Baroness Cox: ‘If we ignore wrongs, we condone them’

Here is a stunning article by a women who is rapidly becoming my new hero. A true classical liberal and a brave one. I am ashamed that I have not heard of her till now.

From The Independent:

When Baroness Cox takes up a cause, she invariably courts controversy. Her latest – a campaign against sharia law – is no exception. Jerome Taylor meets her

 

Monday, 20 June 2011

Baroness Cox TERI PENGILLEY

Baroness Cox outside the Houses of Parliament

If there is one thing Baroness Caroline Cox is not afraid of it is whipping up controversy. For almost three decades the Christian peer has sat in the House of Lords campaigning on one obscure issue to another, desperately trying to alert Britain’s political elite to some of the world’s forgotten conflicts. Nagorno-Karabakh, southern Sudan, Burma, Nigeria: If there is an ignored conflict – particularly one in which Christians are facing persecution – you can bet the 73-year-old will have been there.

 

“I seem to spend half my life in a jungle, a desert or half way up a mountain,” she says, explaining her return from Burma, which she entered illegally to report on rights abuses against minority tribes. She will soon travel back to Sudan, which is lurching back towards civil war.

She often enters war zones under fire – no one could deny that Baroness Cox is brave. But the tactics she uses often raise eyebrows. In the 1990s, she infuriated anti-slavery groups when she began travelling into Sudan to buy slaves from Arab traders with money raised by evangelical churches.

By her own reckoning she spent somewhere in the region of £100,000 freeing more than 2,000 slaves during 55 trips to Sudan – one of the few countries at the time where slavery was still openly practised, often with deliberate government backing. Continue Reading →

Sudan: A nation driven apart by Muslim bigotry

The likely partition of Sudan is a result of Islam’s increasing intolerance, writes Con Coughlin. The Telegraph

 South Sudanese people queue to cast their vote during the referendum on the independence of South Sudan

South Sudanese people queue to cast their vote during the referendum on the independence of South Sudan Photo: EPA
Con Coughlin

By Con Coughlin 7:09PM GMT 12 Jan 20114 Comments

George Clooney, the Hollywood actor who spends increasing amounts of his spare time playing the role of a globe-trotting peace activist, has hardly been able to contain his excitement over this week’s controversial referendum on splitting Sudan in two.

“It is something to see people actually voting for their freedom,” the Ocean’s Eleven star gushed as he mingled with the long queues of tribesfolk patiently waiting to cast their votes. “That’s not something you see often in life.”

The 49-year-old was speaking as an estimated four million voters in southern Sudan, predominantly Christians, took part in a plebiscite that will decide whether the south is divided from the north to form a new nation.

When the polling stations close on Saturday, it is widely predicted that the pro-independence campaign will get the 60 per cent of the vote needed to sanction the division of Africa’s largest country – which is equivalent in size to Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Greece and the UK combined.

The referendum is being held as part of a peace deal agreed in 2005 between the government of President Omar al-Bashir and the leaders of southern Sudan’s rebel movement, after more than 20 years of bitter civil war, which claimed an estimated two million lives.

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Capturing children and raping women to death in Sudan, while yelling “Allahu Ackbar”

KitmanTV asked me to capture a section of a CSPAN broadcast from 2009 where various Sudanese refugees spoke of the truly unimaginable horror they faced at the hands of Muslims, stealing their children to make future mass murderers of them to slaughter their own people in the future, and raping women to death, making slaves of the men who they let live.

Kitman is making a mini-documentary about Islam and slavery which I know is going to be fantastic when it is done, but here is the raw testimony from 2 of the people at the congressional hearings. Please feel free to download these videos to your own sites and youtube channels etc, or email this link to all you know, still in caustic denial of the nature of Islam when left free to act in full compliance with its own dogma. Please feel free to click over to CSPAN to see this whole testimony, but warning, it is over 3 hours. KitmanTV does us all a huge service by watching hundreds and hundreds of hours of various materials to bring us things we really need to see, but do not have the time to find.

Turkey and Iran supplying Hisb’allah with weapons

From the Jpost with a HT to Tundra Tabloids.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hizbullah leader Nasrallah, Turkish President Erdogan
Photo by: AP

‘Iran to give Hizbullah weapons’

By JPOST.COM STAFF
08/12/2010 13:05

Report: Turkey will also “send weapons, rockets, guns” to Lebanon.

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Turkey and Iran are rumored to be helping Hizbullah obtain new weapons, Italian daily Corriere Della Sera reported on Wednesday evening.

Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan reportedly met with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Taeb to discuss relations between the two countries.

Sources told Corriere Della Sera that Turkey will “send sophisticated weapons, rockets and guns to Syria, that will end up in Lebanon,” where the Iranian Army will ensure the weapons are transferred to Hizbullah.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards “will facilitate the transition, ensure safety, watch loads on the routes, and provide support to the border,” the report said.

The Iranians reportedly want to build a weapons network similar to that in the Sudan, and hope to help Hamas, as well.

The Italian newspaper reported that Western intelligence sources “view the Turkish-Iranian plot with concern, as they are obvious risks to safety.”

“The [intelligence] services in Ankara are among the best in the region,” sources told Corriere Della Sera. “They have great knowledge of the Middle East, and know how to move on the routes of illegal trafficking.”

Sudan, Slavery, and Islam.

Once again, KitmanTV has dug up a film on the facts on the ground in Sudan. So many people today make a living selling white guilt for slavery in the US and Europe that ended centuries ago while ignoring real, current, unabashed and unending slavery today in all the aspects one would imagine when it has to do with slavery. Below, Kitmans post as well as the video itself.

Eeyore for Vlad:

Lien: Slipping Back In Time

Thanks again to nummersjok for the tip

It seems to be this journeyman film from year 2000

From Journeyman Website
Sudan – Slipping Back In Time – 44 min [27 October 2000]

Between northern and southern Sudan thousands of women and children follow the slave trail back home. Their faces are turned to the ground and their bodies bare the signs of hard labour and hunger. A desparate story of lives of struggle.

Between northern and southern Sudan thousands of women and children follow the slave trail back home. Their faces are turned to the ground and their bodies bare the signs of hard labour and hunger. In Sudan people are still a commodity and slavery is a thriving business. This film takes us to one of the most remote countries in the world, widely seen as a pariah state in the West. Continue Reading →

Sudan: young girl lashed for knee lenght skirt

From MSNBC (amazingly) h/t Ted L

updated 8:42 a.m. ET, Fri., Nov . 27, 2009

KHARTOUM, Sudan – A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan’s Islamic law into the spotlight.

The mother of teenager Silva Kashif told Reuters on Friday she was planning to sue the police who made the arrest and the judge who imposed the sentence, as her daughter was underage and a Christian.

The case will add fuel to a debate already raging over Sudan’s decency laws after this year’s high-profile conviction of Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.

Hussein, a former journalist who used her case to campaign against Sudan’s public order and decency regulations, is touring France to publicize her book about the prosecution. She had faced the maximum penalty of 40 lashes but was given a lighter sentence.

‘We all sat and cried’
Kashif, whose family comes from the south Sudanese town of Yambio, was arrested while walking to the market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week, her mother Jenty Doro told Reuters.

“She is just a young girl but the policeman pulled her along in the market like she was a criminal. It was wrong,” said Doro.

Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by a female police officer in front of the judge.

“I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried … People have different religions and that should be taken into account,” she said.