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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (7811)	5/27/2007 9:00:10 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

KALMA, Sudan - The seven women pooled money to rent a donkey and cart, then ventured out of the refugee camp to gather firewood, hoping to sell it for cash to feed their families. Instead, they say, in a wooded area just a few hours walk away, they were gang-raped, beaten and robbed. Naked and devastated, they fled back to Kalma. "All the time it lasted, I kept thinking: They're killing my baby, they're killing my baby," wailed Aisha, who was seven months pregnant at the time. The women have no doubt who attacked them. They say the men's camels and their uniforms marked them as janjaweed — the Arab militiamen accused of terrorizing the mostly black African villagers of Sudan's Darfur region. Their story, told to an Associated Press reporter and confirmed by other women and aid workers in the camp, provides a glimpse into the hell that Darfur has become as the Arab-dominated government battles a rebellion stoked by a history of discrimination and neglect. Now in its fourth year, the conflict has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and rape is its regular byproduct, U.N. and other human rights activists say. Sudan's government denies arming and unleashing the janjaweed, and bristles at the charges of rape, saying its conservative Islamic society would never tolerate it Funny how when they are rapists they are Arabs, and when it is the society they are Muslims.......

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (7811)	5/27/2007 10:09:36 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

In the 1990s, radical Islamist ideas gained popular support, and terrorism was widely accepted as a means to win power. More than 100,000 Algerian people died in years of civil conflict. Today, most people say the experience has forced them to reject the most radical ideas. So although Algerians are more religious now than they were during the bloody 1990s, they are more likely to embrace modernity - a partial explanation for the emergence of women as a societal force, some analysts said. iht.com