Yehya Mohammed Kheir Quotes
We will not sacrifice our relations with the Islamists and Iran for a relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
Sudan openly used Islamic terrorists to attack, rape and murder animist and Christian civilians in Darfur. The leaders were wanted for war crimes and openly admitted to many. See {641717}.
Yehya Mohammed Kheir, Sudanese Minister of State for Defense, Quoted in The Washington Post, December 1, 2014
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Sudan openly used Islamic terrorists to attack, rape and murder animist and Christian civilians in Darfur. The leaders were wanted for war crimes and openly admitted to many. See {641655}.
The ‘enemies’ are the Christian nations, Israel and other non-Muslims. This is what he says to Muslims throughout the Arab world while to the West he purports to be an ally of the United States and Europe which prop up his monarchy.
Terrorists in Iraq had murdered the Egyptian Ambassador a few weeks before. Although not generally known, being a diplomat in a foreign country has substantial risk.
He is a billionaire businessman who tries to maintain relationships and do business with all. In a fundamentalist Islamic land, he is continuously being accused of betraying Islam be doing business in America.
The Saudi’s were covering up the identity of assassins
See George W. Bush {596316} for the origin of “axis of Evil.
Shariatmadari sometimes serves as a spokesman for major Religious officials of the Iranian theocracy. This quotation is particularly interesting as it illustrates a particular world view of some Iranian leaders that makes it almost impossible to cope with problems through diplomatic means. The argument is that if Iran negotiates with America on any issue, Iran would be a poor example to other Islamic nations because they would conclude that Iran and all Muslim countries had no choice but get along with America. The idea that negotiating with a nation means that a country is “getting along” with the other country is of course the absurdity. But it is believed by many in the Muslim world. Ironically that same view is held by “hard liners” in America and most other countries in addition to Iran. There are Americans who do not believe that we should negotiate with Iran at all because the negotiations gives them a status that they do not deserve. And it connotes a level of approval by America of Iran just to talk with them.
At the time Pakistan was almost a failed state which had nuclear weapons. They took large amounts of American aid (military and civilian) and claimed that they were an ally in the War on Terror. On some occasions they deployed their troops against fundamentalist terrorists. On others they shielded terrorists and provided them with sanctuary from attack, intelligence and allowed terrorist leaders to not only live in Pakistan but operate their organizations from Pakistan. They supported radical Madrassas (religious schools) that taught hate and terrorism, and armed terrorists in the hopes that they could be used against their enemy India while the terrorists themselves killed more Pakistanis by far than the Indians ever did. The civilian government was subservient to the military which itself was subservient to the Intelligence Arm.
He coined the term “Shiite Crescent” in this quotation.
