Home
In this issue
Nov. 25, 2009
Daniel Pipes: Islamism 2.0
JWisdom.com: No God … No You! Know God, Know You! with Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer (8 minutes)
Nov. 24, 2009
Rabbi Avi Shafran : The Atheists' unintended gift
JWisdom.com: You are a Philanthropist with Aliza Bulow (5 minutes)
Nov. 23, 2009
JWisdom.com: Actually, it really is all about you with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
Nov. 20, 2009
Rabbi David Aaron: How to make every second of your life come first
Caroline B. Glick: Whither American Jewry
Nov. 19, 2009
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Please Listen to this Godcast (5 minutes)
Jonathan Tobin: ADL Crosses the Line with Report Bashing Obama Critics
Nov. 18, 2009
Rabbi Yonason Goldson: What Judaism has to say about the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile
JWisdom.com: The (Jewish) Dating Game with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff (8 minutes)
Nov. 17, 2009
Steven Emerson: How Does the 4th Amendment Impact Terror Finance Investigations?
JWisdom.com: If Frank Sinatra married Edith Piaf with Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein (2 minutes) Life lessons from what would be regarded as the most inappropriate lyrics ever sung
Nov. 16, 2009
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : When borrowing is stealing
JWisdom.com: Deconstructing faith with Rabbi Warren Goldstein (9 minutes)
Nov. 13, 2009
JWisdom.com Sarah's subjective reality with Rabbi Sroy Levitansky ( 6 minutes)
Caroline B. Glick: Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
Nov. 12, 2009
The Kosher Gourmet By Marialisa Calta : A sweet sweet potato treat
JWisdom.com Does God get tired? with Rabbi Harvey Belovski ( 5 minutes)
Nov. 11, 2009
Rabbi Avi Shafran: Jews and money: When anti-Semitism isn't
JWisdom.com Marriages are not made in Heaven with Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff (VERY fast 15 minutes)
Nov. 10, 2009
Michael Doyle: Author of book exposing CAIR ordered to remove supporting documents from Web
JWisdom.com If the creation so loudly shouts the existence of the Creator, why aren't more people believers? with Rabbi Naftali Brawer (9 minutes)
Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Jewish World Review April 8, 2007 / 20 Nissan, 5767

Darfur: Where are America's feminists?

By Nat Hentoff


Printer Friendly Version
Email this article

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The proudly sovereign National Islamic Front government of Sudan will not turn over to the International Criminal Court any of the suspects wanted by the ICC for questioning on the government's continuing genocide in Darfur. President Gen. Omar al-Bashir says Sudan is conducting its own investigation; and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Al-Samani Al-Wasleea (Sudan Tribune, March 25), assures the world that the Sudanese judicial system is one of the best in Africa.


Let's look at the Sudanese judicial system as it handles the cases of two black African women from Darfur — Saadiyah al-Fadel and Umounah Daldoum. Both are from Darfur's Tama tribe and were working as farm laborers in central Sudan. Both have been sentenced to death by stoning.


Both women have been convicted of adultery and, waiting for execution, they are now held (reports the Juba Post and Sudan Tribune) in Wad Medani prison. One of the condemned women has her 18-month-old daughter with her. (Presumably, the child will not also be stoned to death, but it is uncertain as to what will become of her.)


The Sudanese justice system, of which the genocidal President Al-Bashir boasts, authorizes Islamic Sharia law, which stipulates death by stoning for adultery.


According to the Associated Press (March 22), Faisal al-Bagir of the Khartoum-based Sudan Organization Against Torture, says the women's trials were unfair — under the justice system Gen. Al-Bashir asks us to trust to deal, on its own, with crimes that might have been committed in Darfur, by forces other than his "innocent" government. "There were no defense lawyers," explains Faisal al-Bagir, "and the trial proceedings were in Arabic, a language the defendants do not understand." (Their male partners will not be punished.)


Both women have confessed to adultery, but it is unclear how the confessions were obtained. The two women, sentenced last year, await the throttling hand of Gen. Al-Bashir's justice. Both women, the Sudan Tribune reported on March 15, "are in bad condition and are suffering psychologically due to the harsh judgment passed on them."


Where is the National Organization for Women? Where are such feminist icons as Gloria Steinem? Are not the repeatedly brutally raped black women of Darfur their sisters? Will American feminists not try to stop the stoning to death of Saadiyah al-Fadel and Umounah Daldoum?


Or will there at least be a vigil when these women are dead at the hand of Gen. Al-Bashir? Or do most American males and females not give a damn about the walking-dead survivors in Darfur — so far away and so black?


Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported (March 8) that U.N. Human Rights head Louise Arbour charged that the mass rapes of women in Darfur have not abated. On International Women's Day in The Hague, Arbour noted that Darfur women in refugee camps "are forced to go out of the camp to collect firewood. They believe, they tell us, that if the men went out they would be killed, and that's why it's the women who expose themselves, and they get raped.


"These women," Arbour continued, "have children from these rapes — children to whom they cannot give a name because they're the children of the Janjaweed (rapists)." The monstrous, murderous Arab Janjaweed are Gen. Al-Bashir's militia. Along with Sudanese army soldiers and helicopters, the Janjaweed have also killed many thousands of black African men in Darfur and burned out the villages. Children have also been raped, and there have been reports of children tossed into the flames by laughing members of the Janjaweed.



BUY THE BOOK …


at a discount
by clicking HERE.


By now, there have been many reports in the American press on what U.N. officials ritualistically — and accurately — describe as "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world." In a newly released book, "The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur", co-author Brian Steidle, a former captain in the Marine Corps, details what he witnessed as a military observer for the African Union in Darfur.


He tells of a 1-year-old, Mihad Hamid, who had been shot in the back as her mother was running from Government of Sudan troops: "The child had gaping entry and exit wounds that accentuated her struggle to breathe."


"The Devil Came on Horseback" ends with questions: "What nation can allow genocide to continue? What person can turn their back on the victims of such hatred? When the genocide in Darfur has ended, what will you say you did to stop it?"

Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here.


Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights and author of several books, including his current work, "The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance". Comment by clicking here.

Nat Hentoff Archives

© 2006, NEA

Insight (Our Columnists)

 Arnold Ahlert
 Mitch Albom
 Michael Barone
  Dave Barry
 Tony Blankley
 Andy Borowitz
 David Broder
 Stratfor Briefing
 Mona Charen
 Linda Chavez
 Ann Coulter
 Greg Crosby
 Larry Elder
 Suzanne Fields
 John Fund
 Frank J. Gaffney
 Lloyd Garver
 Jonah Goldberg
 Julia Gorin
 Jonathan Gurwitz
 Paul Greenberg
 Lewis Grossberger
 Victor Davis Hanson
 Betsy Hart
 Nat Hentoff
 David Horowitz
 Laura Ingraham
 Cheri Jacobus
Jeff Jacoby
 Paul Johnson
 Jack Kelly
 Ed Koch
 Ch. Krauthammer
 Michael Ledeen
 John Leo
 David Limbaugh
 Kathryn Lopez
 Rich Lowry
 Michelle Malkin
 Jackie Mason
 Dick Morris
 Bill O'Reilly
 Jim Mullen
 Clarence Page
 Kathleen Parker
 Dennis Prager
 Wesley Pruden
 Tom Purcell
 Jonathan Rauch
 Celia Rivenbark
 Robert Robb
 Cokie & Steve Roberts
 Pat Sajak
 Debra J. Saunders
 Culture Shlock
 Roger Simon
 Michael Smerconish
 Thomas Sowell
 Mark Steyn
 John Stossel
 Cal Thomas
 Bob Tyrrell
 Diana West
 Dave Weinbaum
 George Will
 Walter Williams
 Byron York
 Mort Zuckerman

'Toons
 Robert Arial
 Chuck Asay
 Baloo
 Chip Bok
 Dry Bones
  Lisa Benson
 John Branch
 Gary Brookins
 John Cole
 J. D. Crowe
 John Deering
 Brian Duffy
 Everything's Relative
 Mallard Fillmore
 Jake Fuller
 Bob Gorrel
 Joe Heller
 David Hitch
 Jerry Holber
 Steve Kelley
 Jeff Koterba
 Dick Locher
 Chan Lowe
 Ranan R. Lurie
 Jimmy Margulies
 Rick McKee
 Michael Ramirez
 Kevin Siers
 Jeff Stahler
 Ed Stein
 Danna Summers
 John Trever
 Gary Varvel
 Kirk Walters

Lifestyles
 How 2
 Lori Borgman
 The Savvy Consumer
 Elder matters
 Fixit
 Dr. Peter Gott
 GET A JOB! by Marty Nemko
 Richard Lederer
 Tech Maven
 Every Monday Matters
 Nutrition Myths
 Bookmark These
 Bruce Williams
 How Stuff Works