Baldilocks:
Over at Avery’s place, a couple of his commenters seem taken aback at the blatant racism that “insurgents” in Iraq have exhibited toward black American US military personnel.
Black soldiers are a particular target. "To have Negroes occupying us is a particular humiliation," Abu Mujahed said, echoing the profound racism prevalent in much of the Middle East. "Sometimes we aborted a mission because there were no Negroes."To those of us who have been paying attention, this isn’t any great shock. When Islamists blew up the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania in 1998, Americans were the main target, but black Kenyans and Tanzanians took the majority of the casualties. The same was true of Kenyans (again) as a result of the 2002 bombing of a Mombasa resort: it was a hit on the Israelis (the majority of the patrons of this resort). In all cases, that more black Africans were blown to bits than either Americans or Israelis is telling. The perps had no actual beef with the blacks. They simply did not care that a “few” abid got caught in the mix.
I liken it to a demolition company destroying a building. Who cares if the "vermin" in it are destroyed along with the building? For that is the cultural view that Arab Muslims hold for blacks, even for those blacks who are foolish enough to believe that being Muslims themselves will save them. Sudan, anyone?
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