Darfur: In The Name Of The Prophet?

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There is a story in today’s Sunday Telegraph that would appear to confirm what many have suspected for some time – that the conflict in the Sudan has been prosecuted by the Islamic authorities in Khartoum on religious lines - to the extent that their savagery is recognised as genocide by a growing number of governments, including that of the United States.

Despite the clear religious motivation of this aggression there are, as one would expect, those who would have us believe that the organised mass killing, raping, mutilation, enslaving, ethnic cleansing and looting has nothing to do with the so-called “Religion of Peace”! This is not a view that your news team subscribes to!

As an aside; as far as we are aware, the Muslim Council Of Britain has yet to condemn the murderous activities of their co-religionists in that blighted part of the world!

The Sunday Telegraph report begins:

A high-ranking commander who armed and led Janjaweed militiamen in attacks on hundreds of villages in Darfur has come forward to claim that he did so at the behest of the Sudanese government.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are tomorrow expected to take a significant step towards putting Sudan’s leaders on trial by presenting evidence against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
As they pursue a case against Sudan’s rulers in Khartoum, some of the most damning evidence yet that the killing was directed by the government has been provided by Arbab Idries, who was a key commander between 2003-7.

An estimated 300,000 black Africans died in ethnic massacres in Darfur at the hands of Arabic-speaking militias, in what the US has described as genocide. A further 2.5 million refugees have been driven from their homes.

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