November 2006

Woohooooooooo, I’m done with my freaking exams!! Alright so before packing up my stuff, I decided to test the podcast feature and see if it actually works. I did a quick rant over a beat that I made just now in like 10 minutes. It’s got a “happy feel” to it. I mean hey can you blame me? I’m done with my papers. Yaaaaaay! Excuse the sound quality though. Let me know if you all have any problem downloading and listenting to it. BTW let’s try doing something to make this blog a little more “interactive”. If you have a mic, do a short recording that is less than 30 seconds. Say something like “Hi, my name is bla bla bla, I’m from bla bla bla and I looove the Sudanese Thinker” After that attach the sound clips and send them to me by email. In the next podcast I’ll put them all together so that we can all get to know how each one of us sounds like. It will make the discussions a little more “personal” since we’ll be able to associate the voice with the words everytime we read each others’ comments. Words alone are a little too dry. It should be cool don’t you think?

Download by clicking here. I hope it works.

Oh yes he does! Too bad he’s going to need some really good acting classes and more consistency in order to seem more believeable. The filthy Jews, oh the filthy Jews… at least they ain’t so filthy this time. I mean hey they only killed 9000 darkies in Darfur right? It could have been worse. Oh well… this is all so “lovely”!

Busy. More on this later.

Check out the response of Sudanese opposition parties to al-Bashir’s propaganda rant.

Nov 28, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese political parties criticised President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday, saying that in a news conference broadcast live to nine countries he showed signs of denial and lack of respect for Sudanese lives.

“Signs of denial” and “lack of respect”? Hmmmm. That was said with some real heavy sugar coating. I would put it very differently but I’m going to behave myself and zip my mouth. Otherwise you’re going to see a lot of F-words here and there all over the place.

…”When he denies the sun in the middle of the day that means either he is not serious or he thinks people are fools,” added Rahman, who is political secretary of the opposition party.

Yes apparently we’re all retarded ignorant fools. Oh mighty al-Bashir, oh great one you are so much smarter than all of us.

Mariam al-Mahdi, spokeswoman for the opposition Umma Party, said Bashir has shown a lack of respect for the lives of Sudanese people, adding that a few months ago he had said 10,000 people have been killed in the troubled region of western Sudan, more than the 9,000 he mentioned on Monday night.

Yup, I remember reading that in previous articles too. Oh mighty al-Bashir. Please, oh please, oh please… if you’re going to lie, at least be consistent. Yesterday it’s 10,000. Today it’s 9,000. Tomorrow it will be 5,000. Please our beloved president, oh please… consistency please… consistency!

“How can our last resort — the president — belittle the deaths of Sudanese people?” she said.

Hmmmm. Let me think. Ouch my head hurts. I need to think harder. Oh yaaaay. I figured it out. A big light bulb just appeared over my head. Grrrrr, apparently Mariam al-Mahdi is living in cloud 9. He belittles them simply because he just doesn’t give a “fish”. Is it so hard to figure that out?

The world’s largest humanitarian operation is under way in Darfur, with around 14,000 aid workers caring for 2.5 million driven from their homes during 3-1/2 years of conflict.

Bashir said the aid workers were trying to prolong the crisis to keep their jobs.

Ya sure, because Darfur is just such a wonderful place and aid workers simply love chilling there. They don’t want to leave. Oh no they don’t want to. They’ll cry and they’ll all get heartbroken after leaving. People of the world, come to Darfur the best vacation spot on the planet. Ask the aid workers and they’ll tell you how much they love it there. Oh yes the corpses, the raped pregnant women, the death, the destruction, the misery, the despair, it’s all just so very lovely. You’ll really enjoy it.

“Ultimately foreigners are more kind to our people than our president,” said Mahdi.

Well of course they are. What did you think? The filthy dogs just want our oil and uranium. That’s why they’re kinder. They’re just pretending and waiting for the right time to strike. God damn you filthy Western Christian CrUSAders and piggy apes Jews. Leave us alone. Our president is going to help us.

Grrrrrr. You have no idea how depressing this all is. This all wouldn’t be necessary if we actually had a government that cared for the people. We wouldn’t need no aid workers. We wouldn’t need no damn UN and we wouldn’t need no damn AU. Too bad the country that was once called “the bread basket”, a country with so much potential is now in such bad horrible shape.

I don’t even know how people who do this can live with themselves. Don’t they even have a conscience?

Fatma gently unwraps the bright, pink folds of her shawl, to reveal her baby girl

By Ishbel Matheson

Nov 24, 2006 — The sickly, three-month-old child, named Hawa, is the result of terrible atrocity.

When Arab militia, known as Janjaweed, came to Fatma’s home in January, they threatened to kill her father.

Fatma intervened but the gunmen turned on her.

“They said to me: ’You are a prostitute’,” she says.

“They pinned me down, one on my hands and one on my legs. The others took turns.”

Fatma was held for four hours and raped repeatedly.

They left her alive, but injured so badly, that she could not walk.

When her family eventually found her, they had to carry her home.

Marked for life

Two months later, Fatma realised that she was pregnant. She is just 15 years old.

“At first my father wanted to throw me out. But others pleaded with him.”

Her family moved to a refugee camp in the town of Kass, along with other survivors from her village.

But in this traditional society, Fatma and her baby are marked for life. The young mum tells how neighbours whisper about her.

“They say I’m a bad girl - that I had this Janjaweed baby. They say that I should be sent away,” she says.

As she speaks, baby Hawa frets and cries. She is malnourished and light as a feather.

Her mother presses her to her breast, but she has no milk.

We ask an older woman who is present, to try to help us soothe the baby.

She refuses, cursing the child as if she were a bad omen.

“She is calling the baby ‘a dirty girl’,” says Unicef’s Eman el-Tigani.

“Fatma has no future here. Islam does not allow for a baby to be killed. Otherwise this baby would be dead.”

Rape ’commonplace’

Fatma and her baby are victims of a brutal scorched-earth campaign in this remote region in western Sudan.

More than two million people have been driven from their lands, in what the UN has called it the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”. Human rights groups say Arab militia backed by the Sudanese government are seizing the land from Africans in Darfur.

The Sudanese government says it has been fighting a rebellion. It denies funding and arming the militia.

Whatever the politics of the conflict, the crime of rape is disturbingly prevalent.

Every day, aid workers hear reports of women and girls from African tribes being abducted and gang-raped.

Shame amid love

Fatma is not the only one to be bearing the baby of a enemy fighter.

As she tells her story, other heavily pregnant women listen.

Hawa Seliman Mohammed, 24, is due to deliver any day now. She was grabbed by the Janjaweed militia, while taking a shower on the outskirts of her besieged village.

Like many victims, she believes rape is being used as a deliberate weapon in this war.

“They want to destroy everything,” she says. “By violating us, they want to make our men ashamed and to demoralise them.”

There is one report of a Darfuri woman who has tried to abandon her Janjaweed baby.

But Fatma loves her child. She rocks her, murmuring her name.

“I feel ashamed, because she is the child of a Janjaweed - and they are the ones who are carrying out this war against us. But I will keep her. I want my baby.”

And this is what the UN Human Rights Council has to say. We live in such a wonderful world!

Okay now this is news to me. I just read the following on a thread in Mideast Youth’s forum.

Has anyone seen this documentary [The Ringworm Children]? I’ve been trying to find a video of it but cannot find it anywhere.

Apparently this documentary reveals one ugly secret of Israel’s past: deliberate radiation poisoning of 100,000 Sephardic Jews in the early 50’s, complete with equipment provided by the U.S. They were apparently singled out due to their darker skin complexion than the Ashkenazic Jews.

From what I heard about the documentary, I am absolutely disgusted that this happened, and the lack of outrage shown towards the Israeli government for hiding this. Here they are expecting repatriations for the Holocaust, yet deny this to the Sephardic victims of mass radiation poisioning who are apparently affected to this day(kind of like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents).

WTFish?!! Is this for real? What kind of sick hypocritical racist animals would do this? I’m surprised that this isn’t even well known in the Arab and Muslim worlds. If more Muslims found out about this, we could have much bigger anti-Israel carnivals!

Many of you have heard about the story of Jamal Miftah who wrote an article condemning terrorism and ended up getting kicked out of his community mosque by some retarded dumb Muslims in Oklahoma. The news came as a big shock to me. Why on earth would true Muslims oppose what Jamal Miftah did? Hell, they should bloody thank him for being brave enough to speak against that sick filthy terrorist called Bin Laden. LGF has already jumped all over this article. Now I seriously despise the dumb Muslims or so called “Muslims” who did this to Jamal Miftah but I absolutely support him 120%. Be sure to check out Ali’s interview with him. It should be up soon at eteraz.org (a site that I highly recommend you check out regularly). Let’s give Jamal Miftah our full support.

In this article Bashir says the following

“Any talk that we accepted joint forces is a lie,” Bashir told a news conference.

Bashir reiterated his rejection of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorising about 22,500 U.N. troops and police to take over from the ill-equipped AU force which has failed to stem the violence in Darfur.

“It is clear that any forces coming to Sudan under resolution 1706 are colonising forces,” he said.

And this article states the following

The African Union and United Nations have agreed on the first phase of transforming the cash-strapped AU peace mission in Sudan’s Darfur region into a “hybrid” AU-UN force, officials said.

Amid lingering questions over Khartoum’s readiness to accept UN participation in a joint peacekeeping operation, UN and AU officials signed a memorandum of understanding here Saturday for phase one of the plan, they said.

…The second is a “Heavy Support Package” and the third and most contentious stage is a merger, on which Khartoum’s position remains unclear after an agreement “in principal” was announced here on November 16 by UN chief Kofi Annan.

…Khartoum has given contradictory signals about its acceptance of a hybrid mission, with debate continuing over the exact number of UN personnel to be involved and what countries could contribute.

Has Sudan really accepted the deal and is simply downplaying that fact? Or are the UN and AU moving ahead without a clear “green light” from al-Bashir? The language used in recent reports is so blurry sometimes and I’m trying hard to make sense of it.

America will withdraw sooner than expected and violence will erupt further like a volcano. Many people will die and suffer. Many will sadly go through hell. The volcano will keep firing out its hot lava but eventually the volcano will calm down. Yes, it will calm down but not because of any American efforts to help calm it. It will calm as a result of Iran using its influence over the Shia in Iraq and Syria stopping al-Qaeda fighters from crossing the border. Iran and Syria will both save the day. As the violence calms, Iran’s status in the region will rise higher and higher… much higher than the status it gained after Hezbollah’s war with Israel. Eventually Iran will be credited by the Arab and Muslim streets for kicking out America and in their eyes America will be made to look like a bitch. At that moment, Iran would have officially become the region’s new superpower.

When/if? the above happens, I’ll remember 3 things for the days to come. I’ll remember how America screwed up big time in its expectations of the Iraqis’ reactions and screwed up bigger time by underestimating the enemies’ vicious tactics. Secondly, I’ll remember how Iran and Syria helped force America out of Iraq using the “loveliest” and most “ethical” means ever. Thirdly and lastly, I’ll remember the realization I have made as I witnessed all this drama unfold right before me. The realization? America does certainly have the toughest military machine in the world but not the tough will to use it.

By now the whole world knows about the worst terrorist attack to ever rock Baghdad. 200 are dead and more than 200 are injured. The attack was a disgusting act of terror carried out by Sunni terrorists against innocent Shia as an act of revenge. Do I also need to point out the following which Big Pharaoh stated already?

Love isn’t it?

Coalition troops and especially US troops are struggling to keep order, while the filthy terrorists continue killing innocent people (women and children included) and continue wrecking havoc in hopes that America will finally leave and be defeated.What kind of a sick strategy is that?

I’m fed up with all these retarded people who are so damn happy that the “kuffar terrorist Americans” are suffering. That’s apparently what some guy I bumped into today said and what I bet many are also saying. He’s happy about the news of the attack. He’s happy that US troops are failing in helping Iraqis establish a democracy and getting the mission accomplished. He’s happy that the American military machine can’t stop the terrorists. His hatred for America is much greater than his desire to see Iraqis living in a peaceful democratic country.

Now I seriously can’t get it? How are “filthy kuffar” US troops the terrorists in this case? The pigs responsible for Abu Ghraib? Terrorists. Yes, in my dictionary, they’re terrorists. The low life horrendous sub-human animals who raped the Iraqi girl and killed all her family? Yes, absolute disgusting terrorists. Hiroshima & Nagasaki? Yes, an act of terror. In my dictionary that’s an act of terror. US army now in Iraq? Terrorists? Really? Terrorists?

A few filthy American soldiers don’t mean that the whole American army is a terrorist army. It’s not (ask the Kuwaitis and see what they’ll tell you). I know a few people in the US marines. Hell, one of them is a good friend of mine and used to be my classmate and I can tell you straight up that he’s no damn terrorist for sure. He’s the absolute opposite actually and probably one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

American troops are already in Iraq whether we like it or not and they’re working hard to help the Iraqis bring order. Shouldn’t we support that? Yes, stupid Rumsfailed has failed. Yes, new strategies are needed. Yes, there have been disgusting acts committed by some US soldiers. But still shouldn’t we oppose the terrorists there? I mean for God’s sake, how on earth are they “freedom fighters”? They don’t even follow Islamic law when it comes to Jihad. Do they? No, they DON’T. At least the US army isn’t interested in killing innocent people on purpose. Because if they were they wouldn’t be wasting their time and money developing high tech precision guided missiles costing millions of dollars to surgically strike enemy targets and avoid civilian casualties as much as possible. Why would they want to go through that entire headache if they really did love killing innocent people? Why? Tell me please because maybe somewhere in my brain there’s some lose nut that needs some tightening. Tell me. Why would they bother with all that?

Forgive me for my angry rant but I don’t want to discuss the reasons Americans went into Iraq. I’m not interested in arguing about the reasons for America’s invasion and whether it was justified or not because that’s not the real question here. The real question here is about ethics of battle so please anti-American, pro-Iraqi militia people tell me… tell me if you’re out there who the real terrorists are. Who are they? Are the real terrorists the US troops or the Iraqi militia? I’m just dying to know. And for the record, if you’re anti-American, fine. You know what? No, seriously, it’s fine. It’s all good with me. Those are your political views and I respect them, but if your anti-Americanism is so intense to the point that it blinds you from the obvious, then there’s something seriously wrong with you. No? Fine, then. Tell me, who are the real terrorists? Are they the US troops or the Iraqi militia? And while you’re at it, you can probably check this post by Neurotic Iraqi Wife for another perspective and this one too called “Righteous Indignation” by Mesopotamian. Oh ya and one more thing… may butcher Bin Laden, blood thirsty Sadr and all their filthy followers burn in hell. Amen!

Sorry but I just had to post this especially after stumbling upon 2 items that cracked me up like hell. LOL.

The first is this post on Twosret’s blog entitled Special Dedication To Sandmonkey & His Loser Republican Crowd. You should read the comments.

The second is the following photo which I found on Libyan Observer’s blog

Hehehehehehe, are donkey balls even Halal to eat? Damn Sandmonkey are you there? You sure do have some “special fans” or should I say “haters”. Oh well, at least I enjoy your blog and find it very interesting. Just in case you need a damage control team for your new Sandmonkey PR campaign, let me know. I’d most probably love to volunteer.

Oh well, so much for tolerating opposite opinions. Long live the Sandmonkey who says what he wants, whenever he wants, the way he wants with zero sugar coating! LOL

Cool. Al-Azhar organized a rally with the help of a German activist aimed at opposing the stupid practice of FGM. BTW in case you didn’t know, FGM has no place in Islam. It’s a stupid cultural practice. (hat tip: Nominally Challenged)

Yaaaay, the conspiracy theories have already started. God, what took them so long? (hat tip: eteraz)

Interesting pro-Bush article by a Southern Sudanese political analyst.

Is this for real? Should I go out and celebrate? What’s the point of a cease-fire if the recognition conditions aren’t met anyways? Hmmm interesting. I guess that probably means, we’ll witness a period of calm which will eventually again be followed by war. So… what’s new?

I finally made some free time to finish up the “What’s Darfur really about?” page on “We blog for Darfur”. It took me quite a while to get satisfied with it. I wanted to make sure what I said there was “non-politicized” as much as possible. Anyways, I still have to add a few more pages. The campaign will be officially launched very early December. And please remember this is not a “Drima initiative”. It’s a group effort conducted by Mideast Youth in collaboration with Good Neighbours. BTW I also remembered that the long version of the “About me” section has been rotting in my hard disk for a while now. I just added it. Check it out here. It’s mainly for my new visitors who still don’t me well and for familiarizing future visitors