The Muslim conquest of North Africa is of ancient vintage.  Dating from the 7th Century to the present, there has been an Arab dominating presence in Sudan.  Although black Sudanese in the north of the country have inherited devotion to Islam dating from the time of the conquest, they have always been seen as subservient to Arabs, inferior to Arabs and under constant colonial rule.

Black Sudanese in the south of the country were able finally - through rebellion and rigid opposition to being chattels of Khartoum - to achieve a breakaway, becoming a nation and a geography sovereign, separate and apart from North Sudan, although final boundaries continue to be in dispute, particularly oil-rich areas which both claim as their heritage of natural resources.  South Sudan is comprised of black Sudanese who are Christian or animist.

But the North, which includes the Darfur region of Black Sudanese farming communities is Muslim.  Despite which the Arab population and the black African population have never lived at ease with one another; the Arabs viewing the blacks as essentially slaves, the blacks viewing the Arabs as interlopers, foreigners, taskmasters, slavers in the land of black Africans.

Nothing will dislodge the Arab presence in Sudan, not the feverish desires of black Africans to be masters in their own house, nor their dire resentments culminating in civil war, and guerrilla attacks on Arab militias representing the Arab-dominant regime.  The government in Khartoum, alert against any uprisings, determined to tamp them down by all means available, unleashed horsed Arab tribesmen, the dreaded Janjaweed to augment the regime's military assaults on countless black African tribal villages in Darfur, displacing hundreds of thousands of Sudanese, butchering tens of thousands, and raping countless black Darfurians.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague in 2010 judged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, charges which he simply sloughed off, and which have never impressed the Arab League; he feels free to travel extensively without fear of apprehension.  His crimes and those of his regime are horrendous.  Yet the international community is complacent in the face of this reality.

Condemnation of the Darfurian tragedy made international headlines for a period of time, then dwindled to disinterest.  Yet the same cannot be said for the presence of a relatively newly-established state recognized by the international community through the United Nations representing a return to heritage from a well-established original presence pre-dating the Biblical era and beyond.  

An Arab presence that dated a millennium and more after the dispersal and the eventual settlement of Jews in Arab lands and around the world, is held by non-aligned countries pre-dominating in the United Nations (to have primary legitimacy), and democratic countries alike to be that of a colonialist nature in a nation desperate for its survival and forced to cope with unending military and terrorist attacks against its existence.

Indigenous peoples of the world; Amerindians, Blacks, Jews and all those who existed on land predating the arrival worldwide through migration and conquest of strangers with superior numbers and arms, were, are and will continue to be geographically and socially disenfranchised.  This represents the human condition in part, immoral but part of our distinctly lesser natures.