Former Sudanese Slave to Speak at Stanford

On Tuesday, February 12, Stanford University will host Simon Deng, an escaped slave from the Islamist regime in Sudan. Roei Kashi encourages all members of the local community to join him and listen to his message of warning for the free peoples of the world.

February 11, 2008 - by Roei Kashi

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Students for Open Society, a student group at Stanford University, is bringing a unique speaker to the Bay Area. The speaker is Simon Deng, an escaped Sudanese slave and a prominent human rights activist.

At the age of nine, Deng’s village was raided by Arab troops. He watched his childhood friends get shot dead and his fellow villagers burned alive in their huts. He was abducted and given as a “gift” to an Arab family who enslaved him for several years. He offers riveting descriptions of his life as a slave.

But Deng provides more than just a horrifying account of his experiences as a child slave. He delivers a message pertinent to the livelihood of all free nations. Deng considers himself a “victim of jihad” and describes the racist, Islamic society in Sudan which operates with a binary worldview. According to Deng, this worldview divides the world’s population into two categories: Muslim and non-Muslim. “If you are not a Muslim, you are a khoufar, an infidel, an enemy, a human being with no right to life who may be treated with terrible inhumanity,” Deng told a conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Deng is also unafraid to condemn the UN Human Rights Council, criticizing that its membership includes some of the most inhumane regimes in the world, including the regime of Sudan itself.

In addition, Deng has an impressive record as a human rights activist. In April 2006, Deng organized and participated in a 300-mile “freedom walk” from the UN headquarters in New York to the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., where he met President Bush.

Deng is scheduled to participate in a rally in front of the Chinese consulate on Monday and speak at Stanford University on Tuesday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. in Cubberley Auditorium. The event is open to the public.

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Mylai:

It is utterly amazing that slavery exists in this new century.

What is also just asamazing is that the the horrors received under this type of religious law is being so ignored by the west.

I am at a loss as to understand the turning a blind eye by so many so-called progressives.

Having the later explain this would shed a lot of light on such thinking.

So sorry for this man’s treatment in apparent the name of God or Mohammed, and the religion of peace.

Feb 11, 2008 - 9:28 am Rubicon:

Perhaps most disconcerting is the apparent lack of interest by America’s elite and its mainstream media. We are told America must be more accepting of the cultural differences in the world, yet when & if we speak out, we are called racists or bigots.
One day Americans, and the rest of the world, will have to actually accept the very real fact that
“jihad” is a danger to mankind.
It is incredible that we are roasted for our efforts to introduce present day life to peoples whose controlling religious zealots are demanding they live 7th century lives. Worse is that they teach the children of those nations that the rest of the world should be joining in.
China funds the regime running Sudan. Until we stop that funding, so the opposition can actually fight a fair fight in the civil war that nation is and has been going through, we can expect more stories like this man’s.
One day, the world will also blame us for not stopping this, yet again, if we try to, we are called racists, bigots, and imperialists.
Its time we cut to the chase & stood up to regimes even in Saudi Arabia. These “radical Islamist” regimes & religious leaders (sic) cannot keep pushing their hateful rhetoric & expect free people to do nothing.
Cooperation by Islamic nations & leaders in the war on terror, also means not fomenting or allowing the teaching & spread of beliefs & actions that are the cause of radical terroristic jihadi actions.
They cannot have it both ways.

Feb 11, 2008 - 10:04 am tanstaafl:

I am at a loss as to understand the turning a blind eye by so many so-called progressives.

“Progressives” are interested in causes as (potentially useful) political weapons.

They are the last people on Earth who act and think from a position of genuine compassion.

“Progressives” wring their hands about “Darfur”, make films about “Darfur”, try to indoctrinate school children as to the horrors of “Darfur” while all the time themselves sitting in their air conditioned aeries in the west, sipping lattés.

Omar al-Bashir himself has been instrumental in Sudan’s campaign of ethnic cleansing. But “progressives” prefer to blame “the west” over many years’ time now.

Feb 11, 2008 - 10:49 am venividivici:

It is utterly amazing that slavery exists in this new century.
What is also just as amazing is that the the horrors received under this type of religious law is being so ignored by the west.

If you poke around on Google, searching on “Islam slavery rules”, you’ll find that Muslims, moral retards that they are, think that Islamic slavery is OK because they had more “rules” about how to treat slaves than other slaveholders of the time. Like, you can only have sex with them once a day, you can’t ask them to wash your butt more than twice a week or some other BS. And they truly believe that these “rules” absolve them from the basic fact that it’s still slavery. Talk about “putting lipstick on a pig”! Oh, I’m sorry, did my reference to pigs offend some Muslim? Good.

Feb 11, 2008 - 5:24 pm Josh:

Don’t worry. If Obama is elected he will go and talk things out with the Sudanese and after they listen to his speech about hope and change they will immediately repent and stop their evil ways. It will be called the Woodstock Doctrine and it will bring love and acceptance to the whole world. It will be a miracle of diplomacy causing the jihadists to lay down there beheading swords and start pinning flowers on the lapels of their enemies.

Feb 11, 2008 - 9:39 pm Boogey_Man:

Whenever you find yourself wondering why ‘progressives’ dont speak out/take action over this or that cause, remember this. The primary motivation for so called progressives is hatred of the American right. Everything else is expendable, even their own stated beliefs.

The American right stands against militant Islam, so they will take the side of ‘insurgents’ even if said insurgents want to kill them as well. At the very least they will stand silent in the face of such totalitarian, racist violence if the American right is fighting it.

Thus progressives will demand America pay reparations for crimes commited 140 years ago while saying nothing about slavery happening now. Thier pursuit of justice has more to do with punishing hated enemies than defending the oppressed.

Remember the fall of Constantinople. The Empire fell as much because the two main political groups expended their energy fighting each other as the aggression of the Turks. I watch the actions of the modern left and I am reminded of the lost Greco-Roman world. Pray it doesnt happen again.

Feb 11, 2008 - 10:04 pm Eric Martin:

I need your help! Jeff Epstein of America’s truth Forum. together with many sympathetic groups, are preparing evidence on the Saudi slave trade for a select congressional committee. We are seeking slaves who escaped from Saudi Arabia, and would like to interview them, in complete confidence, of course. You can contact me by phone at 817-795-4648.

Yours truely, Eric Martin.

Apr 3, 2008 - 3:03 pm

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