Posted on 07/31/2011 11:14:41 AM PDT by americanophile
On July 9, the mostly Christian South Sudan will legally and officially separate from the Muslim north and become a new, independent and free country. Fearing loss of its iron clad grip of other non-Arab regions in the north, whose people likely envy the freedoms won by the South, Arab/Islamist leaders in Khartoum have launched a military assault on the Nuba Mountains, a mixed Christian, animist and Muslim region. Reports from the area are gruesomely reminiscent of the decades-long assault Khartoum waged on the South. These include forced conversions to Islam, mass displacement, bombing of civilians and mass slaughter.
Anticipating the effects of Christians winning freedom from his rule already in December of 2010 Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity, laid out a vision for the future of his nation:
"If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity... Sharia (Islamic law) and Islam will be the main source for the constitution, Islam the official religion and Arabic the official language", he told a group of supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at christiannewstoday.com ...
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the crickets about literally hundreds of thousands killed by the Islamic government of Sudan, is mind-numbing.
...yet (unconfirmed) reports of a few “civilians” killed by Gaddafi, caused a billion dollar campaign dropping thousands of bombs, even on TV transmitters, to stop the “dangerous” leader even from speaking on TV.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2756130/posts
NATO bombs Libyan TV transmitters
“NATO said Moammar Gadhafis inflammatory broadcasts have been designed to mobilize his supporters. “
...while Sudan continues to add to the hundreds of thousands who have been silenced forever.
and the USA and NATO do...
NOTHING.
Sad but true.
Thanks americanophile.
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