Darfur Issue #2
by Dr. Fauzi

“you will not find the jews as well as the christians being completely at ease with you the muslims, untill you become the followers of their paganistic beliefs” the meaning of a verse of the Quran, this thing about the non muslims (jews and christians) against us is not a fantasy, there are views that the muslims’ overreactions are partly to blame, our ways in dealing with the non muslims, the over zealotness of the muslims, failure to comprehend the changing circumstances, the western sensibility is a potent force, well these half truths are there but the story of darfor yet again illustrates that muslims are the targets of the western machinations especially if they choose to profess the rules of Allah SWT as supreme,

“do you think that you will left at ease after you have professed to the truth of Allah SWT, have you not seen what have been afflicted to those who believed before you untill HE discerned ……..”

interesting read:

Darfur an excuse to ‘target Islam’
By AFP and AP correspondents in London
July 26, 2004

SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir has brushed off mounting international concern over the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, accusing the West of using the issue to “target Islam”.

As Australia joined Britain in considering a possible troop commitment to Sudan, and the US and European Union warned of economic sanctions, Mr Beshir said the “real aim” of such moves was to stop the spread of Islam in the northeast African nation.

Pro-government newspaper Al-Anbaa reported that Mr Beshir made the remarks to supporters in the central region of Gezira following evening prayers on Friday. “The international concern about the Darfur issue is targeting the status of Islam in Sudan,” the paper quoted him as saying.

He said his national “salvation” Government, as its supporters refer to it, would continue to adhere to Islamic law, “set an example for social cohesion and bring humanity out of darkness to the light of Islam”.

Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is 70 per cent Muslim. Mr Beshir seized power in a bloodless Islamist coup in 1989.

The UN estimates that 50,000 people have died in Darfur and about 1.2 million have been driven from their homes since a revolt against Mr Beshir’s Arab-dominated Government broke out among indigenous black African ethnic minorities in February 2003.

In response, an Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, widely believed to be backed by Mr Beshir’s regime, launched a campaign of violence against black African villagers that the US Congress has declared to be attempted genocide.

The US has presented a draft UN Security Council resolution authorising sanctions against Sudan should it fail to prosecute leaders of the Janjaweed.

“They must stop Janjaweed violence, they must provide access to humanitarian relief for the people who suffer,” US President George W.Bush said last week.

Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot warned yesterday that “if the situation doesn’t improve quickly, sanctions by the international community will inevitably follow”. The Netherlands currently holds the EU presidency.

However, the chairman of the Sudanese parliament’s foreign relations committee, Al-Tigani Mustafa, warned yesterday that sanctions would “escalate and complicate, rather than solve, the Darfur crisis”. He won support from Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, who said Sudan should be given time to implement its commitments to the UN and the US.

Arguing that the Darfur situation was complex, Mr Abul Gheit said the Sudanese Government, with the support of the African Union, had begun taking steps to address it. “We cannot tell Sudanese officials … ‘Tomorrow you should immediately achieve complete calm’,” he said.

Britain has said it could send thousands of troops to the region if required. British army chief General Sir Michael Jackson told the BBC that “we could put a brigade together very quickly indeed”. Asked how many troops that would entail, he replied: “Five thousand.”