For those who live in the real world, liberal fools in power can often mean dire consequences for millions. While Obama is busy prostrating himself to appease Islamists whom he views as fellow revolutionaries against the capitalist system, millions of Christians and blacks are at grave risk of being exterminated by Islamic tribes in East Africa with hardly a word of protest by the American government.
The vast majority at risk are Christians whom Al Shabab, the Al Qaeda linked Islamic radical organization that has killed dozens of aid workers over the past two years, have prevented from receiving international aid. Committed to jihad and partially funded by Arab donors, Al Shabab is using starvation as a tool to exterminate those who do not embrace Allah. According to ICC spokesman Jonathan Racho, "Any Somali that is suspected of being a Christian, or a friend of a Christian, does not receive
any food aid."
Known for arming children with AK-47s and its dedication to the brutal Sharia Law, Al Shabab remains one of the most murderous organizations on the planet, but you wouldn't know it by listening to the Obama administration. Rather than call out Islam for its genocidal campaigns in Africa and elsewhere, he has repeatedly glossed over the issue of Islamic radicalism in his concerted efforts to appease the Muslim world.
Until recently Obama has been successful in suppressing news of the Christian genocide in Africa, but the UN declaration of Somalia as a famine zone last month forced his hand. No longer able to ignore the crisis without looking impotent on the international stage, Obama stepped up and took the most forceful action he knows ... he appointed a government board to study the issue for him.
The
Atrocities Prevention Board established on August 4, 2011 was given the task of "preventing mass atrocities and genocide". In the executive order Obama stated "governmental engagement on atrocities and genocide too often arrives too late, when opportunities for prevention or low-cost, low-risk action have been missed." He must have been talking about his response to Somalia.
Samantha Power, senior director of multilateral affairs for the National Security Council, who made a name for herself condeming the world for turning a blind eye to genocide during the 20th century, has herself turned a blind eye to the mass murder of Christians in Africa. In a Aug 8, 2011
whitehouse.gov blog post promoting the APB she had plenty to say about the UN sanctioned war in Libya -- "as civilians were being targeted by their own leader for ruthless attack, we mobilized -- with unprecedented speed -- an international coalition, operating with a mandate from the Security Council and at the request of the Libyan people and the Arab League, to protect civilians
endangered by Qadhaffi" -- and time to tout admistration accomplishments in Kyrgyzstan, Cote d'Ivoire, Syria, Burma and Yugoslavia, but not one single word to say about imminent death of hundreds of thousands in Somalia.
The other troubled spot in East Africa, Sudan, did merit a mention by Power, but only in terms that sought to ignore the plight of Africans at the hands of maurading Arab tribes. "In Sudan, we launched a full court diplomatic press that helped ensure that the South Sudan referendum occurred on time, thereby preventing the outbreak of mass violence that would have
accompanied a delay." If only that were true.
While Power is slapping herself on the back for a job well done, Sudan is decending into a cauldren of violence. Arab tribes are once again on the move in their
millenia long campaign for African slaves, loot and territory. The violence, which in its most recent incarnation began in western Darfur in the 1980s where the government sponsored Arab Janjaweed militias displaced and killed millions, has now spread to the southern Nuba Mountains and
Abyei regions. Indescriminate bombing of villages and the execution of men, women and children have marked the latest offensive by the National Islamic Front, the ruling party headed by Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir who seeks to exterminate
all non-Muslims in Sudan.
The US State Department released a statement in June 2011 that called on "
both parties" to relinquish violence, even though the hostilities have been deciedly one-sided. In an article for Big Peace, director of The Institute on Religion and Democracy's Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan, Faith J. H. McDonnell, wrote "the Obama Administration does not seem to fully grasp -- or at least wish to acknowledge -- that what is taking place in the Nuba Mountains is
ethnic cleansing." By utilizing the "moral equivalency" argument, McDonnell shows how the Obama administration is whitewashing the National Islamic Front's pursuit of its "final solution" to the Nuba Mountains problem.
"The truth is that one side worked hard to build the peace, agreed to compromise when it should not have had to, and suffered various indignities by its 'peace partners' continuing violations of the provisions of the agreement. The other side did as
it always does", McDonnell wrote.
It is one thing to acknowledge that genocide in East Africa is too much for our war weary nation to tackle -- Americans may be hesitant to support another open ended military mission so soon after Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya -- and quite another to lie about mass murder in official government reports. For someone who gained international attention for her book
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and widely read article in The Atlantic,
Bystanders to Genocide, regarding the 1994 Rwandan genocide, it is unconcionable for Power to remain silent when millions of Christians and Africans are at risk of being exterminated by Al Shabab and the National Islamic Front.
Power has shown herself to be no shrinking violet when it comes to defending Muslims. She had no problem calling for the occupation of Israel by the anti-Semitic UN, helping force out Mubarak in Egypt to benefit the Muslim Brotherhood and acting as "
principal architect" of our mission in Libya in support of Islamic tribes who are now imprisoning and
murdering black people for no other reason than the color of their skin, but when it comes to the killing of Christians and Africans in Somalia and Sudan, she has not only been silent, but deceptive.
If empowering Islamists who would murder millions isn't the definition of a "bystander to genocide", then I don't know what is.
