{"id":3885,"date":"2003-03-18T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2003-03-18T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T19:22:43","slug":"as_long_as_were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/as_long_as_were.html","title":{"rendered":"As long as we’re ragging on Old Europe today …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… you should check out this article<\/a>, which discusses the horrific situation in the Sudan.<\/p>\n

For the past 20 years, the regime in Khartoum has bombed, starved, and enslaved black Southern Sudanese with impunity in an effort to subject them to Islamic rule. As a result, over two million black non-Muslims have perished. A further five million have been driven off their land.
\nSudanese slaves — mainly women and children — are routinely beaten, raped, genitally mutilated, forced to convert to Islam and racially abused. The scale of this ”crime against humanity” — as slavery is identified in international law — is enormous. Credible estimates of the number of Sudan’s slaves range from tens of thousands to over 200,000.<\/p>\n

The US sort of finally woke up to this in the 90s, and … well, did just what self-respecting multilateral nations are supposed to do. The US declared Sudan a terrorist state, it sponsored strong resolutions in the UN Commission for Human rights, and imposed economic sanctions.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, certain EU guardians of international morality see North Africa as their playground, and as a potential economic partner. Thus …<\/p>\n

What did the Franco-German duo do? It led the EU in the opposite direction. France provided Khartoum with military intelligence for the prosecution of the jihad<\/i>, while French and German helicopters have been used for ethnic cleansing in southern Sudan’s oil fields. Driving black, non-Muslims out of their homes creates greater security for the investments of oil firms like Total Fina (France\/Belgium) and the German engineering giant Mannesmann.
\nThe Sudanese government’s role in the revival of the country’s once-dormant slave trade formed the greatest single political obstacle to legitimizing the EU’s appeasement policy. France and Germany therefore spearheaded a UN whitewash of this crime against humanity. With the rest of the EU and their new East European satellite states in tow, they overcame American objections and easily persuaded the UN Commission on Human Rights to censor any use of the word ”slavery” from official documents on Sudan and replace it with the euphemism ”abduction” — a lesser offense.<\/p>\n

Perhaps they’d like to send some inspectors in, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… you should check out this article, which discusses the horrific situation in the Sudan. For the past 20 years, the regime in Khartoum has bombed, starved, and enslaved black…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/sudanese-apostate-is-spared-hanging-and-flogging.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":0},"title":"Sudanese "apostate" is spared hanging and flogging","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jun-14 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A bit of good news.\ufeff Christian Woman Escapes Death In Sudan Over Conversion Meriam Ibrahim, 27, says she was raised an Orthodox Christian after being born to a Muslim father. A court ordered her release Monday, throwing out a death sentence. View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/on-bill-oreillys-slavery-apologetics.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":1},"title":"On Bill O'Reilly's Slavery Apologetics","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jul-16 9:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of an O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly offered some commentary on Michelle Obama's moving speech about how she was living in a White House that had been built by slaves.After noting, pedantically, that construction of the White House -- first occupied by John and Abigail Adams -- had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":401,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/20\/weekend_update-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":2},"title":"Weekend Update","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Apr-03 10:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday was modestly hectic, but ended on a very nice note. Margie took a dinner to the Sudanese refugee family our church is sponsoring, and then, once Kitten was down,...","rel":"","context":"In "Harry Potter"","block_context":{"text":"Harry Potter","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/harry-potter"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/a-horrifying-competition-of-evils.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":3},"title":"A horrifying competition of evils","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-May-16 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very interesting and moving article about the Whitney Plantation slavery museum in Louisiana and the horrible story it tells about the black slaves who worked -- and suffered and were tortured and died -- on the site.Which then, in the comments, gets into a one-upsmanship argument about whether American slavery\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130470,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/friends-dont-let-friends-spread-spurious-quotations.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":4},"title":"Friends don't let friends spread spurious quotations","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Apr-16 7:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"No, Harriet Tubman doesn't seem to have said that. Don't quote her as doing so, please. Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: This Harriet Tubman Quote That's Going Viral Is Totally Fake Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill\u2014which is awesome. So naturally, people on social\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/pat_buchanan_on_the_obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":3885,"position":5},"title":"Pat Buchanan on the Obama speech","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Mar-08 9:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, if there's any justice and sensibility in America, the idiocy that Buchanan is driveling about the Obama speech on race ought to propel its orator into the White House....","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}