South Sudan independent, jihad continues
The Republic of South Sudan is independent today. But the jihad against it is sure not to let up. This new nation deserves the support of all free nations. "Jihad In Sudan Redux," from Christian News Today, July 9:
On July 9, the mostly Christian South Sudan will legally and officially separate from the Muslim north and become a new, independent and free country. Fearing loss of its iron clad grip of other non-Arab regions in the north, whose people likely envy the freedoms won by the South, Arab/Islamist leaders in Khartoum have launched a military assault on the Nuba Mountains, a mixed Christian, animist and Muslim region. Reports from the area are gruesomely reminiscent of the decades-long assault Khartoum waged on the South. These include forced conversions to Islam, mass displacement, bombing of civilians and mass slaughter. Anticipating the effects of Christians winning freedom from his rule already in December of 2010 Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity, laid out a vision for the future of his nation:Read it all.
"If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity... Sharia (Islamic law) and Islam will be the main source for the constitution, Islam the official religion and Arabic the official language", he told a group of supporters.
Al-Bashir made his statement as the people of Southern Sudan were preparing to vote in the referendum that secured their imminent independence. With less than a week left before South secedes, al-Bashir is determined to fulfill his promise not by changing the constitution, but through murder and ethnic cleansing.
After concluding a military occupation of the disputed border region of Abyei, which resulted in the expulsion of more than 100,000 (non-Arabs, mostly from the Dinka tribe), Sudanese army and government-sponsored Arab militias attacked the African tribes of Nuba Mountains, a region situated in the Northern state of Southern Kordofan. Reports indicate indiscriminate bombings of civilians and a systematic killing of the black-skinned Nuba, which forced estimated 100,000 to abandon their homes. One report described "door to door executions of completely innocent and defenseless civilians, often by throat cutting." Another suggested the government might be using chemical weapons. The Bishop of Nuba Mountains described the events as genocide: "Once again we are facing the nightmare of genocide of our people in a final attempt to erase our culture and society from the face of the earth." A well-respected Sudan analyst concurred.
Nuba embody the diversity of culture and religion that al-Bashir wants to destroy. Numbering some 1.5 million, Nuba people are Christians, Muslims and the followers of traditional faiths. It is not uncommon to find the adherents of all faiths within a single family. Comprising from more than fifty tribes and speaking an equal number of languages, the Nuba have an incredibly diverse culture.
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Right?
http://www.persecution.org/2011/07/08/south-sudan-sharia-law-and-jihad-leads-to-birth-of-a-new-nation-tomorrow/
Can't have that, can we? Wouldn't be PC, after all...
Besides, if they did, they'd actually be reporting the news.
"The Bishop of Nuba Mountains described the events as genocide: "Once again we are facing the nightmare of genocide of our people in a final attempt to erase our culture and society from the face of the earth." A well-respected Sudan analyst concurred".
The United Nations should be in there helping pervent the genocide of Christians or any others that simply want to live in peace. The United States should be there helping out instead of wasting billions of dollars on an ideology that hates Americans and will always hate Americans....
Allies can't be bought. But we can and should be saving lives in the Sudan. Those people are being slaughtered while the U.N. and the U.S.A. keep trying to buy allies in the middle-east.
Sad.Why do Muslims not care?It is because they have double standards
If it is Muslim killing Muslims or Muslims killing non-Muslims they do not care.
But if non-Muslims kill Muslims(Bosnia,by Israel,by Russian,by US)then there is reaction.Read
http://www.antisharia.com/2011/02/06/the-double-standards-of-the-great-majority-of-muslims-regarding-the-killing-of-innocent-people-2/
ALSO ABOUT OMAR BASHIR
Though he has killed some 250,000-300,000 Muslims the OIC(Organization of Islamic Conference)refuses to arrest him
http://www.antisharia.com/2011/03/24/about-joseph-kony-and-omar-bashirboth-condemned-by-the-international-court-for-crimes-against-humanity/
"Aid agencies fear bloodbath in Sudan as the south gets ready for independence"
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012490/South-Sudan-independence-day-Aid-agencies-fear-bloodbath.html#ixzz1RheQZW4b
It is amazing that he is well-respected. When I tell the truth about the Sudan, which I have been to several times and try to report factually, the respect is nowhere. I am a "bigot."
There is little mention of the religious aspects of southern Sudan's birthday in the left wing media and if there is, a false moral equivalency is ascribed to it (as if Christians are equally culpable as the muslims in initiating bloodshed).
What will happen to all these left wingers when/if shariah law comes to them? They will suffer the most. It is as if they are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or maybe the funding for these media outlets are Saudi based.
South Sudan is not going to become a thriving nation of Modernists just because they aren't Muslims. It could become Israel if it were populated by Israelis. It will become a manifestation of the Will of the people, a reification of the minds of the masses. As things stand we should not expect much more than a failed state south of north. The people of South Sudan have not had any real chance to develop a culture of high Modernist achievement in the world today. Without that development there is no magic wand to make the desert bloom. It takes people with ideas, not about what to do, but about how to do the smallest, most boring and difficult daily routines that don't pay off for years and decades. It takes a bourgeois mentality to shave pennies daily and save them till they become pounds. That doesn't happen in a subsistence culture under attack from jihadis. It comes from decades of training by those who have the understanding already, who are willing and able, and more importantly, who are allowed to live and work as successful examples of the success of the bourgeois mentality. The successful can, and if they are to truly succeed and survive over the long term, which in the Modern world today they are not doing as well as they should, they mustn't be satisfied with the obvious lesson of success that anyone can see: the successful must take it upon themselves to train others, to teach, to show, to hire and guide and replicate their success in the lives of others. If South Sudan is to survive it must have social capital imported from outside, a resource that the local population can exploit in exchange for a future prosperity. To attract social capital from outside, locals must have the sense to allow social capital to arrive and thrive. Local resentment will kill that idea with the first massacre of foreigners who make more of anything than the locals. But, if the locals can understand a teacher/pupil relationship with the locals in a subordinate if temporary position, then in the future, as is so often the real case, the student will surpass his master. It requires humility. A warrior and familist and xenophobic culture will not survive in South Sudan against a more sophisticated and violent and aggressive Islamic North. There is great hope for the souther people, but all of it depends only on them and their attitude toward the world they live in but do not necessarily understand clearly as of yet.
Christians around the world living under threat and actual violnce from Muslims could have a sanctuary in South Sudan, bringing only themselves as social capital to create a new Zion in South Sudan. That will depend on the Sudanese themselves. If they reject their co-religionists in favour of tribalism and familism, then they will be destroyed and the world will carry on just fine without them. The alternative is to import Christians in their persecuted millions as minds at work willing to work. Up to Sudanese alone.