He now lives in Kansas. Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Former basketball player is still a big man for his people," by Candace Buckner for The Kansas City Star, with thanks to Marathon Pundit:
In 1995, Bol returned to his country under the belief that he would become the minister of sport, but that position was contingent on Bol, a Christian, converting to Islam. He refused, so the government revoked his visa, and Bol was stranded in Sudan for nearly five years.
No compulsion in religion, my arse.
Islam, the religion of coersion....
They felt free to do this with an internationally know NBA star. What chance do the mass of cowed and powerless local non-Muslims have?
There was one comment though in the story that made me smile:
"The big man made a big name for himself in 1985 when he became the tallest player and first African to be drafted into the NBA. During that season, he set a rookie record for 397 blocked shots."
397 blocked shots? 7 ft. 7 inches tall. Now I understand. One of the Toronto newspapers ran an article on Bol quite some time ago. At that time, he was in Sudan trying to help his people in the south against the attempted genocidal actions of the Muslim north. Class act it seems.
I hope Mr. Bol is feeling better...I understood he was hospitalized awhile ago, for something rather serious. Sounds like we need to invade Sudan, do another regime change, feed everyone who is hungry, immunize them
They can have Hakeem Olajuwon.. who seems to be quite an islamist piece of work from what I hear.. funding mosks and madrazas and all..
There is another element in this story that should not be missed! The photo caption in the linked article from the Kansas City Star says:
"Bol is now living in the Kansas City area because it is the cultural capital for people of southern Sudanese descent in this country."
Compare these Christian Sudanese in Kansas to the Muslim Somalis in Minnesota and it's easy to see the difference between Christianity and Islam.
The Southern Sudanese are grateful to the host society and contribute to the cultural life of Kansas. The Somalis are nothing but a drain on Minnesota commiting welfare fraud, refusing to obey the law as cab-drivers, and demanding sharia. Clearly the US should expel the Somalis and welcome the Christian Sudanese to replace them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070719/wl_nm/kosovo_usa_dc
Yet again we have the US government taking sides with Islamic interests.
Seconding provoslavni on the value of the Christian Sudanese refugee immigrants.
The Sudanese Christian survivors of jihad are amazing people. They've kept their faith through horrors of deep darkness. They've seen family members murdered by thugs screaming Allahu Akbar.
We've got them in Australia, too. With their large, devout families they've boosted the membership of Anglican, Catholic, and all types of Protestant churches. They worship every Sunday. Their kids go to our schools, and attend Sunday School. They're working hard, and they're having lots of children, both to replace the kids that died in the darkness of the jihad, and in sheer celebration of being somewhere where they can practise their faith in freedom.
We should be falling over ourselves to persuade these Sudanese Christians to stand up in front of our city and shire councils, our PTAs, our synods, our church meetings, our veterans' associations, our military college graduating classes and our university graduation ceremonies and our parliaments, to give their testimony of what it is like to be a Christian in a country where Islam and sharia are being imposed at gunpoint. They have so much to teach us.
It's time our church leaders, at least, got their act together and put these people on the podium and published their testimony, big-time. I said as much in a letter to Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell: I said - give a voice to the survivors of the jihad, not just from Sudan but Catholics from Indonesia or Copts and Catholics from Egypt, the Orthodox Greeks and Armenians who can tell us what Muslim Turkish tyranny was like for their forebears - let them speak to the Church, let them tell us about their sufferings, because WE NEED TO KNOW.
We used to listen to Christian witnesses from the persecuted church in the USSR. We need to hear a lot more, a lot louder, from those who testify for the persecuted church within the Empire of Islam.
And our bishops and church lobby groups should be demanding that our governments' immigration and refugee programs should give priority to Christians - and other non-Muslims - who are fleeing jihad and/or dhimmitude.
The outrages just pile higher and higher.
dumbledoresarmy:
Eloquently said.
Poor Manute.
I really love Moslem jocks.
Last year I had to laugh big-time as maudlin Prez Bush got all verklempt in handing an aware to boxing star Mohammed Ali, blubbering about what a great example he was for American youth.
You know, how he declared Islam his nation (he was a card-carrying member of the Nation of Islam) and denounced America and its war against communism, which we won cuz of our resolve in IndoChina.
Maybe the "great" Mohammed Ali was actually a coward. Think about it: Mohammed packed no punch, was a slap boxer, loved to clutch in the corners, had a mooch entourage, and neve stopped running his mouth.
Sounds like a Moslem Man to me.
Dear 'Alarmed Pig Farmer' (love the moniker, BTW),
Care to enlighten me as to exactly what, or who, you are talking about? Who is this putative 'boxing star' of islamic extraction? And what does 'verklempt' mean?
Sorry, but I speak English, not American English and I need some explanation if I am to understand you - many others around the world who read here might need it also. Help!
Muhammed Ali, the Afro-American named Cassius Clay who converted to Islam and, as Moslem converts (see Pak) always do, took an Arabic name.
Ali, the boxing star, in his treason, accomplished several things:
1) The ability to draft dodge and not get prosecuted
2) The ability to advocate open treason and not get denounced by the MSM, but instead be present
3) The ability to condition, in the late 60s and early 70s, to promote Islam victimism over loyality to the Constituion and not only not get prosecuted by the Feds, but get praised by the Feds for his federal crime
4) The ability to not only not get castigated by Howard Cosell, a confused Jew, but to be memorialized by him.
After the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's craven performance with Goebbels in WWII, Mohammed Ali's virtuoso performance before a gullible sports press (led by Cosell), this putatively great Mohammedan athlete had thus legitimized anti-Americanism and suicidal culturalism.
Dear Alarmed Pig Farmer,
Sorry, I was being exceptionally thick. I should have realised that you were talking about Cassius Clay. Got you, got the rest of what you say and I agree with you. Ashamed of my own stupidity. Sorry.
There is a large Christian Sudanese community in Atlanta Georgia and they are doing well, they participate in many local events like community clean ups, food drives; they make good employees and help the police in the occassional searches for missing people...down the road are some apartments that contain large numbers of Muslims from Pakistan, Yemen, and Iran....in these communities the apartment complexes are fast becoming slums, the people do not pick up trash on the ground, and the crime rate in these neighborhoods is escalating...when the police answer calls for things like domestic violence (often), assaults (often), rapes (often), and civil disobedience (often), they usually show up with more than one car as the Muslims usually argue with the police.....
Between the two communities...there is a big difference...it is clearly evident...
....Ban Muslim Immigration....
Many Black Athletes change their Christian names and take Islamic names...They frequently are involved in anti social behavior and often support Muslim activities...They represent the hatred some people have for the American heritage...Al-Qaeda is known to be actively seeking to employ black American Muslims in black neighborhoods and in prisons for future terror attacks against America....we have already witnessed several arrests of blacks plotting terror attacks....
I have seen on TV some programs presented by Black Muslims during which they proclaim the Muslims are being treated badly by "White America", they laughingly boast about the uproar they create when they make Americans uneasy by making demands for religious considerations like prayer time during work hours, special prayer rooms in the work place, demands to be allowed to wear burkas and other Muslim wardrobes in the work place...They boast about talking to low income blacks and how they are able to "convert" these low income blacks to Islam....
Generally when I see an American changing his/her Christian idenity to an Islamic one...I see trouble...
...ban Muslim Immigration...
Jonathan Ralbrooke:
Here is a definition of "verklempt". The word was put into common usage by Mike Myers in one of his serial sketches in the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Cheers.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=verklempt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk_with_Linda_Richman
Anybody heard from Kareem Abdul Jabar lately? (For brits and others living outside the US he was a famous basketball player, back in the day.)