The question is why were the Muslims able to protect themselves and others when the rest of the population remained at risk?
The United Nations Assistant Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) was established in October of 1993. Three months before the genocide the UNAMIR commander, General Romeo Dallaire cabled the UN dept of Peacekeeping asking permission to confiscate a cache of machetes that he had learned had been shipped to Rwanda.
Interestingly, Kofi Annan’s deputy Iqbal Riza, the same man in charge of the Iraq oil for food scandal, denied permission for the weapons to be confiscated. Kofi Annan himself was aware of the plot for genocide and failed to act.
We can only conclude that these inactions by officials at the UN excerbated the genocide and yet the Muslim population seemed prepared for the event and reaped the benefits of the tribal conflict. It is only too convienent that the Muslims were seen as the protectors of an event that could have been mitigated three months prior to its genesis.
All true.
Muslims were able to protect themselves and others because they were not enmeshed in the Hutu-Tutsi rivalry that was promoted by political extremists in Rwanda. As had been the case on the Indian subcontinent and more recently in Rwanda's neighbor, Burundi, those who converted to Islam abandoned distinctions of caste. Because of this (and their small numbers, about 1% or 2% of the population) Rwandan muslims not primary targets in the genocide, either as victims or killers.
To suggest that the people resposible for saving themselves and thousands of others from certain death is despicable. To talk about going to fight the "evil Muslim hordes" during the Rwandan genocide when hundreds of thousands of people were systematically, raped, tortured, terrorized, killed and butchered by professing Christians is at best an example of your religious bigotry leading you astray and at worst an example of your desire to participate in the largest mass muder since the Holoocaust.