Darfur & the Reasons for the Lack of Muslim Attention
Posted on January 27, 2007
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Here are the 3 main reasons:
1- The Muslims being killed are “dark blackies” so that makes them less Muslim.
2- The killers are fellow Muslims or ehm ehm “Muslims” and NOT Zionist “piggy apes” CrUSAders.
3- The Muslims being killed are… no wait, killed? KILLED? Are they really? But I thought this whole thing is a lie being propagated by “piggy apes” and is simply part of their Zionist conspiracy against the Muslim ummah.
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Hate to admit it, but its just so true…
You know, I had a job offer from an NGO here in Sudan, and I was excited for one reason, I might get more trusted info on what is truely going on in darfur since this NGO has offices there!
Drima-
I still think it is primarily a #2…but you could add Jooz or Europeans or Americans. If it was America OR Israel…doing even 100th the damage…all hell would break loose in much of the Muslim world.
It reminds me of a story I heard about Issac Rabin. He was in a debate with some Egyptian leader who confronted him with the fact that Israel used napalm during the 73 war.
Rabin did not deny it and talk about how it was not forbidden according to Geneva conventions…blah blah…
Then Rabin said…”and what about the use of poison gas during the Yemen civil war”…
It is said the answer was “what we Arabs do to each other is nobody’s business”.
I heard Mohamed Yahyah speak at UCLA last year, afterwards I was talking to a South African black and asked him a similar question about the killings and wars in Africa and how not a lot is said, even in the black community. I asked him “now what do you think would happen if it was white people doing it”. And he said…”dude people would go nuts”. When I asked him why the difference….he had no answer…neither did I. Then it hit me and I think I have heard this before.
Many blacks hate white people much more than they love black people. I think the same general concept applies in Darfur.
Drima-
Oh and like I have said here before…by FAR the biggiest killer and torturer and repressor of Muslims are…Muslims:
Iran
Iraq
Sudan
Algeria
Lebanon
Those alone would add to to at least 1.5-2 million souls in the past 20+ years….
Drima and Howie
I think reason 2 definitely but also reason 3 predominantly in the diaspora where Muslims are so overcome by the victim mentality that they will believe anything is a Zionist conspiracy and we are all victims of an evil media run by Jews and intent on damaging the name of Islam. What do we need the media to do that for? We’re doing a bloody good job of it ourselves. But people don’t see that- it’s too hard to look inward- much easier to look out and blame others for your own maladies.
I also think that reason 1 and 2 go hand in hand- ie the people doing the killing are Muslims and they’re only killing blacks anyway.
I find much of the Arab world to be very racist. My first encounter with it was when I was teaching English in Egypt and the Egyptian students refused to sit next to a Sudanese student because he was black. These kids were young and I just thought to myself how is it that kids so young can be so racist- obviously the parents- I think it’s child abuse to raise your kids with hate.
The Usual Suspect-
As I was getting to know Mr. Yahyah…we kind of discussed #3 here and there. I remember asking him..
“Mohamed, how many Darfurians or Sudanese have been killed or injured by Jews?”
To his great credit…I could sense a light go on…
But WE are the bad guys of the Muslim world?
“But WE are the bad guys of the Muslim world?”
Oh yes indeed you are Howie, you filthy piggy ape
Death to the Jooooooz!
“My first encounter with it was when I was teaching English in Egypt and the Egyptian students refused to sit next to a Sudanese student because he was black.”
And TUS, that’s really shocking for me to read especially because of the fact that many Egyptians are mixed Nubian and have dark skin color.
Drima-
“Oh yes indeed you are Howie, you filthy piggy ape
Death to the Jooooooz!
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Alas…you are correct…can we meet someplace soon so I can do something like take your humos from you?
We have several Sudanese friends in JO who tell us this is what others say. For someone who grew up in the 60s, and has heard quite a bit from Nation of Islam followers about the Ummah, I was quite surprised.
Drima
Yes it is shocking. But remember that in Egyptian society the fairer you are the better you fare! That is why there is such a big market for whitening creams and blonde hair dye- people don’t want to be dark- they aspire to be white. A woman who has fair skin, light eyes and blonde hair will be looked on as beautiful even if she has a face that resembles the dog’s dinner while a dark skinned beauty will be looked on with sympathy- “she’s pretty but it’s a shame she is dark”. Most Arab nations have the same attitude.
It’s a sad fact that the basest form of racism- that based on skin colour- is still prevalent in this day and age.
Funny….I remember in the 80’s in Israel…every Friday night they would play an Egyptian movie (there were like 2 channels back then)…
It was always the same theme…some bumbling Egyptian guy getting into fights…then suddenly an orchestra would play and a white looking somewhat chubby blonde with large mammaries would start doing a belly dance…same plot….never saw no darkies…except big guys that looked like slave or bodyguard types in M.C. Hammer pants…ya can’t touch dis
Howie
those were the days, mate !
Still getting senitmental when hearing Abdel Halim…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfi2av86N6Q
Oh & btw: it was not until (I don’t know exactly, but I think it were the late 90’s) that non-blondies were used as models in israeli society as well. I remember walking around outside and seeing billboards of products selling babystuff having all blind-haired, bleu-eyed children on it and wondering if I’m in Sweden or something
blOnd-haired of-course….
Tsedek57
Yup..showed it to the wife…Mrs. Whacky Iraqi herself…got all misty…me…I almost puked…Good Lawd did I suffer through those Friday nights
Now here you have one that really hit home…me going to Petach Tikvah and my Arab family…dressed in…yep…pajamas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDelC6Ickrc
Man you should see my mom and dad whenever any Abdel Halim songs come on TV… you can smell the love in the air…
And I would have never guessed that Israelis liked watching Egyptian movies. What are Israeli movies like?
Drima-
Israeli’s tend to show how way out on the edge they are…what incredible rebels…so you will ALWAYS see breasts…even if it is a film about butterflies or something…see the flight of the butterfly…breasts pop out…If getting really funky…maybe a wiennie…maybe…but tits…you gonna get some Jew tits…guarented more common than National Geographic.
So then to get edgier they might throw in some homosexual stuff…got to say “fuck” (did you no there are NO swear words in Hebrew..NONE..we borrow from English and Arabic)…
Everybody tends to be very cynical since life is always dark and way out on the edge…
Comedies are often good…Jew humor is good…the other films are pretty much what a group of 9th graders would come up with while they are spanking the monkey.;
And yes…my in-laws would get all sentimental watching that dude and some others…I would sit there and pray for Led Zepplin to blast in…instead every other fucking work was “ya khabibi” ….so I did learn some basic Arabic…that is why I am chawaga markuti gerutendi
Hi Drima. Let’s keep it real. It is not a muslim or christian or jewish or what else there is… It is bad African leadership! I like the fact the AU sidestepped Sudan. Bashir is not a leader nor are the rebels commanders… this all a waster of precious life…
good leaders preserve life..
Nobody cares about Africa and African people. Even if we african people care about our fellow africans what can we do. Yeah if Sudan was in Europe, there would be more attention… but look how long it took Europe to react to Bosnia…
We african people need to stop this non-sense about why does not the rest of the world care.. or why are they not paying attention to us or helping us!
Why are not other muslims saying enough?
There was a civil war for 15+ years and international community did what?
I wish we could be learn from the east asian… try to build consensus and solve our own problems…
About zionist or crusaders…
I am not refugee in Darfur but If I were, I would not care where help comes from…
Israeli or America got nothing to do with the problems in darfur
I know you might hear about muslims saying it could be israeli or crusaders.. whatever!
You know muslim in diaspora are feeling under siege… so any time they see israeli or jewish involved…
In terms of Israeli or zionist or jewish in Darfur… I think most muslim are suspicious of whatever israel or jewish do..
To be honest, the way israel treats its palestinian and the way it leveled Lebanon this past summer- I question its sincerity also..
On the isse of dark skin or light skin.. man that is just classical inferiority complex… it is nothing unique to sudan or egypt … anywhere in the world is like that.. in most developing countries…
I worked in mexico before.. and about 40% of the mexican population is native or indian. But man you do not be indian in mexico.. I had a hard time finding a native or indian person in any leadership or with decent position.. if you are mesizo(mix) you are ok… if you are a spaniard(white), you are set…
But indian? and you know these indians built pyramids like the nubian and egyptians..
You can look at israeli where the ethiopian jewish are treated like second class citizens…
Ignorace is human thing, so it is global…
Owwwww Howie, Farid el-Atrach! How I miss those Friday-evenings
Thanks for the link. It felt like I just stepped back in time…
There was this actor that I never heard of anymore (no singer) that was present in so many of them, but forgot his name…..
An Israeli movie (Sweet Mud) just won the Sundance Festival Award (Robert Redford’s project).
Read :
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/818588.html
Howie, I always feel very comfortable with the cursewords here (allerabbakars with the long rrrroling ‘r’, dirballak and the likes) - while in dutch and english I couldn’t get 1 curseword outta my mouth… Wonder why? :S
Ethiopian Jews are treated like second-class citizens? Kindly back your sweeping statement, or forever keep your silence.
Heh. It’s so simple, bro - nobody cares about other people’s shit. In the same way I seldom occupy myself with thoughts on the absolutely horrible genocide that went on in East Timor. So Indonesia occupied them, genocided 30% of the population, completely and utterly destroyed everything (leaving the East Timorese to starve with their rape-children) and took over their resources (oil, baby). It’s absolutely and utterly horrifying… but most people never even HEARD of this, and most of those who did couldn’t care less. Even if they pretend to care, they don’t - they have their own shit to deal with, mortgages to pay, TV to watch, enemies to fend off…
This is why nobody cares about Darfur - it has no effect outside Africa. You can’t use it for propaganda purposes (no piggy apes involved). There’re no resources there that you can get to. There is no large and influential Darfurian diaspora that can campaign for it. There is no danger the fighting is going to spill over into their countries. So people just… don’t care.
BTW, I grew up on Middle East Television - a Lebanese Christian channel. They had loads of Christian propaganda along with Star Trek and stuff. Almost everything was in English
jonah84: utter and complete bullshit about Ethiopian Jews. S’just empty slander.
Israeli cinema - most of it is crap. The older movies are almost exclusively about war (”Two Fingers from Sydon” is probably the most famous). Some of the new ones are pretty good, though - “Walk on Water” is excellently made, has a great soundtrack and won some international awards. “The Bubble” is gay in more ways than one and has that “post-Zionist” leftie rot in it, but is nicely made. Oh, and there is actually a really good Israeli movie - TLV (Total Love). It’s kind of like GO, only very, very Israeli - about the drugs, backpacking and psychodelic trance karkhana subculture of Israeli youth.
Raccoon-
Walk on Water wasn’t that ridculous thing about the tough guy who ends up peeing together with the gay guy out at the Dead Sea was it?
If so…man what a piece of JUNK!!!
There was a flick…Something Happened on Rechov Nahnah or something like that…now that was FUNNY!!!! Like I said…Israeli comedy can be excellent.
Otherwise, it is all this tough guy, hard-edged, cynical let’s show the audience how cool and rebellious we are…and we are uninhibitied and show tits..tits in butterfly movies, tits on soup cans, tits on the moon…and always saying “fuck”…just like we did in 5th grade.
Most Israeli movies just stink…but then there are the Power Rangers…that is two Israeli guys…and the great Globus movies….if you like gratuitious violence and tits, which I do by the way.
Raccoon, I grew up watching METV too!
And regarding Israeli movies, ye all who hath forgotten the great works of Efra’im Kishon deserve great punishment. Salah Shabati, Officer Azulai… All great classics.
RK - heh, METV rules
I don’t like burekas movies and their derivatives much…. even though Eskimo Limon was an absolutely huge success in China and Germany (I think).
And Howie - nothing’s wrong with tits. I like tits!
And I am pretty sure Walk on Water doesn’t have any. It doesn’t even have a gay sex scene! Now this is something they manage to include in most Israeli movies nowadays. It’s like the gays took over the whole movie production business here.
I am quite looking forward to “Beaufort”, though.
Oh, and “Power Rangers” is a horrible abomination on the face of hunamity. A profitable abomination, but an abomination nontheless
hey, in terms of ethiopian jewish… i just read news… I am sure they are economically least better off in israel… but you can read the media story about donation of ethiopian jewish blood been thrown… it was in the news… BUT that kind of stories might be an exaggeration but you can read the article below…which makes from a fairly reliable source..
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About/Press+Room/Jewish+Agency+In+The+News/2006/3/apr26wjw.htm
“There is also deep-rooted socioeconomic prejudice. Cities are reluctant to take in large numbers of Ethiopian immigrants, fearing that they will make the city less attractive for young middle class couples. Last September, Yitzhak Bokovza, the mayor of Or Yehuda near Tel Aviv, reversed his refusal to register 42 Ethiopian Israeli immigrant children in the city’s schools after Tebeka appealed to the Supreme Court against the action.”
I am sure the situation above partially contribute to situation below…
“The statistics do not bode well. According to the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews, more than 50 percent of the community lives beneath the poverty line and almost all who are employed have menial jobs.”
I WISH THAT WAS NOT CASE… I WISH ALL ETHIOPIAN JEWISH TO BE SUCCESSFUL …
BUT TELLING TRUTH AND ADMITTING SITUATION IS THE ONLY YOU CAN MAKE IMPROVEMENT JUST LIKE THE ARTICLE ABOVE DOES… NOT LABELING IT SLANDER OR BULLSHIT!
Jonah -
Not this again… I honestly have no desire to go over the same argument over and over again. But, you know what, I’ll just say a little bit about it.
The Jewish Diaspora in Ethiopia was mostly scattered in small, rural villages. Guess what - they had no skills needed in Israel. Sustenance herding, gathering and farming are not exactly high-demand skills here. The government did what it could, but it’s stupid and extremely limited in resources. The outcome is obvious - poverty.
The Ethiopian Jews who lived in the cities, were rich and had useful skills are doing very well. I had a friend from such a family - nor he nor them had any particular problems adapting to and succeeding in Israel.
The whole blood thing. It’s a standard procedure for hospitals not to accept blood from people who spent X time in recent X years in a disease problematic country. Ethiopia is such a country.
Second class citizens? This is the same hyperbolic, bullshit rhetoric as the whole “apartheid” slander.
BTW - Israeli born Ethiopian Jews are, of course, much more succesful than their parents. And third, fourth and so on gen will be completely integrated, as did all the other waves of repatriates.
Man! Take it easy! No country is perfect or a paradise…. All countries got problems and issues some more than others…
I am one of those people who believes if there is a problem or an issue, Say it expose so people can be aware- I think that is how changes come about…
This is article is not from an Iranian, al jazeera, Egyptian news paper…. It is from the Jewish Agency for Israel:
Jewish Agency is a global partnership committed to the Jewish future that stands on a history-making track record.
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About
Maybe they just state the issues or problems so they can be fixed or people know so they can help… I respect that…
Sudanese thinker is speaking about the Darfur situation…
You said you have Ethiopian friends who are successful.. That could be the Ethiopian lawyer..
The article says:
Yitzhak Dessie became the first-ever Ethiopian-born Israeli lawyer when he qualified in 1998.
So maybe he is the success story you are talking about…
More power to him.
Now he is an Israeli… and what did he say..
“One of the main forms of discrimination is still the belief that Ethiopian Israelis are not fully Jewish.”
I am not sure what “fully Jewish” means since I am not Jewish.
Maybe he is just using hyperbolic, bullshit rhetoric; you know how lawyers are…
In the next paragraph it says…
“Tebeka recently won major compensation from the Arad Labor Court for an Ethiopian immigrant woman who was fired from a restaurant when a local rabbi refused to renew the establishment’s kashrut certificate if she continued in its employ.”
Maybe she was the chef and the Rabbi did not like here style of cooking..
This woman is blaming on it on discrimination… maybe she was bad chef… yeah! Can the Rabbi sue here for libel and slander… she is actual saying a Rabbi got her fired! She is ungrateful… She was brought to Israel from one of the poorest place on earth- Israel gave her everything and now she insults the Rabbi.. Unbelievable! Is she “fully Jewish”?
On the apartheid like system in occupied territories…
Who said this? that is another bullshit, hyperbolic slander
Maybe that is just from Hamas other Palestinian organization… maybe al jazeera , it could be those crazy Iranian mullahs.. They are all full of rhetoric of hate!
Maybe it ex-president Jimmy Carter, that man that is full of bullshit… we need to petition to get back the Noble Peace Prize from him. He does not deserve it! But he assisted in bringing peace between Egypt and Israel… Big deal those native Egyptian have not won a war since 700BCs, even that one was a draw…
Why did Carter say the system in Occupied territories is apartheid like? Who knows that guy is an anti-semite…
Could it be Desmond Tutu! No! Who is that? That is guy that won the Noble Peace Prize in 1984? Another Peace Prize winner? Where is from? South Africa What was he famous for ? Fighting Apartheid! I know he knows about apartheid, but what does he know about Israel and Palestine? He is probably another peace loving an anti-semite! Everything for him is apartheid…
Never trust these Nobel peace prize winning anti-semites…
They are full of slander, hyperbolic rhetoric…
There is no apartheid like system in Occupied Territories! These guys do not know anything… about Palestine or Israel..
“Israel has established in the Occupied Territories a separation cum discrimination regime, in which it maintains two systems of laws, and a person’s rights are based on his or her national origin. This regime is the only one of its kind in the world, and brings to mind dark regimes of the past, such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa.”
Who said that? Who cares? It is probably another Nobel peace prize winning anti-semite who knows nothing of Occupied territories… or al jazeera… maybe the Iranian president?
Look at Paragraph 2, http://www.btselem.org/English/Settlements/
Btselem another peace loving anti-semitic organization… that does not know anything about the Occupied territories or ….. Bullshit! Hyperbolic slander…. There is not apartheid in Occupied territories… there are no black people! You got to have black or African people to have apartheid by definition… apartheid-like is not in dictionary…
I thought I have a little fun with my reply… any if you are Israeli mr. raccoon it has been educational… at least I got another perspective about Ethiopian jewish situation and how some Israeli feel about the topic…
Anyway, we African got worse problems on our side worry too much about middle east…
Peace!
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Jonah -
Yeah, I agree with you about exposing problems.
But inventing or blowing out of every proportion is not the same as exposing.
““One of the main forms of discrimination is still the belief that Ethiopian Israelis are not fully Jewish.””
A large majority of Israelis are secular. And this is the first time I have heard about people who believe that Ethiopian Jews are not “fully Jewish”. But then again… the Rabbis tend to be real Nazis about who’s Jewish and who’s not Jewish - they put me through 7 level of hell just so that I could marry my wife in a proper Jewish ceremony. Why? Because I was born in USSR, and they don’t like it. Fuck them with a pitchfork.
Wait, does this mean I can whine and bitch about being a “second class citizen”?
And that particular Rabbi - fuck him with a pitchfork, too. A day will come - and it’s not far away - when we’ll correct Ben Gurion’s mistake and take the power back from these people. And maybe find some Rabbis who are not misogynic, racist, bigoted and arrogant theocrat-wannabes to lead the religious lives of the Jewish people.
You didn’t read the recent thread about the whole “Apartheid” slander, did you?
“Anyway, we African got worse problems on our side worry too much about middle east…”
Heh. Damn right, bro. The Middle East has enough worry in it for itself AND Africa both
Peace - yeah, right.
Raccoon, man, I have at times gotten anti-Semitic comments and the occasional ‘convert to Christianity’ pamphlets from Russian “Jews”, so don’t be too hard on them rabbis, hellish as their religious bureaucracy may be. I think the Jewish Agency went a leetle too much for quantity in the case of our old homeland.
RK -
I have a few choice words for the dregs that the Sokhnut gathered to Israel, too. It’s not an excuse for these Rabbis and their sick obsessions, though.
I had a bunch of Russian olim from an Ulpan working under me once. It was absolutely shocking - from 20+ people, only 2 were Jews. Most of the rest were criminals on the run who pretended to be Jews to escape prison. Half the women were whores. And some of these fucks were actually anti-Semitic.
My mom volunteers at the Sokhnut, so she explained it to me - there is a quota they have to fill in order to get their budget. Since there are very few Jews left in Russia, they are closing their eyes to the assorted scum they’re bringing in. Basically they are knowingly harming Israel. IMO, the system needs to be reformed ASAP… and we desperately need a loyalty oath law.
Although I know a guy who has a Jewish father and a Russian (I think. Something Slavic, anyway) mother. They came to Israel, and after a decade or so his parents got divorced. So he’s a nominal Christian (mostly reflected in getting Xmass presents) and a proud, loyal Israeli. Which is excellent - the way I see it, he’s a better Jew than some psycho Betzelem leftie who’s 100th generation Jerusalemite.
Well, said rabbis’ obsession stems from laws put in to prevent the cultural and religious assimilation of Jews into the various groups they lived in. Is that still as relevant here and now? Maybe, maybe not. Personally I find that the average Israeli is so ignorant of our history and culture beyond the last century, it’s frightning. So maybe the measures applied are wrong, but *something* should be done.
RK-
Raccoon got in..so that is proof the system sucks
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*sticks tongue out at Howie*
RK - don’t get me started on the education system. It’s amazing, the mess a bunch of pretty bright people can make. And it’s even more amazing how the stupidity of a few can fuck up a whole nation.
Raccoon…
I couldn’t resist..sorry..hey next time I am in Israel I will get you a Goldstar…oh…I forgot…Budstar or MacWeedie