Not surprisingly Arab League condemns Sudan genocide charges as 'dangerous'

Sudan and the Arab world get reality check!

A few years ago - the Sudanese representative while addressing the Arab League told them that the Jews were the cause of all the problems in Darfur - on hearing this - no Arab/Islamic leader objected. Well it does seem that their delusion fest is drawing to an end - not up in arms in the mass killing and displacement and rape of fellow Muslims - but because the leader of that country and the engineer of the eradication of a group of people they have deemed inferior is being charged.

The Arabs or brown Africans - who call themselves Arab - should be very careful how they deal with their darker skinned brothers - as they might see mass exodus from Islam as a result. They are clearly stating – that in this club there is only a core of people who really matter.

Aljazeera article below - as expected - struggles with the new reality. Look at the cheerful faces of the Sudanese and the Arab leaders above and below.

The chairman of an emergency Arab League meeting has said that a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to charge Sudan's president with genocide and war crimes sets a dangerous precedent.

Mahmoud Ali Youssef, the foreign minister of Djibouti, said at the opening of the one-day meeting in Cairo on Saturday that the 10 charges brought against Omar al-Bashir at the Netherlands-based court will have dangerous repercussions for the entire region.

"The indictment is a dangerous precedent in dealing with heads of state. It will have dangerous repercussions, not only on Sudan but on the whole region," Youssef said.

He chaired the meeting convened by the 22-member Arab League to discuss the charges.

In his opening statement, Youssef criticised what he branded "the double standards" of the international community, saying that "the world watches Palestinian suffering without moving" to end it.

Extermination charges

Al-Bashir was charged on July 14 that he waged a campaign of extermination against three Darfur tribes that claimed up to 300,000 lives and drove 2.5 million people from their homes.

A three-judge panel from the ICC is expected to take two to three months to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant.

The charges against al-Bashir came a year after the court indicted Ahmed Harun, Sudan's humanitarian affairs minister, who was formerly in charge of security in Darfur, and suspected militia leader Ali Kushayb on crimes against humanity.

Arab foreign ministers were expected to discuss a proposal calling on al-Bashir to hand over two Darfur war-crimes suspects to the court in an effort to fend off the longtime leader's own prosecution.

Al-Samani al-Wasiyla, Sudan's minister of foreign affairs, after a brief meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Abul-Gheit, said that "the Arab position is completely united" in condemning al-Bashir's indictment.

Just before the Arab League meeting convened, Yemen's lower house of parliament condemned the charges against al-Bashir as legally groundless.

A resolution passed by the 301-seat Yemeni Assembly of Representatives dismissed them as a "complete falsehood and an infringement on Sudan's internal affairs".

It said that the charges were "part of a plot targeting Arab and Muslim nations".

Source: Al-Jazeera