And here were these Black Americans, these willing tools, heaping praise on an unsavory clique of ruling thugs. Press junkets to the Sudan are just that, tools used to obfuscate the issues and provide information tailored to sooth consciences hungry for an excuse not to enter this difficult struggle. All information must be disabused so that Black Americans regardless of whether they are Muslim or Christian, Republican or Democrat can make intelligent and conscience grounded decisions on the slavery question. Slavery is an irrefutable fact, corroborated by numerous sources such as a year-long investigation by Newsweek magazine that slavery of Black African Muslims has existed and continues to exist in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Eyewitness accounts, testimony by slaves, pictures and documentation abounds on this subject.
Slavery is fact in Sudan and just as in Mauritania it is racial in nature.
The Sudanese and the Mauritanians are not against the Arab as a man, nor against Islam as a religion. The Mauritanians are struggling against being enslaved, because of their Black skin by Arabs who worship Allah as they do. Mohamed Nacir Athea, a Black African Muslim, exemplifies the pain of that type of struggle. Mohamed does not view the enslavers of Mauritania and Sudan as true representatives of Islam, and therefore, refuses to allow their actions to destroy his relationship with Islam. The South Sudanese are against slavery, Arabization, and Islamization.