Islamofascism, Not Islam, is the Problem

Today's Washington Post contains a heartbreaking story on the desperation and hopelessness of one Sudanese family living in that country's Darfur region. Like every conflict in Africa, the reasons for the violence are often unclear, but Emily Wax's piece is one of the first to explain it:

"The forced exodus is part of a wider, government-backed effort to remove Africans from their land and give nomadic Arabs, who are allied with the Arab-dominated Khartoum government, more room to graze their cattle, according to the United Nations and human rights advocates. A drought has dried the Arabs' land, and they are pushing farther south, into traditional African territory."

Most readers of this blog know the Khartoum-based government harbored Usama bin-Laden during the 1990s, and there is no doubt that the same forces and principles of Islamofascism are at root in driving African Muslims out of their homes in Darfur. I'll admit exasperation at times for President Bush's constant refrain that the United States is not fighting Islam, as all too often it appears that we are fighting a way of life and ideology that we either don't understand or with which we vehemently disagree. Yet, it was a Muslim prayer for the dead recited in Wax's article, that offers hope that we can and will find common ground with those Muslims who are suffering under the failed ideology of Islamofascism:

"God bless them. Take their souls to paradise. Keep them among good people."

And that's our aim in the Middle East -- to decipher between the good and bad people and send the bad ones to hell. I am convinced the next stop is Khartoum, where these Islamofascists have been responsible for not just one civil war in Africa, but three:

1) Systematic extermination and displacement of African Muslims in Darfur;
2) Attempted annihilation of Christians in the South; and
3) Financial and military support of the Lord's Liberation Army in Uganda.

May God bring hope and peace to Sudan and Uganda.