• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Emir Massar Aseel, an Arab tribal leader in El Geneina, dismissed the rape allegations as “empty lies.” Aseel is a leader of the Rizeigat – one of the largest Arab tribes in West Darfur and the group from which many RSF leaders hail. Arab tribal traditions prohibit sexual assault and bar Arabs from marrying Masalit, Aseel said in a phone interview, and thus his people couldn’t have committed mass rape.

    “If I can’t bring myself to marry” a Masalit woman, Aseel said, “why would I go and take her by force?”

    If not for the horrific context, the sheer idiocy of the above comment would be truly hilarious.

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        8 months ago

        I have to ask. Besides being an edgy comment that borders on (if not flatout) maligning Muslims- what are you trying to accomplish with it? Or am I putting too much weight on a throwaway troll commeny?

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          Whoa, you’ve got your detective hat on for this one! Calling out the edge and dodgy vibes in a comment it’s like commentating on a high-stakes tightrope walk! Are we dissecting a troll’s motives or just accidentally giving them the spotlight?

          Either way, you’re the comment-section philosopher ponderirho mysteries of online discourse

      • AnarchoDakosaurus@toast.ooo
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        8 months ago

        You do realize many of the women raped were probably Muslim too? Its not religion that brought that rather then racism… people keep failing to understand this. Or rather it makes you feel justified in your own hatred rather then reading the actual fucking article.