I have just learned that a member of the Nubian Forum was arrested for unkown reasons. word on the Forum is: on the 6th of this month, several topics by Mr. Abdul-Hakim Al-Mahasy were deleted mysteriously, calling his cellphone which was off, then calling his brother who told the Forum members that Abdul-Hakim was arrested by the Intelligence and Security Agency. and it seems they somehow got Abdul-Hakim's password and deleted the topics and articles.
this is all i know for now, I'll try to post more info later, and i'll try to get the deleted topics, i'm sure they're about the ICC.
i'm so furious right now, grrr .
Sunday, March 8, 2009
My Reaction to RCC
Salam all, Drima posted asking fellow Sudanese Bloggers to post links for their reaction on the ICC's warrent against Al-Bashir . I'm on my final exams these days so I'm not going to post something big this time, but I found these funny cartoons by the Sudanese cartoonist Omer Dafa'allah, I will try to translate them in a sec, and come back later to post what I think about this.
I have plenty to say about this just like millions of Sudanese citizens from both sides, those who support Al-Bashir, and those who support the ICC (to those who support Al-Bashir there's no such thing as ICC it's only the "jew", "pig" "playboy" Ocampo, and they're taking it in a personal way that just sickening). there's also those who wants to see justice brought to Sudan but they don't want it to be brought by the ICC and the ones behind it, one can't deny there are people behind this move and who benefit from its "consequences". consequences, that is a scary word to most of us Sudanese when it comes to this decision. Kizan (= Sudanese people call NCP's regime members' Kizan and it translates to cups or buckets, its singular is pronounced "Koz", it's said that Hassan Al-Turabi, the NCP's godfather have created this phrase back in the 80's or 70's I don't remember, when he stated that "Islam is a sea, and we are the cups/kizan that draw from it", yeah right. anyways. Kizan are trying to make us believe that there will be chaos and madness if Omer was arrested, they tend to repeat that the ICC's goal is "Creative Chaos" and they work to convince the Sudanese masses that if you do not support Omer Al-Bashir, you are a spy and a puppet of the enemies, which is Ocampu, USA, jews, blah blah. I gotta run now, lemme past them pictures first with simple translations.
The sign says: Omer Al-Bashir's House, and the two women are his wifes. one of them is saying "If you only knew how kind Omer is, but sons of bitches got to him, made a president of him and a stupid goat".
- Kizan leaves Al-Basjir for himself against ICC. The Koz holding a bag of money is urging UN and ICC to be easy with the man for his so scared of them, the UN is urging ICC to catch him.
the sign says "The Islamic Hole to hide the Symbol of sovereignty and Patriotism", fat Koz is saying "We rather live under ground than over, we don't care about ICC". -this expression "Under ground is better to us than the surface is also a Kizan invention, from the Civil War days, I forgot who said it though.
Omer Al-Bashir holding his shoe yelling "dog, coward, playboy", and two men looking, one is obviously high on Bango (sudanese slang for Marijuana) saying "Man, seems he went nuts", I didn't finish translation of his line cuz i'm not sure what it means, but if it's what I think it is then LMAO, it's funny lideeeeen. so, sudanese visitors, whatta you think he means by "shari7a"?
Salam out
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tribalism Vs. Statism
Last night I went to a police station to file a report against some "Al Nizam Al3am" recruites who arrested me for "buying alcohol" (A Nizam Ala'am=Puplic Order, which is a police department responsible for "fighting moral crimes", like alcohol, drugs, sex, etc, and they are SOB's I tell you), well, me and a friend did buy a bottle of alcohol, but my friend who was holding it jumbed off the Raksha (click to see what a Raksha is) and he ran like he never ran before lol, I was "roughed" around and threatened by a piece of bango/marijuana if I don't make my friend come back with the bottle, in the end they let me go.. anyways, that's not the issue. the issue is I wanted to avenge for wasting my time so bad I decided to go to the Police Station myself and find these suckers, I memorized the car's plate numbers and took another Raksha.
at the station I was asked for my name, age, address, and "my tribe". the policeman who was asking me these questions was a western sudanese. I told him I can't answer this question cuz it's not relevant to my case. but he insisted it because it's "procedures". I couldn't understand how asking me about my tribe is procedure!
but as I tried to describe the dudes who arrested me i couldn't help but to reffer to one of them as "wad 3arab" (=son of an arab). i felt bad for using this stupid description so I added the pharase "you know, as THEY say, he was a wad 3arab/arab".
and I thought about "THEY" for a minute, THEY is obviously the ones who find benefit in such discrimination, the benefit is mostly political of course, but most of the times it is mere Pride. THEY find comfort in being proud of who THEY are, or in fact, what THEIR tribe is. the same western policeman told me "this will never change", and "sudan will remain racist forever". i don't think this is racism, this is more like an attempt to fulfil one's pride in one's self. i don't think this can be "changed" or removed, but it can be directed in a better way, instead of classifying sudanese people on the basis of their tribe, why not do so on the basis of their city, state, or home town, if sudanese people learned to be proud in who they really are, Sudanese, and replaced the need for tribalism as a method for pride fulfilment, we would have a much better Sudan.
I want the next presidenid to try and make everyone proud of where he was born, make one proud of the land not the people/tribes who once dwelled this land. every sudanese state/region has its own unique culture, use this as way to fulfil people's pride with. why should all states have to teach the same subjects in schools, let every state teach its own history for example, so the children grow with pride in their land no matter what the tribes they came from are. but when you teach everyone about "great" muslim and "arab" men, our peoblem will never be solved.
i have to go now, oh, don't mind the topic's title, it's meaningless lol
peace
and yeah, our weekend was not completely ruined after all, we went out again and bought another bottle from a place right next to the Police Station :D
at the station I was asked for my name, age, address, and "my tribe". the policeman who was asking me these questions was a western sudanese. I told him I can't answer this question cuz it's not relevant to my case. but he insisted it because it's "procedures". I couldn't understand how asking me about my tribe is procedure!
but as I tried to describe the dudes who arrested me i couldn't help but to reffer to one of them as "wad 3arab" (=son of an arab). i felt bad for using this stupid description so I added the pharase "you know, as THEY say, he was a wad 3arab/arab".
and I thought about "THEY" for a minute, THEY is obviously the ones who find benefit in such discrimination, the benefit is mostly political of course, but most of the times it is mere Pride. THEY find comfort in being proud of who THEY are, or in fact, what THEIR tribe is. the same western policeman told me "this will never change", and "sudan will remain racist forever". i don't think this is racism, this is more like an attempt to fulfil one's pride in one's self. i don't think this can be "changed" or removed, but it can be directed in a better way, instead of classifying sudanese people on the basis of their tribe, why not do so on the basis of their city, state, or home town, if sudanese people learned to be proud in who they really are, Sudanese, and replaced the need for tribalism as a method for pride fulfilment, we would have a much better Sudan.
I want the next presidenid to try and make everyone proud of where he was born, make one proud of the land not the people/tribes who once dwelled this land. every sudanese state/region has its own unique culture, use this as way to fulfil people's pride with. why should all states have to teach the same subjects in schools, let every state teach its own history for example, so the children grow with pride in their land no matter what the tribes they came from are. but when you teach everyone about "great" muslim and "arab" men, our peoblem will never be solved.
i have to go now, oh, don't mind the topic's title, it's meaningless lol
peace
and yeah, our weekend was not completely ruined after all, we went out again and bought another bottle from a place right next to the Police Station :D
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Shadia Mansour
the palestinian singer and rapper Shadia Mansour is a real talented artist, one minute she's singing like Fayrooz, the next she's spitting rap like no other arab rapper. she's simply amazing. it's been only three days since I listened to her with Mahmoud Jrere (from DAM) on this amazing song "Badi Salam" (I want peace).
cheak her tracks on her Myspace: www.myspace.com/shadiamusic
cheak her tracks on her Myspace: www.myspace.com/shadiamusic
All is War
Fun-da-mental -- All Is War album which caused a media frenzy is now in video form.The video shows the three bombmakers, an anarchist bomb maker who shows how with a small amount of money he can craete chaos. An intellectual, academic and educated renegade who for a certain amount of money is willing to deal his secrets to the highest bidder.The most interesting is the last one who is sponsered by the majority of the general public from their taxes and works on our behalf through the Govts or States to make the most horrific bombs(in killing ability).The track questions the morality of an acceptable and legal bomber and one that is working for other purposes.In this day of "War On Terror" all common sense and justice seems to be a monoply to those who are the most wealthy and most hypocritical, those that cause most mischeif and feel that they have the sole and moral right to muder people.. Madness all of it...video & tracks downlaods from www.fun-da-mental.co.uk
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
It's Palestine Under Attack you hypocrite fuck
Yes, it has been under attack since 1948, and I hate how the media tend to neglect this, Gaza strip is a piece ripped from the homeland of Palestinians, and yes dear, i'm one of them who believe that the so-called state of Israel shouldn't exist, but that's another story ..
I'm not going to talk about the brutality of the Israeli war machine, the pictures are everywhere and they speak for their self, and the lies coming out of Israeli officials are so fat noone would miss, even the "Israeli" citizens who are human beings unlike their leaders, are against this war, xpt maybe those who love to tell themselfs lies, and the families of those who died under Hamas rockets.
I saw this girl the other day who lost her two legs, and she was smiling while telling the story of her injuries, how she was on the roof with her brothers and cousins when an explosion took place and next thing she was in the hospital with no legs, ok .. 5 years from now, I don't wanna see no Israeli bitching about a suicide bomber who blew a mcdonald's or whatever, it's probably going to be one of this girl's brothers, who reached a dead end with no job, doesn't see tomorrow, and filled with anger and rage cuz his sister can't walk anymore. I'd blow myself too if i had his life.
anyways .. I'm working at this net cafe here in Khartoum, 20 minutes ago, some dude about my age walked in with a USB wanting to print some papers. It was something about collecting donations for Gaza, so I asked him if he's done the same for Darfur, which is inside his country, he took a minute to respond, I could tell he was shocked, and then answered "well, in Darfur it is a tribal issue, in Gaza it's religous", yeah right, I'm sure it's only cuz you're an ignorant bigot who think he's an arab who should never donate for a "non-arab", I didn't tell him that of course, but I asked again "what about Kajbar?" .. people are dying in darfur, and they're dying in Kajbar, and they're dying at easter Sudan, and down south. but because it's "not religous" he seems careless about it. fuckin hypocrite.
i'm living in a hypocrite country goddamittt
out
I'm not going to talk about the brutality of the Israeli war machine, the pictures are everywhere and they speak for their self, and the lies coming out of Israeli officials are so fat noone would miss, even the "Israeli" citizens who are human beings unlike their leaders, are against this war, xpt maybe those who love to tell themselfs lies, and the families of those who died under Hamas rockets.
I saw this girl the other day who lost her two legs, and she was smiling while telling the story of her injuries, how she was on the roof with her brothers and cousins when an explosion took place and next thing she was in the hospital with no legs, ok .. 5 years from now, I don't wanna see no Israeli bitching about a suicide bomber who blew a mcdonald's or whatever, it's probably going to be one of this girl's brothers, who reached a dead end with no job, doesn't see tomorrow, and filled with anger and rage cuz his sister can't walk anymore. I'd blow myself too if i had his life.
anyways .. I'm working at this net cafe here in Khartoum, 20 minutes ago, some dude about my age walked in with a USB wanting to print some papers. It was something about collecting donations for Gaza, so I asked him if he's done the same for Darfur, which is inside his country, he took a minute to respond, I could tell he was shocked, and then answered "well, in Darfur it is a tribal issue, in Gaza it's religous", yeah right, I'm sure it's only cuz you're an ignorant bigot who think he's an arab who should never donate for a "non-arab", I didn't tell him that of course, but I asked again "what about Kajbar?" .. people are dying in darfur, and they're dying in Kajbar, and they're dying at easter Sudan, and down south. but because it's "not religous" he seems careless about it. fuckin hypocrite.
i'm living in a hypocrite country goddamittt
out
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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