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, [...]
African Immigrants Express Support for Tom Tancredo in Colorado Gubernatorial Race
October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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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 [...]
Tags: · banditry, Darfur, darfur region, josette sheeran, Sudan, UN, United Nations, wfp, world food program
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 [...]
Tags: · blasphemous teddy bear, british teacher, Investor's Business Daily, Islam, Islamic furor, Islamofascism, khartoum, Muslims, religion's reputation at stake, Sudan, teddy bear, teddy bear teacher
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 [...]
Tags: · BBC, bear, british teacher, gibbons, Gillian Gibbons, Hate Crime, khalid al-mubarak, khartoum, liverpool, Muhammed, muhammed the bear, my name is mohammed the bear, scrooge, Sudan, sudanes embassy, teddy bear, teddy bear teacher, the scrooge report
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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