From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Sudanese Blogosphere in the Making!! Wohoooo!!

by Drima on November 23, 2006

OMG someone used the words… someone used the words “Sudanese blogosphere”. A Dane in Uganda actually used those words. Yaaay! This is a good day!

I like the alternative versions of the news and development in Sudan and some interesting stuff is going on in the Sudanese blogsphere, which is surely not just limited to Sudan - it is global:

Black Kush who writes from Juba - an independent look on Sudan in an African context.

John Akec - a Sudanese blogging from London - promoting sustainable development in Southern Sudan - and a lot of other stuff.

The Sudanese Thinker - Drima is blogging from South East Asia - the world seen from a Sudanese’s point of view. In particular I like his 10 Rules. The man has got some essential points.

Hipster - young moslem girl - mainly writing in poetry style, commenting on stuff from the Mohammed cartoons to a muslim identity. Very cool photo, indeed.

Fluent Sudani a Sudanese blogging from New York. Check his Sudanese proverbs here.

Precious - a young woman from Umdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan - Interesting to read what a young woman thinks of life in Northern Sudan.

A few months ago when I started blogging, I was so depressed over the fact there was no Sudanese blogosphere and I was like “what the hell is up with us?”. Darfur is rotting and yet there is no Sudanese voice on the blogosphere “representing” or anything. Another thing that made it even more depressing is when I looked at other countries. I mean the Iraqi blogosphere has thousands of blogs, literally thousands and most of them are damn active. The same is the case with the Egyptian blogosphere and so many other Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and to a lesser extent some African countries. But when it came to Sudan, there was nothing, zip, nada, zero! That’s when I took it upon myself to be a visible “first”. It was difficult in the start. I always felt lonely and kind of jealous especially when looking at how active the Egyptians are for example. That feeling is going away. Thank you to my “fellow Sudanese voices” for joining. The more there is of us, the better and more fruitful our Sudan-related discussions will become. To the others, thank you for your support. Be sure to visit my country mates’ blogs once in a while. Expect more Sudanese bloggers to be joining soon. Mr. Man already has. We’re already working on convincing others to join the online movement. Yaaay! :)

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Happy Thanksgiving People

by Drima on November 23, 2006

Yo, you better send me some turkey. It’s 3am, I just woke up and I’m hungry. Me want some turkey… big fat stuffed turkey! :)

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The KKK Gets a Top 5 US Billboard Album

by Drima on November 23, 2006

I did a few Google searches and found out that many blogs have been discussing the following highly disturbing article which I still don’t know where was originally published.

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RACISM GROWS
September 22, 2006

By Claudia Rosett and George Russell

What does it mean for Black America that a hate preaching music duo could debut on the Billboard albums chart?

This week, the Billboard albums chart’s top five is packed with nothing but new releases, with Bakersfield, CA Pop duo Prussian Blue shocking the nation by taking ..4 after selling 91, 000 copies of “End of A Black World” its first week out. The album is also serving as the soundtrack to a remake of one of the most controversial movies in U.S. history “Birth Of A Nation”.


“End of A Black World” is the third and most successful album for 12 and 13 year old Lamb and Lynx, who have recently relocated to a private compound in Salt Lake City, Utah after their last album gained them national attention and death threats. The girls were lost, especially in December of 2005 when their father was shot twice by an AME Minister. However, their father survived and their career was revived by what seems to be an unfathomable paradigm shift in American values.

“It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage, ” said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund.

“This is bullshit. Right now I am more so shocked that an album advocating the extermination of the black race could be so widely received by America, ” continued Shaw, who plans to protest the girls’ album and call for black artists to boycott Billboard.

Jessie Jackson of The Rainbow PUSH Coalition gave the following statement, “White America has spoken. Billboard has spoken. This is only the beginning.”

The beginning is just what Lynx and Lamb, who have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April, are hoping for. “We hope to bring about change in our people, ” said Lamb. “We hope that our album and Birth Of A Nation will show our people exactly what needs to be done to make this country safe and white.”

When asked about their inspiration for their latest efforts, Lynx gave this response. “I saw white people hating white people. I was afraid that America wanted to be black, ” said Lynx. “I saw that funny Nigger’s show where he made a mockery of the KKK and white people were laughing. This broke my heart.”

Lynx was speaking of Actor/Comedian Dave Chapelle and his comic sketch depicting a blind, African American, Ku Klux Klan leader who was unaware that he was not white. Dave Chapelle is also believed to be the inspiration of their single, “Funny Nigger, ” which describes the gruesome fate of blacks who taunt whites. Dave Chapelle was not availible for comment.

Prussian Blue appear to have gone from one of America’s dirty little secrets to Pop princesses overnight. The group is now fielding offers from major record labels such as MGM and Geffen. This may be only the beginning.

Track Listing for “End Of A Black World”

1) Dawn of A New White World
2) Birth Of A Nation
3) Purest Soul
4) Tainted Blood
5) Affirmative Blaction
6) Reggin & Ekik
7) The Cleansing (interlude)
8) Short Drop and A Quick Stop
9) Burning Cross
10) N.A.A.C.P. (Nigger’s Against A Colorless People)
11) Funny Rich Nigger’s Crack Babies
13) Nigger Lovers
14) No Darkie In Me
15) End Of A Black World

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Excuse me but this is some really screwed up shit. I mean seriously WTF? The retards even have their own official website and their own damn blog. American readers, what do you think? Frankly I’m shocked. I pitty the 2 girls but I certainly feel disgusted by their straight up screwed hate infested retarded dumb mother. What kind of a damn parent is she? A dumb hate infested racist one for sure. DUH!

UPDATE: Speaking of racism you should check out Hipster’s latest post. Lovely!

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Raccoon Has a BLOG!

by Drima on November 23, 2006

…called the really real Israel - through Raccoonish eyes. Oh and he has a picture too.


Owwww isn’t he a cute Raccoon? Just check out the beard. Very “Raccoony” I say. A little of black eye-liner and we’ll end up having a goth Raccoon. Add to that piercings too. LOL. :) … The following is from his first post:

Hello. This blog is meant to expose the real reality of what Israel is through the eyes of a Raccoon. There is too much bullshit about Israel and Israelis… hey, after all, when you hear “Israeli”, the immediate mental image is either a soldier or a victim. If you’re an Arab, then the soldier probably has horns, too. Huge ones.

Hmmmm kinda like how some people picture Muslims as evil suicidal terrorists who oppress women by forcing them to wear burkas. Good luck with the blog dude. I’ll sure be dropping by often. Hail Eris! ;)

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News From Damanga

by Drima on November 22, 2006

Sisters Fight Off Attempted Rapist Outside Ardamata IDP Camp

October 12, 2006

Two girls who were grazing cattle outside their IDP camp were attacked by a Janjaweed militia member who attempted to rape them last Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at about 11 am Darfur local time, according to three different Damanga sources who spoke with witnesses of the incident. Kondong Adeleem, age 12, and her sister Nanj Adeleem, age 15 [both Kondong and Nanj are nicknames the girls are known by] , were assaulted less than three kilometers from an IDP camp in Ardamada, a town located east of Al Geneina.

The Janjaweed militia member first attempted to rape the 12-year old, but she and her sister fought back. The older sister was stabbed in the confrontation and fell to the ground.

The attacker then attempted to rape the older girl, but the 12-year old struck him unconscious with an axe. The younger girl then ran back to the IDP camp to seek help for her sister.

Residents of the IDP camp returned to the scene of the attack and took both the injured girl and the Janjaweed militia member to the hospital for treatment. The 12-year old was not injured, but the 15-year old remains hospitalized.

The girls reported the incident to police, though it is unclear whether any action was taken.

The town of Ardamata houses many IDPs and is also the site of a base camp for Janjaweed and Sudanese army troops. Four witnesses described this attack to three different Damanga sources. The witnesses and the two girls who were attacked, are from the same village, Chubokey, east of Ardamata town. Chubokey was destroyed in a Janjaweed attack last year, and the survivors took refuge at different camps in the area, such as the camps by the villages of Ardamata, Umnaima, Kerdang and Hajer Leban .

This is not the first attack suffered by the Adeleem family. Damanga reported last year that the girls’ cousin, Abdalla Ishag Adeleem, a police officer, was killed by the Janjaweed. Mr. Adeleem, from Massaleit tribe, was in a police convoy that was ambushed by the Janjaweed and government security agents. Mr. Adeleem and several other police officers

Imam Arrested for Speaking in Support of UN Peacekeepers

October 16, 2006

Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy has learned of the arrest and detention of Mohammed Haroun, the 63-year old Imam at the Hai al-Madaris Mosque in Al Geneina. While leading the mosque’s noon prayer service on September 29, 2006 Haroun spoke in support of foreign intervention to help stop the killings in Darfur. Later that same day, he was arrested at his home along with his son Saleh Mohamed Haroun, age 47.

According to Haroun’s neighbors, four plainclothes security guards, accompanied by a driver, arrived at Haroun’s home in the Hai al-Madaris district at around eight o’clock in the evening. The guards came in a Land Cruiser pickup and were armed with machine guns. His neighbors report that Haroun and his son were taken to the security department in the Ardamata military area, located about three miles east of Al Geneina town. Neither Haroun nor his son has been seen or heard from since.

Haroun is one of several Imams in Darfur who have spoken out recently urging foreign intervention. The arrests signal a heightening of the Sudanese government’s efforts to crush support for a UN peacekeeping mission. According to Damanga Coalition’s sources in Darfur, others who have spoken out against the Sudanese government or in support of the UN have been similarly silenced.

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(hat tip: Howie)

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Israel Killed Peirre Gemayel

by Drima on November 22, 2006

Yup, that’s about what 90% of the commenters on this al-Jazeera article are saying. I think if I stole all the money from one of those commenters’ bank accounts and told him Israel did it, he’ll probably believe me. Hilarious!

Thank you Syria (which indirectly also means thank you Iran). I guess the mischief they’re helping create in Iraq is not enough for both of them.

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In War-Torn Sudan, Women Wage Peace

by Drima on November 22, 2006

Read it all.

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Sudan Hails UN Deal on Darfur, But Differences Remain

by Drima on November 21, 2006

All I hear is bla bla bla. Check it out. Meanwhile America threatens “plan B”.

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Loony Body Builder

by Drima on November 21, 2006


That’s just way too much right? I would never want my body to be as big as that. But then again, he’s a body builder so what can you expect. And what’s up with the purple? Couldn’t he have chosen another color? On the other hand though, I wonder what he’ll do to that chick in the picture if they ever do BooM BooM. I think the bed will break in half. LOL :)

(hat tip: Egyptologia)

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A Campaign is in the Works

by Drima on November 21, 2006

The previous article got me seriously disgusted and depressed. I felt so damn helpless but I don’t anymore. While discussing the Darfur situation on Mideast Youth, an important realization was made. If we were all truly aware of what’s going on, this will not happen, or it will at least not be as bad as we allow it to be. The problem is that most people are too occupied with other news. In the Western media not enough deserving attention is given to Darfur. Don’t even get me started on the Arab media though. It’s far worse.

The Arab media is a shame… a real shame. Why is there hardly anything on Darfur? Why? Is it because the victims are a bunch of “blackie darkies”? OR is it simply because the evil Jooooz and Zionist CrUSAder America is not in the picture? I’ll leave you to choose but one thing remains certain. 400,000 “gang raped” Sudanese matter as much as 5000 Palestinians (militants included). This is the main message of the campaign.

Good Neighbours, the Mideast Youth bunch and I have taken in it upon ourselves to spread awareness throughout the blogosphere since the media hardly seems to care. Maybe they’ll actually start picking up more stories and reporting more about Darfur. I’ll take this opportunity to thank the guys at Mideast Youth and Yael at Good Neighbours. They’ve been an inspiring and very motivating group. We blog for Darfur still doesn’t have much content since it was only set up yesterday but I’ll be adding more real info soon in hopes of raising awareness and clearing up the many misunderstandings about the conflict. Support us!

UPDATE: The campaign is picking up. We’ve decided to make some few changes to the banners to reflect facts rather than catchy phrases. Everything is still in progress. Once it’s all prepared, we’ll officially launch it and hope that as many blogsas possible especially big blogs will join the initiative. One thing that we’ll defintely criticize and critique is the horrible coverage in the Arab news media.

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Darfur Children Dragged from Mothers & Shot

by Drima on November 19, 2006

I have no words… only shock and tears… absolute shock and flowing tears.

(hat tip: Nominally Challenged)

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Khartoum Signs Peace Deal With Some Darfurian Rebel Commanders

by Drima on November 19, 2006

If I said Bashir isn’t doing anything to solve the Darfur crisis, I would be lying. The NCP is certainly doing a lot to settle the Darfur issue BUT they’re doing it all based on their own “lovely” terms and by using mostly very “ethical” means. This peace deal is obviously a good development. It shows that there are rebels out there who are willing to negotiate and compromise. However a deal is merely a useless deal with signatures on a piece of paper until both sides actually start sticking to it. I welcome this news but the disaster is certainly far from over. In fact there are some saying Darfur has become far worse.

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Khartoum is Where the Party is At!

by Drima on November 19, 2006

Sudan has become synonymous with the word genocide. Mention Sudan to anyone now and most people will only picture ugly images of dead people, hungry orphans with flies buzzing around their heads and Janjaweed charging across the lands to murder innocent villagers. I don’t deny such things exist. Sadly they do and what’s worse is that it’s all you get to hear about. The following New York Times article puts things into perspective. It comes together with this revealing video that shatters typical stereotypes. Make sure you watch it. (hat tip: Sudan Watch). Those two items caused different people to react differently. Some were impressed with the economic reforms and others were left with a bitter taste in their mouths.

The video left me with mixed feelings too and it brought back many memories. In a way I was happy that many people will now be able to see a different side of Sudan they rarely hear about. I’ve always hated it when people ask me stupid questions about Sudan. They think it’s nothing but an empty desert and that when I go back for holidays, I live in a tent with no proper sanitation or electricity. Sudan isn’t all like that. Khartoum is a different world from the rest of the country. If you know the right people, you can go to places where you would swear you weren’t even in Sudan. A few years ago I was shocked at some of the things that happen behind “closed doors” in the upper class places in the capital.

When parents are away friends host big private parties in their mansions which are built on farms along the Nile. In those parties you can expect the unexpected. Some mansions were built by their owners with the sole purpose of making them easily convertable into clubs. The mansions are designed with in-built sound systems wired to speakers and subwoofers in all rooms including the bathroom! Wherever you go, the DJ’s choice of hip-hop and house music goes with you. All kinds of alcoholic drinks flow until nothing is left. Sometimes cocaine, weed, heroin and ecstacy flow along too! “Well behaved” hijaby girls come to the parties dressed in revealing clothes they would never dare to wear in most public places. Foreigners including many Europeans also get invited. Furniture gets moved and space is made for a huge dancefloor. If there’s a swimming pool, then the party moves outside with the drained swimming pool acting as another dance floor. Some chill, some dance while others play a few games at the very limited available pool and snooker tables. A few miles away at the edges of the farm, private security stands on guard to make sure the religious police doesn’t come onto the private property. If they do show up then the private security just bribes them and tells them to buzz off. This description alone ought to turn your head upside-down a little bit. Even many conservative/innocent Sudanese have no idea about the kind of crazy things that happen behind “closed doors” in Khartoum but some of those crazy incidents have been reported in newspapers.

The slowly returning Sudanese diaspora is bringing along with it tons of money and lifestyles foreign to Sudanese culture. Much of those lifestyles present a huge opportunity for business people. The consumer market is big and investors are pouring money into it while in the process reaping back big profits. People have extra money to spend on leisure and entertainment. They want to be able to live the same lifestyle they had back in America, London, Europe or Dubai. They want to be pampered. The demand is high but the supply is low. Ozone Cafe (featured in the video) is just one of those things that the returning Sudanese diaspora wanted but couldn’t find. It’s one of many expensive hang out places and shisha bars mushrooming everywhere catering to the priveleged Sudanese in the capital and also the increasingly big number of foreigners there. 10 years ago, a Chinese man walking around Khartoum would have been like a giraffe roaming around Antartica. Now there are foreigners everywhere in the capital. This also presents a big potential market for business people. We’ve got our own mini China-town now for God’s sake people and it’s expanding steadily! It’s kinda cool. Khartoum is much more interesting now and there are a lot more fun things to do when I go back to visit. In the past, the only fun you could get was during outdoor BBQ picnics or in wedding celebrations and private house parties of course. ;)

There are many cool projects coming along nicely now. The biggest one underway is currently al-Sunut. For me and people like me back home, al-Sunut is going to be super great. Shopping mall, luxury hotels, spas, office towers, a nice corneche, Sudan’s first golf course (ya I know we have no golf courses!), huge villas with swimming pools along the Nile and much more are going to be available. A few years from now, it will be completed. Few of the buildings are already finished. Check out some pictures and the videos on the official website of alSunut.

http://www.alsunut.com/images/Boulevard_Street.jpg

http://www.alsunut.com/images/SouthEast_Aerial.jpg

http://www.alsunut.com/images/West_Panorama_Night.jpg

http://www.alsunut.com/images/Sunt_Residential.jpg

http://www.alsunut.com/images/Promenade.jpg

All this would have been unimaginable 5-10 years ago especially when the north-south war was still going and political opression was at its peak. Conditions in Khartoum have greatly improved. I have to give Omar al-Bashir’s regime credit for this. Even power cuts are very rare now! That wasn’t the case 5-10 years ago. There would be power cuts daily (except in winter) that lasted for a minimum of 4-6 hours. Thank God we had our own generator in the house. It consumed a lot of expensive fuel but at least it kept the air conditioning going and refrigerators on. I’m lucky that my family back home is doing well. My grandfather God rest his soul, left behind a lot even though much of what he made during his life was lost thanks of course to the NIF thieves who appeared and started doing all kinds of corrupt and vile things in the name of “Islamic economic reform”. The methods used mainly involved imposing newly created taxes with the purpose of burdening existing businesses until they declared bankruptcy. That way after enough businesses went bankrupt, NIF members would modify the old tax laws and start their own more “halal” companies which of course will end up doing super great since there was no real competition facing them anymore. Anyways that’s besides the point.

There are many Sudanese in Khartoum enjoying the party too much, many who are trying to enjoy it while also doing the best they can to help others and many many more who simply can’t enjoy because they’re too worried about making ends meet. That’s where my heavy disgust begins. Surely, Khartoum is where the party is at. Some enjoy and chill away, while others are simply intoxicated and high… too high in the clouds to notice all the other sad crap that goes on way below them. Sadly the losers in the party stay on the edges and watch the cool “high” crowd enjoying to the max. Some in the cool crowd are sympathetic towards the “losers” and try to help them through donations mostly. If they try helping them through other daring means, they risk ending up becoming “losers” too. I don’t blame them. I myself I’m afraid of the risks too but I’m not going to turn my back and pretend the “losers” don’t exist. Still though most of the “cool” ones are unfortunately just not bothered or too immoral and involved in gang bangs and orgies to actually care about carrying out their moral duties towards the “loser crowd”. They’re the minority, they’ve got the power, they like what they’ve got and they won’t give it up. That’s what really makes me sick.

I really hate it sometimes when Sudanese friends of mine start talking crap and start bragging about al-Sunut for example. I tend to get too tensed up in the moment. Sure it’s great and it’s wonderful for Khartoum but NOT Sudan. You see this is the problem I’ve noticed with many Sudanese in Khartoum and outside of Sudan. They’re so happy about al-Sunut and they start saying things like “oh Sudan is developing, oh it’s improving”. No it’s NOT. Khartoum is improving. Khartoum is witnessing development. Khartoum is where the party is at. Khartoum is the one that’s visibly benefiting from the increasing investment. BUT Khartoum is where only about one sixth of Sudan’s population is. Khartoum isn’t Sudan and Sudan isn’t Khartoum. We’re a country of about 30 million people. Only 5 million live in the capital… a capital that is increasingly becoming prosperous but what about the other 25 million Sudanese elsewhere? What about them? We need to pay attention to them. We need to visibly decrease the wealth gap between us in Khartoum and them. We need to help them catch up with us instead of focusing too much on making Khartoum catch up with the rest of the world. We need to at least, at least, at least provide them with basic necessities and help them obtain the dignity they deserve as Sudanese citizens. They’re having no damn party for sure.

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Israel Developing Anti-Militant “Bionic Hornet”

by Drima on November 18, 2006

Interesting…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.

The flying robot, nicknamed the “bionic hornet,” would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.

…”The war in Lebanon proved that we need smaller weaponry. It’s illogical to send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist. So we are building futuristic weapons,” Peres said.

…Prototypes for the new weapons are expected within three years, he said.

Coooooool. Science fiction movies are coming to life. Me support! Anything that takes innocent civilians out of the equation should be supported. Go Israel! Okay, I think I better run and hide somewhere now. Ouch! Eggs are already being thrown at me. OUCH! Crap, okay okay fine I’m sorry. Death to the filthy Jews.

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Nicaraguan President Signs Abortion Ban

by Drima on November 18, 2006

banning ALL abortions in ALL types of cases. I must admit something. I don’t know squat about this Enrique Bolanos guy but I can tell you that I’m seriously starting to “love” him for sure.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - President Enrique Bolanos signed a bill Friday banning abortion in all cases — including when a woman’s life is endangered — despite opposition from doctors, women’s rights groups and diplomats.

Previously, Nicaragua allowed abortions if three doctors certified that the woman’s health was at risk. The law signed Friday eliminates that century-old exception.

The six-year prison term for performing illegal abortions remains unchanged under the new law. There had been doubt about whether Bolanos would sign the law because he had sought stiffer sentences of up to 30 years for women who had abortions and for those who aided them.

…Cuba permits abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and Colombia recently authorized them in the case of a severely malformed fetus, if rape or incest were involved or if the woman’s life was in danger.

Retard!

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