How the Arab world lost southern Sudan

[Springer9]

Both pan-Arabist and Islamist governments have failed to embrace diversity and pluralism - to their own detriment.

The division of Sudan into two states is a dangerous precedent. The Arab world has to draw the right lessons from if it wants to avoid the break-up of other Arab states into ethnic and sectarian enclaves.

The birth of South Sudan is first and foremost a testimony to the failure of the official Arab order, pan-Arabism, and especially the Islamic political projects to provide civic and equal rights to ethnic and religious minorities in the Arab world.(snip)

But the Arab world cannot simply explain secession as a product of a Western-Israeli conspiracy.

Pretty harsh for being on AlJazeera. Not much Jew and Europe bashing either.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/2011713135442172603.html

[Kurmudgeon]

1. Interesting, I wonder how many realize that Sudan is now 2 countries.

If things are as bad as the article states, it shouldn't be all that surprising. I can only hope this will be a blow against radicalization against the West. This may just be the beginning of a bunch of changes in that part of the world.