"The Devil Came On Horseback"
A commenter, who sent me this link, writes:
I just saw a pretty disturbing film about Darfur called "The Devil Came on Horseback." I found this clip which I thought you might consider for the blog, as it confirms much of what you have discussed in the past. He asks the important questions/makes the key statements after the two-minute mark.
In short, they are Muslim, but they are black Muslims, and they receive nothing from Arab Muslims. We Americans are the people this poor guy is grateful for:
Why are the Arab Muslims railing about the Palestinians while they are silent about hundreds of thousands of Muslims being slaughtered in Darfur?
As I've pointed out before (and sorry for those who prefer not to believe it), Arab Muslims are quite racist. Tarek Fatah gave a speech, "How internalised racism has permitted lighter skinned Muslims to slaughter their darker skinned co-religionists." An excerpt from the photo of dead bodies at the top:
The latest manifestation of racism leading to a genocide is in Sudan where the Arab Janjaweed militia and the Arab government in Khartoum has resulted in the killing of 500,000 Darfuri Muslims whose only fault is that they are Black and thus considered as inferior to the ruling classes of that country.The mistreatment of Black Muslims by those who feel they are superior because of their lighter skin colour has been historical. Only in the Middle East can one get away by addressing a Black man as "Ya Abdi", which translates to the horrible words, "Oh you slave".
An excerpt from his speech:
The acceptance of racism among the dominant community in the Arab world has today resulted in not just the genocide of Darfuris, but also the celebration by the Arab League of the man charged by the International Criminal Court, President Bashir of Sudan.It is time that the medieval doctrine of the inferiority of non-Arab Muslims to Arab Muslims is laid to rest. It is necessary that Arab countries and leaders of Arab NGOs denounce this doctrine that has led to the discrimination of darker skinned Muslims by Arab governments in counties as far apart as Dubai to Darfur.
Behind the genocide of Bengal and Darfur, separated by 30 years, is the unchallenged doctrine of racial superiority of one ethnic group over another that has gone unnoticed and unpunished by any institution anywhere in the world.
This doctrine of racism has brought untold misery on the victims of this cancer, but this becomes worse when such racism is given a religious validation. In this day and age, we have fatwas from contemporary Islamic scholars who maintain that a non-Arab Muslim like me would be committing an act of sin if I considered myself equal to an Arab.
Fatwas from the 14th century have been dusted off the shelves, re-furbished and published on on-line Islamist forums to justify the superiority of one group over the other. This has provided the moral justification to the mass murder being committed on the Black Muslims of Darfur, which unfortunately, has gone unmentioned even at this conference.
Who, besides the Americans, has rescued refugees from Darfur? The Israelis, of course!
Yes, that's right -- they rescue black Muslims fleeing murder by Arab Muslims. Olmert even granted citizenship to 500 black Muslim refugees from Darfur.
It's a very good film, and gives a good history of why this conflict started in the first place- how to distribute the revenue from the oil fields. It also discusses the use of mass rape to destroy the structure of the African Muslim community. One can only draw the conclusion that the United Nations and the rest of the world views these people as worthless.
Those with Netflix can instantly watch it on their computers.
A commenter at March 10, 2010 7:56 AM
I have seen this movie as well - it is very good. I recommend watching it during the same week that you see 'God Grew Tired of Us.' Same issue, different perspective.
Pirate Jo at March 10, 2010 8:35 AM
"Life here is very bad."
So says one of 1.2 million black Iraqis, and he has good reason:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/world/middleeast/03basra.html?scp=1&sq=basra&st=cse
Note the insistence by Iraqi officials, none of whom are black, that Iraq is perfectly color-blind.
Martin at March 10, 2010 9:26 AM
But then there are dark-skinned Muslims in Nigeria slaughtering 500 dark skinned Christians...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100308/wl_africa_afp/nigeriaunrest
Feebie at March 10, 2010 10:41 AM
I would say that they are not "racist" as the Arab Muslims regard everyone who is not an Arab Muslim as inferior. They would regard European Muslims as inferior also.
In fact, based on their treatment of the Pseudostinian (sic) Muslims, they are even very careful to regard them as inferior. The only reason they pay even lip service to them is because of they have a chance to attack the Joooooos.
Sabba Hillel at March 10, 2010 10:43 AM
"the Joooooos"
No, it's the "Juice." Remember this guy?
http://www.seriouslol.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/c5e8_Juice.jpg
Pirate Jo at March 10, 2010 11:21 AM
"I would say that they are not "racist" as the Arab Muslims regard everyone who is not an Arab Muslim as inferior. They would regard European Muslims as inferior also."
Europeans are of a diffenrent race from Arabs, and Sephardic Jews for that matter, to the extent race is even a real category, so it's still racism.
Jim at March 11, 2010 1:07 PM
"A new book reveals how celebrities’ and human rights activists’ simple-minded moral posturing on Darfur made the conflict even worse."
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8277/
Looks like an interesting read.
CB at March 12, 2010 6:56 AM
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