Franklin Graham, the new leader of America's religious royal family, has been in hot water in the past for defaming Islam. However, The Washington Post reported on the Christian evangelist's attempts to reach out to Sudan's dictator Gen. Omar al-Bashir. This absolutely astounded me. Graham decides to reach out not to any of the hundreds of millions of peaceful Muslims in the world but instead to the one who's waging a bloody genocide that's cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Then I read a little more and understood better. Graham praised Bashir for signing a peace agreement with rebels in the south of the country. The south is predominantly Christian and Bashir's civil war there became a cause celebre for conservative Christian groups. Darfur, where Bashir is waging genocide, is a predominantly Muslim region. The campaign against the Darfur genocide is being drive largely (though not exclusively) by secular liberal and progressive groups.
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