Category: Sudan

  • Winston Churchill’s sister-in-law urged him not to convert to Islam

    Winston Churchill’s sister-in-law urged him not to convert to Islam

    British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (AFP Photo/Cpt Tanner, No 2 Army Film and Photographic Unit)
    British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (AFP Photo/Cpt Tanner, No 2 Army Film and Photographic Unit)

    Sir Winston Churchill’s family begged him to “fight against” the desire to convert to Islam, according to a newly-discovered letter.

    “Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to orientalise, Pasha-like tendencies, I really have, the letter from Churchill’s future sister-in-law, dated August 1907, says, the Independent reported.

    “If you come into contact with Islam your conversion might be effected with greater ease than you might have supposed, call of the blood, don’t you know what I mean, do fight against it,” Lady Gwendoline Bertie, who was soon to marry Churchill’s brother Jack, added.

    The letter was found by a historian at Cambridge University, Warren Dockter, while he was researching for his book ‘Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East’.

    The former UK prime minister was greatly interested in Islam and oriental culture, but “never seriously considered converting,” Dockter told the paper.

    Churchill in military uniform, 1895. (Image from Wikipedia/the Imperial War Museum)
    Churchill in military uniform, 1895. (Image from Wikipedia/the Imperial War Museum)

    “He was more or less an atheist by this time anyway. He did however have a fascination with Islamic culture, which was common among Victorians,” he added.

    Churchill became acquainted with Islamic culture during his army service in Sudan, and was greatly taken with it.

    The researcher noted the possible reason behind the letter, and that those close to Churchill needn’t have been worried. He may have been a great admirer of the culture, but was also critical in his views on Islamic society.

    “The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men,” Churchill wrote in 1899 of his experience in Sudan.

    Russia Today (UK), 29 December 2014

  • Turkey wants to mediate between Sudan and South Sudan – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan

    Turkey wants to mediate between Sudan and South Sudan – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan

    December 29, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese foreign minister Ali Ahmed Karti said that Turkey presented a proposal to resolve the disputed issues between Sudan and South Sudan.

    In statements to the Turkish Anadolu Agency in Ankara, Karti said that Turkey offered proposals to solve the outstanding issues between Sudan and South Sudan.

    “Turkey is playing an active role to solve our problems with South Sudan and is helping us. Turkey offered proposals to solve the dispute between Sudan and South Sudan,” Karti said.

    “Turkey could play a crucial role in this regard,” he further said without elaborating on the details of this proposals.

    Ethiopian PM was this week in Khartoum and Juba where he discussed the implementation of the Cooperation Agreement the two countries signed last September with the presidents Omer Al-Bashir and Salva Kiir.

    He invited them to meet during the upcoming days in Addis Ababa. The presidential summit is also expected to discuss the issue of Abyei region.

    The Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutolu told the press that : “We have agreed in principle to mediate between Juba and Khartoum and improve the ties between the two countries.”

    Norway, Turkey and United Kingdom are supposed to organise an international conference to support Sudan’s ailing economy after the independence of South Sudan.

    The Sudan Economic Conference which was planned to take place last March in Istanbul was cancelled as the United States and its Western allies declined to participate demanding to resolve South Kordofan crisis first.

    Turkish investment in Sudan totals about $200 million and is mainly in steel, cement, PVC manufacturing, grain import and export, furniture, textiles, and home appliances.

    Turkish companies are also building $300 million worth of infrastructure projects.

    Turkey i also showed its interest to take part in the developments of the newly independent South Sudan.

    South Sudanese foreign minister Nhial Deng Nhial, Minister of Foreign paid an official visit to Turkey on 23 November 2012.

    He reviewed bilateral relations with Trukish foreign minister Ahmet Davutolu and the two parties agreed to increase high level mutual visits and to hold regular political consultations.

    (ST)

    via Turkey wants to mediate between Sudan and South Sudan – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan.

  • Turkey Donates $50M for Nyala Hospital

    Turkey Donates $50M for Nyala Hospital

    Khartoum – The Minister of Finance and National Economy has reiterated its commitment to indigenizing medical treatment.

    29d1780e 1b92 5cf6The Minister of Finance Ali Mahmoud while meeting at his office a delegation from the Ministry of Health and International Cooperation Organization, pledged to consider best ways to operate Nyala hospital constructed at $50million dollars donated by Turkey.

    He commended Turkey’s efforts to support health sector in the country, the hospital which was established according international standards aims to serve efforts to indigenize medication reduce burden of cost of treatment overseas for the residents of the state. Mahmoud expected that the hospital will also provide services to neighboring countries.

    Bahar Abu Girda, a doctor, announced that construction of the buildings of the hospital and installment of equipment was finished, expecting the hospital will be operational two days, adding that the Turkish prime minister will grace the event after signing a protocol between ministries of health in the countries. Girda said operation would start with joint staff from both sides for a period of five years to exchange experience before the hospital is handed over to Sudan.

    The Turkish side is committed to supply more than half of operation costs for said period and contribute along with the administration of the hospital to provide qualified medical personnel for the agreed upon period of five years.

    via Sudan Vision Daily – Details.

  • KUNA : Turkey denounces recent air strike on Sudan – Politics – 27/10/2012

    KUNA : Turkey denounces recent air strike on Sudan – Politics – 27/10/2012

    ISTANBUL, Oct 27 (KUNA) — Turkey condemned on Saturday a recent air strike that targeted a weapons plant in the Khartoum region.

    Anatolian News Agency, citing a Foreign Ministry statement, said Ankara “strongly denounces the bombing of the Sudanese plant that killed two persons and inflicted massive damage.

    Turkey “awaits revelation of identity of culprits of this attack,” the official statement said, re-affirming support for Sudan.

    Sudanese officials accused Israeli Air Force of staging the attack on the factory for manufacturing weapons and ammunition, and vowed to retaliate in kind.

    Tel Aviv has remained tightlipped regarding the strike, the third of its kind on targets on Sudanese territories.

    In April 2011, Sudan accused Israel of being behind a mysterious air raid against a vehicle that killed two people in Port Sudan. A similar attack was carried out on a weapons convoy in eastern Sudan in January 2009. (end) ta.rk KUNA 271122 Oct 12NNNN

    via KUNA : Turkey denounces recent air strike on Sudan – Politics – 27/10/2012.

  • Istanbul conference on Sudan economy postponed till March 2012 – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan

    Istanbul conference on Sudan economy postponed till March 2012 – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan

    November 1, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese and Turkish governments agreed to reschedule an international conference that was due to take place next month till March 2012 to allow maximum participation by countries.

    Sudan foreign minister Ali Karti made the announcement during his meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Sudan today.

    According to foreign ministry spokesperson Al-Obaid Marawih, some countries asked for postponement as the original date is too difficult to honour.

    The conference is meant to discuss Sudan’s economy after the oil-rich south became an independent country in July. As a result Sudan has lost its largest source of revenue, as well as hard currency.

    The Norwegian ambassador to Khartoum, Jens-Petter Kjemprud, said last October that Sudan will present to the conference its plan to tackle the economic crisis resulting from the south’s secession which will focus on diversifying its economy and investment sources.

    Kjemprud further said that Sudan will explain how it will go about about developing agriculture, metallurgy, infrastructure, energy, and increase production in the fields of oil, fisheries and livestock to bring in more hard currency and attract more investment.

    The Norwegian diplomat however stressed that this is not a donors’ conference, adding that more than 60 countries have been invited along with United Nations agencies and international financial bodies.

    Sudan is lobbying the international community for debt relief to write off close to $40 billion in loans that date back as far as the ’80’s.

    Last September, Karti said that world could not simply stand back and watch the country’s economy collapse.

    Sudan’s finance minister has said the country may need as much as $1.5 billion of foreign aid a year and plans to slash government spending by a quarter due to budget difficulties.

    The governor of the central bank also called on Arab states to deposit around $4 billion in his institution and other Sudanese commercial banks.

    (ST)

    via Istanbul conference on Sudan economy postponed till March 2012 – Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan.

  • Libya and Syria: The Neocon Plan to Attack Seven Countries in Five Years

    Libya and Syria: The Neocon Plan to Attack Seven Countries in Five Years

    Kurt Nimmo

    In the video below, former four star general and NATO commander Wesley Clark talks about the neocon plan to invade seven countries in five years. Included in the plan was an attack on Libya. Clark mentions the plan at two minutes, 26 seconds into the video.

    The video was recorded on October 3, 2007, at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

    Clark’s revelation is nothing new, although it reminds us that the attack on Libya fits into a larger context and there are horrific conflicts to come if the globalists have their way.

    Following the election of Obama and a reshuffling of the same old deck in Congress in 2008, it was believed the bad old days of neocon wars were finally behind us. Obama said he would close down the wars and bring home the troops. Instead, he intensified the effort to spread chaos, mayhem and mass murder in the Middle East and South Asia, thus underscoring the fact there is absolutely no difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to creative destruction (it is telling that the neocon Michael Leeden has used the term – creative destruction is a Marxist concept).

    Clark has talked about the neocon plan on several occasions. He said the following during a speech at the University of Alabama in October of 2006, recounting a conversation with a general at the Pentagon:

    I said, “Are we still going to invade Iraq?” “Yes, Sir,” he said, “but it’s worse than that.” I said, “How do you mean?” He held up this piece of paper. He said, “I just got this memo today or yesterday from the office of the Secretary of Defense upstairs. It’s a… five-year plan. We’re going to take down seven countries in five years. We’re going to start with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, then Libya, Somalia, Sudan, we’re going to come back and get Iran in five years. I said, “Is that classified, that paper?” He said, “Yes Sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me, because I want to be able to talk about it.”

    The neocons, of course, are merely one of a number of establishment factions, all of them reading from the same script. Obama’s attack on Libya and the impending attack on Syria under the ruse popularly known as the “Arab Spring” (pushed by elite NGOs and the CIA) is interchangeable with the Bush regime’s call to action against the Axis of Evil. The only difference between Democrat Obama and the (supposedly) Republican neocons (who have roots in Trotskyism) is that the neocons are decidedly Israeli-centric in their geopolitical stance.

    The global elite do not care about Israel or any other nation-state, but are not above using the neocons – who are highly organized and motivated (despite propaganda depicting them as inept) – in their quest to destroy Arab and Muslim nationalism that directly threatens their drive for hegemonic rule (in particular, Sharia law with its restrictions on banking poses a threat to the banksters).

    Syria is the next target followed by the big Kahuna, Iran. For the globalists, who are determined to wreck all nation-states and eradicate national sovereignty and borders, the fact this effort will precipitate the destruction of the “world’s policeman,” the United States, is an extra added bonus.

    Multiple wars in multiple and far-stretched “theaters” will ultimately bankrupt the United States, as Ron Paul and a handful of others have warned. Obama has made if perfectly clear that the U.S. will not leave Iraq and Afghanistan and plans to continue attacking Pakistan and failed states in Africa where the CIA cut-out al-Qaeda has appeared on cue.

    Wesley Clark’s warning is prescient, but nearly a decade too late. Clark is, at best,disingenuous because he himself a war criminal for the role he played in the slaughter of civilians in Yugoslavia.

    www.infowars.com, September 2, 2011