Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide but protected by the African Union and Arab League with the support of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, made clear his intentions to impose Sharia even more intensively on his territory once the south seceded. And al-Bashir has not even attempted to hoodwink the West with empty promises of "Sharia Lite," saying "Sharia law has always stipulated that one must whip, cut, or kill."
That is what is at stake for Abyei, and anything else al-Bashir sets his sights upon. "Sudan: UN urges Khartoum to pullout from Abyei region," from BBC News, May 22:
South Sudan is due to become independent in July, but Abyei is still claimed by both sides
UN Security Council envoys have urged North Sudan to "withdraw immediately" its troops from the contested Abyei region on the border with South Sudan.
The call was made by the French, Russian and US ambassadors to the UN.
South Sudan said the Abyei takeover was an act of war, saying civilians and southern soldiers were killed.
South Sudan is due to become independent in July, but Abyei's status remains to be determined after a referendum on its future was shelved.
People in the Southern capital of Juba are worried and there is a grim mood on the streets of the capital, the BBC's Peter Martell in South Sudan reports.
The North said it acted after 22 of its men were killed in a southern ambush earlier this week.
Residents flee
"The members of the Security Council call upon the government of Sudan to halt its military operation and withdraw immediately from Abyei town and its environs," the French ambassador to the UN, Gerard Araud, said in Khartoum.
"They condemn the escalatory military operation being undertaken by the Sudanese armed forces. This constitutes a serious violation of the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005)," Mr Araud said.
He was speaking during a joint news conference with his Russian and US counterparts.
Separately, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton condemned the violence in Abyei.
A southern military spokesman earlier told the BBC the North had attacked the area with 5,000 troops, killing civilians and southern soldiers.
Some 20,000 people, almost the whole population of the town, had fled, aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) told the BBC....
South Sudan can become a rally point for all serious men determined to combat the perpetual jihad. What better place and better cause? One of the most aggressive and primitive of Islamic states has, after a clear and legal rejection of their military domination of the people for decades of murder and slavery of the people, been routed from power, only to return in force to kill, rape, pillage and conquer again after a brief respite. But of course. We knew this. We know it will never end. Ever. Jihad is eternal until it is physically destroyed. Pardon the passive construction. Until freedom loving men go to war and destroy jihad.
Yes, masses of Western men would go to South Sudan to struggle for justice with the people, but damn, the wheels on the skate boards get stuck in the sand. This is OK. Others will go in their stead. One place on earth. We need one place in the world where the people of the world can make a stand for a beginning of a world without Islam. Sudan is perhaps our likeliest place to stand. The cause there is just beyond argument. The people more deserving than any others at this time. The chances of victory in the long term greater than any other arena we could choose. And the prize? At last, a nation fully dedicated to stomping out Islam in its midst.
Yea to what you said, sir.
Bashir should be 'droned' out of existence.
If only, sonofwalker. I tried to get some Sudanese to come to our ADL (Australian Defence League) rally last week; they couldn't be bothered. Half the southern Sudanese I talk to, here or in Sudan, don't accept that Islam is the problem. It is so frustrating. I am willing and able to fight against Islam for the southern Sudanese, but I think I need to engage in some rallying words first.
I have even met (and argued with) Sudanese Christians who are happy to ally with Sudanese Muslims to bring the West down, the West which has given them refuge. In the West, it is "colour" which counts, not religion. VERY frustrating!
It's not a simple matter of reason or prudence, this struggle against Islam, not for Westerners who have no sense of our history and how we have crawled from the barbarism of times past not so long ago into this beautiful Modernity that allows us to be free and prosperous and to whatever extent happy with our lives; and it is even more difficult for those who do not know from the cradle a life of independence and expectation of respect for life simply because of ones humanness. There are for many other considerations prior to the individual. It's frustrating, I know, to encounter people who cannot grasp individual rights and responsibilities and the sense of self we mostly take for granted, the naturalness with which we assume all men value their own lives for their own sakes. Some people are tribal first and last, and some are ethnic and will not, cannot see otherwise even when they are oppressed and killed en masse. I've seen that. I see too that we who are individuals are rare and mostly unliked by most people in the world. In part it is Christianity that brings about this individualism, and not all are Christians. Even many Christians don't have that particular emphasis as yet. So one finds factions and the need for the usual strong man to make men free as they can be. It's not simple and it's not ideal; it is better than elsewhere, though.
Unfortunately I'm not in Sudan at this time. There's no substitute for being on the ground and in constant contact with the locals. I can't speak to the situation today there. If I go, then maybe I can find those people who share my enthusiasm for counter-jihad. But will they be strong enough to win a war? I can't tell. I'd have to be there. Right now it's only the best-looking possibility I can see from afar. Even one defensible village at this time would be enough for me.
There's a price to pay for this. If one wins, it means others have to lose. There's no compromise here. One must know the price is worth the gain. And if there is no hope of winning, then playing at all is just pointless slaughter. But if this is worth the price of winning, then not to win is a shameful thing indeed. It could mean trampling on local toes, and as Robespierre points out, no one loves an armed missionary. That would be a matter of judgement. Some day, though, we do have to face Judgement Day.
I have a project to complete elsewhere, and then, I think so, I'll make my way back to Africa to look for myself at what I see. I'm not important, and this will all play itself out without regardless, but I would dearly love to be part of this great game.
sonofwalker,
You're inspiring me to go to Israel to fight the same fight!
The UN is like its predecessor the League of Nations: a dung heap infested by blow flies. Good luck, Abyei. I'm positive UN troops will be on the ground to protect your citizens asap. If not, prepare for the cooling shade of Islam and sharia. That is RIP.
PJG....I know what you are saying. There are many southern Sudanese who can't see past their own stomachs. Some of these provide the Islamic forces in the north with easily bribed recruits. Of course Khartoum's genocidaires are quite adept at finding useful idiots amongst South Sudan's corrupt war lords.
But sonofwalker is right. Sudan does present a very useful and compelling case for the world to resist Islam. Not only has the north committed genocide against Christians and other non muslims in the south for decades, it is also committing genocide against non radicalized muslims in Darfur. It is the Muslim Brotherhood (backed by the Organization for Islamic Conference and the Arab League -- not to mention numerous miscreant western multinational corporations) which is behind the current Islamic regime in Khartoum. Its brazen brutality is there for all the world to see. Why the BS media never mentions this fact in discussing the character of the MB is baffling.
What is happening in Abiyei and Darfur today is what will happen to other places where the MB takes power. When fascist Mussolini invaded Ethiopia prior to WW2, Emperor Haile Selassie warned the League of Nations that if it did not address fascism immediately, it would soon affect all the other countries present as well. Of course his words were not heeded, and the world continued to trade and sell oil to the fascists. The rest is history; Selassie was proven right.
The same warning could be said of the Muslim Brotherhood's actions in Sudan today. If it is not stopped in Abiyei and Darfur, the rest of Africa and indeed the entire world will pay the price.
There's nothing easy about this kind of work, of course, but it's harder than it should be due to, among other problems, those pointed out above, the chow-hounds, the traitors, the opportunists, and so on, the usual rot of a nation in trouble. The hardest part for me is considering it worth my while to pick my favourite warlord to thereafter make endless dirty compromises for a dubious future.
I know that in speaking of south Sudan we're not talking of a cafe full of fiery intellectuals determined to lead a mass of yeomen peasants yearning to breathe free. Still this is work that one can win. It depends on what kind of man one is willing to become. I don't see any greater field than South Sudan. It's not my first choice, but for what we have to choose from, this is the best there is, as far as I can see.
I don't see millions of men spontaneously welcoming Westerners with joy and relief. Rather, I see a few men who might use whatever help they can get to position themselves for greater gain in the future of small holdings. I'm satisfied with that. One village. One area. One tribe. One step at a time.
To consider this worthwhile, one needs a goal. One must know why one does this, what's in it for us, what we get for what we do, and whether it's worth it. Mostly, can we win?
"I don't see millions of men spontaneously welcoming Westerners with joy and relief."
Especially when those Westerners are dhimmi aid workers making a career out of their PC third-worldism.
The southern Sudanese are very good at fighting with guns. But it is in the relam of spiritual warfare where, to my mind, some of the best of the people are working: those who bravely teach Muslims the hard facts about their religion and make the attempt to convert them to Christianity. Without this important work being done, the non-Muslim Sudanese are the prey of lying scoundrels, just as we are in the West. Christianity is hugely important in southern Sudan, especially when coupled with an education in the true nature of the religion they are up against.
A good place to start with this all would be to call for a serious international investigation into the death of Dr. John Garang. Garang was a personal friend and has long been a freedom fighter and anti-jihad intellectual. South Sudan has many self serving war lords. But it also has many noble statesmen of sterling character who have fought for decades against the fascism of Islam. These heroes are on the front line of freedom and they deserve our support. They know jihad better than we do, and are commtted to the death to fight against it.
One of the best sources of information on what is happening in Sudan is http://www.sudanreeves.org/
Cripes I really thought this horror had ended.
What amazed me in this article was that the US, France AND RUSSIA have joined together to voice opposition to North Sudans continuing predations. That is good news indeed.
We need to use military force as soon as possible to prevent the further killings of civilians. If we can protect bloodthirsty jihadists in Lybia we are 100% morally obligated to protect people who are actually deserving of our protection.
Christian Solidarity International is freeing slaves in Sudan by buying their freedom from THEIR OWNERS with cow vaccine. No two other words have been so painfull for me to type. Type out "their owners" yourself and see how it makes you feel.
Please look up informaition about CSI and if you conclude they are worthy then please donate. They have videos on youtube.
This is their website.
http://www.csi-int.org/
U.N. urges Sudan to pull out of disputed southern region after invasion, takeover
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After years of massacring and enslaving the Christian and animist southern Sudanese, it should come as no surprise that Sudan is hardly planning on being a "good neighbor" to them now.
More:
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir...made clear his intentions to impose Sharia even more intensively on his territory once the south seceded. And al-Bashir has not even attempted to hoodwink the West with empty promises of "Sharia Lite," saying "Sharia law has always stipulated that one must whip, cut, or kill."
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That's one of the most honest definitions of Shari'ah law I have ever heard of—whipping, cutting, and killing.
God, I hate Islam.
If it weren't for the Christian aspect of Sudan I wouldn't pay much attention to the people there. It is the alternative to Islam that make all the difference to me. It is the possibility of creating a place for Christian refugees who can bring social capital to a desperate place and who in turn will gain from the effort that appeals to me over most nations in Asia that might offer good prospects of waging a struggle against Islam. There are advantages in Sudan that I don't see elsewhere. But it's not easy or simple. Over-all I don't expect great things from a genuine victory. Life is never that easy. We could do some great things regardless.
I'm committed elsewhere for a year, but after that I might well venture off to Sudan to check out conditions on the ground and see if I can find something worth involving myself it there. I can't do anything by myself, and even with an organisations to work with, far less than any committed Sudanese can do; but I can help here and there. That is the purpose of Christian refugees. It's the addition of social capital that matters.
My last experience with Sudanese Christianity, as it were, was dealing with two American missionaries obsessed with sociology. They were absorbed in Social Gospel, and Christianity held no interest for them. I'm not interested in such people. I would welcome those who are serious about Christianity and who are also practical enough to have started a Christian charity so they can raise funds and allow for some credibility in the field of anti-jihad refugee work. If I have to, I will do it myself. That would be a great irony. I'm no kind of Christian. I'm closer to Christianity though than I am to Social Gospel. I'll work with Christians. I'll work for Christianity.
Next year in Juba.
I think Orde Wingate would have loved you, mate.
Just for you, to inspire you: some more about Orde Wingate.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/34286
Pursuant to my previous posting, an excerpt from the article I linked.
"Wingate was the commander of an irregular unit of Ethiopians, Brits, Australians and Palestinian Jews, called the Gideon Force after the Biblical general who was a legendary early practitioner of irregular warfare.
"**Wingate’s unit succeeding in vanquishing the Italian force that had occupied Ethiopia since 1936; an early allied victory in the summer of 1941** {my emphasis - dda}."
Sooo - after being moved from 'Palestine' by the British (because they didn't like the fact that he had successfully taught the Jooz how to defend themselves against the Muslims) Wingate's next field of operations was Ethiopia.
Ethiopia, right next door to the Sudan; a Christian kingdom that maintained itself atop its forested, well-watered natural fortress for over a millennium, in the midst of a raging Muslim sea.
Ethiopia, that may be the source of the medieval legend of 'Prester John'.
If South Sudan can be saved, then Ethiopia also (though currently dreadfully weakened and destablised by a large and aggressive Muslim colony within its borders) might also be saved.
It's a few years now that you first put me on to Orde Wingate, and I love that guy! I'm happy to see you mention him again because there will be many newcomers here who will be amazed and delighted by his life story. I certainly appreciate you putting me on to him.
Sudan is back in the news far atop this post, so perhaps I will see you there.
Cheers,
Dag Walker.
Sonofwalker,
Please get in touch with Jihad Watch and they can tell you where to get in touch with me; I will be in Juba soon (and later, too, I hope). I would love to meet up with you there.
PJG, please send your email address directly to Director at Jihad Watch so it can then be sent onward to me.
Perhaps I can push my schedule a bit and see you in Juba sooner than I would have planned otherwise.
Best regards,
Dag Walker.
Vancouver, Canada.