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...killings in darfur are an even greater challenge to the Muslim world than the devastation in Iraq. Muslims should know that Islam abhors racism, terrorism and all other forms of injustice. The Janjaweed's terrorist tactics are un-Islamic. Human life is sacred and so is a woman's chastity. These murderers and rapists should repent and embrace reconciliation. Abdullahi Kirfi Lagos...
While I applaud the author of the opinion piece “While We Were Sleeping...” (Column, Oct. 18) for urging action on a very important and much-neglected situation, he paints a simplistic and inaccurate picture of the tragedy currently taking place in Darfur...
...author presents the conflict in Darfur as a “genocide” committed by a “gang of Arab militants” against Darfur’s “black African” population. The reality is far more complex. The African Union itself (which would be among the first groups to condemn a genocide committed against fellow Africans) states in a July 8th resolution that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim...
Moreover, the various tribes in the Darfur region have been fighting each other for over two decades without regards to ethnic affiliations. Arab tribes fight other Arab tribes; African tribes commit atrocities against other African tribes. The current violence in Darfur arises as much from tribal divides as ethnic ones...
...have an obligation, as the author rightly claims, to help stop the violence in Darfur and to alleviate the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of refugees. The Janjaweed and other groups perpetrating atrocities must be stopped, and the Sudanese government must be held accountable for its actions. But villainizing of the Arabic-speaking people of Darfur does an injustice to the Arab victims of the violence and conveys a thoroughly inaccurate picture of this tragic conflict...