Sudan: Khartoum Regime Weaponry Armament Campaign is Lethal to Regional Security.

By Luk Kuth Dak* August 21, 2009Posted to the web on August 21, 2009

It’s well established under nation-state conventional wisdom that any country has the right to acquire and develop weapons as long as they are for peaceful use and self defense purposes. It is therefore self evident that the behavior of Khartoum acquiring massive armament is viewed as ill-intention. The overly military spending by Khartoum regime is nothing but an spiritual doom.
Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. puts best: he stressed, “ A nation (country) that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on social programs is approaching its spiritual doom.” This statement describes Khartoum military spending spree.
On the 55th anniversary of the so-called Sudan Armed Forces, the embattled Sudan’s President Omar Hassan El Basher unsurprisingly announced that his regime will continue to do all that it takes to make the Sudan Armed Forces one of the best in Africa. He went on to hail the manufacture of war planes and weapons Africa has never seen before. Al Basher pointed out, “ We will develop these institutions so that they assemble all the equipment required by the Armed Forces” he said.
A couple of moths ago, it was revealed that Sudan has, indeed, acquired some high-tech weapons from the communist China, capable of reaching all the neighboring countries without exception. Ironically, those neighboring countries which include Egypt have remained stoic and never raise an eye brow as to why the Islamic National Front’s (INF/NCP) regime continues to pursue military supremacy with such magnitude, especially in peacetime with out an overt enemy.
Their silence however, remained a mystery. But again, they maybe thinking that the long-range weapons are aimed at South Sudan alone, and therefore, they shouldn’t be concerning themselves with it. Well, that theory has some meat on it because over the course of the two decades long civil war, South Sudan has become a traditional and an eminent adversary.
Having said that, I do not really know much about the military affairs, even though am a trained Sheriff ( prisons officer). But I can tell you this: If in fact that’s the case, then they are dead wrong. The truth of the matter is that, the INF regime cannot possibly be squandering all the resources it desperately needed in enriching themselves, for just a possibility of a return to war with South Sudan, in the event that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA) comes to a dead end. It’s downrightly clear that the regime has far more targets besides the “ tiny” South Sudan. It’s therefore essential for ( them) to rethink their position, before it’s too late.
Subsequently, it stood out to me is that the Darfur rebel groups did not umbrage INF/ NCP armament. They are acting as if it does not concern them in some way or another. Instead, they are busy rushing to their tryst in Doha and Tripoli, for negotiations with the very Arabs that are funding the Sudan armament campaign after all.
Now, the international community and, indeed, all peace loving nations, have a moral responsibility to see to it that the communist China adheres to international laws by refraining from arms sales to Sudan, a country well on top of the list of the countries who harbor and export terrorism all across the board. In all likelihood, if the terrorist regime of Islamic extremists is allowed to acquire weapon of mass-destruction ( which might end up in the hands of the bad guys, the likes of al Qaida) It would be lethal not only to peace and prosperity in Africa, but the world at large, literally.
Egypt, in particular, should be the one to worry the most. It should not buy into the relatively and momentarily calmness in its relations with the INF regime. It must keep in mind that, the INF refers to their presence in al Halaib as an “ occupation” of Sudan’s land. Therefore, the calmness in relations between the two neighboring countries is only a tactical plot to lure Egypt into helping al Basher with his out-standing warrant. But once the regime has accomplished its military supremacy ( which is not far too long down the road), the dispute over the border will most likely resurface, and at that time, it would be too late. After all, Egyptians must be mindful that these are the same elements who have orchestrated and carried out the plot to assassinate President Mubarak in Ethiopian capital, Addis- Ababa.
Even more so, Eritrea and Ethiopia ( today’s friends of the INF), could be next on the list once the INF becomes the Africa’s “ superman” ( just around the corner).Both countries should be very concerned with their own pending border issues with a military supper power next door. So they should try to work with the United Nations to see to it that China is held accountable for violating international laws banding arms sales to terrorist states of the like of Sudan under the INF regime, as well as the execution of the arrest warren on President al Basher.
Consequently, nothing could be further from truth that INF military weapons’ pile up is South Sudan’s problem alone. But if so, at least South Sudan South Sudan has an advantage over all the other Sudan’s neighbors, in the sense that it has an enormous experience having been at war with the INF for over two decades. And furthermore, South Sudan is truly blessed with a mother nature that alone scares the “ hell” out of the Islamic jihadists.
Nonetheless, South shouldn’t take this armament campaign very lightly. The war is not over until it’s over, as Plato once said: “ Only the dead have seen the end of war”. Therefore, South needs to be even more vigilant than ever before, and the Chinese must be told that they are enemies of peace and stability in Africa, particularly, to the Sudanese people of South Sudan.
Luk Kuth Dak is a former anchorman/ reporter with Juba radio. He can be reached at: lukedak@hotmail.com
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UK: Muslim superheroes to debut on TV_ More Made Up Crap!!

August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
UK: Muslim superheroes to debut on TV
They are fighting for truth, justice and the Islamic way and are heading for your living room — prepare to say salaam to the world’s first Muslim superheroes.
Despite the ample wrongs waiting to be righted across the Middle East, Superman, Spider-Man and Batman mainly fight evil in America. When the East has featured as a setting for superhero antics — as in the recent film Iron Man — it has tended to be as a source of villainy.
That is about to change, courtesy of The 99, a Sharia-compliant version of the X-Men that has taken the Arab world by storm and has its sights set on the West.
The franchise, which was created as a cartoon strip three years ago to counter the effects of jihadist agitprop on Muslim minds, is poised to make its debut on British television this year. An animated series is being produced by Endemol, the Dutch company that made Big Brother internationally ubiquitous. Its mission: to instil old-fashioned Islamic values in Christian, Jewish and atheist children.Â
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Source: The Times
–Posted By Esther to Islam in Europe at 8/20/2009 07:51:00 AM
Misson to instil old fashoined islamic values in Christians-Jews- and Athiests and CHILDREN- THE TARGET AUDIENCE!!
http://www.amazon.com/Dhimmi-Jews-Christians-Under-Islam/product-reviews/0838632629
The history of Jews and Christians living under Islam is not widely known. When thinking of it at all, one looks to the glories of Islamic Spain or to the Ottoman Empire. The general historical reality is different from these however. Bat Ye’or provides an excellent overview of this history in the first part of her book and a wide variety of source documents in the second.
Here we learn of the religiously sanctioned forced conversions, daily humiliations, massacres, oppression, inequitable taxation, and the like, which eventually led to the near disappearance of the extensive Christian and Jewish communities which had flourished throughout the Near East and North Africa prior to the advent of Islam.
As “dhimmi” (people of the contract) Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and others of the accepted religions had no rights of citizenship within a Muslim state. As “protected peoples” they had no right to self-defense. They were at best tolerated and at all times living without security – subject to the law but not protected by it.
For example, Jews and Christians are specifically accused in the Qur’an of having falsified God’s word. In past Islamic societies therefore, Jews and Christians were considered to be willfully and knowingly adhering to a lie. As religiously convicted liars, they were given no standing in courts of law and could be convicted of crimes on the unsupported word of two Muslim males. The abuses of this system were extensive.
All-in-all, Bat Ye’or’s two books (”The Dhimmi” and “The Decline of Near Eastern Christianity under Islam”) do much to re-illuminate the forgotten history of Jews and Christians under Islam. They deserve a wide readership.
As an aside here to prove the non-partisanship of my review, it’s worth pointing out that the historical behavior of Christian societies toward indigenous Jews and heretics was no better.
This is a disturbing book which reveals what is described as a socially acceptable Islamic conduct against peoples who were classed as “inferior”.
For the most part the book describes these peoples as Jews and Christians who were classed as “dhimmi”. “Dhimmitude” being further elaborated as the religious, cultural, and political fate of non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, usually when their lands have been subject to Islamic conquest.
Where the politicisation/allegations of racial prejudice, segregation, apartheid and indeed genocide have become quite common-place in the Middle East against the Jewish state, a book such as this is very timely in showing another side to the story. A book that reveals the painful, disturbing policy of prejudice, racial hatred and segregation of countless people who the book describes were classed as “inferior”on the basis of their religion alone.
Many examples are referred to in this study and many issues are discussed. The book draws a number of distinctions drawn and prejudices applied upon Jews and Christians who refused to accept and bow to Islam. Just by way of a single example, page 56 of this study deals with the “Invalidity of the Dhimmi’s Oath”.
With legal cases being dealt with under Quranic law, every case involving a Muslim and a dhimmi received a “peculiar” treatment in that a dhimmi was forbidden to give evidence against a Muslim. The Dhimmi’s oath being deemed unacceptable in an Islamic court, which made it virtually impossible for any Muslim opponent to be condemned. To further any defence, the book describes that the dhimmi would be obliged to “purchase” Muslim witnesses, often at great expense.
This refusal of Muslim religious courts to accept such testimony of the dhimmi being based on hadiths which maintained that the infidels were of a “perverse and mendacious character because they deliberately persisted in denying the superiority of Islam”. The same law preventing any Muslim from being put to death on account of an infidel.
This principle alone is further elaborated in this book with the example of the frequent accusations directed at Jews and Christians of having “blasphemed” the Prophet or Islam, an offence punishable by death. In such a case, the dhimmi was clearly in no position to contradict the testimony of a Muslim making the accusation and could therefore only save his life by conversion to Islam. (Although some exceptions have been recorded, this was the abiding principle nearly always adhered to.)
This is a classic study of this subject and it is not a “light” read, but a subject which demands attention. Thank you.
A SILENT HISTORY FINDS A VOICE..
This is the classic study of dhimmitude – the condition of non-Muslims who are permitted to live as permanent tributaries under the dhimma, a pact of submission to Islamic conquest. A profoundly moving human document, The Dhimmi is deeply challenging to the ‘Andalusian myth’, that Muslim relations with those of other faiths have been the epitome of peaceful coexistence. In The Dhimmi, Bat Ye’or provides her classical definition of the psychology of dhimmitude, which is of fundamental importance for understanding the current role of Islam in its full global context.
Dhimmi history is hard to study, in part because the conquerors have written their own version, and promulgated it with supreme moral self-confidence. It is also hard to access dhimmi documents, which are written in Greek, Latin, Farsi, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Armenian, Serbian, English, French, Hindi etc etc. A great strength of this book is it’s very rich collection of translations from dhimmi and Arab documents.
A must read in these times.
This is the classic study of dhimmitude – the condition of non-Muslims who are permitted to live as permanent tributaries under the dhimma, a pact of submission to Islamic conquest. A profoundly moving human document, The Dhimmi is deeply challenging to the ‘Andalusian myth’, that Muslim relations with those of other faiths have been the epitome of peaceful coexistence. In The Dhimmi, Bat Ye’or provides her classical definition of the psychology of dhimmitude, which is of fundamental importance for understanding the current role of Islam in its full global context.
Dhimmi history is hard to study, in part because the conquerors have written their own version, and promulgated it with supreme moral self-confidence. It is also hard to access dhimmi documents, which are written in Greek, Latin, Farsi, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Armenian, Serbian, English, French, Hindi etc etc. A great strength of this book is it’s very rich collection of translations from dhimmi and Arab documents.
A must read in these times.



A superb analysis of the lifestyle of dhimmis under Islam, December 17, 2004
Why do Arabs attack Zionism? In this book, Bat Ye’or gives a surprisingly simple answer. I think she’s absolutely nailed the cause of the problem:
“It is well known that the successful revolt of the colonized frequently traumatizes the colonizer. Vengefulness and hatred express the distress of the oppressor confronted by his victim’s rebellion. An equality of rights with the inferior party humiliates the dominating group which, deprived of its superiority, seeks compensation in phantasms. Such reactions have been exhaustively analyzed in books dealing with the phenomenon of racism.”
The author shows these attitudes in action, as various Arabs complain that the presence of Jews in Israel defiles the land, or that the land is all Arab, with Jews being mere “dhimmis.” The liberation of the Jews is sometimes considered a crime against Nature, as we see Egyptian President Nasser call it “the greatest international crime that has been committed in the entire history of mankind.”
The terms applied by Arab racists to Jewish dhimmis who sought freedom are now applied to Israel itself: insolent, arrogant, and needing punishment.
I think this book is one of the best at explaining why Arabs and Jews are at odds in the Middle East. And why they’ll continue to be at odds until Arabs renounce such racism and until international applause for this racism quiets down.
Bat Ye’or explains the problems of being a dhimmi. A dhimmi lacks rights and is thus dependent on the good will of, um, real people. A dhimmi has no history; actually a dhimmi has no right to have a history, and real people write any history they please regarding dhimmis. And the author shows that although Zionism is more an Oriental phenomenon than a European one, the refusal to acknowledge Zionist history tends to lead to claims that Zionism is exclusively a European movement. In addition, she implies that the refusal of many Arabs to refer to Israel or to allow it to be on Arab maps is another symptom of the tendency to refuse dhimmis the right to a historical existence.
The author contrasts the outrage of many antizionist Arabs with the relative silence of some genuine victims: Jews who were expelled from Arab nations. She attributes some of this to a tendency of dhimmis, with their history of having been exploited, servile, and silent, to think in terms of gratitude and toleration rather than in terms of rights.
In this book, Bat Ye’or does a superb job of explaining the dhimmi condition. And I think we all ought to heed her warning that those who forget history are indeed condemned to repeat it.

I found the book helpful in defining the main drivers of the oppressive treatment of minorities in the Middle East. The documents included in the second part of the book lend much credence to Bat Ye’Or’s analysis. I found the documents very painful to read because I started recalling stories told by my grandfather. I hope that Bat Yeor’s work can contribute to the understanding of this complex subject and prevent the suffering of future generations.
I THINK THE LAST PARAGRAPH SUMS UP JUST WHAT WE ALL NEED TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND- WE SHOULD BE ASKING WHATS’ WITH THESE WESTERN FASCIST LIBERALS THAT WISH US ALL TO LIVE UNDER FASCISM!!
The Dhimmi: Jews & Christians Under Islam is required reading for any American.
The author writes, in detail, in a marvelously researched manner. The mistake that many people make is that Islam is only anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. For from it. Islam is anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Catholic, and anti-Buddhist, anti just about everything.
Even if there was no Israel, or the US was not an ally of Israel, radical Islam would still despise the USA.
When Islam despises you, your live is in danger.
This is a horrifying book. What is most horrifying is that it is non-fiction