January 13, 2011
As I write this, I cannot help but cringe at what
has transpired over the almost five decades that I
have been actively involved in the history and
politics of the Middle East and North Africa.
At long last, it now seems that the non-Arab/non-Arabized
south of the Sudan will get some semblance of
justice.
After millions were slaughtered just in the last
half century in the name of Arabism and the Dar ul-Islam
(ignoring even more earlier victims), it appears
that the oil-rich south will gain independence from
the Arab and Arabized north.
Memories…
As a card-carrying member of the London-based
Anti-Slavery Society for years, I had access to
appalling information. But what was going on was no
secret--even though it was treated as such in too
many circles.
Here's how the Arab north viewed all of this…
Ex-president, Gaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiry proclaimed
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Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive
doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and
conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has
lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly
debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been
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" The Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into...
black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission ("Arabism
and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics," Journal of
Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, no. 2, 1973, pp.
177-78).
Now, while many folks are quick to identify Rudyard
Kipling's late 19th-century poem, "The White Man's
Burden," as typifying Western colonialist and
imperialist attitudes towards the Third World, why
have such Arab racist attitudes and mindset in the
Sudan and elsewhere throughout the region been
routinely ignored?
Is it that the Arab Man's Burden is deemed kosher
but the White Man's is not?
While I was doing my own undergraduate and graduate
studies, it was commonplace, for example, for Israel
to be placed under the high power lens of scrutiny
in the classroom, yet not a word was ever mentioned
about the slaughter, enslavement, and so forth that
were being perpetrated in the name of Arabism and
the Dar ul-Islam in places such as the Sudan.
This continues to this very day. While I won't dwell
on the more obvious Jihadi apologist Rashid Khalidi-types,
the Juan Coles in the Ivory Tower frequently indulge
in this duplicity and hypocrisy as well.
Ever since I can remember, the Anaya Nya and other
tribesmen were struggling for basic human (let alone
political) rights in the Sudan's south, yet one
would never know that they even existed if the
typical course curriculum was relied upon.
And outside of academia, until recently, the
situation has been as bad or worse.
The same countries which have demanded that the
sole, miniscule nation of the Jews do all but slit
its own throat for the sake of creating Arab state #
22 have also stood by and watched the subjugation
and murder of millions of black Africans by Arabs
for decades.
And the sin has been even worse than it initially
appears…
While the south of the Sudan was non-Muslim, the
western province-- the Darfur region-- had been
converted and was part of the Dar ul-Islam…so there
was no religious reason for the slaughter that has
also been waged by the Arab and Arabized north
against it.
Indeed, the violence in Darfur has perhaps even a
more disturbing and revealing twist…
Back on June 15, 2006, an AP article by Nick Wadhams
dealt with the findings of an UN-backed court,
finally prodded into action, probing war crimes in
Darfur. In the middle of the article (a small blurb
on page nine…after all,www.ekurd.netthis
wasn't Jews being forced to go after Hamas murderers
in Gaza, so forget about the front page), Luis
Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor, stated that
eyewitnesses spoke of Arab perpetrators of the
atrocities telling black victims such things as, "we
will kill all of you blacks and drive you out of
this land."
So, while earlier Arab violence against the south
could largely be seen as "merely" a modern extension
of the fourteen century-old murderous clash between
the Dar ul-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, the atrocities
being committed in Darfur (as those in Arab-occupied
Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan, much of the rest of
heavily non-Arab, Amazigh--"Berber"--North Africa,
and elsewhere) are mostly about Arab racism and
chauvinism, pure and simple…and being conducted by
those very same folks who like to lecture the rest
of the world about “racist Zionism.”
And that, dear readers, is the despicable story
within the story. It is the on-going saga of the
quest for justice throughout the region…relative
justice, since the perfect variety is not attainable
in the realm of man.
It is the justice, for example, which demands a
state for thirty-five million largely subjugated,
used, and abused truly stateless Kurds before Arabs
(who want Israel dead and call any and all
negotiations with it merely a "Trojan Horse") get
their second--not first--state in "Palestine."
Recall that Jordan was created in 1922 from some 80%
of the original April 25, 1920 Mandate's territory.
And that second state would bring the Arab total to
twenty-two--most having been created by the conquest
and forced Arabization of other non-Arab peoples'
lands.
Arabs twenty-two, Kurds (and everyone else in Arab
eyes) zero. That's not how relative justice is
supposed to work, and it is indeed the same story in
other parts of the region as well--besides the
Sudan's south and west.
My own new book, The Quest For Justice In The Middle
East…The Arab-Israeli Conflict In Greater
Perspective (http://q4j-middle-east.com), is validly
documented to the moon and contains several chapters
dealing with the Sudan. It was specifically created
to tell this and the related, more general story in
a broader, more accurate perspective--one which has
been ignored in far too many other sources.
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
Gerald A. Honigman, a longtime contributing writer
for ekurd.net. Honigman has published a major book,
"The
Quest For Justice In The Middle East--The
Arab-Israeli Conflict In Greater Perspective."
By Gerald A. Honigman for Ekurd.net,
January 13, 2011. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com.
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