Janjaweed

12/18/2006

The story of the Janjaweed is the story of the Sudan, and of the state-sponsored Islamic terrorists operating there. It is the story of the Darfur region. The BBC reported in September 2004: "Arab [Muslim] militiamen who were responsible for the atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are now guarding the U.N. refugee camps housing those they displaced." The second line of their article, the first following the opening caption above, even revealed the connection between these Muslim militias and the Islamic Sudanese regime. "These militiamen have been recycled into Sudan's police force," Louise Arbour, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the BBC. All that was missing was Islam.

The reason for the militia's assault, and their state sponsorship, was veiled in the article's third sentence: "The UN is threatening to impose sanctions on Sudan's oil industry, unless it stops the violence in Darfur.".

Speaking of this phase of the genocide, the BBC reported: "More than a million black Africans have been driven from their homes in Darfur and up to 50,000 killed. ‘They claim to see former Janjaweed... recycled into the police,' Ms Arbour told the BBC's Today program. ‘There is a widespread belief they are being protected by their very oppressors.' The refugees have always said that the Janjaweed worked in conjunction with the Sudanese security forces to force them from their homes." Yet, according to the UN's High Commissioner, the "Sudanese government operates with a total sense of impunity.".

Having made a bad situation worse, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for broader backing for peacekeeping efforts in Darfur in his address to the world body's General Assembly in September 2004. "Let no one imagine that this affair concerns Africans alone," he said. "The victims are human beings, whose human rights must be sacred to all of us. We all have a duty to do whatever we can to rescue them, and do it now." While what he said was right, it's what he didn't say that made it wrong. Until the world comes to acknowledge Islam's culpability, the terror will continue unabated. And until the West understands that Islam is the problem, the reason for the suffering, Western intervention will cause more harm than good - just as it has done in Iraq.

Living in denial, President George W. Bush drew attention to Darfur in his speech 2004 speech to the United Nations General Assembly. He called on the Sudan "to honor the ceasefire it signed." But since the government is Islamic, all treaties are deemed invalid.

Since 9/11/2001, most of the violence in Sudan has been attributed to militias known as the "Janjaweed." They have been responsible for another fifty thousand dead and another million refugees. The Arabic colloquialism is derived from "Jihadist Mujahideen Riding a Horse." These Janjaweed militiamen are all Arab Muslims. In the killing zone, the term "Janjaweed" was synonymous with bandit, as these horse- or camel-borne fighters were known to swoop in on non-Arab farms and steal livestock. It was a return to the 7th century in central Arabia. There and then, Muslims under Muhammad's command were Janjaweed, stealing camels and sheep from neighboring villages, killing the men, raping the women, and enslaving the children.

The Janjaweed became much more aggressive in 2003, after two non-Arab and non-Muslim groups, the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement, took up arms against the Islamic Sudanese regime as a result of decades of mistreatment. In response to the armed uprising, the Sudanese government deployed Janjaweed militias to pillaging towns and villages inhabited by members of the African tribes from which the rebel armies draw their strength.

This conflict, it should be understood, is somewhat separate from the 22-year-long assault that pitted the Muslim Sudanese regime against Christians and Animist in the country's southern region. The Janjaweed, who now inhabit the Western Sudan, had nothing to do with that genocide. While the Islamic government of the Sudan brokered both killing sprees, and while both sets of killers were Arab Muslims, in the first assault, the weapons and transports were American and Soviet and the victims were non-Muslims. In the more recent iteration of genocide, the militant Muslims were often astride horses and they were murdering their fellow Muslims.

However, more recently, Sudanese victims and international observers recognize that the Janjaweed are no longer the scrappy militias of yore, but rather well-equipped fighting forces that enjoy the overt assistance of the Muslim regime in Khartoum. For example, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in June 2004, a field researcher with Human Rights Watch stated that the Sudanese army was openly recruiting horse-owning Arab men, promising them a gun and a monthly salary of $116 in exchange for joining a Janjaweed cohort. The International Crisis Group said that money paid to the Janjaweed "came directly from booty captured in raids on villages," giving them an additional incentive to act with extreme brutality.

There are also numerous reports from international aid workers who maintain that Janjaweed raids are often preceded by aerial bombardments by the Sudanese Air Force. They confirm that Janjaweed commanders all reside in government garrison towns, and that Janjaweed militiamen wear combat fatigues identical to those of the regular army.

The genocide now, as it was during the waning years of the 20th century, is state-sponsored and it is Islamic. There will be no peace nor political solution so long as Islam exists or so long as Islamic regimes fund terrorism with black crude.