BEARING THE CROSS: Sudan: No Greater Tragedy - Christianity Today
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By Jeff M. Sellers

They are Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Catholics.
They are the black Africans of southern Sudan, and for believing that
Jesus is God, they are raped, tortured, enslaved, or burned to death at
the hands of their Islamic Arab countrymen.

They are crucified--the infant children nailed to trees with steel
spikes--or beheaded. In a campaign of systematic genocide, Sudanese
government forces spray them with helicopter gunfire to run them off
oil-rich land and bomb their hospitals, schools, relief centers, and
marketplaces. This is the testimony that Roger Winter, executive
director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, recently gave to the House
subcommittee on Africa.

The northern Arabs pierce the lips of their torture victims, then insert
and shut padlocks to keep them from telling of their ordeals. Beyond the
political-economic issues in Sudan's 18-year-old civil war--the south
seeks autonomy, inflicting its own military terrors upon Arab
civilians--official smothering of religious freedom is part of the
government forces' cruelty, according to the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom. The government in Khartoum imposed
Islamic law nearly 10 years ago, and forced conversions (with
accompanying genital mutilation) are common.

The commission's annual report, which identified Sudan as the world's
most violent infractor of religious rights, noted that the discovery and
drilling of oil reserves in the south has led to a "scorched earth"
policy, driving civilians from areas around oil facilities. The
government uses the facilities (airstrips and roads) for military
staging, and oil revenues have enabled it to increase its weaponry and
other hardware.

More than 2 million people have lost their lives due to the war or
related causes, and more than 4 million of the 5 million southern
Sudanese have been displaced from their homes. Says U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell, "There is perhaps no greater tragedy on the face of
the earth today."

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Black Boycott Targets Arabs

Minister wants African Americans to buy gasoline from businesses owned
by blacks

By Joel Kurth, and Delores Patterson / The Detroit News

DEARBORN -- A proposed boycott by blacks of all Arab-American gasoline
stations has drawn swift rebukes from ethnic leaders, who call it an
opportunistic move doomed to failure.

The Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, president of the Michigan chapter of
Al Sharpton's National Action Network, called for the "Strategic Buying
Campaign" on Tuesday in response to a handful of recent assaults at
convenience stores owned by Arab Americans.

"We need to let people know we want to be treated in the proper fashion
in places where we spend our money," said Sheffield, a Baptist minister
from Detroit. "The ill treatment and disrespect that African Americans
have been exposed to for far too long must come to an end."

Arab-American leaders condemned Sheffield for, in their view,
exacerbating tensions.

"He's taking a few bad incidents and playing on the anxieties and
emotions of people in trying to build a name for himself," said Nassar
Beydoun, executive director of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce. "A
lot of Arab-American owners have great relations with their black
neighbors, and Horace Sheffield's boycott isn't going to change that."

Imad Hamad, director of the Michigan chapter of the Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Committee, called the attempt at a boycott "out of
line and out of touch."

"This will only escalate tensions and will not help any of the
challenges we face," Hamad said. "This definitely sends the wrong
message and adds fuel to the fire. It doesn't serve the interests of the
Arab-American or African-American community."

Sheffield is calling for blacks to patronize about 50 black-owned
service stations in Detroit.

Sheffield and about 50 others rallied Tuesday in Detroit in front of an
Arab American-owned Clark station on Gratiot and Conner, where a
sexagenarian grandmother claimed she was assaulted the day before.

Also on Monday, a Southfield gas station attendant, Adeeb J. Haddad, 58,
of Sterling Heights, was charged with assaulting a 13-year-old
African-American boy he thought stole a pop.

In another recent incident, a black customer was locked in a Ferndale
gas station after an argument with an Arab-American attendant.

Sheffield is planning a forum at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in his church, New
Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, 11241 Gunston, Detroit. He's also
planning a summit to discuss the complaints with Arab-American leaders
and gas-station owners.

The protest is the latest in a series for Sheffield. In the last year,
he also has rallied against deaths of suspected shoplifters who were
subdued by security guards at both Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn and
a Kroger grocery store in Royal Oak Township.

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Demon-KKK-Rats + dirty muslims Terrorize African-Americans

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26144

In King's name, profile the profilers

By Debbie Schlussel

Martin Luther King Jr. is turning in his grave.

His own son -- Martin Luther King III -- Arabs and Al Sharpton are using
his name in vain.

While many celebrated the civil rights leader's memory yesterday,
Sharpton, King III and Arab leaders desecrated it -- repeatedly using
King's name to denounce "profiling" of Arabs and Muslims.

But, in the heart of Arab and Muslim America -- the Detroit area -- it's
Arabs who are doing the profiling. Blacks aren't just being profiled by
them, they're being senselessly murdered, kidnapped and assaulted.

Just ask Kalvin Porter of Detroit. If only he could answer. He was
beaten to death in May 1999 by Adel Altam and Fadhel Mazeb, Muslim Arabs
from Yemen, in front of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Crystal. Porter's
"crime" was buying items at the Arab-owned Sunoco station where they
worked -- and defending his stepdaughter's honor. The Arab Muslim clerks
made lewd comments about the young girl. When Porter responded, "Why did
you call my daughter [a lewd name]?" they beat Porter -- a father of
five -- to death with a tire-iron, escaping justice at an O.J.-style
trial.

It wasn't the only incident of Detroit-area Arab-on-black violence. In
July, a sexagenarian grandmother was assaulted at another Arab-owned
Detroit gas station. Also in July, Adeeb J. Haddad, 58, was charged with
assaulting a 13-year-old black boy at a gas station in Southfield, a
Detroit suburb. A black customer was intentionally locked in a Ferndale
gas station after arguing with an Arab attendant. Black customers were
told by Arab owners of a South Lyon station that the bathrooms were out
of order, which was false. Prosecution resulted.

Clearly, Arabs -- who own over 80 percent of all gas stations in
Metro-Detroit, according to figures provided by the Arab-American
Chamber of Commerce to the Detroit News -- are the ones guilty of
profiling here -- without hijackings or national security at stake. But
when terrorism is involved and the shoe is on the other foot, the
American Arab community is suddenly into civil rights instead of our
safety.

Dr. King dreamed of the day when his children would be judged by the
content of their character, not the color of their skin. Clearly, one of
his progeny -- King III -- has never entered an Arab-owned gas station
in Detroit, where the term often used for blacks is "abad" -- slave.
Arab activist Terry Ahwal told the Detroit Free Press, "Arabs believe
blacks as people will steal from them or even kill them."

That's why Heaster Wheeler, NAACP Detroit's executive director, when
asked to denounce Arab-profiling, wrote, "There is no question as to
where we stand on profiling. ... The question is where do so many of the
others stand? ... American children of families patronize [Arabs']
stores ... and few of these merchants ... even provide safe passage in
and out of their businesses." NAACP President Rev. Wendell Anthony told
the Free Press, "We cannot spend all of our energy concerned with our
Arab-American brothers when at the same time they do not express the
same concerns about us."

Because of these incidents, Sharpton and his Michigan-based associate,
Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, were boycotting Detroit's Arab-owned gas
stations. Their "B-Gas Strategic Buying Campaign" -- complete with
late-night TV commercials urging gas purchase at black-owned stations --
has suddenly disappeared now that Sharpton has hypocritically determined
that a renewed alliance with Arabs is more advantageous to his
power-grabbing enterprise.

Equally hypocritical, the same Arab leaders who expressed little remorse
over Arabs' poor treatment of black customers are now waving the Martin
Luther King Jr. flag, just as easily as they waved the American flag
after Sept. 11. In August, Imad Hamad, Michigan regional director of the
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was attacking the black
boycott, threatening that it would "escalate tensions." But in October,
in a Detroit News article decrying Arab profiling, Hamad was
photographed holding documents "for a Martin Luther King scholarship
program." Ironically, the INS opposed U.S. citizenship for Hamad, a
Muslim Arab, because he's a suspected Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine terrorist -- exactly the type of person we should be
profiling.

Sharpton, who just months ago protested Arab profiling of blacks, is now
joining hands with his profilers in the "civil rights" industry's latest
juggernaut, blaspheming all King stood for.

King demanded freedom for "our brothers in Africa ... to live in peace
under our own sovereignty," not just in the United States. But Islamic
and Arabic leaders with whom Sharpton is allying himself are supporters
of Arab Muslim enslavement, gang rape, torture and murder of blacks in
Sudan.

Arab leaders now allied with King III and Sharpton opposed the rescue of
Ethiopian black Jews to freedom and opportunity in Israel. They oppose
Zionism and the existence of a Jewish State in Israel.

But Dr. King was definitive on Arab Anti-Semites like Hamad and their
civil-rights fakery. In his "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," he
wrote, "Anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic, and ever will be so.
... It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we
justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other
nations."

King recognized that those who "feel as I do, a deep love of truth and
justice and a revulsion for racism, prejudice and discrimination ...
have been misled ... into thinking you can be 'anti-Zionist' and yet
remain true to these heartfelt principles that you and I share."

Dr. King wasn't fooled by these racist profilers and their newfound
commitment to civil rights. Shame on them for hijacking his good name.

Debbie Schlussel is a political commentator and attorney. She is a
frequent guest on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" and Fox
News Channel. Click here to participate in an online discussion group of
Debbie's commentary, and here to join the unofficial Debbie Schlussel
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BEARING THE CROSS: Sudan: No Greater Tragedy - Christianity Today
Magazine

By Jeff M. Sellers

They are Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, and Catholics.
They are the black Africans of southern Sudan, and for believing that
Jesus is God, they are raped, tortured, enslaved, or burned to death at
the hands of their Islamic Arab countrymen.

They are crucified--the infant children nailed to trees with steel
spikes--or beheaded. In a campaign of systematic genocide, Sudanese
government forces spray them with helicopter gunfire to run them off
oil-rich land and bomb their hospitals, schools, relief centers, and
marketplaces. This is the testimony that Roger Winter, executive
director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, recently gave to the House
subcommittee on Africa.

The northern Arabs pierce the lips of their torture victims, then insert
and shut padlocks to keep them from telling of their ordeals.