When the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain announced their normalization agreements with Israel, the PA was quick to denounce both as “betraying Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinian issue.” The two countries were further accused of “stabbing the Palestinians in the back.” This did not have the desired effect. Both the UAE and Bahrain […]
The Trump Effect: Sudan Joins UAE and Bahrain in Normalizing Relations with Israel
And why the political elites hate America’s president so much. My latest in FrontPage: “This is one of the great days in the history of Sudan,” President Trump declared Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added: “Today, Khartoum is saying yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel and yes to normalization with […]
Iran Denounces Sudan’s Normalization Agreement As Paying ‘Ransom’
Tehran appears to be almost as unhinged as the Palestinians in its reaction to the normalization agreements that three Arab states – the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan (once its government approves the deal) – have now made with Israel. Iran’s charge of “ransom” is reported on here: “Iran slams Sudan’s Israel deal, says it paid […]
The Trump Administration’s Geopolitical Hat Trick
Sudan has become the third Arab country to agree to normalize relations with Israel. The Palestinians are most unhappy: “Palestinians condemn ‘shameful’ Israel-Sudan accord,” by Khaled Abu Toameh and Celia Jean, Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2020: The Palestinian Authority said on Friday that it “condemns and rejects” the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel. […]
Trump announces that Sudan and Israel have agreed to normalization of relations
#BREAKING: President @realDonaldTrump has announced that Sudan and Israel have agreed to the normalization of relations— another major step toward building peace in the Middle East with another nation joining the Abraham Accords 🇸🇩 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 — Judd Deere (@JuddPDeere45) October 23, 2020 As Hugh Fitzgerald discussed here yesterday, Sudan has become the latest majority-Muslim […]
Sudan Will Be Next to Normalize Relations with Israel
Sudan will soon be taken off the American list of state sponsors of terrorism. It has first to agree to pay $335 million dollars to the families of victims of Sudan-sponsored terrorism. And the next step, which is not being made explicit but that everyone understands is coming, will be for Sudan to establish diplomatic […]
Sudan: Sovereignty Council to normalize ties with Israel
In return for getting off the terror list. The art of the deal. “Sudanese Sovereignty Council to normalize ties with Israel: source to i24NEWS,” i24NEWS, October 15, 2020: Sudan said to face ultimatum from US demanding normalization in exchange for removal from terror support list The Sudanese Sovereignty Council decided to go ahead with normalizing […]
Update: Will Sudan Be Next to Normalize Relations with Israel?
In late-August I posted an article “Is Sudan Next?” where I discussed the possibility – the likelihood – that after the United Arab Emirates, the next Arab state to normalize relations with Israel was likely to be either the Sudan or Bahrain. At the time, most bets were on Bahrain, so naturally, wanting to go […]
Sudan: Christian students must study Islam, Christian education dropped, then government claims this was ‘error’
Christians in Sudan have every reason to be skeptical about the government’s intentions. The country is experiencing a fierce tug of war between its habitual Islamic supremacist abuse of Christians and what appears to be a move by its transitional government toward greater tolerance for the Christian community and the restoration of peace in the […]
Francis Buk Video: ‘My Escape From Slavery in Sudan’
This new Glazov Gang episode features Francis Buk, a former slave in Sudan who escaped his enslavement and is now an abolitionist. (Read his memoir Escape from Slavery and help him to free modern-day slaves by supporting iabolish.org.) Francis shares The Nightmare I Experienced Under Slavery and My Escape, revealing also how the Left […]
Is Sudan Next?
After the United Arab Emirates’s agreement both to recognize Israel and to normalize relations with it, there has been much excited talk about which Arab state would be the first to follow suit. Bahrain, Oman, Sudan, Morocco have all been mentioned. In mid-August, most bets were on Bahrain, or seemed to be; a week later, […]
Sudan: Muslims protest against abolition of death penalty for leaving Islam, call for jihad against government
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. Accordingly, some Muslims will never accept its being set aside: Allah’s laws override all man-made laws. The death penalty for leaving Islam is based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from […]
Sudan abolishes death penalty for apostasy, eases Sharia restrictions
“The transitional government in Sudan passed a series of amendments that repeal the death sentence for apostasy, public flogging and female genital mutilation, giving Christians hope for the future” following the toppling of the hardline Islamic regime of President Omar al-Bashir last year. In March, Sudan’s transitional government abolished Islamic committees that confiscated church properties; […]
Sudan: Mosque leaders incite Muslims to attack Christians, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” stab Christian to death
This will get no coverage in the establishment media, which is indefatigably committed to the idea that Muslims are always and in every case victims. News that doesn’t fit the narrative doesn’t get attention. “Christians Attacked in Sudan after Incitement by Mosque Leaders in Khartoum,” Morning Star News, June 24, 2020: JUBA, South Sudan (Morning […]
U.S. Supreme Court rules victims of jihad bombings in 1998 can sue for billions
A victory for victims of jihad terror: “The Supreme Court sided Monday with victims of Al Qaeda’s 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, ruling unanimously that they were eligible for punitive damages from Sudan, which was found to have assisted the terror organization.” The attacks killed hundreds and wounded thousands more. In 2001, many […]
Sudan criminalizes female genital mutilation, but this move is unlikely to end the practice
Why is this unlikely to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Sudan? Because female genital mutilation has justification in Islamic law, and Islamic law is considered divine law, superseding all human law. This story repeats the usual establishment media line: “People in countries where FGM is still common attempt to link it to […]
Muslim cleric says “hatred and hostility” toward Jews is “part of our faith”
Abdallah Hassan Jiballah can make a strong case to support his words, based on the Qur’an. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah […]
Sudan: Muslim Brotherhood planned jihad attacks, strengthening case for terrorist designation
The Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for North America states: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands […]
Sudan: Muslims burn down two Christian churches in the past month
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Two Churches Burned Down in Sudan Amidst Changes,” International Christian Concern, March 19, 2020: 03/19/2020 Sudan (International Christian Concern) – According to Radio Dabanga, two churches have been burned down by arsonists over the past month. Radio Dabanga received a report from a local lawyer and human rights defender named […]
Sudan’s transitional government abolishes Islamic committees that confiscated church properties
Finally, some good news for Sudan’s Christian population, which has suffered both racism and religious persecution for being Christian. Sudan’s transitional government was formed last August by the military and civilian protesters after former President Omar al-Bashir was ousted. The government “pledged to build a new national army that aims to represent the country’s diversity, […]