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Two centuries before the current American foreign policy, or before there was Zionism, or "Iraq" and "Palestine" to blame, long before "poverty" was pulled up as a root-cause, and the why-do-they-hate-us brigade not only did not exist, but would have been impossible to call into being, Muslims in West Africa were on the Jihad warpath.
A Muslim cleric, or mallam, Usman dan Fodio, led a Jihad against local non-Muslim rulers from 1804 to 1810. This led to the establishment of the so-called Caliphate of Sokoto, and to the spread, enforced spread by military conquest, of Islam.
The results of that can be seen in West Africa. There one can find Christian neighborhoods that are well-tended, neat, prettified even with simple touches (a few flowers), and then the sullen, dirty, rundown areas of Muslims. The comparison is remarkable.
And everywhere Christians are under assault. They have been under assault, most famously, in Nigeria, where in 1967 the Christian Ibos, far more advanced and industrious than their Muslim overlords, rebelled and declared the independence of the State of Biafra. The proximate cause were the mass murders by Muslims of Christian Ibo all over northern Nigeria. But the Western world did nothing to help the Christian Ibo, while the Muslims -- including Egyptian pilots and planes that strafed Ibo villages, killing tens of thousands of helpless villagers -- did provide aid. Only two countries in the world recognized Biafra: Israel and Ghana (Kwame Nkrumah, Osagyefo, if he did not always understand economics, did understand Islam). In 1969, in his famous Ahiara Declaration, the leader of Biafra, Colonel Ojukwu, explained that the main reason for the Biafran fight was to defend the Christians against, as he put it, the "jihad" being conducted against it. That jihad by the Muslims who control the military and have largely stolen the oil wealth of Nigeria (with a little help from some islamochristians willing to collaborate) continues today.
Elsewhere the Christians are under siege -- as in the Cote d'Ivoire, or in Togo, where the more advanced southerners, often of the Ewe tribe that, like most tribes in coastal West Africa, cuts across national borders, are leaving. They are leaving not only because the crooked son of the previous crooked leader is back in business, but because of the Islamic menace.
Black Africans are enslaved in Mali and Mauritania, but not a syllable of protest has come from the Arab League about this, though both countries are members of that league. For decades black African Christians and animists have been slaughtered or starved to death in southern Sudan, and now black non-Arab Muslims (or nominal Muslims) are being killed, their cattle destroyed, their huts and houses burned, their women raped, their men all killed. And every single person who has lived to testify has talked of how the various Arab marauders say that "they are black and must be killed." Imagine, just imagine, if there were not a hundred thousand such incidents (as have taken place in Darfur) or a million (as in the southern Sudan) but even one such event, anywhere in the Western world, by a Western government.
Then ask why there is such a different standard, such fear of telling the truth, about how Islam is a vehicle for Arab supremacist ideology, and Arabs among the supreme racists of history, who persuade those they conquer to abandon, forget, despise their own pasts, and to assume pseudo-Arab identities, and to take as their own models some Arabs who lived -- if they existed at all -- in 7th century Arabia.
Is the American government fully aware of the jihad that Ibos remember so well? Does the American government have any plans should the notion of a free Biafra (with all the oil in the south, among the lands where various Christian tribes live) be revived? Does the United States understand that in the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo has been demonized by the French government, but that the fears of the Christian Ivoiriens that they are being asked to give citizenship to Muslim migrants in the north are justified? Does the American government know about Egypt's bullying of Ethiopia in an attempt to prevent Ethiopia from diverting just some of the headwaters of the Nile for vital irrigation projects, and of how Egypt sees a Muslim Sudan not as an enemy but as an ally in the future conflict with Ethiopia? Has the American government actually talked to Christians from Ethiopia, or worried -- like people in Western Europe -- about the growing Muslim population and the demands it makes to change the very nature of Ethiopia?
Given the entirely predictable paralysis at the U.N. -- where the Islamintern International calls the shots, and focuses attention on "Palestine" and keeps it always off the local expressions of Jihad -- over Darfur, and given the predictable collapse sometime in the future, of that famous "peace accord" recently "achieved" for the southern Sudan (one which will last just as long as the government in Khartoum thinks the West is paying close attention and not a minute longer), why has the United States not used the excuse of rescuing the people in Darfur to send in a few thousand troops to seize both Darfur and the southern Sudan? Claims of government violations of the peace accords with the southerners can easily be justified.
What would an American presence do? And who could object? Not Nicholas Kristof -- he has called for such intervention in Darfur (he seems strangely uninterested in what happened to the non-Muslims of the southern Sudan over the past 20 years). Not the leftists everywhere -- how can they oppose coming in to rescue black villagers, whose pictures, with them swarming around and smiling at somewhat abashed American soldiers can be displayed worldwide? Not the black African Christians who will rightly take this as a sign of muscular American interest in confronting those who conduct Jihad, and who will be bucked up, from Kenya to West Africa.
And who will be angry? Muslims everywhere will realize that the game is up, that the Jihad can be opposed without invoking Al Qaeda, and that everywhere the Muslims have been on the offensive (slowly swallowing up, and arabizing, most of the Sudan when, a hundred years ago, it was largely un-islamized and un-arabized), they may now be challenged. Two can play this game, but the Infidels have not -- they have simply allowed the conquest. They did nothing to help the Biafrans in their fight for independence after repeated widespread jihad-massacres of Christians. They have failed to recognize that demography is a weapon of jihad, and the cross-border infiltration of Muslim populations in West Africa is a reasonable thing for local Christians to worry about. They have shown not the slightest foresight about the coming clash, over water, between Ethiopia and Egypt (which acts as if the Ethiopians have no right to that water, or only to the amounts that the Egyptians grandly will allow them). Everywhere we can, we should take the side of those threatened by Jihad, and in black Africa, the point of obvious entry, and obvious gain with little pain, is the Sudan.
Let Saudi Arabia, where slavery was still officially allowed until 1962, and where unofficially it flourishes, sputter. Let the various Arab League states in which blacks are still enslaved wax indignant. Let Libya, where there are routinely murderous riots against black Africans (in one of which a diplomat from Chad was hung from a pole in Tripoli and left dangling for the edification and delight of spectators), try to complain.
Any and every place where Islam is clearly, obviously, in the wrong, and can be confronted at little cost (unlike, say, the miasma of Iraq at present, where the post-invasion and post-destruction-of-weapons-and-the-regime makes no sense), should be investigated.
This is a war of containment, and of wearing down the morale of the other side. We have right on our side. Islam is a primitive and unpleasant belief-system. There is little or nothing to admire about it. Everywhere Islam has conquered, those conquered have emerged, when left with their lives, to live lives that are far more impoverished in every important way -- either as non-Muslim dhimmis, or as converts to Islam. Islam limits artistic expression, stifles the free and skeptical inquiry without which real science is impossible, and cripples the lives of women. Islam stunts mental growth. We need make no apologies to others or to ourselves for coming to this melancholy conclusion, so much at odds with the official ideology that we have been subjected to -- that everyone is the same, that all religions and peoples are equal in every way, that no one must ever ever challenge the self-evident truth of any of this.
Iraq offered one kind of opportunity -- the opportunity, which was taken, to destroy the military capacity of Saddam Hussein and Iraq in general. And too much is now, foolishly, being done by the Americans to build up Iraq's military and restore that capacity, undoing what was so usefully done. The best policy in Iraq would be to cease all these plans for $590 million dollar American embassies, or American bases that can be closed at a moment's notice through the whim of local Muslims. The American officer corps should stop being forced to blandly follow the bland, in repeating mantras about "success" and "bringing democracy to Iraq" that show an absence of the simplest and most obvious strategic thinking -- simplest, and most obvious, as long as one keeps in mind that the tenets of Islam, and not the absence of "democracy," are and will always be a problem for Infidels, as they have been for the past 1350 years. In Iraq, 139,000 American troops should be pulled out, or at most, 20-30 thousand stationed temporarily in Kurdistan, where they will be welcomed, or perhaps in the desert to keep out foreigners -- but always ready to pick up and leave quickly.
Leaving Iraq now makes sense -- and not least because of the effect it is having on the long-term recruitment of the kind of people the army and the Reserves and the National Guard need. This is a squandering of morale and of resources that cannot be forgiven and that shows a criminally negligent attitude toward the growing disbelief in the current Iraq venture that, in fact, is well-founded, and that comes most feelingly not from those who think there is no problem with Islam, but from those who think, who know, that there is a very great problem with Islam. Iraq, while far less important a matter than preventing the islamization of Europe or Latin America (where sustained efforts by Tablighi al-Jamaat are bearing fruit) or sub-Saharan Africa, could, if the fissures were exploited by American withdrawal, contribute its mite to helping the Infidels to contain Islam, to disrupt whatever unity it has, to cause consternation and damage morale of the enemy -- not by spending a hundred billion dollars a year, but rather by not lifting a finger.
Please, let's use Iraq properly. Let's stop pouring in men, materiel, money. Let's not lift a finger. And let's turn our attention to Da'wa in Mexico, and to Muslim immigration in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and -- which is where this article began and by rights should return -- to the besieged black African Christians, pursued by jihadists from southern Nigeria to the southern Sudan, and to Kenya, and even to the bombed-out "immoral" cafes of Capetown.
Posted by Hugh at November 30, 2006 10:49 AM
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They never quit. Never have, never will. They're all about relentlessness. No preference for location, all locations are highly desirable to them, even lowly West Africa.
Islam as an ideology suborganically alters brain chemistry so as to cause a permanent flow of adrenaline that in turn impels the ceaseless agression of Moslems, everywhere, always.
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at November 30, 2006 10:57 AM
They never quit. Never have, never will. They're all about relentlessness. No preference for location, all locations are highly desirable to them, even lowly West Africa.
We all will have to do that job religiously to have them quit. There's no other way around it.
We-slam
Posted by: Arnie at November 30, 2006 11:01 AM
Let's face it-Africa is a backwater in the global jihad. The West doesn't give a damn about it and that's a shame. Millions of people will be written off to Islamic slavery (mental and otherwise) because of that ignorance. We waste millions on those miserable losers in palestine who do nothing but whine and destroy while not spending a penny on a place like Ethiopia. These people aren't even asking for troops-just the means by which they can defend themselves. The West ignores even that. Shame on the West for this indefensible neglect.
Thanks to Hugh for pointing out the Caliphate of Sokoto-even the dumbest of Muslims who believes all jihad ties into palestine can't claim that this particular instance is tied to that issue. But it won't stop him from trying anyway.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at November 30, 2006 11:10 AM
Somali Islamists are starting with suicide bombing
Suicide attack kills at least four in Somalia
30 Nov 2006 16:11:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
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MOGADISHU, Nov 30 (Reuters) - An apparent suicide bomb attack at a checkpoint outside the Somali government seat of Baidoa killed at least four people on Thursday, witnesses said.
They said a car drove up to the checkpoint, about three miles (five km) outside Baidoa, before blowing up and destroying two other cars with it.
"The car was trying to go through the checkpoint and one man came out of it," local Baidoa resident Fowzi Abdi Noor told Reuters by telephone.
"The police told him to stop, and then the car exploded. I can see four charred bodies inside the car," he said, referring to the car believed to be carrying the bomber.
Raha Sahal was driving to Baidoa with her two-year-old son.
"As soon as we tried to move out of the customs checkpoint, the car behind us exploded," she told Reuters by telephone, her voice cracking with emotion. "I don't know what is wrong with my baby. He is bleeding from his ears."
She said she saw "several" badly burned bodies lying on the road between the wrecked vehicles behind, but was too distressed to say exactly how many. An old woman travelling in her car lost an eye in the blast, Sahal said.
The incident came after Somalia's first known suicide bombing targeted President Abdullahi Yusuf in Baidoa in September. Yusuf blamed al Qaeda for that attack, which killed five people including his brother outside parliament in the town 150 miles (240 km) from the capital Mogadishu.
His government is involved in a standoff with Mogadishu-based Islamists, who took a swathe of south Somalia in June. Diplomats and others fear Somalia could soon slip into all-out war, with Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea said to be backing the government and Islamists respectively.
Witnesses said there were probably more casualties from Thursday's explosion, but details were not immediately clear.
Posted by: Arnie at November 30, 2006 11:54 AM
Besides aiding Africa against jihad for moral reasons we should aid the Africans in order to make things as difficult for the "peaceful ones" as possible. Let them die the death of a thousand cuts in wars big and small throughout the world.
They want martyrdom, then give it to them everywhere.
at November 30, 2006 12:28 PM
What? You mean it wasn't all our fault? The 'sky is falling' self loathing media has been lying to us?
Islamisforlosers, I think we do care, but most are too afraid to do anything about it. The terrorists have waged a very effective campaign by committing human rights violations and war crimes while most other nations abide by human rights ethics because we 'have to not sink to their level' so as to remain 'pure' in the eyes of the world. But I feel we're going to have to sink to their level if we're ever going to defeat them- if not, it's over- it really is- there's nothign we can do about a cancer that is spreading fast and doesn't care about how the world views them- they have EVERY advantage & we are SEVERELY crippled by political correctness. http://sacredscoop.com
Posted by: CottShop at November 30, 2006 1:14 PM
yes Bush needs to get our troops out of Iraq if he wants a source of oil for his cronies and big oil the horn of Africa contains oil and Christian population, that if rescued from the jihad of the Islamist against and people of Nigeria and other West African nations. West Africa would be a far better place for the West its resources and manpower to help the Christians a West Africa resist the Muslims that are trying to overrun them. Historically the Arabs and used the blacks a West Africa as a source of slave labor and during the time of slavery in the Caribbean and in America the Arabs and the first ones to so slaves the slave traders, and judging from slavery watch international despite slave reading outlawed in the Middle East it has only been 53 years since the kingdom of Saudi Arabia under pressure from the West formally outlawed in slavery in the kingdom. It is understandable that slavery that slavery still exists there and in other Arab states, they're perfect man and prophet Mohammed kept slaves according the Koran when he died he had hundreds. And since Muslim men try to emulate Mohammed is not surprising at slavery is so hard to kill in their world, or that they would considerit their rightto take Christian females from Africa as they have done for centuries as sex slaves. Heck all you have to do to see somewhat European example is look at the brothels in Turkey run by Muslim men that use women that have been enslaved by them from the former USSR. Jihad is historically based on Muhammad's example has had several objectives, one who get people the land they have overrun to convert to Islam and of course we all know there is no compulsion in Islam( yeah right)
two, to live as a protected and humiliated people
(dhimmi) paying protection money(jizha) two there Moslem overlords.
Three. To fight and die.
Though the choices that Islam gives infidels i.e. Christians Jews or any other religion because of course as the Koran says Muslims mustfight until all religion is for Allah. And being good Muslims they of course believe in the schizophrenic idea, that Islam is the only true faith.and they have a right to attack overrun and enslave non-Muslims and tried to force them to convert to Islam and of course the people living there in Muslim eyes have a right to resist. I would like and a 4th to this, for the West to support the Christians of West Africa and drive back the forces of Islam and and do the Arabs what they have done to the Negroes of West Africa, it's not PC but after the Arabs and have been defeated take a page the Koran and treat them the same way they are treated West Africans, castrated all the men and enslave their women and children.
at November 30, 2006 1:35 PM
CottShop-
I agree that PC is killing us by restraining us from taking effective action against the enemy. And I do wish that we would get a little down and dirty and fight them on their level. I just think that Africa and much of Asia get ignored in the jihad scheme of things-hardly anything appears in the media and even on this site I see very few comments on stories mentioning Africa, Thailand, the Phillipines and Indonesia compared to the more "sexy" places. The people resisting jihad in such places need some attention as well, especially since they are in greater danger of being exterminated by the bastards then we in the West are. We really need to arm and support these people because every jihadist they wipe out means one less coming for our hides here at home.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at November 30, 2006 1:36 PM
Although there is no historical evidence to support this view that I am aware of (other than the presence of Arabs in the early 14th century Mojopahit Empire in East Java generations before they were alleged to have arrived), the great Hindu-Buddhist Kingdoms of Java and Sumatra may well have met the same fate as the west Africans' at the hands of invading Middle East jihadist-conquerors in the mid ninth century AD, when the great central Javanese temples suddenly stopped being built (the last one was built prior to the Merapi volcano's lethal eruption by at least 40 years, which contrary to some historical explanations can NOT be the cause of the extinction of these Kingdoms as it must have occurred AFTER they had already disappeared).
Posted by: pythagoras at November 30, 2006 2:17 PM
The link BIAFRA NATION deals with this subject in depth and may be accessed through the links provided on the Jihad Watch Home Page.
It is well worth the time spent doing so.
at November 30, 2006 2:20 PM
And yet,so much of the black "leadership" in America sides with the arabs.
Posted by: Laura at November 30, 2006 4:29 PM
The reason we aren't helping those whom we should truly help is not benign ignorance but rather it is WILLFUL ignorance.
The neocons are seduced by money and power and the liberals are selling us out for the Golden Cow of PC.
SOWdi oil money has long bought off any vestige of morality. We know the damage their 20% share in Fox has wrought already.
Let the islamos KNOW this:
They worship the moon which WE have set FOOT on. OUR GODDAMN FLAG IS up there, bitches!
No matter where on Earth they plant their blood-soaked pirate rags - THEY will NEVER get to the moon. They won't even make it into orbit.
And we've had a monkey [USSR] and a dog [USA] in outer space already.. BUT NO MOSLEMS :-)
THAT is one more reason WHY THEY HATE US!!!
They hate us like Salieri hated Mozart - God's naughty Genius Golden Child.
Suck it up, you snake moslems!
Posted by: germaninamerica at November 30, 2006 6:54 PM
In addition to Biafra Nation, if there are any good websites about the history of jihads in Africa, please post links to them on Jihad Watch. If my memory is correct, it was these jihads that lead to the conversion of certain regions in West Africa to Islam as mentioned in the above article. Consequently, that is why some of the slaves brought to the Americas were Muslims.
If Jihad Watch has links to the history of jihads in Africa posted on it, then african-American readers both Muslim and non-Muslim will have access to some information about how their ancestors suffered under and fought against Islamic rule whenever possible.
Posted by: Christian at November 30, 2006 9:50 PM
No matter where on Earth they plant their blood-soaked pirate rags - THEY will NEVER get to the moon. They won't even make it into orbit.
Posted by: germaninamerica at November 30, 2006 06:54 PM
I have to dispute that. If someone told them that some alien race lived on the moon and that they don't worship Illah they'd make it a top priority to get there as soon as possible to bring them the Koran. These maniacs won't sleep well until the entire Earth is Muslim and after that it would be the turn of anyone else in the universe to be converted or killed. After all, the Koran said Illah gave the universe to the Muslims and we all know the Koran is infallible.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at November 30, 2006 10:47 PM
Fitzgerald: "Black Africans are enslaved in Mali"
I'm very interested in Mali. I've recently read a few books on modern Malian culture due to my interest in West African music. If anyone could point me to further reading on slavery in Mali, whether web-based or book form I would really appreciate it. It's a difficult country to research as there are few if any in-country commentators and the NGO's try not to say anything bad to preserve their own hides and keep from getting the boot.
Posted by: Stabmaster G at November 30, 2006 10:51 PM
stabmaster:
Just google: slavery in mali.
you will find many referrences.
Posted by: exsgtbrown at December 1, 2006 11:06 AM
Google? Never heard of it.
Seriously though, thanks I will.
Posted by: Stabmaster G at December 2, 2006 5:37 PM
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