back, killed, black Africans. 1.8 million non-Muslim blacks were killed, or deliberately starved to death, in the southern Sudan in the last two decades. Not content with that, not content with having seized complete control of the oil wealth that lies under the Christian and animist areas of the artificial state of Sudan, the Arabs are now trying to seize, by mass murder, the lands as well of the Muslim, but non-“Arab” blacks of Darfur. The campaign of mass rape, destruction of property, and killing of every man, woman and child they can get their hands on has been reported and reported, and reported. It has been reported without any understanding of Islam as a vehicle for Arab supremacism (the nicholas-kristofs of this world do not bother to figure out what is going on, what ideology prompts the Janjaweed and the Sudanese government that supports it, or the other Arab and Muslim governments that run interference for that Sudanese government), but are content with endless columns of easy anguish.
Egypt supports the Sudanese, while pretending not to, and so does the Arab League which welcomes the reduction, in the southern Sudan and from Darfu,r of non-Arabs and non-Muslims to a state of hopelessness and surrender, where they continue to live at all. For Egypt and the Arabs have their eyes not merely on the Sudan, but on Ethiopia, the famous Christian kingdom, now rapidly becoming Islamized. Egypt has no intention of letting the Christian govnerment of Ethiopia help its own people by, at long last, diverting some of the headwaters of the Nile for irrigation. The Egyptians think the Nile belongs, from its very source onward, to them and only to them. The water wars have been declared –but only by the Arab side.
Americans and other Infidel peoples should be supporting Ethiopian efforts to halt the spread of Islam, or of the purest kind of Islam, whether in Somalia or in Ethiopia itself, and to remain a Christian kingdom that can help prevent the takeover of southern East Africa by Islam. Muslims owe their loyalty to the umma al-islmamiyya, to fellow Muslims. It would make sense, in Africa, for the Americans not only to have handfuls of advisors and troops here and there, but to engage in propaganda. This propaganda, which happens to be the truth simply megaphoned to make a point, should describe in vivid detail the history of the Arab slave trade. It should explain to Africans that slavery is permanently sanctioned by both Qur’an and Sunnah, and can therefore never, within Islam, be banished. It should detail the continuing racism of the Arabs. And it should show how Islam stands in the way of economic and other kinds of development in two ways: in the encouragement of the habit of mental submission, central to Islam, and in the inshallah-fatalism that limits economic activity, and has relied on two kinds of manna: the Jizyah that is demanded from, or voluntarily supplied by, non-Muslims, and the oil wealth that has resulted from an accident of geology. And despite the ten trillion dollars that the Arab and Muslim states have received from oil revenues since 1973, not a single one has managed to create a real economy, not a single one has ceased to be hopelessly dependent on oil.
Islam, as it spreads, will merely guarantee that the countries and peoples of sub-Saharan Africa will be forced to endure the political, economic, social, moral, and intellectual failures of Muslim states and societies – failures whose source can be found in Islam itself.
Do we wish black Africa well, or ill? If we do wish to help the peoples of black Africa, preventing or halting the spread of Islam makes sense. And it makes sense, for us, in other ways, as well.
Beyond food, shelter, clothing, health care and the ability to find work, the central need left unaddressed is: meaning.
The Jihad gives drama, a plan, a global unified purpose, an ideology of triumphant power.
Every uncertain personality is always seeking a way to instantly become "someone".
The Jihad gives them a pre-made "character", with a position in the world, status in their community (the Ummah), and exchanges their own private, mediocre life for one of becoming a public and glorious soldier in the Great Cause.
Unless an alternative Great Cause is presented, Jihad wins by default.
As the most glamorous and ego-gratifying and impulse-liberating game in town.
Where else do you get a license to kill on Earth and the guarantee of a whorehouse paradise in the Next World if you die in the battle?
Simple warriors will always be drawn to a creed that praises their simplicity.
Countering this temptation will require exposing the origins of Islam.
Creating doubts about its claims is the only way to undermine its instinctual appeal.
And then offering a better vision in its place.
(Whether the Buddha's of Jesus's or The Old Testament Micah's or the Taoist Lao Tzu's or Voltaire's or Mary Baker Eddy's will depend on the spiritual tastes of the person seeking.)
And expending their natural energies into liberating projects (solving the world's crises, exploring matter, the mind, and the universe) and not toward the mere crude establishment of a planetary prison camp, with them as the privileged guards.
Jihad is alluring and mesmerizing and simplifying.
But its real goal must be exposed:
-the aim of creating slaves to a dead idea.
Of mutilating humanity to fit a theory.
Of closing the future.
And the mind.
Some people find this comfortable.
It answers all questions. Forever.
But misses the most important question:
-What if a better answer comes along?
Mental paralysis, made God, is a dangerous belief.
It works in the short-term, because it mobilizes violence efficiently.
But cannot satisfy an honest intellect.
Because it simply tries to silence it.
Which is an inadequate answer.
***OFF TOPIC***
"Sooner rather than later you've got to say 'Enough's enough. Kosovo's independent,"' Bush said during a news conference with the prime minister of this tiny, impoverished country (Albania).
You go Mr. President!!!
From FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,279973,00.html
*** OFF TOPIC ***? More like "*** OFF YOUR ROCKER ***". Kosovo needs to be "independent" like "Palestine", southern Thailand, Chechnya, Kashmir, and anywhere else the Muslims have been allowed to emigrate in great enough numbers, need to be "independent" (that is, separated from the corrupt influence of the infidels). As opposed to, say, Lebanon, where their numbers are great enough to simply take over the whole ball of wax, with predictably violent results for the non-Muslims unable to escape.
Thinkforyourself said
Yes, please go, Mr. President. And the sooner the better. And if you think he's so great, Thinkforyourself, please feel free to give him a ride in the back of your pickup truck (or whatever vehicle you drive).
Yes, Enough's enough. Hands off Serbia
Albania is 70% Muslim. The U.S. (under Clinton) and NATO did the Muslims' dirty work for them when they attacked Serbia. Of course they're wildly appreciative of the naive infidels who attacked their enemies the Christian Serbians.
Just as the Kuwaitis were so appreciative of our defeating their enemies the Iraqis in the first Gulf War.
If we had overthrown the Sunni's in Iraq, handed over control to the Shi'ites, and left immediately, the Iraqis (well, the Shi'ites anyways) would have been just as wildly enthusiastic.
As long as we attack their enemies, we will be enthusiastically appreciated. And not one second longer.
"Albania also issued three postage stamps with Bush's picture and the Statue of Liberty, and renamed a street in front of parliament in his honor."
Can't Mr. Bush see through this!? It shows clearly how double-faced and corrupted they are. Typical muslim poltroon mentality. Until they get strong enough...
Tony(snowjob) “Snow: Bush Not Giving Up on Immigration”
If you are a president who has lost the support of most of the people who voted for him what do you do? Why lash out at your countrymen by attempting to ram a bill down their throat that is not supported by 80% of the citizens of the USA all the while selling out Christians abroad and getting our troops killed in a grand delusion in iraq. This guy is worse than carter, I don’t think the republic can survive a year and a half of this guy. Also, start some recalls of the senators who would sell your kids out to la raza and the reconquistadors both dem and rep, our future depends on it. Don’t let your city become another LA type craphole where murder reigns supreme. Yes, LA is more dangerous than iraq and we see what is going on there right? I am willing to oppose everything he and they try to do no matter if it is good for us or not. No pain no gain.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PM3F1O0&show_article=1
Why, all these years and no other countries would help!? My biggest mystery is WHY doesn't Sharpten put his $ where his mouth is! The black people ***ch but do not let their brothers and sisters out of captivity or the hand of being slayed! This can be turned into a 'golden oppurtunity' if you will, by the black people for the black people!
This could have been solved along time ago, now it will be harder and more people die! Do the blacks here feel they have no ancestry there?
Al--gaeda like a wolf hears them breath see them move and know they are humans, rape and kill!
The rick blacks are like the rich whites. How quick they forget!
I was 5 when my dad said eat all your food there are people starving, I would say here they can have this. I wish so I could do something for them! Is there one thing we can do and COMPLETE?!
From the article
Would our lawmakers please come to the realization that this is true not only of the African region, but the European and North American regions as well?
Could they please understand that our government is constitutionally prevented from promoting Christianity (and rightfully so), but nothing prevents the Saudi and Iranian governments from promoting Islam in our country?
Has anyone viewed the KGB defectors interview regarding demoralization as psyop’s in our universities over several decades? As he states these people are “contaminated”, you can not convince them of anything no matter what the facts show. They will only realize it as they are proceeding into a gas chamber or lining up for the firing squad. If we don’t do something about this we are all dead, DEAD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE8MCSu_K-A&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpajamasmedia%2Ecom%2F
"Yes, please go, Mr. President. And the sooner the better. And if you think he's so great, Thinkforyourself, please feel free to give him a ride in the back of your pickup truck (or whatever vehicle you drive)."
Don't look at me, Special Guest (that was sarcasm)... I didn't vote for M- the Moron. Actually, I take it back. He's not a Moron, he's the President of the United States of America....This is what America wanted, this is what America has gotten!
We can not hope to halt the "spread of Islam" until we have the will to call Islam our enemy openly and stop dancing around the reality of it all. If we will not halt Muslim immigration into the United States, then we have no right to expect Africa to rise up against Jihadist incursions. In fact, we should expect to lose ground in Africa rapidly over the next 5 years as more young Muslims are born on the continent and our military is spread thinner and thinner.
http://www.frontline.org.za/
In the Jerusalem Post, very recently, there was an article about Sudanese illegal refugees (nearly all Christians) in Israel. They originally fled from Sudan to Egypt, and their treatment in Egypt has been abominable - so some pay huge amounts to be guided through the desert to cross into Israel over the southern Sinai border near Eilat.
Those who were interviewed spoke of being abused and exploited most dreadfully in Egypt - of being called "Black Slave" - some were indeed treated as slaves. Some described how and why they had left Sudan in the first place - after their villages in the south had been raided and burned and many family members killed in front of them. Some had been taken as slaves by 'Arab' Sudanese Muslims, and treated like garbage.
All of them had nothing but praise for the Israelis - and even for Israeli prisons, which one of them described as 'the best prisons I have ever been in' (because 'they don't hit you'). His standard, of course, being set by Muslim prisons in Sudan and Egypt...
Africans, and Afro-Canadians, and Afro-Caribbean, and the African diaspora across the world need to hear these testimonies, along with the history of the abominations of the Arab/Muslim slave trade in Africa that Hugh has summarised so masterfully. They need to know that Islam does not change its spots, and that Islam at bottom views Africans, all Africans, as...future slaves.
Further detail on the above. Jerusalem Post, 7/6/07, article by Larry Derfner, entitled 'Hotel Sudan'. Money quotes:
"Our life in Egypt was no good," she [Sudanese refugee] says. "Because we are black, the Arabs there don't like us, the same as in Sudan. Many Sudanese are killed in Egypt. We heard of housekeepers from Sudan who got thrown off balconies. Sometimes if you work for an Egyptian, he doesn't pay you and beats you instead and threatens to send you to the police. [SLAVERY!]. The police can deport you back to Sudan, and then your life is over."
Mary shows me the welts on her left arm. She explains: "Once a car pulled up beside me in Cairo and some man got out and slashed me with a knife."
Robert [another Sudanese] says his children - he has two younger ones still with his wife in Cairo - used to get chased by Egyptian kids throwing stones and eggs at them. "They laugh at you, make fun of you, call you 'black slave.' That's how the Egyptians see us - because we're black, they think we're their slaves."
tgusa says: "Has anyone viewed the KGB defectors interview regarding demoralization as psyop’s in our universities over several decades? As he states these people are “contaminated”, you can not convince them of anything no matter what the facts show. They will only realize it as they are proceeding into a gas chamber or lining up for the firing squad."
To be honest, I doubt they will realise it, even then.
OT
According to AP Iran has been shelling Kurdish fighters in N.Iraq.
http://xrl.us/KurdIran
dumbledoresarmy quoted a JPost story:
Another of the many fractures and fissures within Dar al-Islam that could be exploited. But instead, we, with our "Can't we all just get along?" naivety, keep covering up and papering over all of Islam's dirty little secrets, for the purpose of maintaining the Islam-the-Noble-Religion, Islam-the-Religion-of-Peace, fantasy. So many wasted opportunities.
Posted by: Hugh
As always, a great post Hugh
Perhaps someone should send a copy of it to BONO (Bonehead)
So that he will rethink his campaign to provide riches of the western world to the Islamic warlords.
I can only hope that one day, $%#ssholes like Bono realise that in their missguided campaign to be seen as worldly citizens have actually caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions more.
Big mouthed celebrities are the biggest idiots on earth at times.
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I really hate when you follow a Hugh post. he uses far too many comma's and you just repeat the agony.
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(Not that I don't enjoy (other than the comma factor) your posts. :o)
Posted by: ThinkForYourself
I think you should study the history of the egion before you celebrate such a devistating announcemnet.
It is the lack of historical knowlage which has caused a series of idiotic American presidents to make such blunders, blunders which will cause our destruction if we continue (it may already be to late) electing idiots, alowing the "umma" of our enemies to infiltrate and educate our children.
On second thought, there is no doubt it is already too late.
Just like the last remnant of the Roman empire when the Ottoman empire destroyed that last remnant,(they were able to do that because the people became stupid) this nation is also to stupid, too far beyond recovery to save itself from certain doom.
Mullahmasher said
Ben Franklin said there were only two things that we could be sure of, and "certain doom" wasn't one of them. You're bumming my trip, dude.
Mullahmasher,
It has all been said before many times. The revolution, Americans were small in comparison to the British and not as well educated. The Civil war, America would be torn apart never to recover and we weren’t exactly a nation of lawyers back then. World war two, Hitler even said it, America is weak, decadent, soft, stupid and on and on. Now we hear the same thing from the islamists, some how I’m not so sure they are right. We have 50% of the country if not more with more coming on board everyday. Once you discover what is happening you can never go back, agreed? It is like the hotel California, you can check out but you can never leave. So like Churchill said, this is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, it is however the end of the beginning.
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/
This is what Americans will do to each other when angered, now imagine what we will do to the enemy.
What will Oprah and Bono have to say on this matter?