To: ChinuSFO who wrote (58093 ) 2/21/2005 5:30:11 PM From: lorne Read Replies (1) | Respond to chinu. I asked you if any religion was involved in the atrocities ongoing in the Sudan and sort of suggested the islam may be involved and here is your reply.The Rwandan tribe (Hutus) are just pure uncivilized tribes who loot and rampage rival tribes. Africa still lives in the world of tribal rivalry. Includes Sudan too. Nothing with religion. We should not attempt to make it more than it is. "....When Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his fellow Islamist officers seized power on June 30, 1989, they founded the People`s Defense Force (PDF) of some 150,000 conscripts to protect the 30 June Revolution and to suppress the rebellion in the South, essentially replacing the army as the instrument to enforce the Islamization of the Sudan. ".....More subtle but equally divisive to any settlement on this frontier of Islam was the determination by the revolutionary regime in Khartoum to impose its Islamist ideology on all Sudanese and Arab culture, language, and militant Islam as the foundation of Sudanese society--when less than half the Sudanese claim Arab origins and another third are non-Muslims. The Arabo-centric enthusiasm of Bashir and his National Islamic Front (now the National Congress) government reopened old and deep wounds in Sudanese society. The injection of an Islamist ideological and racist definition as to who is "Arab" and who is zuruq, black, or the more pejorative epithet abid, slave, to distinguish between Arab and African has generated a devastating tragedy that justifies killing, rape, and enslavement of these marginalized people by a cynical and dysfunction government in denial. "...... splmtoday.com
