Disappearance of Bishop Tutu
Posted on March 24, 2008 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Social |
The following is an open letter to Bishop Desmond Tutu from Simon Deng, a native of the Shiluk Kingdom in southern Sudan, and an escaped jihad slave and a leading human rights activist. In this article, Deng asks Bishop Tutu why he is so intent on criticizing Israel as an apartheid state, when Israel is so obviously not the same as South African was, and while so many people around the world truly in need of help are being ignored.
Deng is an activist who fights to stop slavery, and has spoken on the topic around the world. More links on the topic are at the end of this article.
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Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston’s Old South Church at a conference on “Israel Apartheid.” Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools and get the best medical care in the world.
I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu’s South Africa. I also know countries that do deserve the apartheid label: My country, Sudan, is on the top of the list, but so are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. What has happened to my people in Sudan is a thousand times worse than apartheid in South Africa. And no matter how the Palestinians suffer, they suffer nothing compared to my people. Nothing. And most of the suffering is the fault of their leaders.
Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud.
Tutu said Israeli checkpoints are a nightmare. But checkpoints are there because Palestinians are sent into Israel to blow up and kill innocent women and children. Tutu wants checkpoints removed. Do you not have doors in your home, Bishop? Does that make your house an apartheid house? If someone, Heaven forbid, tried to enter with a bomb, we would want you to have security people “humiliating” your guests with searches, and we would not call you racist for doing so. We all go through checkpoints at every airport. Are the airlines being racist? No.
Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that incovenience than about Jewish lives? Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela’s freedom, we Africans all over Africa joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans. I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?
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Related Links:
Simon Deng speaks to the International Humanist and Ethical Union about the victims of Jihad. One excerpt from that speech:
“Let me be very clear: this meeting is addressing the worst evil presently confronting the world. Jihad is on the march across the globe, and the people of the Sudan have experienced its cruelty more than any other group on earth. It is also fitting, if only in the most blackly comic way, that this conference coincides with the meeting of the 61st Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, a body whose purpose is to uphold the rights and dignity of all people, and yet it has among its members some of the most inhumane regimes on earth, among them the genocidal slave jihadists of Khartoum.”
iAbolish - American Anti-Slavery Group: a nonprofit organization that works with former victims of human trafficking to abolish modern-day slavery, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. Deng is part of their Speakers Bureau.
Simon Deng interviewed on Fox News
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South Africa has been abandoned by opportunists and cheats looking to make a fast buck and a quick exit.
Under Apartheid Blacks in S.A were ensured something that the rest of Africa could not offer…safe haven from the butchers of tribal war that plague all of Africa.
Now that rock stars and actresses hae had their oped with Mandela and Tutu,the Blacks in S.A are facing eachother…and killing eachother as they have in the rest of Africa.
Ironically even Blacks from Zimbabwe travelled to S.A looking for food and safety,only to find that they became victims of S.African brutality..not at the hands of whites…but at the hands of Blacks….good job BONO..Hope your enjoying one of your many mansions while Africans cannot even drive through S.A without fear of being killed by Blacks….what a joke1
Hi Ahmad - your comment is very interesting about the violence in South Africa, and in Africa in general. Thanks for commenting!