. . COUNTRIES: SUDAN : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS : RELIGION: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: Sudan's Real Crisis Is the Disregard for Female Life . . Sudan's Real Crisis Is the Disregard for Female Life Kimberly L. Smith Time http://time.com/103347/sudans-real-crisis-is-the-disregard-for-female-life/ . .Rightly so, much emphasis is being given to the fact that Ibrahim's sentence of death is in retaliation of her choice to be Christian. However, fundamentally, the crisis in Sudan is not one of religion but rather a complete disregard for the dignity of life, especially female life.
.I know Muslim women in South Sudan who the Islamic Janjaweed raped with sticks as they mocked, "This is so you cannot make black babies." I know men who've been beaten, had their teeth knocked out and forced to swallow them and had limbs hacked off as they watched their wives and children dragged behind the tail of a horse into slavery because their skin was black instead of the beautiful bronze color of their Arab-descendant fellow countrymen. I know a beautiful young schoolteacher whose father forced her to leave her job to marry a man who already had four wives so that he could garner a few more cows. I've sat through bomb blitzes targeted at the indigenous people of the Nuba Mountains, which is largely Islamic, simply because they are black and yet dare to proclaim their right to life, liberty and the use of their homeland's natural resources.
.The depravity of the Sudanese government extends far beyond religion and deep into the heart of humanity. A people will not truly have freedom of religion unless it is built upon a foundation of the sanctity of life.
.I find myself cheering for Ibrahim as a thundercloud of hope, proclaiming "Life is worth dying for." Mohamed Jar Elnabi, her attorney, echoes the sonorous claps of Ibrahim's life as he endures death threats, social castigation, and financial hardship for defending her.
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