Ethnic cleansing of Black Muslims by Arabs

Iqbal Latif
Daily Times (Pakistan)

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Sudan, the latest tragedy that the world has woken up to, has long been a witness to tensions over water and farmland between nomadic Arab tribes and their African neighbours. It is a conflict between Muslims but the manner of its conduct has brought ignominy to the Islamic world.

Dotted alongside the charred Sudanese locations are unharmed, populated and functioning Arab settlements.
In some locations, the distance between a destroyed Fur (black Muslim) settlement and an Arab village is less than 500 metres.

The Arab killers and rapists in Darfur are Muslims.
So are the victims — black African farmers.

The Arabs have displayed a shocking reluctance to act in defence of non-Arab Muslims. They clearly consider the fate of the non-Arab Muslims as peripheral to the cause of Arab nationalism.

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Today the Arab press is Hysterical over civilian casualties in Iraq but simply ignores the genocide of Muslim population in Sudan.

Is it because in this case it is Arab northerners who are systematically wiping out the black Muslims in the Darfur region? Whilst the Arab press affirms its nationalism and hatred for America, with headlines such as “America will pay the price sooner than it thinks. There are no limits to American injustice and highhandedness. Despite its power and tyranny America will not win because it has no humanitarian values,” one wonders why nobody condemned Saddam for 5,000 dead in a single day in the chemical attack on Halebja, or Assad, or 30,000 killed in Hama?

Some Arab governments — as well of their press and the public — have expressed great outrage against the United States for human rights violations in Iraq. Should they not first practice moral judgment on themselves and each other? Before they speak about an intimidating new-fangled colonialism, they should first show that they are competent to govern themselves by some means other than torment and carnage. While the Muslim world has suffered, they have blamed everyone but themselves. This state of denial and extreme ‘hypocrisy’ ill-equips Muslims to deal with problems of endemic terrorism.

The gross hypocrisy resident within mainstream mores of Islamic polity has led the nation of Islam into a collective rage of vanity and powerlessness. The enemy within is rarely ever found to be the culprit. There is no moral equivalence of crimes against humanity.

To rub salt in the victims’ wounds, the Arab League has issued a statement “reaffirming the ‘Arab states solidarity with the sisterly Republic of Sudan and their keenness to preserve its territorial integrity and sovereignty and reinforce all peace initiatives started by the Sudanese government with the international and regional parties’”. To express support for a government that is widely seen as the instigator is not only disappointing, it is true to form for these ‘Islamic’ regimes.

While we loudly condemn Israel, why are we hushed in our denunciations of Islamic regimes that slaughter thousands of Muslims? Does any League care about the black Muslims being slaughtered?

The current cycle of horror and devastation in Sudan continues to prompt more concern in Western countries than in the Arab world.

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