Resistance is futile: Islam for Africans is like being assimilated by the Borg*

What an fascinating article and there’s surely even more at stake than Arab politcal hypocrisy versus African national unity. There’s more at stake than Arabs running guns, gems and drugs through the continent to prop up the Palestinians and other non-African regimes.

What's also at stake is the noticeable black tide that is washing down through Africa as the “Arab world” attempts to homogenise or assimilate African peoples with Islam and smother the myriad customs and languages. Reactionary Islam of course represents a kind of "unity" but it looks a lot more like "uniformity" and a social characteristic alien to Africa.

During Easter at a music festival in Byron Bay, I noted that each (mostly female) African performer appeared and sang with (stated) national pride and triumph to the loud appreciative cheers of the audience. They shook their hair at us, hailed us in their language and danced vigorously wearing loud, patterned, beautiful and very womanly, but not at all (what has been offensively termed by some proponents of this religion) “modest” clothing.

NOT ONE PERFORMER I saw would have been applauded by the new Borg in Africa. Not one.

The Africa that shrank under (“pre-colonial”…ha) days (The Economist magazine this year stated Arab slave traders sold - i.e., captured and took money for- the lives of 14 million slaves shipped to Brazil and USA). The Sudan still has slavery, Brazil and the USA do not.

This same Africa that so nearly collapsed later under French, Germans, English, Russians and Catholics is being smashed for good under the horrible hollow heel of fascism.

Africa is heading straight for the cultural cul-de-sac of the middle east. Persia is not what it used to be, see images of the glorious, traditional Iranian costumes if you need comparison with today's sad shrouds. Poor Ozymandias.

Unity would be good for Somaliland, but uniformity? Well, that's a completely different ideology and it’s being beaten into bits of Africa right now, just ask the Africans heading from The Sudan.

* look up wikipedia

Great article. Perhaps i missed a nuance, but why is the 'coalition of the willing' not arming these people to the hilt, investing in the country, and helping them shore up their democracy? If we're really interested in promoting it around the world, this is the kind of thing we should be looking to.

Great article, but; why would Saudi Arabia care?
After all, they are funding it.
I wonder why they do nothing, or say nothing, and that is our Governments, so Saudi is not alone in that department. But Saudi: The Elites of Muhammadism. They are the ones on Islamic Jihad, not Westerners. Their minds have been totally lobotomized. The new World metaphysics takes president over reality. You should know that.