The Rush to Nazify Sudan by U.S. Academics

Ibrahim Adam published a Darfur article worth reading. Here is the beginning.

The Rush to Nazify Sudan by U.S. Academics posted by Ibrahim Adam Barely a week goes by without a welter of intellectual indulgence (or think of a word that rhymes with vibration) from some more Johnny-Come-Lately American academic ‘experts’ about Sudan. I live here in El Fasher, North Darfur have traveled the length and breadth of Darfur (and the rest of Sudan), am Sudanese with no political agenda (i.e. the ubiquitous ‘silent majority’), and none of what Daniel Chirot reflects or enters the ’subjective universe’ i.e. the reality, rather than the academic’s own personal prejudices or views, that informs state and non-state actors in Darfur or elsewhere in Sudan - surely the point of any academic research? Mr Chirot, riddle me this: if the so-called ‘Sudanese Arab’ elite are wannabe Caucasians as you ludicrously claim (Francis Deng might be big in the UN and the corridors of academia and think tanks in DC and elsewhere in the US and Europe, but he means diddly-squat here – just another professional Sudanese international circuit speaker), then why do ‘Sudanese Arabs’ use the term ‘halabi’ (i.e. light skinned) as a polemical term for somebody lacking character, honesty, and a backbone? In other words as an insult?

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The author does not discuss the racist Jewish Zionist aspect of American discourse over Zionism, but an interested reader can check out the following blog entries.

[Darfur and the Sudan Blog Entry List]

• Sun. Aug. 10 Darfur Meeting Report
• Israel-Incited "Genocide" in Darfur?
• Followup: Israel-Incited "Genocide" in Darfur?
• If you liked Iraq, you will love Sudan
• 5th Question: Darfur
• Eric Cohen vs. Eric Cohen
• Profiteering from humanitarianism
• Poisoning Human Rights Discourse
• Killing Muslims Under Humanitarian Cover
• Harvard Supports Incinerating Arab Countries
• Singing HaTikvah while inciting a disastrous US invasion
• The Neocon Program to Incinerate Arab and Muslim Countries
• USHMM: National Thought Control
• Bostonians Learn About Darfur
• ICC Prosecutor Ocampo Incites Genocide?

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