aria law and they have taken measures to prevent this from happening.
In fighting causes of apostasy and bringing changes to the Muslim world, Mr. Warraq sees one solution: “without any post-colonial guilt, we must defend our values. We still have freedom of expression and the right to criticize Islam”. In this sense, publications in the West are very important in helping populations in Islamic countries.
“Jihad is the worst evil facing the world and the people of Sudan have experienced its cruelty more than any other group on earth”, began Mr. Simon Deng, former Sudanese slave. He continued by denouncing the Islamization, Arabization and enslavement that Southern Sudanese are currently victims of. These are accompanied by atrocities such as mass murders, slavery, systematic rape, religious persecution, enforced starvation and exile. Perpetrators of these crimes are “the radical jihadist regime in Khartoum”. According to Mr. Deng, the only reason for these attacks is the faithfulness to their religion and African culture of the Southern Sudanese.
“I was a slave. I am not ashamed to say it”, Mr. Deng continued. When he was nine years old, his village was raided, children shot dead, disabled or burned in their huts. He was abducted and given to an Arab family as a gift, but “when you look at me, do you see a gift? Do I look like an object?” He was forced to sleep next to the animals and eat his “masters” leftovers. However, “there is no shame in being a slave. It is not a choice. There is only shame in being a master”, he stated.
The former slave also stressed that this genocidal war conducted against Southern Sudanese was conducted in the name of Jihad. He noted that friends in the Arab world, especially Libya, have armed the jihadists.
Mr. Deng strongly criticized the international community and especially the UN, for being indifferent when “millions of African blacks were being slaughtered”. After the Holocaust, after Pol Pot’s massacre in Cambodia and even after Rwanda, despite its inaction, the international community said “never again”. In the case of Sudan, Mr. Deng argued, “nobody said anything at all. Our fate seems largely invisible to the world”. He saw two reasons for this silence. First, because the victims are black, the Southern Sudanese are victims of a global racism; second, they are victims of Arabs. Indeed, “when it comes to the ideology of Jihad, the Commission on Human Rights is muted, no one wishes to be seen as anti-Islamic”, he explained.
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