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Originally posted by Muaddib
I have no idea what you are trying to say with the above.
Oh really? so the murder of millions of people in various contries in the world by Jihad is not genocide?....
How exactly is it different?...
How in the world do you know this?... I already gave some links to what is happening to Christians and other minority religious groups in islamic countries that have islamic law or Sharia.... evidence which goes completly against what you are saying.
[edit on 5-5-2005 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by devilwasp
What I was trying to get across is he may be right, its your opinion that he is wrong.
Is it methodical and preplanned?
No, you could use the same arguement that mother nature is the biggest genocdial maniac in existance.
If it was wide spread the news would be all over it, no?
Thats in some countries, not all.....your evidence proves a few areas and mabye a few countries are hard core believers.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Prove it with facts and links that my opinion is wrong...
i have already given links that proves my point.
You obviously do not understand what genocide means...nature cannot be genocidial....
Genocide is a crime...how does nature commit crimes?.... You can't use that argument....because nature does not commit genocide....
It is all over the news if you know where to look. Most of the time normally the western media prefers not to show what is happening in other countries such as Sudan, Nigeria, Algeria, Turkey, Indonesia, Israel, Kashmir, Egypt, Kosovo, Philippines, Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, except there is coverage of iraq because the US is involved, and of course normally Israel is the country that is being portrayed as the one doing all the attacks on Palestinians.
Anyways, all of those conflicts involve radical Muslims. Those are mostly major conflicts, there are other smaller conflicts which i have not posted.
Here is a link to the current conflicts in the world right now.
members.aol.com...
[edit on 5-5-2005 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by devilwasp
Genocide is a crime, its when large numbers of people are methodically killed.
Nature IS killing everyorginism....or more precisely air is.
Deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Originally posted by devilwasp
Yes there are some radicals that provoke a riot or attack, this happens everywhere.
They tend not to post riots, because they are not serios.
Are there millions being kiled per day?
No, per week?
No, per month?
No.
According to independent Sudan expert Eric Reeves, the total death toll in Darfur has been consistently misreported by the mainstream press. He estimates that about 200,000 people have died from disease and hunger since February 2003, and around 215,000 from violence.
Originally posted by Muaddib
What in the world?.... You have got to be kidding....
Nature cannot commit genocide because nature does not only kill people of one racial, ethnic, religious, or political affiliation... it does not differentiate who dies in a natural disaster....unless you now want to swear that it does...
Here you have the definition of genocide...
Deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
BTW, you are not making any sense trying to prove something in which you are wrong....
Noone ever has committed genocide killing millions of people per day, or per week, or per month.... Noone...not even Hitler... it took years to kill millions of jewish people. Yet everyone knows it was one of the worse genocides comitted by a madman and those who follow him... so your point, whatever it is, is moot.....
Read the links that i gave in the previous page btw...it shows how many people have died in sudan alone because of jihad....
Two million people, which were murdered by radical islamists in the first jihad which began in 1983 in Sudan, not that long ago, can not have been killed by a small group of people....
It requires organization and a lot of manpower to kill this many people.... The second Jihad started in 2003...
According to independent Sudan expert Eric Reeves, the total death toll in Darfur has been consistently misreported by the mainstream press. He estimates that about 200,000 people have died from disease and hunger since February 2003, and around 215,000 from violence.
Originally posted by Islam
Dear vincere7:
The hateness of Islam and Muslims is rooted in your heart and I don’t think this is a way to live.
You have to put on mind that there are 1.5 Billion Muslims and the followers of BinLaden are few thousands. So in which scale you can judge the 1.5 Billions because of some dirty rats hiding in Tora Bora ??????????
Originally posted by Islam
Again I invite you to read and know what ISLAM says about terrorism
iiie.net...
Originally posted by Islam
And again, if BinLaden and his worshippers are considered as leaders to Muslims, then WHY no Muslim out of tens of Millions in Europe and USA are following that fake god BinLaden command ????
Originally posted by devilwasp
Who is talking about natural disasters?
Also , nature does technically do so or are the people dieing in thousands in africa not politcal, racial or a culture group?
Genocide is a crime, its when large numbers of people are methodically killed.
Nature IS killing everyorginism....or more precisely air is.
To you, I dont make sense.
To someone else then I do, I am not wrong on this.
Originally posted by devilwasp
Your saying that people are dieing in hundreds of thousands, I am trying to show what kind of a time scale, my point is valid.
And how many of these were acidental?
How many of these where NOT direct killings?
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Originally posted by devilwasp
How long was the jihad on for?
2 years?
8 years?
Your points dont mean squat with out a timescale.
April 2002
[img=http://www.crimesofwar.org/sudan-mag/images/fein-bio.gif[/img]
I describe the situation in Sudan as one of "genocide by attrition." Generally, when we think of genocide, we focus on the numbers of individuals killed directly by state and other murderers, through execution, gassing, burning, and other forms of annihilation. Genocide by attrition occurs after a group is singled out for political and civil discrimination. It is separated from the larger society, and its right to life is threatened through concentration and forced displacement, together with systematic deprivation of food, water, and sanitary and medical facilities. These measures, along with the frequent imposition of overcrowded living quarters, lead to death through disease and starvation.
..................
In the Warsaw ghetto, one of every five Jews died prior to deportation from starvation, typhus, tuberculosis, and other diseases which failed to be diagnosed. These deaths are directly attributable to German policy, which:
Allotted Jews rations whose caloric content was less than ten percent of the level needed to sustain life. From December 1940-April 1941, the Germans refused to provide any food at all to the Ghetto. "We sentence the Jews in the ghetto to death by hunger or we shoot them," a prominent SS doctor stated at a 1941 meeting of government health care professionals.2
Imposed cramped, overcrowded living quarters, which encouraged illness and contagion;
Denied heating fuel and sanitation.
All of these measures contributed to the toll of Jews dying in the Warsaw ghetto.
Turning now to Sudan, the North has systematically denied food to populations in the South, in what has to be called a "politics of famine."
Let us first consider the Dinka. Between May 1983 and May 1993, at least one in five southerners, primarily Dinka, (1.5 million) died primarily by starvation and its effects. This coincided with the Nimeiri government’s drive to Islamize the country and its imposition of Islamic religious law even on non-Moslems. These policies were further radicalized in 1989, with the coup by the National Islamic Front, which also "disappeared" opponents in what they termed "ghost houses." The NIF armed militias made up of Arab Bagarra, historical enemies of the Dinka, systematically looted the land and cattle upon which the Dinka depended for survival.
Sudan as a whole had sufficient food in the early 1980s (it was a strong exporter of sorghum to Europe and Saudi Arabia, and also received wheat from the United States); but the government methodically withheld distribution to the South. By 1983, drought was causing food shortages in the South, but it was not inevitable that these should lead to famine. The North obstructed food deliveries from relief agencies and foreign donors by denying use of the railway and other government transport, including airfields. The government and its agents stole supplies and re-sold them on the black market. They harassed, attacked, and expelled foreign aid workers. On December 21, 1989, NIF government forces shot down an MSF-France [Médecins sans Frontières] plane, killing everyone onboard. This caused some aid groups to leave Sudan, and major donors to end or sharply decrease their contributions.
There has been massive forced displacement among the Dinka, with a predictable toll from hunger and disease. The government reaction to outbreaks of meningitis and other contagious diseases in the displaced-person camps was to herd the Dinka more closely together. Fresh drinking water and medical attention have been denied.
Deprived of their land, cattle, and other assets, Dinka became increasingly vulnerable to abduction into slavery. Children in particular were snatched by the raiding militias backed by the North. My colleagues J. Millard Burr and Robert Collins calculated in their important 1995 book that at least 75,000 Dinka children had been sold into slavery in the North.3 Beginning in 1992, Southern children who had fled with their families to Khartoum were in danger of being kidnapped, herded into camps, and forcibly converted to Islam. This violates Article 2(e) of the Genocide Convention, which prohibits "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
The Nuba: Targeted for Extinction
There have been genocide warnings on behalf of the Nuba for a number of years now—from human rights groups and relief agencies, scholars, and some members of the U.S. Congress. Upon seizing power in 1989, the NIF government dispatched Bagarra militias to raid, loot, and burn Nuba villages, causing widespread displacement, hunger, and disease. In 1992, the Governor of Kordofan unleashed a jihad against the Nuba; soon after, the pro-government Imans issued a fatwa, which imposed Islam on all non-Muslims and called for the round-up and isolation of Christian Nuba. There were targeted killings, especially of Nuba leaders; looting of land and cattle; and denial of medical treatment in the "peace camps," where Nuba have been confined for Islamization. These practices are clear violations of the Genocide Convention, Article 2, (a), (b), (c).
Originally posted by devilwasp
Right ok, 200,000 form disease is not genocide.
Now we are getting somewhere, that is a rather shocking ammount of dead, over 17000 a month?
Mind you it doesnt say how they died in the violence or if the violence was related to jihad.
CBS) We’ve all been hearing about something horrible in the African country of Sudan. So, 60 Minutes decided to go there to find out what’s going on. What it found was evidence of a government-backed campaign to wipe out an entire race of people.
There are at least 50,000 dead, and a million on the run — facts that led the U.S. government last month to call what was happening genocide. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It started a year and a half ago in part of Sudan called Darfur. Rebels looking for a measure of freedom revolted against Sudan’s authoritarian Islamic government. The government apparently decided to end the revolt by attempting to wipe out all the native Africans in Darfur, essentially to clear the territory for the Arabs.
Originally posted by Muaddib
It seems that you were implying that nature commits genocide...althou i know most of what you are writing makes no sense at all..
And air is killing people?..... what the hell does that mean?....you can't live without air in case you didn't know....
Genocide is an act in which someone, a group of people, a government or a dictator chooses to kill, cause harm, or denies the nutrients required to keep alive a certain group of people. Nature does not choose who dies, or who gets harm or who can or cannot eat....
You are not making any sense...nature does not commint genocide, and air does not kill people....
BTW...if you believe that air is killing people, then you better stop breathing, don't take any air... stop breathing dude...
Originally posted by devilwasp
People die all the time of natural causes, everyone knows that...... What I am saying is that people are being "murdered" because of jihad...there is a difference, which you obviously do not comprehend.
Here is the definition of genocide as per the UN convention on Genocide in 1948.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Excerpted from.
www.hrweb.org...
Originally posted by devilwasp
Pfft, my points don't mean squat because i am not giving an exact timescale?... i already mentioned that the first part of the jihad in Sudan started and was declared in 1983...There have been several more, the last one started in that region in 2003.
I think we all can see whose point don't mean squat......and who is making no sense at all...
What follows below is an overview of what is happening in Sudan, and what the Nazis did to the Jewsih people which in many ways it is the same that is happening in Sudan.
I describe the situation in Sudan as one of "genocide by attrition." Generally, when we think of genocide, we focus on the numbers of individuals killed directly by state and other murderers, through execution, gassing, burning, and other forms of annihilation. Genocide by attrition occurs after a group is singled out for political and civil discrimination. It is separated from the larger society, and its right to life is threatened through concentration and forced displacement, together with systematic deprivation of food, water, and sanitary and medical facilities. These measures, along with the frequent imposition of overcrowded living quarters, lead to death through disease and starvation.
..................
In the Warsaw ghetto, one of every five Jews died prior to deportation from starvation, typhus, tuberculosis, and other diseases which failed to be diagnosed. These deaths are directly attributable to German policy, which:
Allotted Jews rations whose caloric content was less than ten percent of the level needed to sustain life. From December 1940-April 1941, the Germans refused to provide any food at all to the Ghetto. "We sentence the Jews in the ghetto to death by hunger or we shoot them," a prominent SS doctor stated at a 1941 meeting of government health care professionals.2
Imposed cramped, overcrowded living quarters, which encouraged illness and contagion;
Denied heating fuel and sanitation.
All of these measures contributed to the toll of Jews dying in the Warsaw ghetto.
Turning now to Sudan, the North has systematically denied food to populations in the South, in what has to be called a "politics of famine."
Let us first consider the Dinka. Between May 1983 and May 1993, at least one in five southerners, primarily Dinka, (1.5 million) died primarily by starvation and its effects. This coincided with the Nimeiri government’s drive to Islamize the country and its imposition of Islamic religious law even on non-Moslems. These policies were further radicalized in 1989, with the coup by the National Islamic Front, which also "disappeared" opponents in what they termed "ghost houses." The NIF armed militias made up of Arab Bagarra, historical enemies of the Dinka, systematically looted the land and cattle upon which the Dinka depended for survival.
Sudan as a whole had sufficient food in the early 1980s (it was a strong exporter of sorghum to Europe and Saudi Arabia, and also received wheat from the United States); but the government methodically withheld distribution to the South. By 1983, drought was causing food shortages in the South, but it was not inevitable that these should lead to famine. The North obstructed food deliveries from relief agencies and foreign donors by denying use of the railway and other government transport, including airfields. The government and its agents stole supplies and re-sold them on the black market. They harassed, attacked, and expelled foreign aid workers. On December 21, 1989, NIF government forces shot down an MSF-France [Médecins sans Frontières] plane, killing everyone onboard. This caused some aid groups to leave Sudan, and major donors to end or sharply decrease their contributions.
There has been massive forced displacement among the Dinka, with a predictable toll from hunger and disease. The government reaction to outbreaks of meningitis and other contagious diseases in the displaced-person camps was to herd the Dinka more closely together. Fresh drinking water and medical attention have been denied.
Deprived of their land, cattle, and other assets, Dinka became increasingly vulnerable to abduction into slavery. Children in particular were snatched by the raiding militias backed by the North. My colleagues J. Millard Burr and Robert Collins calculated in their important 1995 book that at least 75,000 Dinka children had been sold into slavery in the North.3 Beginning in 1992, Southern children who had fled with their families to Khartoum were in danger of being kidnapped, herded into camps, and forcibly converted to Islam. This violates Article 2(e) of the Genocide Convention, which prohibits "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
The Nuba: Targeted for Extinction
There have been genocide warnings on behalf of the Nuba for a number of years now—from human rights groups and relief agencies, scholars, and some members of the U.S. Congress. Upon seizing power in 1989, the NIF government dispatched Bagarra militias to raid, loot, and burn Nuba villages, causing widespread displacement, hunger, and disease. In 1992, the Governor of Kordofan unleashed a jihad against the Nuba; soon after, the pro-government Imans issued a fatwa, which imposed Islam on all non-Muslims and called for the round-up and isolation of Christian Nuba. There were targeted killings, especially of Nuba leaders; looting of land and cattle; and denial of medical treatment in the "peace camps," where Nuba have been confined for Islamization. These practices are clear violations of the Genocide Convention, Article 2, (a), (b), (c).
CBS) We’ve all been hearing about something horrible in the African country of Sudan. So, 60 Minutes decided to go there to find out what’s going on. What it found was evidence of a government-backed campaign to wipe out an entire race of people.
There are at least 50,000 dead, and a million on the run — facts that led the U.S. government last month to call what was happening genocide. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It started a year and a half ago in part of Sudan called Darfur. Rebels looking for a measure of freedom revolted against Sudan’s authoritarian Islamic government. The government apparently decided to end the revolt by attempting to wipe out all the native Africans in Darfur, essentially to clear the territory for the Arabs.
This one government is
Back to my original point....why are we having a person trying to show us what he calls the virtues of Jihad in these boards?......
Is he trying to recruit people into Islam and his jihad?....
IS THE NIF JIHAD AN ISLAMIC ISSUE?
The Sudanese Human Rights Quarterly, Issue No. 3, April 1996
The NIF military rule has been seriously accused of seeking to eradicate the whole Sudanese nationalities under the guise of Jihad. Ustaz Abdon Agaw, Ustaza Nur Kafi, and Dr. Al-Tigani Sissi stated before the SHRO Workshop on Human Rights in The Sudan (Cairo: 1992) that, " The NIF militias have expropriated lands from indigenous inhabitants, burnt their crops, stolen their livestock, and enslaved children and women. In the Nub Mountains, tens of thousands of the Nuer people have been displaced to the desert of Northern Kordofan. 5,000 children have been transferred across the border to Libya. Many children have been destroyed and many people in the South and in the Mountains have been converted to Islam by force. The cultural identity of the Nuba is being drastically changed through the abduction of children, forced relocation and the separation of families, the Islamization of the educational system, and the denigration of local traditions and cultures. Disease has spread throughout the area."
The Legitimate Command of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAFs) affirmed that, the security forces of the NIF regime have been responsible for the following activities: (1) receiving, accommodating, and training extremists from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Gulf States, etc., who are violently opposed to the systems of rule of their own countries. (2) Coordinating terrorist activities in the international arena to stabilize regional security. (3) Cooperation with Iran to strengthen terrorist policies and practices through interference in the internal affairs of the Arab and African states, and (4) Provision of arms, traveling documents, money, explosives, etc., to terrorist elements in Egypt and the other neighboring countries.
The conscription process of Sudanese youth and children to SAFs had been originally planned by the SAFs High Command during the 3rd democratic rule. A proposed act designated the terms and general objectives of conscription as a national obligatory service. Another act was prepared to provide for the formation of a popular defense force that would be mobilized within certain limits to assist SAFs in security affairs. Both conscription and PDFs projects were meant to reduce the high cost of financing military operations, consolidate the internal security of the State, educate the youth in the interest of peace for the benefit of Sudanese people, and attract them to participate in the development of their country.
Originally posted by Muaddib
First of all, you are making a mess, not properly quoting me and puting together what i was saying and what you are saying....
The one who is refusing to see the truth of the situation is yourself.
Once again...nature does not commit genocide...genocide is the wanton death of a particular people because of race, religion, ethnicity, or political affiliation.... nature does not differentiates who dies and who lives because of race, religion, ethcnicity, or political affiliation...thus nature cannot commit genocide... keep embarrasing yourself trying to defend your opinion which is wrong and messed up...
BTW...air does not kill...that is one of the most absurb statements i have heard. But as i said, if it is killing you, then you better stop breathing...
You are claiming that what has happened and what is happening now in Sudan is not genocide because according to you only 1,000 people are dying a year....it is not so.
You need to re-read and really comprehend what you are reading... The first part of the jihad which started in 1983 was when over 2 million christians were killed by the arab militia with the backing of the government which is Islamic and want Sharia law to rule the land...
In the second Jihad which started in 2003, and it is still ongoing there are as of now 415,000 people death. 215,000 dead from direct violence, meaning they are being murdered, the other 200,000 are being starved to death because the Arab militia and the government are not allowing any food, medicine or anything needed for sanitation to be given to certain people because they are non-Arabs.....
BTW, if you would have read the links i gave they are taking children away from the non-Arab people and puting them in schools to convert them into Islam by force....not only that but these schools are making these kids into the next generation of radical Muslims.
The following link is from 1996, but about two weeks ago there was a documentary about what is happening in Sudan, and even a video was taken from one of these schools as they were teaching young children how to be the next islamic extremists.
Islam is not trying to explain, he is just hiding the truth and trying to portray jihad as something good, which it has never been.
[edit on 6-5-2005 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by devilwasp
Air both kills and gives you life, with out air we die, with it we die as well just at a much slower pace.
Originally posted by vincere7
So we die at a much slower pace because of air. Interesting concept, show validation of this. Wihout factual evidence you are not credible.
[edit on 7-5-2005 by vincere7]
Originally posted by vincere7
So we die at a much slower pace because of air. Interesting concept, show validation of this. Wihout factual evidence you are not credible.
Originally posted by 27jd
I may be missing some other point in this conversation, but dying because of the air we breathe is not a concept. The pollution in the air we breathe inside and outside is definitely not what we were intended to breathe by nature, do you really need to see all the facts to back that up? Especially those of us living in major cities, we breathe in ridiculous amounts of carcinogens just taking out the trash.