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December
9, 2007
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.
Honigman
Archive
Gerald
A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done
extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his website at
http://geraldahonigman.com/.
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