The Problem With Darfur’s Muslims Is…
by Gerald A. Honigman
They’re Not Arabs. Like Iraq’s Kurds or North Africa’s Amazigh (Berbers).
The title of a recent AP news brief read, “EU May Not Heed Darfur Call.”
While the European sycophants of medieval Arab oil sheiks, who recently sentenced a gang rape victim to jail and two hundred lashes, have and will be pouring in billions of dollars in aid and such to support the birth of Arab state # 22 ( 2nd, not 1st, Arab one in “Palestine”), predictably, all they mostly have to offer to support victims of out right Arab murder and racism is hot air.
After the Arabs burst out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and slaughtered, conquered, and forcibly Arabized millions of non-Arab peoples in the process, the Sudan (Nubia, etc.) held out for quite some time. In other parts of non-Arab North Africa, native Jews aligned with “Berbers” to resist this conquest as well.
Back in the ‘60s when I was starting college, the Arab-Israeli conflict, as usual, never left center stage. After the ‘67 Six Day War–when Israel turned the tables on the latest Arab attempt on its life big time–Israel lost its status as David to the Arab Goliath for daring to refuse to go silently into the night while the rest of the world once again looked on…as the latter is doing today with other Arab victims.
At virtually the same time in the ‘60s, the first modern civil war broke out between the non-Muslim black south and the Arab and Arabized north in the Sudan.
Sudan President Nimeiry’s stated during the slaughter of over a half million blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that…
“…the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into…black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).”
Rudyard Kipling’s late 19th century poem, The White Man’s Burden, supposedly typifies Western colonialist and imperialist attitudes towards the Third World. If that’s the case, then what does Nimeiry and the example below, expressed in the Syrian Arab Constitution of the Ba’th, typify…?
] “…The Arab fatherland belongs to the Arabs. They alone have the right to direct its destinies…The Arab fatherland is that part of the globe inhabited by the Arab nation which stretches from the Taurus Mountains, the Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean, the Ethiopian Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.”
Arabs habitually refer to most of the region as “purely Arab patrimony”…the Arab-Israeli and other such conflicts in a nutshell.
The more recent full scale outbreak of violence in the Sudan has an even more revealing twist.
While earlier violence there and elsewhere could largely be seen as modern extensions of the fourteen century -old clash between the Dar ul-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, the one in the Sudan’s Darfur (as those in Arab-occupied Kurdistan and much of the rest of North Africa) is mostly about Arab racism and chauvinism…pure and simple. You know, those folks who like to scream about “racist Zionism.” Over a thousand years earlier, this led to the overthrow of the Syrian-based Arab imperialist Umayyad Caliphate.
So, in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, it’s Arab versus black…regardless of religion. Ditto for Arab versus Kurd, Amazigh, and so forth.
In Sudan’s largely non-Muslim south, it’s a combination of both Arab racism and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam…as exemplified also in the expected subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon’s Christians, Near Eastern Assyrians, and Israel, the Jew of the Nations, home to whom Arabs call “their” kilab yahud…Jew dogs.
Think carefully about all the above…especially in light of the additional bare-the necks-of-your-kids-even- further concessions Israel is expected to next make for the sake of a post-Annapolis “peace (of the grave)” with those still dedicated to its destruction–regardless of what the American President and his Secretary of State shamefully proclaim.