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It nice to finally see some attention being brought to bear on the Islamic persecution, murder, enslavement by the Sudanese government, of the Christian and Animist southern tribes, in Sudan.
This has been happening for many years, but now it is receiving world attention.
http://www.lnsart.com/Sudan%20Slave%20Story.htm
The war between the Islamic north and Christian south Sudan has old roots, stemming back to the 1950s when the country, separated at the time was made one by the western world after World War II. Shortly the country of Sudan was emancipated from England. A war between the two religious factions broke out in 1983, with the Islamic north invading the southern Christians. This is considered the time by which the current struggle is measured. From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in this genocide, mostly Christians, for sure civilians. Early on in this conflict, two professors at the University of Khartoum; Ushari Ahmad Mahmud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people and had investigated it. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the men and had taken women and children and into slavery for over two years. They wrote their report in 1987. It was widely circulated and was denied by the Sudanese government. The UN assimilated the report and then discounted it as hearsay. These two humane professors were incarcerated by their government and then were discredited throughout the world. The civilized world would not and could not hear.
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Drew
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I agree, I just found it very sad.
What saddam did was unspeakable, but look what's going on in Darfur and we won't lift a finger to help those people.
It's just sad.
Your brother in Christ,
Chuck
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"Iraqi state-run television said that former dictator Saddam Hussein had been executed early Saturday morning.
In Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, people danced in the streets while others fired guns in the air to celebrate the former dictator's death. The government did not impose a round-the-clock curfew as it did last month when Saddam was convicted to thwart any surge in retaliatory violence.
It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict. "
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God bless you;
I was not moved with emotion at the news, just a sadness and a weariness.
It won't make any difference in the current killing fields, as the Sunnis will continue to bomb and murder the Shiites and any Americans that they can get at. Iran and Syria will continue to supply.
A sadness that his death will in no way begin to pay for the crimes he committed. My own opinion is that he should have been put back in the hole that they found him in and let him live-out the rest of his days in it. Perhaps with a pig-pen draining into his dungeon.
A sadness that our country armed, and built this man into a power, as he was the then enemy of our enemies, the Iranians. Our nation justified this man and over-looked his butchering of his victims, as it was politicly expedient at that time.
A sadness that our country will continue to undermine Israel and continue to error in the Middle East.
Just a tired sadness that our nation's children will continue to face death over there, and nothing will be resolved.
May our Lord move in the hearts of our leaders and open their hearts and eyes to His truth. I long for our Lord's return and a conclusion to all of the death and destruction which is coming.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Refrain
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
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My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
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For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
Refrain
But, Lord, ‘tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh trump of the angel! Oh voice of the Lord!
Blessèd hope, blessèd rest of my soul!
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And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
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A Servant of Christ,
Drew
1 Tim. 3:
16: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..
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