A truly horrifying report in the Guardian about the slaughter in Sudan which the western world resolutely ignores brings out the racial and religious dimension very clearly:

'While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday. The songs of the Hakama, or the "Janjaweed women" as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen. The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said...According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God." The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed." '

The Telegraph reports:

'One woman, five months pregnant, who was abducted with eight others, said that five or six men raped them every night for six days. One of the group was aged 8. She said: “My husband could not forgive me after this. He disowned me.” Other testimony described how a 14-year-old was raped in the marketplace in front of her mother before her brother was tied up and thrown into a fire. A 23-year-old mother of three described how she was raped by five men one night, and three the next, before she managed to escape, but said other women who tried to flee had their legs or arms broken. “The effect is to tear at the social fabric of the communities, leaving the women as spoilt goods who are disowned by their husbands,” Ms Truscott said. “The horrific nature and scale of the violence appears to be a collective punishment of a population whose members have taken up arms against the central Government.”

This abomination, which has been going on for years, is being perpetrated by Arab Muslims against others on the grounds that they are Christian and that they are black. Other victims are black Muslims. It is therefore an example of the horror that that western liberals are supposed to be pledged never again to allow, a religious and racial genocide. Yet over Sudan, the great western liberal 'conscience' barely stirs. It is having too much fun instead accusing western democracies (falsely) of warmongering, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment -- because as we all know, only the western democracies are ever guilty and third world peoples don't commit atrocities. Truly, we live in an utterly disgusting age.