the sudan

in the circus surrounding the elections, the war, our boob of a president and emerging scandals surrounding his cabinet, we forget about this:

FURBURANGA, Sudan - In the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, the killers pray toward Mecca. The million displaced people do as well. Marauding men on horseback, the women raped by them, the rebels who incited the fighting and the politicians, soldiers and police officers who have failed to control it, nearly all are Muslim.