Posted on 10/24/2001 8:56:25 AM PDT by elenchus
Before I start, I must let you know that I am too a moslem from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. I have lost faith in this Islamic Religion. Moslem Arabs have no respect for African moslems. Most of our people in the Nuba are moslems. In Southern Sudan, most of the people there are christans. But regardless, the Nuba people and South Sudanese are faing the same brutal fire of this so called ISLAMIC Jihad, declared by Arab Sudanese with full support and backing of the Arab World. My tribe the Nuba people are an independeant and proud people but in less than 7 years the Arab Islamic government have decimated our people(tribe) from 1.5 million strong to less than 250,000, although 70% of us are moslem. On the other hand 4 million Southerners were killed either by man-made starvation, chemical gas attacks, anthrax, or by the bullet. For years the Arab world designed and tested their chemical and biological weapons on our people.
Yes the war in Sudan is a Jihad against christians, animist and African moslems. We are being killed together with the Southerners because we stood up to the Arabs in support of our brothers in the South. We stood up to the Arabs because we are also facing the same injustices given to the Southerners. Arabs have no respect for black people and they hate us regardless of moslem or not, you are a slave. I am therefor appealing to my moslem brothers to come to our rescue and I hope they would seriously consider condemning and put pressure on Arab slavery and racism in Sudan, Mauritania and the whole of North Africa.
We are a proud and warrior people. We are capable of defending our selves and we take great pride in our culture and tradition. Our people have fought the arab mujaheedin invasion of Africa since the 7 century. But we are growing weaker and weaker everyday. We can no longer resist the continuel Arab invasion because they are now using modern weapons, Chemical gas, jet fighters and helicopter gunships. Even a proud warrior can do nothing when the arabs attack our villages and rape our women and take some of them slaves. We can only stand and watch and weep for the curse that have befallen us. Yes, some of our people are primitives, most of them are uneducated and live in mud houses, but regardless of that we did not bother anyone. We live in our primitive culture and some will call it backwardness in peace. We did not go to Arabia and enslave them. Why then do they come to our land and enslave us? Why do they kill us in the name of this psychotic Jihad. Why do they kill us in the name of Islam? Why, why and why? If the war continues and Africans and African Americans stand by and watch and do nothing, then in the next coming 7-8 years, there will be no more Africans left in the Sudan. We will perish and go to our graves angry at all black people for not helping us.
We have lost too many people, more than in Bosnia, Afgahnistan, Rwanda and east Timor combined. Too many that it makes me sick of Arabs. I am so angry. I am angery at all Africans for not coming to the rescue of their brothers in the Sudan. I am angry at African Americans for not coming to the rescue of Africans in the Sudan. African Americans campaigned vigorously for our Brothers in South Africa during the apartheid regime. I am so angry at Jesse Jackson for keeping silent becasue he is afraid of offending the Arabs. I am angry at the Nation of Islam for denying the existence of slavery In Sudan and Africa. I am angry at Minister Farakhan for turning a blind eye and deaf ear, even though he Farakahn personnally went to Sudan in 1995-98 and saw the atrocities there with his own eyes.
What is even more saddening is the behavior of some members of the Nation of Islam. Whenever we try to make our case known to the World, and to Americans, we are attacked be the Nation of Islam and the American Muslim Council, Islamic council of America and the various moslem organizations in America and Canada. They accuse us of being anti- islam and anti- arab. They want us to keep quite and to not speak. If we try to demonstrate around the World, for e.g in Washington, the American Muslim Council harasses as and counter demonstrate. It is like, they want to commit atrocities against our people, but we must just sit tight and die without making our case known.
Minister Louis Farrakhan went to Sudan and we showed him everything there. He was so upset to learn about the Arab slavery in my country and he promised to make African Americans aware. But when he came to the US, he betrayed us. In a speech after his return from Sudan, Farakhan denied the existences of slavery in Sudan and instead attacked and accused the Africans of Sudan. In one of his speeches Farakkhan said “'They ( Sudanese Africans) are not like us.' Farrakhan asserted, while pointing at his skin color. 'But they are Black, Black, ---, (the word black repeated 11 times)' according to the recorded speech”. He dismissed and declared the intensity of the war (now more than 4 million African Sudanese died according to conservative estimate) as something brought about by a bunch of African rebels in the Sudan.
This behavior is further practiced with impunity by the various Nation of Islam members such as Cedric Muhammad of the Blackelectorate and by the Final call.
Try this one. Only a few hrs old and hot off the wire:
Don't forget the "Yom Kippur" war in '73 when 6 arab nations attacked Israel on one of their principal holidays -- and got their clocks cleaned :)
AMEN! I'm trying to convince people of this, but it's like trying to hold back the tides with your hands.
So why aren't blacks suing China or Islamic Countries for "reparations?"
I'm going to forward this info to the mainstream black civil rights organizations and see if there's any response (the naacp never answers my e-mails).
Actually a cult is defined as a group that claims to be the best,or purest form of a religion while denying one of more of that religions essential teachings.
He replied that none of his committees dealt with those type of issues.
So much for Liberal compassion.
I think its really hard to differentiate what is a cult from what is a religion. For example, the families killed in the Waco disaster were termed "cult" members. If these people had been practicing some form of Judiasm I can assure you that there would have been investigations and condemnations from every sector of government and their would have been culprits found and dealt with.
Defining something as a cult and not a religion is strictly a personal viewpoint and must incorporate personal bias.
In my experience living amonmg them, I term Islam as a political system and not a religion.
Have a nice day.
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