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African Immigrants Express Support for Tom Tancredo in Colorado Gubernatorial Race

October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Simon Deng was enslaved as a child after being abducted by an Arab. He escaped after three years and is now a leading voice against slavery. He is the leader of the Sudan Freedom Walk and is an associate of the American Anti-Slavery Group. Freelance photojournalist El Marco phoned Deng at his home in Harlem, [...]

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UN Ineffective Against Armed Bandits in Darfur

April 17th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Claiming banditry against food trucks as the root cause, officials with the United Nation’s World Food Program announced today they are cutting rations to the people of Sudan’s Darfur region. “Attacks on the WFP food pipeline are an attack on the most vulnerable people in Darfur. With up to three million people depending on us [...]

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Can Islam’s Skin Get Any Thinner?

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

With the Islamic furor in Sudan over the so-called “Teddy Bear Teacher” continuing to get attention in the world’s press, I found an editorial published at Investor’s Business Daily especially noteworthy. It begins this way: Islamofascism: Just when you thought Islam’s skin couldn’t get any thinner, angry Muslims from Khartoum to London want to execute [...]

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Scrooge Report Tackles Teddy Bear Issue

November 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Under the headline below, my friend over at The Scrooge Report tackled the issues surrounding Gillian Gibbons (a.k.a., the “Teddy Bear Teacher”) in a more serious manner than I have to date. I encourage you to read it: Sudan: Officials seize a British teacher’s approval of students ‘Muhammad’ teddy bear to play the culture card [...]

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Blogger to Discuss ‘Crisis in Darfur’ on BBC Radio

April 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

It has become a regular occurrence for me to appear as a guest on BBC Radio’s World Have Your Say, a program which airs weekdays at 5 p.m. CT in the U.S. Today’s topic is the Crisis in Darfur, a project being tackled jointly by Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (See [...]

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