Who’s Responsible For Darfur?

by Drima on May 2, 2007

Mahmood tells us about one of his experiences at a recent conference he attended:

I found and sat next to our friend Mr. Ameen Hassan Omar at lunch. I wanted to talk to him to see where his aligations that the International Crises Group is a biased source and that they should never be trusted.

He obliged and explained his position more fully:

He claims that the ICG has conducted seminars in London about Darfur in the Haulocaust memorial, meaning, (to him) that they are Jewish Zionists against Sudan’s Islmamic government specifically. It is a conspiracy, he contends, against not only Sudan and Darfur but the whole Muslim world.

When I suggested that their holding their seminar at the Haulacaust memorial might be because they wanted to draw attention to parallels, he scoffed. It’s the Jooze!

I chose to have my dessert elsewhere.

I swear, I’m seriously getting sick and tired of this shit.

{ 21 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Roman Kalik 05.02.07 at 10:37 am

Dear God, human stupidity really is limitless. If it has Jews in it, then it *must* be a plot, right? Especially if it includes the (fake/exploited/both) Holocaust!

2 howie 05.03.07 at 4:15 am

I might surprise you guys a bit on this one…there is an element…and I said element of truth in what this guy says…but of course it is utterly distorted.

As we Jews are in most things, we shoot off in every conceivable direction. Are there some Jews who support Darfur in somewhat of an “in your face, Arabs” manner…yes, I do think that is true.

We are told that we are racist…so I personally DO get some pleasure in throwing Darfur up in the face of some of these folk…I DO like to ask…if you give such a hot damn about your Muslim brothers…well why not get excited about 100,000’s of thousands instead of hundreds?

And the response is typically…”ah, duh…ah yeh that is some real bad shit out there, but ah..duh…”down with the Jews for oppressing the Palestinians…I am really pissed off about that”…

Well…”freakin hypocrite you are”…taste your own damn, vicious racist hatred. Tell the truth…you don’t give one rotten damn about those guys…but if some Jews showed up killing some Darfur folk…or some Americans…ah…got your attention now?

But mostly it is about the parallels. Jews have this absolute knee-jerk thing about being silent about stuff like genocide. It mostly is about morals and ethical behavior. It is about not forgetting what has happened to us throughout so much of our history.

And there are other reasons as well…some self-serving…and well so what? If self-serving gets people a bowl of rice and some shade and some janjaweed dude off my sister’s ass, then good.

Mahmood…good for you for showing courage and class.

3 Roman Kalik 05.03.07 at 4:32 am

*shrug* turning 2% of the issue into 100% is still stupid in my book.

4 nominally challenged 05.03.07 at 8:37 am

Drima, the problem with the attitude of Omar and those like him is that it simply gives them an excuse not to do anything - although if they didn’t have such a “tangible” excuse, they’d find something even less tangible. Because quite frankly, it seems to me that they don’t want to solve this problem, or that, in a more sinister way, what’s going on in Darfur is the “solution” (and no points for guessing the parallel there …). In that sort of a situation, any excuse will do, including the most unfounded.

Therefore, Roman, if 2% of the issue can be perceived by one’s audience as being 100% of the problem, and if it is easy to present it as such (to an audience that clearly wants to hear that), then it’s not stupid at all. Whether or not it’s stupid, depends on what the final aim is. In this case, the aim is justification, rather than cessation. If anyone in the relevant positions were aiming to actually stop Darfur from happening, I have no doubt that it would have been stopped by now.

5 Roman Kalik 05.03.07 at 9:37 am

Point taken, NC. Idiotic though the logic may be within the issue here, the issue itself (that of inventing excuses to ignore anything related to Darfur) is not stupid. It’s ghastly.

6 The Raccoon 05.03.07 at 10:16 am

*raises paw*

Darfur is my department in the sub-committee of the Tel Aviv chapter of the Pointless Conspiracies department of Elders of Zion.

The Pointless Conspiracies department exists to undermine the Arab world by removing all sense and reason from Arab public debate, of course, thus ensuring that the Arab world devours itself. Africans are thrown in just for kicks - we’re evil this way.

7 Roman Kalik 05.03.07 at 10:44 am

Didn’t we fire you guys, Raccoon? As you’re obviously just sitting around drinking blood all day and letting the Arabs destroy themselves on their own?

8 Andrew Brehm 05.04.07 at 8:53 am

That’s enough, Roman and Raccoon! I am going to inform the Head Green Dwarf in Dublin of your behaviour!

Now you’re in trouble!

9 Andrew Brehm 05.04.07 at 8:56 am

…There is a delay. I cannot inform the HGD yet. He is in a secret meeting with the General Commander of the Aliens (Barack Obama).

P.S.: How to spell “Barack Obama” correctly: Check any German news site. They have been celebrating him ever since he appeared as a candidate.

P.P.S.: Speaking of German news sites: For the last few days they have been accouncing that Tony Blair will suffer a great defeat in the local elections in the UK. Today they report that Blair “escaped the election disaster”.

10 Roman Kalik 05.04.07 at 9:19 am

Well, Blair isn’t really popular in Britian these days, but weren’t German news sites aware that he has been planning to leave politics for several months now?

11 Andrew Brehm 05.04.07 at 9:31 am

Of course they are aware. But that’s not the point, I think. When it comes to English-speaking politics, they follow four easy principles:

1. Always show George Bush in a negative light.

2. Celebrate Barack Obama, who is apparently some sort of Messiah.

3. Make sure Tony Blair is understood as a complete loser.

4. Don’t mention Canada.

12 Roman Kalik 05.04.07 at 12:23 pm

Quite unfortunate about the Canadians, voting the *wrong* sort into office and all. ;-)
As for Obama, someone should tell your news sites that they don’t much like people who try to go from the Senate to the Presidency in the US. Add his lack of experience, and sadly his quite apparent blackness, and the Republicans win against him with *anyone*, with the possible exception of the Newt.

Oh well, self-delusion is a good defensive mechanism, I guess.

13 Andrew Brehm 05.04.07 at 2:40 pm

Roman, it’s getting worse!

Quebec is becoming more conservative these days and France has apparently decided that a pro-Israel presidential candidate is not only acceptable but a good idea; so good that the candidates don’t mind losing the “Muslim”/pagan vote.

14 Roman Kalik 05.04.07 at 2:54 pm

Indeed. Change is in the air, and I love it! ;-)
Sarkozy has a good advantage in the polls at the moment, if only because Royale’s one non-idiotic display so far has been in mud slinging. And sunday is fast approaching.

It would seem that the liberal cycle is coming to an end in Europe. Why, I might have to get used to *not* hating France. Gosh.

15 Andrew Brehm 05.04.07 at 3:07 pm

I actually began _liking_ a German chancellor.

I might even vote for her party if she stays in charge.

16 Roman Kalik 05.04.07 at 4:09 pm

What, you didn’t like Shroeder? ;-) By the way, is he enjoying his bribes from Russia, do you think?

17 Andrew Brehm 05.05.07 at 1:19 am

I liked Schroeder more than his predecessor.

But I was younger then, and more left-wing.

I definitely liked Schroeder more than the Bavarian prime minister who ran against him in 2002.

18 Finnpundit 05.05.07 at 10:43 pm

Sarkozy’s election will change nothing. France is too tied down with politically-based fiefdoms to effect much change from within.

Whatever changes in France there may be will be made from without, as France continues to be buffeted by geopolitical winds out of its control. With a top-heavy welfare state burdened by outlandish entitlements, France insures that it will have to be a follower, rather than a leader. As following doesn’t suit the French, they will only sit by the wayside… which suits the rest of us just fine.

19 Roman Kalik 05.05.07 at 10:55 pm

Well, Sarkozy appears to be more inclined to listen to the US, as long as the US doesn’t actually tell France to *do* much.

20 Andrew Brehm 05.05.07 at 11:59 pm

Whatever ability France has actually to do something, a France with less vocal support for Arab Nazis can only be an advantage for humanity.

France doesn’t have to do anything. The EU doesn’t have to do anything. All that is really required is that they stop giving the Arab Nazis money.

Give it to Africans instead.

21 lirun 05.06.07 at 9:18 pm

hey drima.. still owe you those videos.. soon i promise..

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