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| Arab women sing songs to celebrate rape of Darfur villagers |
| 2004-07-20 |
| EFL - from Al Guardian and Amnesty Intl no less Arab women singers complicit in rape, says Amnesty report Jeevan Vasagar in Nairobi and Ewen MacAskill Tuesday July 20, 2004 The Guardian While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday. The songs of the Hakama, or the "Janjaweed women" as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen. The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said. Cinthia McKinney call your office |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #21 Arab - a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa. Now, tyrants need to categorize, classify, dehumanize, and then "napalm for appropriate retribution" as one intelligent poster stated, all under the guise of preventing the loss of human lives. There is no honour among theives. |
| Posted by: paracletes 2004-08-23 3:12:06 AM |
| #20 Okay, you asked for it. The arabs & muslims believe that the U.S. is making this up to have an excuse when it decides to bomb Sudan. They believe that the whole story is a fabrication thought out by the americans. Any other questions? |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-13 6:22:51 AM |
| #19 Arabs (whatever their shade of skin colour might be) killing black Africans by the hundreds of thousands doesn't sound in the least bit "respectful", does it? Is this a failure of Islam (in which case you presumably condem the guilty Sudanese arabs as bad Muslims and criminals) or a consequence of their faith? If the latter, Gentle, then your "faith" here is responsible for another act of pure evil. If the former, why has the Arab world protested against international attempts to force the Sudanese arab Government to stop the militias? Presumably the arab world wants the killing of innocent black Africans to continue just as much as the murdering arabs in Sudan do. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-08-13 6:05:52 AM |
| #18 The part where arabs can be white or black, and the part where it does not matter to muslims what the color is, but what the faith is. They still have to respect them anyway, though. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-13 5:52:42 AM |
| #17 HELLO! They're ARABS! What part of the word "arab" are you having trouble with? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-08-13 5:27:46 AM |
| #16 HELLO! The arabs in Sudan ARE black. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-13 5:21:09 AM |
| #15 Gentle - educate yourself on the situation, please. They are not "all black" in Sudan. Sudanese ethnic groups: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1% (source: CIA World Factbook). The perpetrators of the violence there are ARAB militias operating with the tacit approval of the ARAB government in Khartoum. A summation of the situation (again, courtesy of the CIA World Factbook): "Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. ... The wars are rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced. The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup." |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-08-13 5:19:17 AM |
| #14 They are all black in sudan. Stand on a street corner in Khartoum (or any town north and/or east of Al Ubayyid) and announce this over a megaphone. Preferably in front of a mosque. But you're correct on one point. It just doesn't make sense. |
| Posted by: Another Dan 2004-08-13 5:16:47 AM |
| #13 They are all black in sudan. So what? Why would they taunt them with A-What they are themselves. B-Islam forbids prejudice of. Its stupid really, and just doesn't make sense. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-13 5:08:06 AM |
| #12 Damn, 16 seconds! Sorry Moqty. Mods, feel free to delete. |
| Posted by: Another Dan 2004-08-13 4:31:10 AM |
| #11 Ano6059, please read the article: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God." ... "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed." You were saying? |
| Posted by: Another Dan 2004-08-13 4:29:55 AM |
| #10 According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God." The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed." Yes the Arab women were weeping. That must be it. |
| Posted by: Moqty 2004-08-13 4:29:39 AM |
| #9 They probably mistook thier weeping for joyful singing. Yes, it could happen. those are lies. There is no one as cold as that. They are women too. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6059 2004-08-13 4:19:33 AM |
| #8 I still maintain that we should monitor the Janjaweed camps, wait for them to cluster for a big pow-wow and then strafe them all to hell-and-back-again with some AC-130H Spectres. I'd prefer napalm for the sake of appropriate retribution but will settle for the high caliber option. It would send a polite notice to Sudan's government of what could happen to them next if they do not reform. How many millions of lives have to be flushed away needlessly before the world finally understands the need for direct and brutal intervention against those who commit or promote genocide? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-07-20 11:37:36 PM |
| #7 Arab women: the new VIVID GIRLS? Inquiring minds want to know? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-07-20 11:03:20 PM |
| #6 Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy I'm trying to picture my Mother or my wife or my daughter, in a line singing for joy about the gang rape of other women. To say that these people or mentally ill, or diseased misses the point. Their culture is diseased. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-07-20 3:56:16 PM |
| #5 Well if she wins she becomes something of a problem for the Dems. Do they denounce her (as the Reps did with David Duke)? Or do they say, "well that antisemitic stuff is too bad but we welcome her for her views on condemning Halliburton? |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-07-20 3:53:55 PM |
| #4 Of course the poison of sexual sickness in Islam is not limited to men. These women are just as twisted as their hypocrite husbands. Instead of freeing themselves from a woman-hating religion and demanding justice in their homes, they have instead identified scapegoats for their misery and anger. Muslim scapegoating-What a surprise. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-20 3:51:14 PM |
| #3 Man, I pray she looses again tonight (Cynthia, that is). Guy here at the office is in her district (but Repub.) and said he's voting demo tonight to get her off the ticket. What a moonbat! |
| Posted by: BA 2004-07-20 3:42:07 PM |
| #2 It ain't over 'til the mustachioed ladies sing. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-07-20 2:48:21 PM |
| #1 Cinthia McKinney call your office she won't mind a bit . . . unless she can determine that the singing was financed by Joooooos. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-07-20 2:31:09 PM |