'Arab Spring': The chilly cruel winter reality of Arab racism and Islamic bigotry

'Arab Spring': The chilly cruel winter reality of Arab racism and Islamic bigotry

Not that ethnic racism and religious bigotry weren't rampant before the so-called "Arab spring" sprung about. But the intolerance tide seems to be only worsening, and without an Arab dictator to "hold" various factions together, vulnerability expand, risks rise.

As the D.B. puts it: "Violence Against Egypt's Copts in an Intolerant Arab Spring.. The elephant in the room of the Arab Spring is now the mistreatment of minority communities—Christians and others—across the Arab world."

FPM asks: Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt's Christians? ... the guise of the "Arab spring" and "people-power," all hailed and supported by the U.S.—worked for religious minorities in the Arab world?

In Feb. Diana West wrote: "Islamic bigotry kept under wraps in Egyptian uprising." Especially at the brutalization and racist rape by Arab Muslim mob in Egypt of CBS journalist L. Logan (thinking she was Jewish) and the MSM silencing the story.

In May, the New York Times reported on the growing Islamic anti-Christian attacks: "Egypt's Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists." That "Coptic Christians, many of whom have felt less secure since Egypt's dictator stepped down, held a sit-in May 19 in Cairo."

Explaining: The revolution has empowered the majority but also opened new questions about the protection of minority rights like freedom of religion or expression as Islamist groups step forward to lay out their agendas and test their political might.
Adding:
Around the region, Christians are also closely watching events in Syria, where as in Egypt Christians and other minorities received the protection of a secular dictator, Bashar al-Assad, now facing his own popular uprising.

Z. Baumann, in a June article, asks about Christians: "Arab Spring's losers of revolution?"

Christian Persecution monitor (Aug.) "Common Fear, Opposing Reactions Define Differences between Christians in Egypt and Syria." Later on, in that month: Egyptian Islamic Jihad Official: If We Come To Power We Will Launch Islamic Conquest To Instate Sharia and "Exterminate" Christians If They Cause Problems.

The Copts Association and Christian of Iraq said (Sep.) The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution... Throughout the region, Christians have been targeted by Muslim mobs ... that the Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian minorities throughout the Middle East.

As the Arab Islamic mob (Sep.) attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo, they were justifiably described by a Western journalist. "They Were Animals." Still think, the Arab-Israeli conflict is about "land...?"

Introduction:
From a 2006 article in The Guardian: "The race taboo,": The existence of racist attitudes within Arab countries is often denied, resulting in scandalous displays of prejudice against certain ethnic groups. The Arab countries, mostly are in denial. The A to Z of ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East embraces Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'is, Berbers, Chaldeans, Copts, Druzes, Ibadis, Ismailis, Jews, Kurds, Maronites, Sahrawis, Tuareq, Turkmen, Yazidis and Zaidis (by no means an exhaustive list), and yet serious discussion of ethnic/religious diversity and its place in society is a long-standing taboo. If the existence of non-Arab or non-Muslim groups is acknowledged at all, it is usually only to declare how wonderfully everyone gets along.

Already in March, Rebels execute black immigrants while forces kidnap others... Therefore the Arab racism of Libyan rebels constitute crimes against humanity.

From a Mar 5, 2011 "Black Africans Caught in Libyan Arab Racism" That Libyan rebels, overwhelmingly racist and anti-African...

The New York Times reported in September: "Libyans Turn Wrath on Dark-Skinned Migrants," That As rebel leaders pleaded with their fighters to avoid taking revenge against "brother Libyans," many rebels were turning their wrath against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, imprisoning hundreds for the crime of fighting as "mercenaries" for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi without any evidence except the color of their skin.
Explaining the scapefoating of black: Still, in a country with a long history of racist violence, it has become an article of faith among supporters of the Libyan rebels that African mercenaries pervaded the loyalists' ranks. And since Colonel Qaddafi's fall from power, the hunting down of people suspected of being mercenaries has become a major preoccupation.

Even the Arab-based Arab-biased al-Jazeera reported testimonies of "how race-based discrimination and violence, long an issue in Libya, had been inflamed by the war."

From the HuffingtonPost, September "The Great Taboo: Arab Racism," With the liberation of Libya come less happy reports from Amnesty and Physicians for Human Rights of rebels slaughtering scores of black Africans, believing they were all pro-Gaddafi mercenaries. While the dictator did hire some fighters from sub-Saharan Africa, the vast majority of black Africans in Libya are entirely innocent immigrants, one million of whom are guest workers.

On the plight of Africans in Arab Egypt, UNHCR (October) says no more resettlement for refugees from Libya in Egypt...‎ For the Africans now stranded in Egypt, Ali, a Somali refugee who has been waiting for nearly a decade to be relocated, he warns that there will be an upsurge in anti-Africanism and racism toward the refugees who are barred from work and education in the country.

Black activists in October decried: "Why The New York Times Ignored Libya Ethnic Cleansing‎... Not Genocide If "Our Team" Commits the Crime."

Carina Ray (Sep.): "Gaddafi and the Mercenary Myth‎." The mistreatment and murder of blacks by rebel forces in Libya is an extension of long-simmering anti-immigrant sentiments that are directed at sub-Saharan Africans. Xenophobia and racism are both at play here.

In that month: Persecution of Black Libyans draws international outcry‎ Workers World. They must protest the racist persecution of Black Libyans and all Africans and demand that it stop immediately.

A Sep. report: "Poverty Skyrockets in the World's Poorest Country Due to Racial Violence After Revolution in Neighboring Libya."

Khadaffy saw himself as a pan-African leader. That might or might not have gone over with the Libyan Arabs, but that didn’t mean they wanted to see a great influx of black Africans into their country. Sure, they’re racist. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a legitimate grievance about their leader inviting in foreigners.

In Bahrain, the Shi’ite majority do not like the ruling Sunni minority importing more Sunnis.

Anger at population replacement was not a factor in most of the Arab countries where there was unrest, but it was big in two of them. But let’s just blur the line between that and plain old bigotry and tribal rivalry, so the peons of the West don’t think about what’s being done to them.

It would do the West good to take in Iraqi and Egyptian Christians - and send Iraqi and Egyptian Muslims home in exchange.

Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born - Analysis
11 hours ago by B. Raman
Gaddafi suppressed his people. He used brutal force against them. He funded, trained and armed many of the West Asian terrorist organisations, that claimed to be fighting for the Palestinian cause against Israel and the West.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/22102011-libya-an-old-evil-is-dead-a-new-evil-is-born-analysis/

Muammar Qaddafi
With respect to Libya’s neighbors, Gaddafi followed Nasser’s ideas of pan- Arabism and became a fervent advocate of the unity of all Arab states into one Arab
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Qaddafi.html

Libya’s Gaddafi turns attention to black Africa
Sep 16, 1998
By Abdelaziz Barrouhi

TUNIS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - FEATURE - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, for long the self-appointed defender of the Arab nation, is turning his attention to black Africa. For many years Gaddafi, who took power in a coup that overthrew the monarchy in 1969, espoused Pan-Arabism, doctrinaire socialism and anti-western agitation financed by his country’s oil wealth.

But Arab unity and pan-Arabism is no longer in official favour in Libya and has disappeared from state-run media, Tripoli residents contacted from Tunis say. State television news now longer carries a map of the “Arab Nation” on its backdrop-it has been replaced by the African continent.

Middle Eastern soap operas have disappeared from the television schedules, and have been replaced by programmes on black issues such as slavery.

The Foreign Ministry said this month the Pan-Arab Affairs Ministry, charged with promoting the unity of the Arab world, would be scrapped at the next session of the People’s Congress, Libya’s equivalent of a parliament.

ARAB NATIONALISM HAS FAILED, GADDAFI SAYS
Tripoli also announced that it had already scrapped the department in charge of promoting Gaddafi’s Pan-Arab ideas from “the Gulf to the (Atlantic) Ocean.”

In a U-turn, Gaddafi admits now that his ideology of Arab nationalism, inherited from late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, has failed.

“I had been crying slogans of Arab Unity and brandishing standard of Arab nationalism for 40 years, but it was not realised. That means that I was talking in the desert,” Gaddafi told the Arab satellite television channel ANN this month. “I have no more time to lose talking with Arabs...I am returning back to realism...I now talk about Pan-Africanism and African Unity,” he added.

“The Arab world is finished...Africa is a paradise...and it is full of natural resources like water, uranium, cobalt, iron, manganese,” Gaddafi said in an apparent attempt to convince his compatriots.

“If Africa is a paradise, we would have heard about that much earlier. But as far as I know, Africa is better known for its ethnic wars, drought and starvation,” one Libyan traveller in Tunis commented.

“If Gaddafi is serious in what he says, this would be a crucial shift in the history of the Arab world, because we would no more have an Arab state whose ideology is namely based on Pan-Arabism,” a senior Arab diplomat based in Tripoli said.

“This might not be a bad thing for the Arab world because Gaddafi had been giving a wrong image to the external world about closer ties between Arabs,” another North Africa-based diplomat said.
http://www.geocities.com/~dagmawi/News/News_Sep17_Gadhafi.html

Gaddafi: the man Gaddafi: the man who would be king of Africa
Aug 26, 2011 – ... who would be king of Africa. Gaddafi swapped his pan-Arab robes for pan- African ones, but he was viewed with suspicion in the continent ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/gaddafi-legacy-meddling-africa

Colonel Khaddafy and his Libyan army have carried out numerous military excursions into neighboring Chad. Even Egypt’s Christian Coptic community (less than 10% of the population) walks a fine line between tolerance and oppression.
http://falangist.net/islam12.htm

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