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June 21, 2008

Arab human rights panel scolded Islamic world for its silence on Darfur
(AFP) — "The suffering of Muslims in Darfur is as real as that happening in Iraq and Palestine," said the Arab Coalition for Darfur in a statement on the sidelines of an Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting here.
"The Islamic world's response to the daily killings and suffering of millions of Muslims in Darfur has been largely silent, from both civil society as well as from institutions and majority of Islamic governments," it said.

"The Islamic world must decide to end its wall of silence, before it is too late ... More silence could be catastrophic on the Islamic community.”  The coalition is made up of human rights groups in Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Mauritania, Kuwait, Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Coalition leader Haggag Nayel urged OIC members to take decisive action. "It is within the reach of the OIC member states and the wider Arab and Islamic community to take the necessary steps to help end the human suffering in Darfur," he said. "The real causes of the conflict where Arabs are in conflict with black Africans are not fabricated by the west or imperialists."
 
 
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