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Just more proof that islam is an evil cult that must be wiped from the face
of the Earth.
GLOBAL JIHAD
'Anti-Islam' books spark fatwa
Author speaks out despite warnings from bin Laden, Nation of Islam
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Posted: November 9, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
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Š 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
To say that Kola Boof is the target of a fatwa sentencing her to death for
blaspheming Islam only begins to tell the story of this controversial
Sudanese-born author.
Sudanese-born author Kola Boof
Boof, who is now under the protection of U.S. government agents, told
WorldNetDaily that her first book about women who live under Islam prompted
a phone call from Osama bin Laden, with whom she had become acquainted in
Marrakesh, Morocco.
"If I had the time, I would come there and slit your throat myself," she
recalls bin Laden saying in February 1998.
Along with bin Laden, Boof's poetry collection in 1997 angered many Muslims
in North Africa, but her writing did not meet the full wrath of militant
Muslims until Sept. 26, when Sudanese diplomat Gamal Ibrahim issued the
fatwa.
The decree, calling for her to be beheaded, was given after a Shariah court
in London's Islamic community declared her guilty of "deliberately and
maliciously bearing false witness against religious sentiment and of willing
treason against her Arab Muslim father's people and against her nation, the
Sudan."
Supporters of Boof maintain her real offense is to speak out against
oppression of women by Muslims and to cast a spotlight on the slavery and
genocide carried out by Sudan's Islamist regime.
'I don't believe bin Laden's behind the fatwa,' she said. 'But I have no
doubt that he would support it. He would be saying, 'They should have killed
her years ago.'"
Intimidation
On Thursday, a handful of demonstrators gathered on Boof's behalf in front
of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., and outside the United Nations
building in New York City. Publicists for the event included Sudan activist
Maria Sliwa, who said only about a dozen showed up.
Intimidation by the Sudanese Embassy and by people claiming to be members of
Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam scared away others who wanted to protest,
organizers insist.
One week ago, the vice president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the
United Negro Improvement Association was told by a representative of the
Sudan Embassy to not participate in the demonstration. The UNIA said it
urged the embassy to issue a statement rescinding the fatwa, but was
refused.
Another demonstration, in Los Angeles, had to be canceled, Boof said,
"because the organizer was so terrified about Farrakhan's people calling her
that she pulled out."
The author also said people claiming to represent Jesse Jackson called her,
insisting that she cancel an appearance at Loveland Baptist Church in
Fontana, Calif., pastored by Sudan activist Chuck Singleton.
They were saying "don't move on this, just shut up and be quiet for a
minute, and let things be ironed out," she said.
Boof noted, however, that when a fatwa is put on one's life, there is no
sense in being quiet.
"If I'm going to be dead soon, I might as well just go and scream," she told
WND.
Jihad and genocide
Boof says that since February, she has personally received warnings from
Sudanese government officials to be silent.
Sudan's National Islamic Front leader Hasan Turabi, who ostensibly is under
house arrest, called Boof on Sept. 26, after the fatwa was issued.
"He said, 'Kola, you're dead,'" she recounted. "He told me point blank,
'You're going to be killed, we can't do anything with you; you don't want to
shut up.'"
Some observers of the NIF government say the house arrest is mostly a show
for the U.N., and that Turabi still is giving orders to the front lines of
Sudan's war with the south.
Boof said she had become acquainted with Turabi, who told her, "Kola, I
tried to go to bat for you, I've been warning you for almost a year now that
you are causing a lot of trouble by being flamboyant."
The Khartoum regime has declared a jihad against the mostly Christian and
animist south that has resulted in more than 2 million deaths and 4.5
million displaced people in the past two decades. The U.S. Congress has
termed the government's actions genocide and recently passed a bill, the
Sudan Peace Act, that punishes the Islamist regime for its atrocities.
Secretary of State Colin Powell called the kidnappings, killings, rape and
enslavement "the worst human rights nightmare on the planet."
"As a black African woman, I cannot and will not be silent as black men in
Arab nations are chained up like dogs to the back doors of Muslim households
and fed, literally, from doggie bowls," Boof said in a statement she issued
regarding the fatwa. "I will not be silent as African women are raped,
mutilated and mentally demeaned by sadistic human beings calling themselves
children of Allah. I will not be silent as the number of little black boys
who are sodomized by their Arab masters continues to soar, while even worse
atrocities attend the lives of little black girls."
Atrocities too close to home
Boof said she was about 10 to 12 years of age - there are no records of her
birth - when her Egyptian father and Somali mother were slaughtered in their
backyard in 1978 by Arab Murahleen bandits for speaking out too openly about
the coming Arab regime.
She was then put up for adoption by her Egyptian grandmother, who felt that
because Kola was "too dark," she would not fit into the family and only be
subject to ridicule.
Through UNICEF, she went to London and was adopted by an Ethiopian family,
who eventually gave her up. The family thought she might be a witch,
according to Boof, because she was "so talkative and intelligent for a girl
child."
UNICEF eventually placed her in a black family in Washington, D.C., in 1980.
In an interview yesterday on Pacifica radio, Boof was challenged by a
representative of the Sudan Embassy in Washington, who insisted that she was
not Sudanese.
Boof says, however, that she was born in Omdurman, which is part of north
Khartoum, a fact that has been substantiated by many members of the rebel
Sudan People's Liberation Movement, who knew her father, including leader
John Garang. Boof said she remembers being in Garang's home as a girl.
She said she is familiar with the kind of atrocities recounted by ex-slave
Frances Bok, who stood with President Bush as he signed the Sudan Peace Act
on Oct. 21.
"I witnessed the kind of raids he's talking about, where Arab men will come
in on horses in the little villages, and they'll shoot all the men in the
head, and then they'll kidnap the children and women, and you never see
those people again."
The Khartoum government is paying for these militia she maintains, "no
matter what they say. Everybody there knows."
As a child, she said she witnessed a woman with six daughters who could not
bear a son be rolled up in her dowry carpet and burned alive after gasoline
was poured on her.
Critics charge Boof is not qualified to speak about Sudan's current
situation because she has not lived there for 20 years, and her most recent
visit was in the mid-1990s.
"I'm saying, Sudan was just declared a terrorist nation [by the U.S.], so
why should I have to have been there lately?" she asked. "It's the same
thing going on."
Anti-Islam tone
Boof said she writes about black women's lives, but quotes that are negative
toward Islam invariably appear throughout her work.
" I can't deny it, there is a definite anti-Islam tone to all my books," she
said. "And, in fact there is an anti-Arab [tone]. That, I can't deny."
The end of her latest book includes an interview in which she confesses her
prejudice against Arab people.
"I've admitted I need to work on getting over some of these traumas," she
said, "But what else am I to think when Arabs have only murdered my father
and mother and harassed people, burned up women in carpets? I mean, that's
my view of Arab people."
She said she recognizes that there are many peace-loving Arabs who are
trapped under the Khartoum regime, which she calls a "mafia government."
Though Boof considers herself a "pagan rebel" who would not vote for George
W. Bush, she admires the president's stand against Iraq and warns Americans
to not trust Arab nations.
"I love this country; I think this is the best country on earth, " she said,
noting that while she cannot give details of the U.S. protection she is
under, "they're treating me like a queen."
Selling some books
Boof admits that some of the controversy surrounding her work has to do with
a contract that requires her to appear topless on the back of her books.
This is a representation of her animist African beliefs, she said.
"Even many Africans complain, [saying], 'Kola, we could use you so much
better if you weren't doing that.'"
Her previous books have never sold more than 8,000 copies, but amid the
current controversy, her latest title, "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin:
Stories About African Women," is rocketing up the Amazon.com sales chart.
She notes that this has given some cheer to her publisher in Rabat, Morocco,
which suffered the firebombing of its building because of her work.
"They're like, 'Well at least she's selling some books for a change.'"
Boof insists that she did not want to make public her acquaintance with bin
Laden, but was forced to reply to recent claims in the Spanish press by a
former roommate, Lourdes Harris, that she had an affair with bin Laden in
Marrakesh. That claim was picked up by a "diary" column in the London
Guardian on Oct. 24.
The Sudanese writer denies the story, but admits that bin Laden tried to
pick up on her at a restaurant and later came to her hotel room.
"I can't deny he was in the room," she said. "He was only there because I
was trying to get out of being around him without getting hurt."
Bin Laden is known to have lived in Sudan for several years after being
expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991. Boof said she came across bin Laden in
North Africa while trying to establish a career as an actress.
John H. Fisher
<rger...@rovin.net> writes:
>This is how "tolerant" the adherents of the "religion of peace" are.
>Just more proof that islam is an evil cult that must be wiped from the face
>of the Earth.
>
Sounds to me like it's a way of getting publicity for the sale of a book!! I
can see nothing, other than her suspicion that bin Laden might endorse the
fatwa, or that he even warned her. Everything printed is "HEARSAY"!!! That
she turned on bin Laden is somewhat suspect and the young lady makes many
unsubstantiated claims. I see nothing to substantiate YOUR CLAIM of "proof
that islam is an evil cult"!!! When you speak of evil cults, whatever is your
cult may also be considered evil by others. When you speak of wiping over a
billion people from the face of the earth, because they do not have the same
beliefs as you, is quite a stretch!!! After reflecting on that, wouldn't you
agree??? If not, why not??? Do you really believe everything you read???
"Jack"
>GLOBAL JIHAD
>'Anti-Islam' books spark fatwa
>Author speaks out despite warnings from bin Laden, Nation of Islam
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>Posted: November 9, 2002
>1:00 a.m. Eastern
> By Art Moore
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