Habib.
I totally agree these are people who don't even belief in God and yet they call themselves muslims
or what ever religion they belief in.Certainly there should be no place for Racism on this planet,I
know millions like you and me condem racism but we still have sick ones among us who practice it.
Regards
Fye.
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From: Habib Ghanim
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: VS: [Network Africa Sweden] afro iraqis and the racism
Fye
This is a clasic case of stupid people who think they are better because of thier race.
it is sick, wrong and silly ,imho
habib
>From: Fye Samateh
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: VS: [Network Africa Sweden] afro iraqis and the racism
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:46:29 +0200
>
>Folks.
>
>Here's another burning issue on racism.I wonder why this is still happening in the
>arab world and some parts Africa.
>
>Fye
>
>
>By Gregory Kane
>Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com
>
>Flapdoodle trumps truth in any war. The current
>U.S.-Iraq conflict is no exception.
>
>For some African Americans, Iraqi leader Saddam
>Hussein is our brown, Third World brother fighting
>against the forces of racism and white supremacy,
>manifested by President Bush and crew. That view
>belies the truth: for years, perhaps centuries, Arabs
>in the Middle East and Africa have had a white
>supremacy agenda of their own.
>
>Sunni M. Khalid is an African American journalist and
>Muslim who's lived in Egypt and traveled extensively
>in the Middle East. He's commented on the situation
>there and pulls punches about as often as his boxing
>hero, Joe Frazier, did - which is to say not at all.
>
>Seven years ago he found himself on assignment in Iraq
>when he noticed that the principal of a Baghdad
>elementary school looked just like his aunt back home
>in Detroit. After noticing other Iraqis who might be
>considered black here in the states, Khalid asked from
>whence they hailed.
>
>Most said they came from Basra, a town in southern
>Iraq. Africans got to Basra in pretty much the same
>way they arrived in the Americas: on slave ships.
>
>"Basra was the entrepot for Africans who were enslaved
>by the Arabs," Khalid said last week. He estimates
>that 10 to 15 percent of Iraq's population is
>Afro-Arab, but you'd never know it to look at
>Hussein's inner circle of advisors and leaders. Are
>there any? The question was put to Khalid.
>
>"Not at all," he said. Iraqi Afro-Arabs, according to
>Khalid, "have been marginalized like all the other
>people of African descent in the Arab world. The
>treatment that Africans have historically received at
>the hands of Arabs is not very good, especially in the
>last 30 years."
>
>Our "brown Third World brothers" in Arab countries
>haven't got a thing on Bush and Co. in the white
>supremacy department. Khalid remembers living in Cairo
>and talking to Muslims from sub-Saharan African
>countries. "They told me they were stoned, harassed
>and mistreated on the streets of Cairo everyday,"
>Khalid recalled. "They told me they were Muslims in
>spite of the Arabs, not because of the Arabs."
>
>Khalid's wife is a dark-skinned Somali woman. He
>remembers the glares he got from Arab women when he
>took his wife to dinner. (Khalid is a caramel-colored
>African American who looks Arab in the Middle East.)
>One woman even asked how he could shame himself by
>being seen with such a woman.
>
>Similar incidents occurred when his wife went grocery
>shopping. Lighter-skinned women would cut ahead of her
>in line, a practice Mrs.. Khalid ended quickly.
>Khalid's stepfather, a Nubian, was in line at a bank
>one day when a light-skinned Arab walked up beside him
>and was immediately waited on by the teller. "I've
>been going through this my whole life," he told Khalid
>afterwards. White Europeans received more deference
>and better treatment from Arabs than darker Afro-Arabs
>do, Khalid said.
>
>"A lot of African American Muslims don't want to deal
>with that," Khalid said. There is racism in the Arab
>world directed against black people."
>
>It is a racism that closely parallels that practiced
>against blacks in this country. Most, if not all,
>African Americans have had similar run-ins with
>racism, or know someone else who has. While America's
>white media are often chided by African Americans for
>ignoring stories important to blacks, Khalid noticed
>the same thing in the Arab world.
>
>"You can pick up any newspaper in Egypt and there will
>not be one word about the Arab treatment of, and
>genocide against, Africans in the Sudan," Khalid said.
>
>So bash Bush for starting what you may consider an
>unjust war if you must, but spare me the notion that
>Hussein or any other Arab is a Third World brown
>brother.
>
>The history just doesn't support the notion.
>
>
>"...What has been cast abroad is not a thousandth of Our history,
>even if its quality were truth. The people called Our people are
>not the hundredth of Our people. But the haze of this fouled
>world exists to wipe out knowledge of Our way, The Way. These
>mists are here to keep Us lost, the destroyers' easy prey."
>-2000 Seasons, Ayi Kwe Armah
>
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