Save Darfur?

My church has become aware of the Darfur problem. We discuss the situation in church and in Bible Studies, and we take up collections to help the people of Darfur. Nice, huh?

Never is it mentioned that the Sudanese genocide has been going on for twenty-four years, not just the four years that the media has been covering it. Never is it mentioned that over 2 million black Christians and animists have been killed in Sudan. Never is it mentioned that the Arab government of Sudan is using the Arab Janjaweed militias to systematically kill and rape millions of black people. Never is it mentioned that when the Arab Muslim establisment ran out of Christians and animists to kill they set to work killing the black Sufi Muslims, and that it was only when the government began killing Muslims that the media began covering the situation in earnest.

No my Church would never mention these facts, because it would mean condemning Islam explicitly for its evil melding of religion and politics.

Jeez Pastorius, why don't you just go to a different church? Well, you know what? I've been to other churches and I don't know of any that discuss such issues openly and honestly.

Michael Ledeen has a blogpost up where he explains how easy it would, in fact, be to take care of the situation in the Sudan:

Darfur is a catastrophe that could and should be solved in an hour or
so. The killers largely operate from helicopters and small fixed wing aircraft.
We could destroy them all in an hour or so. But that would be "wrong," because
it would violate the current hymnal.

Go tell the victims. Explain why sanctions are better, because it
makes the Western politicians feel pious. Even though black Africans are being
slaughtered.

And while you're at it, tell the starving people of Zimbabwe why
their killer and oppressor, Robert Mugabe, is left untouched by the entire
outside world. Explain why St Nelson Mandela doesn't give a damn, while you're
at it.

The Middle East is tough. These African horrors are relatively easy
to fix. But nobody does a damn thing except talk about sanctions...and then
largely fail to enact and/or enforce them.
When did Western leaders become
vulgar Marxists? These evils do not have economic causes and are unlikely to be
defeated by economic means (remember the Iraqi sanctions?). They have political
causes and can be defeated by superior fire power.

Somebody? Anybody?

Go read the rest at CUANAS.