Well I guess you have to live in a place to appreciate the nuances of it, but the only thing I remember from my history classes about the Sudan was the Mahdi.
Probably the most famous graduate of the nutbars-r-us academy, he might feel right at home in Khartoum at the moment. Based upon recent events I find it very hard to believe that overall the Sudan has really progressed very greatly over the years. Take away the Oil MONEY and what do you think the place would look like if it looks suspiciously like a medieval backwater now. With all that Oil money flowing like wine.
Ooops, sorry about that wine analogy. One must be sensitive to ‘other’ cultural values mustn’t one.
Did not Churchill have some interesting things to say about the impact of Islam on sub-Saharan cultures and the States that grew up to sustain them ? I don’t recall it was very ‘sympathetic’, and he didn’t even have the teddy-bear debacle to factor into his observations.
