USAfrica- The Arab agenda

1] We must never forget that, despite Gadhafi’s rhetoric against colonialism, he and his Arab fellows are colonialists in Africa--white settler colonialist who invaded, conquered, expropriated and have settled on 1/3 of Africa beginning in 640. 

2] Gadhafi’s hurry to implement his USAfrica is suspect. After he has spent 40 years trying to force Libya’s unification with Sudan, to forcibly annex the Auzou strip from Chad, and sponsoring destabilization in Liberia, Uganda etc. should we trust his intentions? We should be highly suspicious of a project by which he would diplomatically swallow in one gulp all of Black Africa where he has, hitherto, failed to militarily grab bits and pieces. 

3] In Gadhafi’s speeches in 2005, where he pushed for the fledgling AU to appoint a Defense Minister, and a Trade Minister etc as matters of priority; and called for a continental army, he also urged the AU countries to compete to host the institutions of the AU/USAfrica. This hurry is all highly suspicious.

      Clearly, the Arab countries, awash with oil money and with unlimited back-up from the rest of the oil-rich Arab League, will outbid the poor Black countries, leading to Arab domination of the USAfrica; just as the UN is dominated by the gang of imperialist countries where its key institutions are located—the USA with the World Bank and IMF in Washington and the UN Hqtr in New York, and Europe with Unesco in Paris, the Maritime agencies in London, and other key agencies in Geneva. 

If the Gadhafi formula for locating its key institutions is allowed, this USAfrica will become an instrument of Arab colonialism in Africa; and will entrench Arab power over Black Africa. 

4] Defense is the last thing a sensible sovereign country surrenders. Note that after 50 years of their merger process, the EU states have yet to do that and appoint a defense minister. Yet Gadhafi wants the AU to start with that! Highly suspicious. 

5] The dangers of Arab colonialism are evident in Mauritania and Sudan, and should be studied and heeded. 

6] Gadhafi’s arguments about the potential economic benefits of USAfrica are invalid. Continental size is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for becoming an economic power. If it was, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, let alone Switzerland and most of the European countries would be economic midgets, and the Asian tigers too; On the other hand, Antarctica and Australia, as continents, would be economic giants. Gadhafi must believe that he is addressing an audience of economic blockheads! 

7] Gadhafi’s Lebensraum statement at the Arab League meeting in Jordan in 2001: 

“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union ‘which is the only space we have’”

      --Col. Mouammar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001 

  should be taken seriously as a clue to his intentions and what he and his Arabs will set about doing to Black Africa once they have us in their USAfrica trap. 

8] There is a vital need to think through the Black African interest, and negotiate in detail to secure its requirements, before agreeing to this proposal. After it is signed, the Arabs will, predictably, treat any second thoughts and objections to details as treason.

      Black Africans must never again repeat the folly of their leaders in 1973, when the OAU lined up behind the Arabs on the oil embargo, in hopes of getting concessions on oil, without any pre-agreed quid pro quo, and got nothing after the Arabs had exploited African support. 

9] Because we are convinced that this USAfrica is a cover for Arab colonialism and Arab expansionism in Black Africa, we urge every Black African president in the AU to vote against it at Accra in July. At the very least, they should vote to postpone any decision on it for five years so that a vigorous debate can be carried out by the people, so they can knowledgeably and democratically mandate their presidents on what to do about it. We could take a lesson from the EU process where key stages of the unification have been preceded by plebiscites in each member country. 

10] If this USAfrica is agreed this July at Accra, Gadhafi and all Arabs will be laughing at the dumb blacks whom they have easily duped yet again. Don’t forget their view of Blacks, as enunciated over the centuries, most famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden. See the following quotes:

Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as stupid” . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.” 

Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .”  

Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . .  

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.”  

“All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden to the Sudanese-American novelist Kola Boof in Morocco in 1996.

1] Fwd this series and program of action to as many Black Africans as you can.

2] Put it on as many websites as possible;

3] Get editors to publish it in your local Black Community Newspapers;

4] Hold community study and discussion meetings on USAfrica and Arab Colonialism, using the series as basic discussion materials;

5] Write to your local newspapers, call your radio stations, contact your church leadership, hold public meetings, organize marches and demonstrations, send petitions to the president and foreign minister of your country-- as well as of other Black African countries —and demand a five-year moratorium on any decision on the USAfrica to enable the black communities discuss and debate it and give the AU presidents a democratic mandate on what to do about it.

Having spent May educating ourselves on Arab colonialists and their USAfrica project, it is crucial that we make June 2007 a month of rallies and demonstrations on the theme: "USofAfrica? No!; USofBLACK-Africa?Yes!"

Robot  # 1 | 01.06.2007 02:22

...Read the full article.

Jah Guda  # 2 | 01.06.2007 05:19

In the opening paragraph of your article you quoted a mass murderer. He is a nonentity and on the run. As far as you are concerned no other Arab has ever said something good or positive about black people. Your assumption is that blacks are weak and will be dominated and overwhelmed in a Union with other races. So we will sit back and let the Arabs exploit us? We are weak and incapable of standing up for ourselves, are we? I am sorry sir but I think you are spreading hatred; you article is full of negatives. Whites as well have always negated the black race. I suppose as far as you are concerned it’s OK where hate crime is perpetuated by White people. Who called black ladies “Nappy-head Hoes” recently, not in the 15th century, this comment was made this year and not by an Arab. Why don’t you ask the Whites in Southern Africa to give back the land they stole from Blacks? Lets all grow up and open our eyes to the world we live in today. We will only be exploited if we believe we will always be exploited. It is better to befriend those who extend the hand of friendship than cower with fear whenever we have to deal with Whites or Arabs. Spread words of peace and stop being divisive. How would you like it if someone wrote an article advising other races to avoid blacks? If the Arabs want to have a closer relationship with us why not? We could both gain from this relationship, even more so in today’s troubled world.

akuluouno  # 3 | 01.06.2007 06:14

Dear Villagers and especailly Jah Guda, I totally agree with your esteemed submissions on this matter. Additionally, I wish to state that if this was an attempt to instill Arabphobia on Africans, then it will not work. I have earlier pointed out in an intervention that historically, Africans were never weak or prostrate in the course of interactions with other races globally. We are mentally and physically able to match any other race in the world. I cited the case of the Afro-Arabian interactions in Zanzibar and the fact that Africans were not swallowed up among others as reasons which we should be careful about this nascent journey into Arabphobia. If a USAfrica is to be constituted, I beleive that it should be continent wide, from Cairo to the Cape and not sans Arabs. :idea::idea:

Oghre  # 4 | 01.06.2007 07:13

Eastern European women feature in most pornographic videos and they are known for having the highest number of prostitutes in the world. Many Arabs, western Europeans and even Africans living in the west are stereotypical of women from the east of Europe and tend to always refer to them (including decent ones) as prostitutes. The word “mafia” is constantly used by many when referring to eastern European men simply because of the Russian mafia’s existence in these places (and of course the high crime rates in east Europe) I know that Arabs (including Bin Ladin) have always looked at women in the west as prostitutes because they don’t dress up an cover themselves like parcels. So, Do these utterances mean Arabs are trying to colonise East and west Europe? Perhaps yes! Arab/Muslims are always spreading their religion via violent and barbaric ways. AFRICANS ARE NOT THE ONLY VICTIMS, I think the white western world has a bigger problem on their hands with the current climate. Don’t you think?

Abraxas  # 5 | 01.06.2007 07:37

Hi, folks! According to the Peter Principle, most persons tend to escalate beyond the limits of their competence and relevance. The author of this article is proof positive that the Peter Principle is still valid. Muchas gracias. DJ-CA (III) Reference: Principia Cybernetica

Oghre  # 6 | 01.06.2007 09:17

Many Arabs and the islamic religion nauseates me because of their repugnance and benightedness but your Kola Boof seems to have very little credibility around the place. I just found this among others on the woman. Weird to say the least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Boof Biography Kola Boof claims to have been born as Naima Bint Harith on the Nile River in Omdurman, Sudan to Egyptian archeologist Harith Bin Farouk and his wife, a Gisi-Waaq Oromo mother named Jiddi. Kola says she was raised as a Muslim in Sudan and later as a Christian in the U.S. She later denounced both religions and took an African "womanist" religion. She has variously stated that she believes her birthdate to be "unknown,"<3> that it was in "March of 1969,"<4> and that Sudanese birth records show that she was born March 3, 1972.<1> According to Boof, in about 1978, her parents were murdered in front of her for making denouncements against Arabic-speaking black Sudanese for oppressing and enslaving other black Sudanese. Boof has also said that they were killed by Murahaleen tribesmen, but this is highly unlikely for a number of reasons.<5> She claims that her Egyptian grandmother, Najet Kolbookek, put her up for adoption for having "dark" skin.<6> Through UNICEF she was brought for a short time to London, England, to live with an Ethiopian family. Brought then to the United States, she was adopted in 1979 by Marvin and Claudine Johnson, an African American couple in the Anacostia Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.<4> Kola Boof is currently married and lives with her husband and two sons in California. Relationship with Osama bin Laden In 1996, Boof claims to have been pursuing an acting career in North Africa, where she met Osama bin Laden at a restaurant in Marrakesh, Morocco. Bin Laden then allegedly forced Boof to live with him for six months at what she describes as an estate owned by Italian Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli.<7> (La Maison Arabe is actually a hotel owned by the Italian aristocrat, who grew up in Tangiers,<8> and his partner<9>). Boof claims that he raped her that first night,<4> and that she was made to wear a paper bag over her head during the incident. She claims that she was lavished with gifts by bin Laden, and would lounge "about in silk and diamonds".<5> In February of 1998, she says she moved to London after bin Laden, angered over the way Islam was portrayed in her book Every Little Bit Hurts, phoned the author at her home and told her that "if I had the time, I would come and slit your throat myself."<2> She has claimed to have received further death threats from other Islamists since then. The alleged bin Laden relationship first became public in October 2002, when, according to Boof, it was revealed in the Spanish press by "a female columnist." That claim was then picked up by "Matthew Norman's Diary," a frequently satirical media-analysis and popular-culture column in the London newspaper The Guardian on October 24, 2002. The brief item quoted Kola Boof as saying, "A female columnist in Spain is telling people that I dated/had an affair with Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. That's bull****. I hate to admit I met him, because it's akin to saying you know Hitler, but I barely knew Bin Laden from 1996-98. When we met in Marrakesh in 1996, I was a starlet and he was trying to screw every female in town."<10> Later that month, the New York Times wrote an article about Boof. On November 9, 2002, the Spanish "female columnist" was identified by World Net Daily as a former roommate of Boof's, named Lourdes Harris.<11> In early 2003, Boof said she had pulled her five-year-old son out of his elementary school after rumors circulated that the boy was bin Laden's son.<12> In a statement on January 6, 2003, Boof said that the "fact that people think my son is Osama's is very scary to me, so I thought I better clear it up. He's a monster...I did not want to be with him. I was basically his prisoner."<2> She told The Irish Examiner that "Osama bin Laden is not my son’s father, and I shall rip out the throat, in one bite, of anyone who tries to photograph my babies."<12> Although she has claimed that her family and home were under FBI protection for several years, The New York Post reported that "the FBI had no knowledge of her."<5> In September, 2006, the American magazine Harper's published an excerpt from Boof's autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl in "Readings," a section of the magazine that collects works first published elsewhere; the excerpt is titled "His Prerogative," and described by the magazine's table of contents as "One woman’s love Jones for Osama bin Laden." Boof describes bin Laden as obsessed with Whitney Houston, smoking marijuana, and forcing her to dance naked to Van Halen.<13> Peter Bergen, a biographer of bin Laden, says that Osama Bin Laden was never in Morocco in 1996 - in fact, he says that Bin Laden has never been to Morocco at all. He has called Boof "delusional"<6> and described her autobiography as "rife with howlers large and small" - such as her claim of having a group sexual encounter in 1996 whose participants included bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, with bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam, and Egyptian intellectual Sayyid Qutb. Bergen finds the encounter implausible, since at the time, bin Laden was in the Sudan, Zawahiri was in prison, Azzam had been assassinated in 1989, and Qutb had been dead for thirty years.<2> Alleged membership in the SPLA Boof claims to be an active member of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). She says that she was originally called "Agent Nya Miuokda" by her SPLA commanders, later dubbed "Agent Queen Kola," and that she worked spy missions and channeled weapons to Commanders Athor and Yaka's camps in Buoth, Waniek and Pariang. Though Boof says that "sexism" and political disagreements have at times strained her relationship with the SPLA, she claims to remain a member of the SPLA and discussed her work for the organization in her autobiography. However, The New York Times cited the SPLA as having "embraced her and then backed away, as Ms. Boof's personal, if not literary credentials have been called into question."<5> Literary career and professional life Ms. Boof says her work was first published in Morocco by The North African Book Exchange, an imprint owned by Russom Damba. Kola Boof's first published work was Flesh and the Devil, published in Arabic in 1995, followed by Every Little Bit Hurts, a 1997 collection of her poetry, which she says gained popularity among feminists in Morocco and southern Europe. In September 2002, Jamal Ibrahim, an official at the Sudanese embassy in Britain, wrote an article for the Islamic British publication Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that, based on Boof's autobiographical claims regarding her life in Sudan and her statements on Sudanese politics, criticized Boof's "falsehood and dishonesty."<5> Boof in turn took the article as a fatwa, which she incorrectly told the press was "a contract for assassination" (a fatwa in reality is an Islamic legal pronouncement).<5> The New York Times soon after interviewed Sheikh Omar Bakri, a senior judge of the Islamic Sharia court in London. Bakri was also one of the individuals Boof cited by name as someone who was directly involved with ordering her "fatwa".<5> The judge told the Times that "nobody issued a fatwa against Kola Boof. I know she was criticized by a Muslim official in London, but he isn't in a position to issue a fatwa." The paper also spoke to the article's author, who responded to the fatwa claims as "bizarre and baseless".<5> In January 2003, Boof attempted to explain her previous comments about the death threats: "Gamal {sic} Ibrahim wrote an article in London's leading Arab-Muslim newspaper (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat) condemning me as a human being... it is unheard of for a woman, and especially a non-Muslim woman, to be featured in a political Arab-Muslim newspaper...unless she's a target of some kind." Boof further explained that it is "common knowledge" in an Islamic theocracy such as Sudan that any such article entirely about a woman "is a bonafide death threat."<4> Boof claims that her Moroccan publisher was firebombed,<14>. Another article stated that she was dropped by her publisher due to the negative press that she had recently gotten from an article in The New York Times as well as the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper/fatwa incident.<5> On August 23, 2003, Kola Boof appeared in an interview on the Fox News program The Big Story Weekend with Rita Cosby, discussing her claims.<15> Boof often appears topless. Insisting that vanity and publicity have nothing to do with it, she has said that she is "topless to honor my mothers and grandmothers, my own African womenfolk who were always bare breasted in the sun and who gave birth to this whole world... They were not dirty and soiled by man's greed and violence. They were naked because it pleases God...and I do believe that it's an abomination against God for any woman's breasts to be covered."<16> In other instances, she has been less spiritual about the subject: "I have no concern...whatsoever...with what White Caucasoids think about my all-natural, God-given bare black titties."<14> In August 2006, excerpts from a video documentary about Kola Boof appeared on the streaming video site YouTube. The clips showed Boof dancing, shaking beads, wearing headdresses and swimming naked. A montage of pictures is also included, showing the map of Sudan, Boof's book covers, as what seemed to be the author appearing topless at a speaking engagement. The video also features a short statement from Boof in which she says that "in the past five years, there have been a lot of lies told about me and gossip and speculation. People even claimed that I did not exist, you know, that I was like an urban legend." She went on to say that her 2006 autobiography was her chance to "set the record straight". In June of 2006, a spokesperson for American television network NBC confirmed that Boof had "had writing assignments" for its daytime serial Days of Our Lives. In July, the network indicated the assignment was limited to two episodes and had ended. <7> <8>. Works in English * Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof (February 2006, ISBN 0-9712019-8-6) * Flesh and the Devil (U.S. release May 2004, ISBN 0-9712019-7-8) * Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories about African Women (U.S. release April 2004, ISBN 0-9712019-0-0) * Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof (U.S. release Feb. 2004, ISBN 0-9712019-6-X) * "The One You Meet Everywhere," in Politically Inspired, short stories edited by Stephen Elliott (2003, ISBN 1-931561-58-3) References and sources 1. ^ a b Kola Boof, This Woman is Dangerous, Biography of Kola Boof 2. ^ a b c d <1>Indymedia Article on Kola Boof 3. ^ Kola Boof profile, tripod.com 4. ^ a b c d Who is Kola Boof?, ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes, press release statement by Kola Boof, released by Russom Damba's publicist Nafisa Goma, Jan. 3, 2003, nathanielturner.com 5. ^ a b c d e f g h i <2> Freedom House on Sudan: Shrill, Contentious and Unreliable 6. ^ <3>Kola Boof interviewed by Nathan Lewis, hosted by a Kola Boof fan site 7. ^ BET.com article: "Osama's Ex-Mistress Says She's Tired of Being Demonized" 8. ^ The Suite Life, La Maison Arabe, Marrakech, Morocco, By Kate Crawford, February 2003 9. ^ LA MAISON ARABE 10. ^ Matthew Norman's Diary, The Guardian Unlimited, October 24, 2002 11. ^ 'Anti-Islam' books spark fatwa, WorldNetDaily, Posted: November 9, 2002 12. ^ a b <4> 13. ^ http://www.harpers.org/HisPrerogative.html Harper's Magazine: His Prerogative> 14. ^ a b Kola Boof, Rootz-View Vol. #6.3, 2004, rootzreggae.com 15. ^ <5> Transcript of Boof's Fox News interview, hosted on a Boof fan site 16. ^ Kola Boof, Naked at the Feast, kolaboof.com * Bergen, Peter, "The worst book of the year," on peterbergen.com, July 5, 2006. Retrieved August 25, 2006. * Boof, Kola, "His Prerogative," Harper's, September, 2006. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Dunne, Bruce, "An Interview With Osama Bin Laden's Former African Mistress," a BlackPR.com Press Release hosted by Blacknews.com. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Dunne, Bruce, "John Garang Memorialized by Sudan's Top Novelist," Newsblaze.com, undated. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Howard, Janine,"Queen Kola: an interview with Kola Boof." Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Kelly, Tom, "Boy leaves school over bin Laden claims, Irish Examiner, January 8, 2003. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Musoke-Nteyafas, Jane, "Kola Boof talks about John Garang, Bin Laden and More," Newsblaze.com, undated. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * Salmon, Julie, "Fatwa Victim or a Fraud?; Mystery Enshrouds Kola Boof, Writer and Internet Persona," The New York Times, December 11, 2002. Retrieved August 23, 2006. * "Sudan and the Kola Boof Hoax: "Slavery" propaganda exposed," The European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council (ESPAC), May 15, 2003. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

Rose  # 7 | 01.06.2007 16:14

Many of those on the outside looking in (myself included) have feelings of unease over current events in Africa. I'm posting excerpts from two other articles members might want to read. http://www.rastafarispeaks.com/cgi-bin/forum/config.pl?read=83695 RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA Now, what is the real difference between OAU and AU ? OAU was the African Souls working to achieve Unity amongst themselves. Whereas AU means a Union with the Europeans. ( Read the OAU Charter of 1963 and the AU Constitutive act of 11th July 2000 ) . Let me just repeat to clarify: Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) means Unity among African People – that is Francophone, Anglophone, and Lucophone. No matter what differences are in Religion, be they Catholic, Protestant, Muslim etc, or Tribe, the idea is that African people must come together as a People of Africa; and as an Entity. African Union ( AU ) means the whole Continent of Africa united with Europeans, ruled by Europe, so it means union with Europeans. The other one ( OAU is the Unity amongst Africans by themselves, fighting for their Freedom and Liberty. This is the distinction between the two: African Unity and the African Union. The Africans are not allowed to know that, the African Union means uniting with Europeans so another organ is created. called NEPAD which is referred now as the New Economic Partnership for African Development with Europe, which they say is based on the European Union model, that is the distinction between the two. Lado retains OAU Charter with Headquaters in Arua - Aru, in Lado. Lado shall not seek to be a full member of the AU. . AU is an outside matter in Africa . The choice is: do you as African want to unite with Europe and be ruled from Europe, whether it is Paris, Brussels, or London or do you want the African Unity to be ruled from the African Continent by yourself ? That is in brief what it is. It is a Matter of Choice. Comment: I am learning as much as i can about Africa for i see a massive problem in regaining the freedomof Africa. It seems that another power, China is slowly advancing into Africa, and that is one of the reasons why the imminent war between China and the Western world is going to happen. It seems to be all about the resources of Africa, being transported out AND THE PEOPLE HAVE NO GAIN THERE FROM. I actually think that Africans are being slowly eradicated out of the land(and the rest of the world) to leave africa free for a more complete exploitation of resources. http://allafrica.com/stories/200704190368.html A key issue raised by the two-thirds majority of the contributors who constitute the sceptics and the cautious, is that of identity. The issues they want to see addressed are as follows: Who is an African? Do Arabs in North Africa identify with Black Africans or with their white kith and kin in Arabia and the Middle East? Other obstacles to the idea of USAfrica they raised were: Colourism: the ingrained Arab contempt for Blacks; the conflict between Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism and Arab ambitions to impose Islam on Africans and to Arabise Black Africa. What principles will this USAfrica follow? Would it be Christian, Muslim or other? Will Muslims accept to be ruled by non-Muslims in the USAfrica? How will obstacles to unification - including tyranny, tribalism, mutual distrust and corruption - be removed? Contributing from Mahe, the Seychelles, Clement Kuol Biong writes, "A veteran Sudanese politician, once compared the Sudan Socialist Union of Jafaar Numeiri's rule to a shadow tree where we come just to share the shade but what each person under the tree is thinking about is not necessarily the same. "So how can Africa be united when we are still tribally fragmented and no African leader is interested in uniting his own people? How can African unity become a dream come true when different groupings of the AU have their own hidden agendas? "The Arabs have never stopped their dream of imposing Islamic culture on African masses by the sword, a practice which is still widespread in Sudan up to today."

Palamedes  # 8 | 02.06.2007 04:08

@Oghre >>AFRICANS ARE NOT THE ONLY VICTIMS, I think the white western world has a bigger problem on their hands with the current climate. Don’t you think? This is a typical case (all so common) of an African worrying about others but ignoring his own @Rose >>African Union ( AU ) means the whole Continent of Africa united with Europeans, ruled by Europe, so it means union with Europeans. The other one ( OAU is the Unity amongst Africans by themselves, fighting for their Freedom and Liberty. This is the distinction between the two: African Unity and the African Union. AU or OAU. what is in a name? This above quote made me feel that the author of the article is simply using rhetoric to persuade rather than one based on facts. The Europeans are reluctant to unite with Turkey, it is therefore laughable that they would want to unite with Africa. All their recent policies have been to keep Africans out of Europe. The author must be referring to a different Europe, that I am not familiar with If the Europeans, and Arabs are in Africa and the Chinese are coming, that is because we let them. As Oghre testified above, we don’t know how to look after our own; we show far more hospitality to the outsiders than our own. I BLAME US. >>"So how can Africa be united when we are still tribally fragmented and no African leader is interested in uniting his own people? How can African unity become a dream come true when different groupings of the AU have their own hidden agendas? Firstly, we need an African figure that can galvanise the continent—a Hitler that is not a Hitlerian, and secondly, a leader that would take on tribalism and destroy it by any means possible. >>"The Arabs have never stopped their dream of imposing Islamic culture on African masses by the sword, a practice which is still widespread in Sudan up to today." The Arabs would be no match for the Africans in battle or wars—not with their useless armies. Their ONLY path into Africa is through the back door under the veil of Islam with help from African Muslims, who are yet to realise that they are being used to spread a foreign (Arab) culture in Africa.

Eja  # 9 | 02.06.2007 06:01

Their ONLY path into Africa is through the back door under the veil of Islam with help from African Muslims, who are yet to realise that they are being used to spread a foreign (Arab) culture in Africa. In order that awareness of the above be spread, it might be more useful if when talking about such activities, the label "arabism" was used instead of the phrase "spreading Islam". The one point on which I have agreed with Khalil is that this thing is politics under the veil of religion. We need to deal with it as what it is. To those who imply that the writer is trying to spread anti-arab feelings, I have one question : can you mention the number of times one arab community has acted against another in defence of, (or to the benefit) of an indigenous African community? Look through 4000 years of history and see how many such events you can pull up. Then, let us compare your numbers with the amount of times Africans have destroyed each other for the sake of arabism. "Self-defence is no offence."

Palamedes  # 10 | 02.06.2007 07:25

@Eja >>In order that awareness of the above be spread, it might be more useful if when talking about such activities, the label "arabism" was used instead of the phrase "spreading Islam". Very valid point indeed. I will add the word to my diction. The term would be of great help to persuading Africans (but particularly the African Muslims) that the issue is about Arabs using Islam deviously to soften their patriotism to their country whilst grabbing their land and imposing Arab culture on them. There is an urgent need to separate Arabism from Islam--an act of unveiling of Arabism, if you like--to galvanise the African people to Arab deceit.

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