What is occurring in the Sudan is jihad, down to the details of how Muslim Law decrees that women captives should be raped. Sharia decrees that women should ideally be inducted into a life of sex slavery only after
transporting them to an area with a majority Muslim population.
Leftism, however, provides people with a way to feel morally virtuous despite their cowardice at confronting real evil.
Here is the new UN Secretary-General blaming the genocide on today's bogeyman, Global Warming:
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.
?The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,? Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons. ?This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,? the South Korean diplomat wrote.
?It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,? Ban said in the Washington daily. When Darfur?s land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water, he said.
With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing. ?For the first time in memory, there was no longer enough food and water for all. Fighting broke out,? he said.
Of course there were no droughts or weather changes in Africa before Global Warming.
