Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
May 8, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The arrest this week of a Sudanese woman from the country’s troubled western region of Darfur on charges of alleged “Christianization” of minors at displacement camps has elicited condemnation from Darfur lawyers and a refugee spokesman.
According to SMC, Hawa was caught as she was carrying out “extensive Christianization” of children inside camps of Internally Displace People (IDP). The website quoted an informed security source as saying that the accused was planning to carry out “new sabotage operations” in north Darfur and that she had recently held meetings with Nur while he was in Entebbe in Uganda. It also said that Hawas’s meeting with Nur was facilitated by the UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for which the accused works as a translator.
The report on Hawa’s arrest featured a photo of her holding a copy of the Holy Bible and an ID card purporting to be from UNAMID.
Meanwhile, the SLM’s Nur faction has denied that Hawa was a member of the group. The spokesperson of the SLM’s chairman office Mustafa Tamboor told Sudan Tribune that the accusation aims to drive citizens away from her and the SLM after the series of protests the movement recently organized in Darfur.
Tamboor said that security authorities had targeted Hawa because she was trying to spread awareness among refugees.
The Darfur Bar Association was quick to react, saying that it had conducted its own investigation and concluded that the story reported by pro-government media outlets was “conflicting and inaccurate.”
Darfur lawyers further said that Hawa’s alleged deed does not fall within the category of criminal acts. They further criticized the publication of her photo, saying that such display at this early stage goes against the proper application of law and endangers her life.
An IDP spokesperson, Hussian Sharati, told Sudan Tribune that the security authorities had been targeting Hawa for a long time and that they had seized the opportunity to arrest her during the demonstrations organized by the SLM at Abu Shuk IDP camp last month.
Sharati strongly denied that Hawa had any relation with proselytization activities in Darfur, adding that Hawa learnt Quran by her father who was a known Islamic scholar administrated a Koranic school in eastern Jebel Marra.
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onlysonmabi
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
To Darfurian that is good when Southern say Arab is bad you don’t believe.
Now Arab have seem that South Sudan have become a country so they want to change to you Darfurian please watch out,take the Gun fight them to have freedom.
Cibaipiath Junub Sudan
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
No truth in it but shame.
Paul Ongee
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
If there is truth in the alleged Christianization, what is the problem? To Khartoum, freedom of religion in Sudan is one-sided. Arabization and Islamization is legal when applied to non- Muslims/Arabs but Christianization is illegal when applied to the so-called Sudanese Muslims/Arabs.
The history of introduction of the two main religions —Christianity and Islam — is pretty clear and fresh to Sudanese citizens. Islam found Christianity was already introduced into the country.
Most Muslims/Arabs are well known for being stereotype. In Sudan, they marry Southern Christian women without precondition and the parents have no problem with that. But when it comes a southern Christian male marrying a Muslim girl, he has to convert first into Islam.
However, the issue goes back to tolerance which clearly proves that Christianity is more tolerant than Islam and other religions. Islam is not and will never be a religion of tolerance so long as it keeps colliding with Christianity in a social environment where there are certain elements perpetrating extremism along religious lines. Love, marriage, relationship and business have no boundary because they act as social fabrics of society. Therefore, it takes more decades for Khartoum and its allies to fathom the value of those social elements.
We don’t want to see what’s happening in Egypt to be replicated here in Sudan because soon or later believers of both religions especially in the Arab/Muslim countries will only be accompanied by security forces or military tanks to church or Mosque for prayers as if people are not equal in the eyes of Almighty God. I hope the next Islamic constitution of North Sudan will bridge the difference by guaranteeing equal rights to citizens of the same country because of love. If Khartoum is not willing to learn from its past mistakes, North Sudan will get fragmented more because Africans including the Islamized ones are 75% more than those who misinterpret Quran to govern the country.
Paul Ongee
Khartoum Watch
Ito
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
this is a wonderful lesson to the Dafuri people because they have been longing for evidence such as this. South Sudanese have been telling the Darufuian about this matter but they could not listen, now the fire is in front of you; is it good to be caught off guard like what is now happening with this arrest?
It is not easy to live with an arab, all of these issues that are dragging sudan down were presented by Dr. John Garang to the heads of state of the African Union in 1985, and was articulated and endorsed by the leaders. Darfur, why you don’t learn from that outlines on Sudanses problems on issues of dominance, nationality and religious bigotry being practice by successives regimes in Khartoum.
Now solve your own issues.
thanks
manyang
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
what do you mean by saying no?
australian
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
Paul: are you sure that non-Muslim parents have “no problem” with their daughters marrying Muslims? I met a man from a tribe in southern Sudan who told me that if a girl of his tribe married a Muslim, she was to be killed. And I am sure many others would not be happy about their daughters marrying into the religion of the devilish Mohammed, who commanded the killing and enslavement of non-Muslims.
I don’t know what you are hearing about Egypt, but I have not heard of Christians attacking mosques. The violence always starts with the Muslims and usually ends up with church-burning. So your talk of mosques needing police protection is absurd, unless they need protection from other Muslims.
You might believe that all people are equal in the sight of God, but Muslims do not. The leaders of Sudan, and other Muslim countries, do not “misinterpret” the Koran when they discriminate against non-Muslims or even when they kill them. If the government grants equal rights to non-Muslims, that will be very good, but they know that by doing so they will be seen as apostates by the Muslim world. Only a secular government in Sudan can provide equality.
Your wishful thinking is not going to change the reality we have before us which you don’t want to see. Only brave people like this woman in Darfur can change reality by helping Muslims see the truth – a slow and dangerous process. For us it is easier because we are not brainwashed from birth – but some people want to live in illusion because it feels comfortable.
Pray for this woman and the other brave ones. They do their work for all of us, for the freedom of mankind.
Deng E. Manyuon
Arrest of Darfur female activist for alleged proselytization sparks outcry
This is very irresponsible manner! What is the reason behind posting her photo? What sort of Islamic ethic is this?
If you have been following all female activists arrest by the Sudanese authority, there is a possibility that this female has been tortured, assulted and raped! ! ! Recent experiences and records justify my claim. Islam is the least religion that mistreating women miserably. What alas!
Deng