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.