Supporting Christians in Black Africa

For the past forty years the Western world has done little to support Christians in black Africa.

During the Biafran War, a war that resulted from Muslim attacks and mass killings of Christians in the Muslim north, a war that was intended to defend those largely Ibo Christians from what Col. Ojukwu called, in his Ahiara Declaration, a "jihad," not a single Western country save for Israel would recognize Biafra.

Meanwhile, Muslims gave diplomatic and other aid to the north. Egyptian pilots wantonly bombed Ibo villages, killing thousands for the fun of it. It was a cause in the Muslim world. It was not a cause in the non-Muslim world.

Perhaps some Western governments did not wish to interrupt the flow of oil from Nigeria. But had a state of Biafra been declared, it would have been self-sufficient, with all the oil located in the south, and the industrious southerners would not have wasted oil income on the armaments that the Muslim-dominated governments have done.

That was the first great betrayal by the Western world.

The second was in the Sudan, where for 20 years a slow-moving genocide, consisting of outright killing, and of deliberate starvation, has caused the deaths of close to 2 million black Africans, both Christian and animist. In the last year or two, the Arab supremacist ideology within Islam has impeleld the Arabs to launch attacks, and the same kind of starvation methods, even on fellow, but non-Arab, Muslims.

There are others -- the Muslim aggression that can be seen all over East and West Africa, with Saudi money and mosques and preachers pouring in, and the attacks on the Ismaili sect (regarded as "too moderate") by these Wahhabi imports, while nothing is done to even recongize the problem, as if it were purely a matter of religion and not of political menace.

Several Arab states openly enslave blacks -- Mali, Mauritania, Niger -- and others do so a bit more discreetly.

While the Americans should leave Iraq, this does not mean they should cease to employ military power where it makes sense.

It makes sense in the Sudan, where the mass killings and mass dislocations in Darfur continue, virtually without anything being done except a great deal of ostentatious clucking in assorted corridors.

from a reply by Hugh on Dhimmi Watch.

The Word for Today Is

DARFUR

Google it.
Write your Congressperson.
Donate to Catholic Relief Charities which is a highly rated charitable organization.
Join The American Red Cross.
Pray for Sudan.
Additional Information on Sudan.
BBC News on Sudan.
Pray for Sudan and especially for Darfur.
BBC News on Darfur.
Human Rights Watch on Darfur.
Darfur Information Center.

And after you've educated yourself on Sudan and Darfur, pray again and make prayer for every Nation and every language a daily priority.

GOD Bless You.

Brit Teacher in Sudan Pardoned

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Gibbons said in a written statement delivered to Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir that she did not intend to offend anyone and had great respect for Islam. Her release came after two British Muslim politicians from the House of Lords met with al-Bashir to plead for her release.

Lord Nazir Ahmed, who met with al-Bashir earlier Monday along with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, said the case was an "unfortunate misunderstanding" and stressed that Britain respected Islam.

He hoped "the relations between our two countries will not be damaged by this incident," Ahmed told reporters at the presidential palace after Monday's meeting.

Ghazi Saladdin, a senior presidential adviser, said al-Bashir insisted that Gibbons had a "fair trial," but he agreed to pardon her because of the efforts by the British Muslim delegation. The trial was sparked when a school secretary complained to the Education Ministry that Gibbons aimed to insult the Prophet Muhammad.

The conviction shocked many Britons, but the case was caught up in the ideology that al-Bashir's Islamic regime has long instilled in Sudan, a mix of anti-colonialism, religious fundamentalism and a sense that the West is besieging Islam.

If nobody died this video wouldn't have been needed: