Islamic Extremist Group Vows to Kill All Somalian Christians

[David_in_NYC]

The Mogadishu based Somali fundamentalist group, Kulanka Culimada, accused Christian aid workers in Somalia of spreading Christianity in the coastal city of Merca.

Reuters reported on April 21 that the militant group said if the Christianization in Somalia does not stop, “the Somalia people have a right to jihad…the politically influential group based in the capital Mogadishu said in a statement issued on Tuesday.”

A widely read Somali website, Hiiraan, posted April 20 a press release from the militant group signed by Sheikh Nur Barud, the vice chairman of the Kulanka Culimada.

The Sheikh said in an edict “Somalis must come out on April 22 to protest against the Christianization in Somalia.”3

The Sheikh also accused Christian aid workers of “planting Somali Christians in the country.”

Sheikh Nur Barud who was the key figure in this press conference said “Some Somalis who claimed to be Christians went to attend the Somali reconciliation conference [in Nairobi]. These Somalis are apostates and they will be killed upon their return to Somalia.”

The fiery Kulanka Culimada was founded in February 1991.

Most of the key leaders in this group are graduates from Islamic seminaries in Saudi Arabia.

A Somali reporter from Himilo online interviewed Sheik Nur Barud in November 2003.\

The Sheikh reiterated in this interview “all Somali Christians must be killed according to the Islamic law. A Muslim can never become a Christian but he can become an apostate. Such people do not have a place in Somalia and we will never recognize their existence and we will slaughter them.”

The Sheikh concluded his interview by saying that “Somalis are 100% Muslim and they will always remain so.”

[David_in_NYC]

Any bets on how long it will take for a Muslim to condemn the Somali Muslims' plan? I claim "forever"...

[Alfred]

Islam is a religion of peace.....


It's just the Muslims who are all terrorists...

[Oh Jerusalem]

It's just unbelievable! The nerve!

Muslim Delegations Protest Leaking Of UN Report On Sudan

Instead of being upset about the substance of the report, they seem to be only upset about the leak. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas:

GENEVA (AP)--Muslim countries Thursday protested the leaking of a U.N. report that accused Sudanese forces of raping non-Arab women and girls, bombing civilians and committing other atrocities in what may amount to "crimes against humanity."
"This is a matter of concern to all of us," said Pakistani Ambassador Shaukat Umer in demanding an investigation into who passed the report to reporters.

Umer, who was joined by delegates from Bahrain and Sudan in his protest, noted that Bertrand Ramcharan, the acting U.N. high commissioner for human rights, had denied that the report had been given to the news media by his office.

"The fact remains that this report has been leaked. It has been leaked from somewhere," Umer said. "Since member states apparently do not have this report, it would be reasonable to assume that it has been leaked from the office."

The 13-page report was the latest expression of U.N. alarm about indications that thousands of civilians had been killed and hundreds of thousands driven from their homes following a rebellion in the province.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been trying to care for refugees who have reached neighboring Chad, noted as early as last September reports of alleged atrocities in the province.

Ramcharan said he received the report Monday from a team of U.N. experts just back from visiting the refugees and had intended to make it public.

But he said held off because of a last-minute invitation from the Sudanese government for the team to be able to try to verify the allegations by visiting Darfur province.

The team was dispatched Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the invitation was received, and they are already in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Ramcharan said.

"I have held to the belief that I will not release the document since my team is on the ground and I am sensitive to the security implications of this," he said.

He said, however, he would issue the report immediately if the team encounters "any difficulties on the ground."

Ramcharan said he also held back on the release to give the team an opportunity to look at the situation first hand and to review the document before it became public.

The report, based on interviews with some of the estimated 110,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad earlier this month, was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

"The mission was able to identify disturbing patterns of massive human rights violations in Darfur, many of which may constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity," it said.

The government has denied that it is responsible for any atrocities.

The report said the atrocities against Africans were being committed by government forces and by Arab militias.

The team originally was supposed to visit to Darfur in connection with the visit to Chad, but the Sudanese government delayed granting permission.

Human rights groups said they were suspicious that the last-minute invitation from the government was part of an attempt to keep the report from coming before the commission before it adjourns its annual six-week session Friday.

"Denying the United Nations access is one of the delaying tactics the Sudanese government is using to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community," said Joanna Weschler of Human Rights Watch.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the commission earlier this month that he had "a deep sense of foreboding" about reports that Arab militia groups, with government backing, were engaged in "ethnic cleansing" against Africans in the province.

The report from the team that went to Chad said the government's campaign to put down a rebellion in a conflict that has intensified since early last year. The rebels have been demanding the government do more for the large, poverty-stricken area.

"There was a remarkable consistency in the witness testimony received by the mission in all places visited and in discussions with refugees who had entered Chad both many months ago and also very recently," the report said.

It said many witnesses said the government was using aircraft to attack villages and towns and that government forces or militias followed up with land attacks.

It said the attacks were often to destroy crops and property, but that there were also frequent reports of killings.

It also said, "a policy of using rape and other serious forms of sexual violence as a weapon of war seems to exist."

"There are consistent reports amongst refugee women from various locations that 'men in uniform' raped and abused women and young girls."

Rape was often committed by more than one man, sometimes in front of the victim's family, it said.

The effect was to cause hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, it said. It said that, besides the refugees already in Chad, 700,000 people were believed to be homeless in Darfur as a result of the campaign.

The report was obtained as officials from the Sudanese government and two rebel groups met in Chad to discuss a peaceful end to a rebellion.

[RichardP]

Originally posted by Oh Jerusalem
It's just unbelievable! The nerve!

Muslim Delegations Protest Leaking Of UN Report On Sudan

Instead of being upset about the substance of the report, they seem to be only upset about the leak. From AP, with thanks to Twostellas:

GENEVA (AP)--Muslim countries Thursday protested the leaking of a U.N. report that accused Sudanese forces of raping non-Arab women and girls, bombing civilians and committing other atrocities in what may amount to "crimes against humanity."
"This is a matter of concern to all of us," said Pakistani Ambassador Shaukat Umer in demanding an investigation into who passed the report to reporters.

Umer, who was joined by delegates from Bahrain and Sudan in his protest, noted that Bertrand Ramcharan, the acting U.N. high commissioner for human rights, had denied that the report had been given to the news media by his office.

"The fact remains that this report has been leaked. It has been leaked from somewhere," Umer said. "Since member states apparently do not have this report, it would be reasonable to assume that it has been leaked from the office."

The 13-page report was the latest expression of U.N. alarm about indications that thousands of civilians had been killed and hundreds of thousands driven from their homes following a rebellion in the province.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been trying to care for refugees who have reached neighboring Chad, noted as early as last September reports of alleged atrocities in the province.

Ramcharan said he received the report Monday from a team of U.N. experts just back from visiting the refugees and had intended to make it public.

But he said held off because of a last-minute invitation from the Sudanese government for the team to be able to try to verify the allegations by visiting Darfur province.

The team was dispatched Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the invitation was received, and they are already in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Ramcharan said.

"I have held to the belief that I will not release the document since my team is on the ground and I am sensitive to the security implications of this," he said.

He said, however, he would issue the report immediately if the team encounters "any difficulties on the ground."

Ramcharan said he also held back on the release to give the team an opportunity to look at the situation first hand and to review the document before it became public.

The report, based on interviews with some of the estimated 110,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad earlier this month, was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

"The mission was able to identify disturbing patterns of massive human rights violations in Darfur, many of which may constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity," it said.

The government has denied that it is responsible for any atrocities.

The report said the atrocities against Africans were being committed by government forces and by Arab militias.

The team originally was supposed to visit to Darfur in connection with the visit to Chad, but the Sudanese government delayed granting permission.

Human rights groups said they were suspicious that the last-minute invitation from the government was part of an attempt to keep the report from coming before the commission before it adjourns its annual six-week session Friday.

"Denying the United Nations access is one of the delaying tactics the Sudanese government is using to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community," said Joanna Weschler of Human Rights Watch.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the commission earlier this month that he had "a deep sense of foreboding" about reports that Arab militia groups, with government backing, were engaged in "ethnic cleansing" against Africans in the province.

The report from the team that went to Chad said the government's campaign to put down a rebellion in a conflict that has intensified since early last year. The rebels have been demanding the government do more for the large, poverty-stricken area.

"There was a remarkable consistency in the witness testimony received by the mission in all places visited and in discussions with refugees who had entered Chad both many months ago and also very recently," the report said.

It said many witnesses said the government was using aircraft to attack villages and towns and that government forces or militias followed up with land attacks.

It said the attacks were often to destroy crops and property, but that there were also frequent reports of killings.

It also said, "a policy of using rape and other serious forms of sexual violence as a weapon of war seems to exist."

"There are consistent reports amongst refugee women from various locations that 'men in uniform' raped and abused women and young girls."

Rape was often committed by more than one man, sometimes in front of the victim's family, it said.

The effect was to cause hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, it said. It said that, besides the refugees already in Chad, 700,000 people were believed to be homeless in Darfur as a result of the campaign.

The report was obtained as officials from the Sudanese government and two rebel groups met in Chad to discuss a peaceful end to a rebellion.

Disgusting, yet, not surprising; Islam the religion of peace… what a bunch of nihilistic morons.

[Oh Jerusalem]

Your tax dollars/euros at work in the UN.

I predict that in about a decades time, the UN will hold a session asking for 2 minutes of silence in remembrance of the tragedies that occurred in Sudan, just as the UN recently did for the genocide in Rwanda.

OK, not 2 minutes. One.

UN human rights forum avoids harsh critique of Sudan's Darfur conflict
Fri Apr 23, 3:58 PM ET

GENEVA (AFP) - Sudan escaped heavy criticism at the United Nations (news - web sites)' top human rights forum as countries adopted a softly worded text on atrocities allegedly committed in the western Darfur region.

The decision enraged the United States which failed to push through a second vote for a stronger response to reports of attacks by Sudanese troops and Arab militias on black African civilians, in what could constitute war crimes.

And it drew anger from the Americans and advocacy groups, which accused the UN's Commission on Human Rights of failing to condemn the "ethnic cleansing" in the region.

As a UN team travelled to Darfur to probe what is described as the world's worst ongoing humanitarian disaster and the warring sides began delayed peace talks in the neighbouring capital of Chad, 50 countries approved the mildly-worded decision on the last day of the Commission's six-week session.

Washington rejected the text, drawn up as a compromise between the European Union (news - web sites) and a bloc of African nations, and there were two abstentions.

Refusing to be beaten, the United States demanded a special session of the assembly once the UN mission returns to hear the results of its investigation.

"An acceptable commission product must condemn this ethnic cleansing, must hold accountable those engaged in these deplorable acts," Richard Williamson, head of the US delegation, told the assembly earlier.

"Ten years from now all that will be remembered about this commission is what we do on this issue," he declared.

Since erupting in February 2003, the Darfur war has displaced about one million people within Sudan and forced more than 100,000 others to flee to neighbouring Chad, according to UN estimates.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), speaking to the human rights commission earlier this month, urged the international community to consider decisive measures, including military action, if oil-rich Sudan fails to allow swift aid and human rights workers into the area.

The "weak" decision adopted by the Commission reflected a compromise that all sides could accept, diplomats said.

"Today the Commission had to take the most difficult decision during its 60th session," Germany's ambassador Michael Steiner told the forum.

"We just adopted a text .. it does not reflect all of our concerns. It contains weak language concerning the situation on the ground," he admitted.

But Steiner added: "Although far from being perfect in language, the text adopted contains the most important element, that is to call for action."

The decision requests the appointment of a special human rights envoy to Sudan who will report to the commission in one year and it encouraged the government to promote human rights protection under international law.

A draft resolution originally introduced by the European Union and co-sponsored by the United States, however, gave the Khartoum government a long list of challenges to stop the attacks against civilians which have led to "the forced depopulation" of entire areas.

"We do not believe the... text of the current decision is in any way adequate to reflect the seriousness of this situation," said Peter Heyward, the head of the Australian delegation, which abstained from voting.

But Congo's top diplomat, Roger Julien Menga, speaking on behalf of the African group, said the text provided the only chance to monitor the situation.

Its approval would "allow us today to leave this room with our conscience eased knowing that we have done what we could as a Commission," he said.

Loubna Freih, a spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch -- which said Thursday it had documented dozens of cases in which Sudanese government troops assisted human rights violations by the militias -- expressed shock at the outcome.

"The commission's failure to condemn the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in Darfur is a totally inappropriate response," she told AFP.

The resolution showed "that this body is still dangerously prone to obstructions by abusive member states like Sudan, the organization said in a separate statement.