South Sudan to Declare Independence from Sudan!
Courtesy of cutelildrow and an expansion of my comment to her post in http://cutelildrow.livejournal.com/2271443.html?view=5895635#t5895635 on the comment by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post "To Islam's Dismay, a New (Oil) Nation is born http://opinion.financialpost.com/2010/12/29/lawrence-solomon-to-islams-dismay-a-new-oil-nation-is-born/
Lawrence Solomon says:
In January, the Western world will welcome a new nation, South Sudan. The Islamic world will not. The coming independence of South Sudan, which holds most of the oil in the country now called Sudan, marks a loss of territory and of wealth for the Islamic world. Worse for Islam and Sudan, more losses may follow in black African areas that refused to become Islamicized.
This will especially annoy the Muslims because they ideologically believe that the expansion of Islamic control over territory is not only inevitable, but divinely mandated, and permanent once it has occurred. The independence of South Sudan will mean, if it happens and it is allowed to stand, the beginning of a rollback in the one part of the modern world where Islamic expansion has been unequivocally successful: Africa.
Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is Islamic and Arabic in the north, Christian or animist and black in the south. Following an independence referendum January 9, the black south, an area the size of France, is expected to secede, taking with it 80% of Sudan’s five-billion barrels of oil and thus most of Sudan’s foreign exchange.
And most of the Sudan's ability to support the bloated war machine and fund the terrorist organizations that alone make this arsehole of the planet worth noticing. This cuts both ways: South Sudan, if she seems likely to survive, will have no problem buying weapons for herself, but those Powers which have been arming Sudan have a vested interest in seeing South Sudan crushed because otherwise they may wind up owed money which they will never be able to collect from a country whose only major exports aside from oil are sand and vicious fanaticism.
Under the terms of an existing agreement, the revenue from oil, which is now being piped north through Sudan for export, is being split 50-50 between north and south. But Sudan, which many expect to declare war on South Sudan after the referendum, has good reason to worry that the existing agreement will be scrapped.
To begin with, if there is a war, any oil owed Sudan will be confiscatable as enemy property. Secondly, the chaos of a war will probably interrupt the oil shipments even if neither side wants to do so. Finally, South Sudan quite justifiable hates North Sudan -- the North Sudanese have been conducting slave raids on a massive scale into South Sudanese territory for decades!
For one thing, South Sudan will be building a southeast oil pipeline, through neighbouring Kenya to a port on the ocean. Once built, South Sudanese oil need not flow north through Sudan, and Sudan will lose its ability to take its share. To add to Sudan’s worry, China - Sudan’s chief financier and the destination for 65% of Sudanese oil exports - has reversed its opposition to South Sudan’s independence and is now bidding to build the new pipeline.
And this is a piece of really good news, because it means that, even though America's current lack of a President means that America is unlikely to arm or intervene on the behalf of South Sudan, China's policy implies that she might be willing to do so. Remember, the Chinese only support Muslims (when they do) out of strategic considerations -- it's not as if they actually like them! In fact, historically China and Islam have usually been enemies, where their frontiers have met.
More significantly, the West is hostile to Sudan because of its alliances with Iran and other radical Islamic regimes and because of its atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region. It is the West that engineered South Sudan’s secession by arranging a referendum under UN auspices and it is the West that has secretly helped arm South Sudan. Last week, Russia joined the club of non-Islamic nations aligned against Sudan, reversing its opposition to South Sudan’s independence and, seeing an opportunity for its own oil industry, bringing combat helicopters to South Sudan to help provide the fledgling country with security. Others aiding South Sudan include Christian Kenya, through which most of its arms arrive, Christian Ethiopia, and Israel, which has played an outsized role in establishing South Sudan.
This is one of the best pieces of news from the Third World that I've heard in a long time. Either South Sudan's independence will directly weaken Islam and hearten resistance to Muslims all over Africa, or North Sudan will be embroiled in a long and costly guerilla war which will rob it of any ability to serve as a site for terror-export: hopefully in that case, it might serve as a third "roach motel" (after Afghanistan and Iraq) where "mujehadeen go in, but they don't come out." In any case, Islam loses and the West wins :)
I do expect the usual Leftist idiots in America, including the black ones, to be utterly unconcerned at the spectacle of an Arab nation attempting to conquer a black one to seize land, oil and slaves. Why should they be concerned? They have failed to be concerned about the Arab black slave trade in exactly the same country for the last couple of decades, how would things be different this time around?
Lawrence Solomon says:
In January, the Western world will welcome a new nation, South Sudan. The Islamic world will not. The coming independence of South Sudan, which holds most of the oil in the country now called Sudan, marks a loss of territory and of wealth for the Islamic world. Worse for Islam and Sudan, more losses may follow in black African areas that refused to become Islamicized.
This will especially annoy the Muslims because they ideologically believe that the expansion of Islamic control over territory is not only inevitable, but divinely mandated, and permanent once it has occurred. The independence of South Sudan will mean, if it happens and it is allowed to stand, the beginning of a rollback in the one part of the modern world where Islamic expansion has been unequivocally successful: Africa.
Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is Islamic and Arabic in the north, Christian or animist and black in the south. Following an independence referendum January 9, the black south, an area the size of France, is expected to secede, taking with it 80% of Sudan’s five-billion barrels of oil and thus most of Sudan’s foreign exchange.
And most of the Sudan's ability to support the bloated war machine and fund the terrorist organizations that alone make this arsehole of the planet worth noticing. This cuts both ways: South Sudan, if she seems likely to survive, will have no problem buying weapons for herself, but those Powers which have been arming Sudan have a vested interest in seeing South Sudan crushed because otherwise they may wind up owed money which they will never be able to collect from a country whose only major exports aside from oil are sand and vicious fanaticism.
Under the terms of an existing agreement, the revenue from oil, which is now being piped north through Sudan for export, is being split 50-50 between north and south. But Sudan, which many expect to declare war on South Sudan after the referendum, has good reason to worry that the existing agreement will be scrapped.
To begin with, if there is a war, any oil owed Sudan will be confiscatable as enemy property. Secondly, the chaos of a war will probably interrupt the oil shipments even if neither side wants to do so. Finally, South Sudan quite justifiable hates North Sudan -- the North Sudanese have been conducting slave raids on a massive scale into South Sudanese territory for decades!
For one thing, South Sudan will be building a southeast oil pipeline, through neighbouring Kenya to a port on the ocean. Once built, South Sudanese oil need not flow north through Sudan, and Sudan will lose its ability to take its share. To add to Sudan’s worry, China - Sudan’s chief financier and the destination for 65% of Sudanese oil exports - has reversed its opposition to South Sudan’s independence and is now bidding to build the new pipeline.
And this is a piece of really good news, because it means that, even though America's current lack of a President means that America is unlikely to arm or intervene on the behalf of South Sudan, China's policy implies that she might be willing to do so. Remember, the Chinese only support Muslims (when they do) out of strategic considerations -- it's not as if they actually like them! In fact, historically China and Islam have usually been enemies, where their frontiers have met.
More significantly, the West is hostile to Sudan because of its alliances with Iran and other radical Islamic regimes and because of its atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region. It is the West that engineered South Sudan’s secession by arranging a referendum under UN auspices and it is the West that has secretly helped arm South Sudan. Last week, Russia joined the club of non-Islamic nations aligned against Sudan, reversing its opposition to South Sudan’s independence and, seeing an opportunity for its own oil industry, bringing combat helicopters to South Sudan to help provide the fledgling country with security. Others aiding South Sudan include Christian Kenya, through which most of its arms arrive, Christian Ethiopia, and Israel, which has played an outsized role in establishing South Sudan.
This is one of the best pieces of news from the Third World that I've heard in a long time. Either South Sudan's independence will directly weaken Islam and hearten resistance to Muslims all over Africa, or North Sudan will be embroiled in a long and costly guerilla war which will rob it of any ability to serve as a site for terror-export: hopefully in that case, it might serve as a third "roach motel" (after Afghanistan and Iraq) where "mujehadeen go in, but they don't come out." In any case, Islam loses and the West wins :)
I do expect the usual Leftist idiots in America, including the black ones, to be utterly unconcerned at the spectacle of an Arab nation attempting to conquer a black one to seize land, oil and slaves. Why should they be concerned? They have failed to be concerned about the Arab black slave trade in exactly the same country for the last couple of decades, how would things be different this time around?