Vancouver Courier: Stop genocide makes reader proud

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Stop genocide makes reader proud

To the editor:
It makes one proud to be a Canadian to read the May 22 Courier cover ("Stop genocide") by Jessica Werb in which she describes the attempts by Jews, Muslims and Canadians to stop the slaughter in Darfur.

We must honour those in Canada who bring comfort and succour to those suffering injustice at home or abroad.

It is only Canada, as Ms. Werb points out, that is sending troops to help end the genocide in Sudan.

I would like to point out however two corrections that should be made. First, not only is the U.S. government not continuing to protest ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region, but its agents, including the CIA, actively work with the Sudanese government which is responsible for the ongoing atrocities. For further information you may go to your website search engine and check out "CIA and Darfur."

And then, a minor point, but many people don't know their own history not to mention that of other cultures. Arabs (and other Muslims) and Jews (all, for the most part, belonging to the Semitic "race") have not always had the turbulent and troubled and violent relations we see today, as mentioned by Ms. Werb.

For many centuries in the past Jews found sanctuary in Muslim countries when confronted with the anti-Semitism rampant in Europe. But this is a minor point.

JAY PAULSON,
VANCOUVER