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From: narain@ih-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (Nizam Arain)
Subject: Re: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians
Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 02:13:52 GMT
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T.S.Reddy writes
>    The report below shows that the Sudanese are acting in the finest
>traditions of Islamic law as expounded by some die-hard people on the 
>net (who shall remain nameless). 
>
>WASHINGTON - Government troops in Sudan are involved in massacres,
>kidnapping and the transporting of forced labor into Libya, according
>to a State Department document declassified Wednesday.
>
>    The report compiled by the U.S. embassy in Khartoum said government
>forces, particularly Arab militias organized as the Popular Defense
>Forces, "routinely steal women and children" in southern Sudan.
>
>    "Some women and girls are kept as wives, the others are shipped
>north where they perform forces labor on Kordofan (central Sudan) 
>farms or are exproted, notably to Libya," it said.

While the people here may be claim to be Muslim, the actions reported here,  
if they actually happened, are 180 degrees opposite from what Islam stands  
for, and I, for one, condemn them.
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