I LOVE Fluent-Sudani

Usually I really don’t like to do these kind of posts but I can’t help it. There are some people that you just can’t have a proper discussion with. Fluent-Sudani really cracks me up even though at the same time I find his comments highly disturbing. He’s the same guy who called Saddam a Shaheed (martyr) and continues to make comments like this one:

Arab Americans [mainly in Dearborn, MI] that celebrated Saddam’s death. Buncha cowards, all I can say.

Okay, let’s see. A few days ago he posted this on his blog:

SD Flag restoration

Multiple Sudani forums discussed the issue of our homeland flag. Some say it exculdes presence of southern Christians. I am profound with the current flag because it’s history that ties it. Ta’aysha patriots kicked out the Brit. colonists out of our land, gained us indepedence. Yes, I recognize southern Sudanese and respect them, but they simply were not a part of country’s rebelion. We come to an end in wasteful seconds, change remarkable exhortions of our fathers! I refrain from imaging this thought.

Each color has a fascinating meaning.
Red represents bloodshed of patriots. Green represents land color. White represents soul purity. Black represents independence struggle.

Nonetheless, I have an alternative flag module I attached to this entry below.
The only change is “La Illah ila Allah, Muhamadon rasool Allah” defined as: there is no God but Allah and Muhammed (pbuh) is his last prophet.

Happy belated independence day.

At the start I was like WTFish? That’s not constructive. Sudan is not all Muslim. How would that make other non-Muslim Sudanese feel? Shouldn’t the flag represent ALL of us? How can you say “Yes, I recognize southern Sudanese and respect them” but still modify the flag as you please in a way that’s not really representative of Southerners? After a while, I didn’t bother much. I mean hey, Denmark’s flag for example has a cross on it but there are still Danish Muslims living in Denmark who seem fine about it. Sudan’s flag isn’t worthy of so much heated debate. There are other more important things we should be focusing on. So ya, basically I just put the whole thing at the back of my mind and thought to myself “oh well his intentions are probably sincere” but THEN… I read the following comment on his post:

No body is denying their existence. What have they [Sudanese Copts] achieved for Sudan? nothing. Copts didn’t accomplish anything.

I found it revolting. Sudanese Copts in the past numbered about half a million but now their numbers stand at around half of that. They came to Sudan from Egypt more than a hundred years ago. They’re a minority in Sudan but they’re prominent. Many of them operate and run successful businesses which is good for the Sudanese economy. Others are highly educated lawyers, doctors, engineers etc. which is also good for Sudan. Even though they’re a small community, they still contribute to their country. They have accomplished something and still continue to so saying they accomplished nothing is simply pure garbage. Black Kush also posted a polite reply to Fluent Sudani:

I believe in freedom of speech and each person is entitled to his ideas and dreams. I am one of those who believed that the Sudanese flag is unrepresentative of the people. Flags, like national anthems should reflect the multi-ethnic and multi-religious identity of the country.

But first his claims that south Sudanese were not part of the rebelion that kick the colonialist is utter nonesense. South Sudanese have resisted for a long time and many died fighting the British occupiers. The Shilluk Kingdom with its powerful Reth stands to witness to this.

What happened, and is happening in the Sudan today is the fabrication of history by the bunch of NIF croonies in the government. The history books being thought now inludes a chapter entitle “the entry of people in the Sudan”. When I was studying history, that very chapter was entitle “the entry of the Arabs to Sudan”. This is an example of the fabrication going on. References to other cultures, languages and believes are being erased. You can never erased the history of the ancient Christian Kingdoms in northern Sudan.

Guess what Fluent-Sudani thinks? He thinks we’re overreacting! Yes, oh yes indeed we are.