Sudan's Interlocking Crises (VIDEO)

Days after the release of the Obama administration's new Sudan policy, I appeared on Aljazeera yesterday afternoon with Tahir el-Faky of the Darfuri rebel group Justice and Equality Movement and Mahmood Mamdani, director of Columbia University's Institute of African Studies. We discussed the new "carrots and sticks" policy, the use of the word genocide, and the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir issued by International Criminal Court for crimes in Darfur. Here's Part I:

Part II is here, in which we take questions from viewers.

John Norris is Executive Director of Enough, the anti-genocide project at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

 

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"Islam is in its origins an Arab religion. Everyone not an Arab who is a Muslim is a convert. Islam is not simply a matter of conscience or private belief. It makes imperial demands. A convert's worldview alters. His holy places are in Arab lands; his sacred language is Arabic. His idea of history alters. He rejects his own; he becomes, whether he likes it or not, a part of the Arab story...
The disturbance for societies is immense, and even after a thousand years can remain unresolved; the turning away has to be done again and again. People develop fantasies about who and what they are; and in the Islam of the converted countries there is an element of neurosis and nihilism. These countries can be easily set on the boil."

Sir V.S Naipaul, Nobel Prize winner
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
Published by Random House, 1998