I don't know, I'm not feeling too charitable after that Glasgow bombing

Islamic Relief launches Action for Africa appeal. Take their case to Scottish Parliament.

Officials from British Muslim charity, Islamic Relief, have appealed to the Scottish parliament to help raise awareness of the humanitarian impact of conflict and famine in areas such as Darfur, Niger, Mali and Somalia. Makki Hamid, Islamic Relief’s Head of Africa Region, was part of the team briefing Scottish MPs after returning from Darfur, Niger and Mali.

"The situation in Darfur is chaotic - at least 20 groups are fighting each other, while the ancient reconciliation process based on the traditional tribal system has been destroyed by years of military regime,” Hamid told Adnkronos International (AKI) in an interview."Contrarily to how it is portrayed in the media, this conflict is not a religious one, such as the one in Southern Sudan, where it is Muslims against Christians. This [Darfur] is Muslims fighting other Muslims over resources and unresolved land disputes between farmers and nomads,” he said.

Oh - like that makes it different? It's still Muslim nutjobs going off. Even worse, listen to this reference to the dhimmis in Westminister.

The visit to the Scottish parliament, which was promoted by the first Muslim Scottish MP, Bashir Ahmad, included a presentation of the charity’s activities in Africa and a questions-and -answers session with a group of parliamentarians.Habib Malik, Islamic Relief’s coordinator for Scotland, welcomed the opportunity to speak at the Scottish Parliament and said this kind of initiatives should be “of inspiration for what is done down at Westminster (Seat of the English parliament).”

And get a load of this line of Islamospeak...

“Islamic charities can play a fundamental role there because they have a better understanding of people’s needs, and not only the material ones.” “We use quotes from the Koran to persuade them that Islam does not support any of their violence,” he said.

Charity begins at home. Perhaps instead of going to Africa they could use some of those quotes on the ones who are blowing all that stuff up in the UK.

Out of Africa

Somalia in the eye of the storm. It's the Beeb so the US is to blame of course. The money quote:

"Washington's approach to Islamism seems to involve containing, or attempting to contain, Islamist organisations while targeting individual terrorist suspects."

Meanwhile, the janjaweed continue to spread their unique brand of terror into Chad. But no one wants to admit it just yet. From Chad: Protection is the issue but from whom?

It was typical of countless acts of violence that have taken place in eastern Chad over the last three years. Armed men on horseback rode through Goz Amir refugee camp last December, hacking and shooting at least 15 men and women to death. And like many of the attacks, it was not immediately clear who the attackers were and what had motivated them to kill.

Yesterday, we had Russ Feingold. Today Bill Nelson weighs in: Swath of Africa could become terrorist haven.

A prime minister's office scarred by a recent al-Qaeda bomb attack. Families separated while fleeing from genocidal murderers in their hometowns. And employees of an international company kidnapped from a heavily guarded oil-rich area. No, this isn't Iraq or the Middle East -- it's an impoverished region of Africa where chaos is breeding a new brand of Islamic terrorism allied with Osama bin Laden.

British charity OxFam pulls out of Darfur region. It's the largest camp in Darfur and get this - "this report does not reflect the view of the United Nations." Sweet Jesus! These people wouldn't say shit if they had a mouthful!

Oxfam has decided to permanently close down its humanitarian operation in the town of Gereida in Sudan's western region of Darfur, citing reluctance by authorities there to improve security and stop attacks on aid workers.

Not even Mia Farrow dare say it's name...

Another piece about Darfur that completely ignores the 800 lb gorilla in the room.

Mia Farrow leads plea for state divestment from Sudan.

Farrow showed slides depicting burned villages, hungry refugees and the paramilitary groups blamed for the deaths of 400-thousand people and the displacement of two (m) million others.

How about calling a Muslim a muslim here, Mia? (I will give you points for calling Steven Spielberg the "Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games". )