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the link about the Teddy Bear incident shows that not everyone there is, as the author of the piece describes, an Islamo-fascist
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article24 988
Quote: "The gullible, brainwashed, half educate Islamist elites in Sudan have mastered the technique of easy answers over complicated but correct ones"
"Ultimately, the Islamist propaganda is often a straight copy of the 20th century�s totalitarian regimes, like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Franco�s Spain and other European Fascists, and the Arab Nationalists. It holds democracy and human rights to be a sham that hides the secret workings of sinister conspiracies."
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article24 988
Quote: "The gullible, brainwashed, half educate Islamist elites in Sudan have mastered the technique of easy answers over complicated but correct ones"
"Ultimately, the Islamist propaganda is often a straight copy of the 20th century�s totalitarian regimes, like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Franco�s Spain and other European Fascists, and the Arab Nationalists. It holds democracy and human rights to be a sham that hides the secret workings of sinister conspiracies."
Thanks for the link Stewey. Frankly, I'm guilty of this one too:
"In the British press some commentators showed ignorance of the diversity of Sudan society and claimed the teacher should have respected the country�s culture. Sudan doesn�t have one all-encompassing monolithic culture and identity, we have hundreds of cultures and identities. Unfortunately, for Sudanese, especially those of African decent, the northern Sudan elites who took over from the British have assumed an entirely Arab-Islamic identity for this country since independence in 1956. And the current regime took this imposed Arab-Islamic identity to the extreme and to its current tragic consequences in the South, Nuba Mountain, and Darfur, to the detriment of other cultures that are a part of Sudan. This is what has made this country so susceptible to civil war and political instability."
This one is probably the most important point, and one we all seem to have missed:
"Another member wrote, �The saddest part of the whole thing is that the whole little Teddy Gate affair has got nothing to do with the extreme views of the Bashir Islamic regime but everything to do with the UN peace mission due to arrive in Darfur.�
"In the British press some commentators showed ignorance of the diversity of Sudan society and claimed the teacher should have respected the country�s culture. Sudan doesn�t have one all-encompassing monolithic culture and identity, we have hundreds of cultures and identities. Unfortunately, for Sudanese, especially those of African decent, the northern Sudan elites who took over from the British have assumed an entirely Arab-Islamic identity for this country since independence in 1956. And the current regime took this imposed Arab-Islamic identity to the extreme and to its current tragic consequences in the South, Nuba Mountain, and Darfur, to the detriment of other cultures that are a part of Sudan. This is what has made this country so susceptible to civil war and political instability."
This one is probably the most important point, and one we all seem to have missed:
"Another member wrote, �The saddest part of the whole thing is that the whole little Teddy Gate affair has got nothing to do with the extreme views of the Bashir Islamic regime but everything to do with the UN peace mission due to arrive in Darfur.�
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