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Leaning was part of a two-member team affiliated with PHR that canvassed Darfur, Sudan and the border region of Chad, where hundreds of refugees have established makeshift camps. Darfur has been a recently-publicized hotbed of conflict between the Janjaweed militia and non-Arab Darfurians. The government of Sudan is alleged to have conspired with Janjaweed militias to cause the destruction of the black Darfurian population. Both groups are composed almost entirely of Muslims...
...Based on our research, we have determined that the nature of the attacks on the non-Arab population is so serious and widespread that raising concerns of genocide is appropriate,” she wrote...
...report cites the consistent pattern of attacks on and destruction of villages, livelihoods and means of survival, specifically the “hot pursuit with intent to eradicate [non-Arab] villagers...and the consistent pattern of systematic rape of women” as evidence of the desire to achieve a full-scale eradication of non-Arabs living in Darfur...
After all the howls of outrage, there was no sigh of relief when the truth came out. First, a 23-year-old woman named Marie Leblanc riveted France with a horrific tale: six ethnic-Arab and black youths had attacked her on a train near Paris, she claimed on July 9, because they took her for a Jew. They lacerated her skin, shredded her clothes, hacked off her hair, drew swastikas on her body and manhandled her 13-month-old baby while fellow passengers looked away. Appalled, President Jacques Chirac denounced the "anti-Semitic aggression this young woman...
...extremist political or Islamist groups." That absence of an organized link is of little comfort to Jewish leaders. They say French reluctance to denounce anti-Semitism explains why attacks on Jews far outnumber those on France's 5 million Muslims. But Muslim leaders counter that the assumption that French Arabs are behind the rise of anti-Semitism - an idea Leblanc's fictive assault was built upon - is itself a sign of racism. "Anti-Semitism is extremely serious, but when it's discussed today, it's Muslims who fall under suspicion," protests Kamel Kabtane, president of the Rhône-Alps...