Many Christians of liberal inclination were quick to demand boycotts of shops and businesses with S. Afrikan connections when apartheid was in full flow and the appalling apologists for that disgraceful regime "needed to be taught a lesson."A thoroughly reasonable approach except for one minor detail.
At the time, my research indicated that there were at least 24 worse regimes in the world for which this approach was not considered necessary.
Personally, I try to condemn all evil rather than be selective for liberal, political reasons.
Sudan and Islam have been pilloried recently. Sickeningly this has been more for the imprisonment for several days of a lady teacher than for the butchery some years ago [and continuing to this very day] of more than 2 million Christians.
Are these same people and their newly-created, younger clones endorsing a boycott of Muslim shops and businesses? Are they concerned where their spending may go to and which groups it may end up supporting? - No. I thought not.
I do not advocate such a boycott in the UK of course, but am puzzled by what seems to me to be a clear case of double standards.
I am also puzzled how Sudan is still to receive hundreds of millions in aid from our government.
Perhaps Brown & co are insisting that it is targeted in what bits remain of the Christian population - but I rather doubt it.
LINKS: http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/sudan-president-calls-on-militia-to-train-holy-warriors311.php
http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/country-profiles/sudan.php
http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/posts/sudan-anglican-leaders-demand-justice266.php
