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Samater
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Post Number: 21
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 02:07 am: | 
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Sudan and the Kola Boof Hoax: "Slavery" Propaganda Exposed
by David Hoile/ESPAC
The Sudanese civil war has generated a vast amount of propaganda and disinformation. The intervention in Sudan by foreign powers, especially the United States, and by civil groups with partisan religious and political motivations, has exacerbated and prolonged a tragic conflict by the deliberate and cynical manufacture of blatantly manufactured distortions, lies and hoaxes.
A recent and archetypal example of this process was the manipulation of the image of Sudan for personal and propaganda purposes in the campaign surrounding a woman calling herself Kola Boof. (1) The author of 'Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories of African Women', Ms Boof's "sudden" appearance on the Internet "several months ago" was noted by 'The New York Times' in December 2002. (2) Ms Boof came to prominence when she claimed that she had been made the subject of a Sudanese government fatwa issued by a Sudanese diplomat in London, Mr Jamal Ibrahim, and Dr Hasan Turabi, the former speaker of the Sudanese Parliament, allegedly sentencing her to death for being opposed to the Khartoum government and blaspheming Islam. Ms Boof claimed that she had been sentenced to be beheaded. These claims were carried by several media outlets. (3) She claimed that the fatwa had been issued in September 2002 by the Sudanese government, and that this had been conveyed to her by the SPLA, who in turn claimed to have had it confirmed by a Mr Tanzim Wasti, Mr Ibrahim's secretary and by Islamist activist Sheikh Omar Bakri.
On the basis of these and other previous claims Ms Boof quickly emerged as a darling of the anti-Sudan campaign, and was embraced by activists such as Joe Madison and Maria Sliwa of "FreeWorldNow". (4) The 'New York Times' revealed how impressionable members of African-American society came forward to help her campaign because of having read her claims as publicised on the Internet. Demonstrations were held in her name. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWD), for example, arranged simultaneous demonstrations in New York city, Los Angeles and Washington-DC on 7 November 2002 to "protest" the "Sept. 26th death sentence from Sudan ordering that Black womanist writer Kola Boof is to be beheaded". The AWID protest literature spoke of "our beloved Queen Kola". (5)
Building on her anti-Khartoum theme, Ms Boof also stated in interviews for example: "I am a political activist, a soldier in Dr. John Garang's Sudanese People's Liberation Army". (6) It subsequently emerged that she had made a number of other interesting claims. She claimed, for example, that she was the daughter of an Egyptian archaeologist and a Somalian princess, and that she had lived in Omdurman, Sudan, until she was 10 or 11, in 1978. Ms Boof claimed that in 1978 "my parents...were murdered for speaking up against slavery and the brutish Islamic government of Sudan". (7) She claimed that "murahleen" tribesmen had killed them in front of her. She claims that her Egyptian grandmother then put her up for adoption and that through UNICEF she travelled to London and was taken in by an Ethiopian family who eventually gave her up because, she said, they thought she might be a witch. She says she was then adopted by a black family in Washington-DC in 1980. (8)
Ms Boof also claimed that the Sudan People's Liberation Army was in existence as early as 1977, and that as a little girl she had attended SPLA meetings.
The Mundane Truth
Every one of these claims unravelled under examination. The facts were far less interesting. Mr Jamal Ibrahim, the deputy chief of mission at the Sudanese embassy in Britain, wrote an article critical of Ms Boof and claims that she had previously made, an article published in 'Al- Sharq Al-Awsat' in September 2002. In this article he criticised her "falsehood and dishonesty" in previous claims. Ms Boof subsequently claimed that this article was in fact a fatwa, inaccurately stating that fatwa is "a contract for assassination". (9)
Unlike Ms Boof, 'The New York Times' took the trouble to confirm the claims made to her by the SPLA in London. The newspaper spoke to Sheikh Omar Bakri, a senior judge of the Islamic sharia court in London, and someone noted for his forthright views. Ms Boof claimed that Bakri had been party to the fatwa. He stated that "nobody issued a fatwa against Kola Boof". (10) The Islamic judge went on to state: "I know she was criticized by a Muslim official in London, but he isn't in a position to issue a fatwa." This was confirmed by Mr Ibrahim himself, who said the claim was "bizarre and baseless" and that: "My own view is that she wants to make use of this to help her in selling her books. It is a bizarre exercise in public relations." (11) Mr Ibrahim did criticise Ms Boof in his article, and there would appear to be considerable grounds for legitimate criticism, but as 'The New York Times' observed "criticism isn't the same as a fatwa". It would appear that the SPLA in London deliberately misrepresented the issue.
Unraveling the Lies
Ms Boof's claims about her early life are similarly flawed. She alleged that murahleen tribesmen killed her parents in Omdurman. These horsemen are only found in southern Kordofan, several hundred miles away from Omdurman. It is the equivalent in American terms of being attacked in a Washington-DC suburb by a band of Oklahoma cattlemen. She also claimed that the SPLA were in existence in 1977. It is also a simple matter of record that the SPLA was founded only in late 1983. (12) Ms Boof's claim that her father was murdered in 1978 for speaking "up against...the brutish Islamic government of Sudan" similarly jars with reality. In 1978 Sudan was resolutely secular, governed by President Jaafar Nimeiri, a close American ally whose government was one of the largest recipients of international American economic and military assistance. The present Islamic government in Sudan only came to power in 1989.
Ms Boof made a number of other claims about herself. In August 2002, she claimed to have been shot at outside Los Angeles by Arab Muslim gunmen, and that she shot back. Boof further claimed to be under FBI protection. The 'New York Times' reported that the FBI "had no knowledge of Ms. Boof". (13)
Ms Boof was also said by 'The New York Times' to have "told flamboyant stories about her life in Egypt and Morocco, where, she said she was a B-movie actress and a high level prostitute, operating in luxury hotels..." It was during this time in Morocco that Ms Boof also claimed to have had an affair with Osama bin Laden in 1996. She elaborated on this alleged affair in a January 2003 statement when she claimed that it was a four month sexual relationship in Morocco. She had met bin Laden in a Senegalese restaurant "which was the only place in Marrakech where they knew how to cook lion's meat" (one of her "favorite" dishes). She claimed that she subsequently became "Osama's mistress" and that she had "lounged about in silk and diamonds". (14) One of the most watched men in the world, there is no record whatsoever of bin Laden being in Morocco in 1996.
Boof has also made other jarring claims, speaking, for example, about "rich Palestinians who have black women slaves working in their kitchens, their tongues cut out of their heads." (15)
Ms Boof's somewhat elaborate claims began to be actively challenged by the end of 2002. The 'New York Times' examined her allegations in some depth. (16) In an interview with the newspaper, Ms Boof admitted to being manipulative: "I can't deny that I'm a conniving person...I have to manipulate the system, and I don't mind if you publish that..." The newspaper discredited the fatwa claim. Ms Boof was dropped by her publisher at the end of 2002. And, despite having been warmly embraced and extensively publicised by the anti-Sudan lobby within the United States and elsewhere, Ms Boof's claims soon became even too outrageous for all but the diehard fringe. The SPLA has distanced itself from Ms Boof. The 'New York Times' reported that the SPLA "embraced her and then backed away, as Ms. Boof's personal, if not literary credentials have been called into question."
Deng Ajak, secretary-general of the anti-government Sudan Commission for Human Rights, stated that he was initially supportive of Ms Boof "but when she said in one of her own e-mails to me that she had a brief encounter of dating Osama bin Laden, I said to my colleagues that we need to pull the plug on this one". He stated that "This could be one of the most impressively spun and choreographed pieces of fiction that one could imagine". Nevertheless, Ms Boof claimed that "the Southern Blacks of my homeland" have accorded her the title of "Queen Kola". (17)
The 'New York Times' reported that Ms Silwa has also "distanced" herself from Kola Boof's claims, quoting her as stating: "I don't think it behooves our human rights interest to connect ourselves with someone who is inconsistent and can't prove her identity." (18) Joe Madison continues to publicise Ms Boof.
Conclusion
Ms Boof and her claims provide a clear example of how patently false and self-serving lies about Sudan have been accepted at face value and publicised by the anti-Sudan industry. She has sold more of her books as a result of these claims. Ms Boof has deliberately sought publicity, both personal and commercial on the basis of these assertions.
The pattern is a sad one. Outrageous claims are manufactured and disseminated widely. Eventually allegations are exposed as either exaggerated or utterly groundless, or collapse in the face of their own absurdity and self-contradictions. All but the most bigoted or partisan of their disseminators retreat into a discrete silence - but never have the honesty or integrity to admit their complicity in a hoax, or to publicise the falsity of their previous articles. The miasma of defamatory claims against Sudan is once again added to, and only a short time elapses before yet another hoax or lie is launched and credulously disseminated by a media that never seems to learn the lessons of its previous blunders.
http://www.mediamonitors.net/espac28.html
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Prettybabygirl
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Post Number: 73
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 03:23 am: |
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David Hoile is a NAZI who says that the Holocaust never happened.
He referred to South Africans as "monkeys" and his "bogus" article about Kola Boof has been roundly dismissed by the press.
Here's American journalist Simon Jenkins:
http://doorofkush.50megs.com/contact.html
Here's CHICAGO TRIBUNE writer Mark Fogarty:
http://doorofkush.50megs.com/custom4.html
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE FOLKS?
A German Nazi lawyer who's a member of the ESPAC
and has referred to African children as "Monkeys"
or two noted American Journalists who say that people fear Kola Boof's TRUTH?
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Prettybabygirl
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Post Number: 74
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 03:30 am: |
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NAZI DAVID HOILE GOES AFTER NELSON MANDELA
by Eric Reeves
The Guardian has two photographs: one of David Hoile, wearing a tie with an odd appendage; the second photograph is a close up of the image appended to the tie. It is a picture of Nelson Mandela: below it are the words; “Hang Nelson Mandela and All ANC Terrorists. They are Butchers” (Hyde 2001).
But Khartoum government and the defunct Apartheid Regime of South Africa are not the only beneficiaries of Mr. Hoile’s services. Pallister of the Guardian reports that: “Mr. Hoile has in the past allied himself with a number of unsavoury rebel and terrorist groups; the contras in Nicaragua, Renamo in Mozambique and Unita in Angola” (Pallister 2003).
The dubious connection of Mr Hoile with the no less dubious Khartoum government is well documented and self-evident. Throwing light on this connection, Sudan Update reports: Mr Hoile also worked for Westminster Associates, contracted in 1996 to improve Sudan’s international public image. He now heads the equally pro-NIF British-Sudanese Public Affairs Council” and “European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council” (Sudan Update 2005).
Using a much more powerful source, Pallister further exposes the mercenary adventures of Mr Hoile: Shortly after Mr Hoile set up the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council, Lord Avebury, chairman of the parliamentary human rights group, said in a Lords debate: “It is believed Mr Hoile receives all his money from the Sudanese government. I hope that those who receive his literature will take careful note of that” (Pallister 2005).
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This is the same man who wrote the "BOGUS" article up above about Kola Boof.
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Mrs_hart
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Post Number: 44
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 08:20 am: |
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What's the difference here folks? NOTHING!
Kola Boof is a racist of color. She has gone after prominent Black Americans who fought for Black American rights during the Civil Rights Era.
Kola Boof, a mixed-race Racist of color says that other mixed-race and lighter-skinned Blacks do not suffer discrimination or terrorism as historically noted.
Kola Boof is just aping the White man. She uses a White Supremist blue print to go after other people of color.
One is an outside job, the other an INSIDE JOB.
BOTH want to destroy people of and deny the pain and suffering of people with African ancestry.
HERE IS THE PETER TONG STORY: SCROLL BELOW THE FIRST STORY. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE KOLA BOOF HOAX ARTICLE, CLICK ON THE THREE SMALL ICONS AT THE BOTTOM.
Kola Boof - Womanist, Novelist and Poet Speaks ... : Yezee Book Club
Text compiled from Sudanese public Affairs Council, Arab media Watch and new York
Times. 9-Feb-2005 14:10 Peter Tong Kola Boof hoax: slavery propaganda ...
www.yezee.com/1496087.page - 28k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
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Samater
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Post Number: 22
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 11:46 am: |
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"David Hoile is a NAZI who says that the Holocaust never happened.
He referred to South Africans as "monkeys" and his "bogus" article about Kola Boof has been roundly dismissed by the press.
Here's American journalist Simon Jenkins:
http://doorofkush.50megs.com/contact.html
Here's CHICAGO TRIBUNE writer Mark Fogarty:
http://doorofkush.50megs.com/custom4.html
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE FOLKS?
A German Nazi lawyer who's a member of the ESPAC
and has referred to African children as "Monkeys"
or two noted American Journalists who say that people fear Kola Boof's TRUTH? "
Funny that you accuse this man of rascism for exposing the fraud Kola Boof is. But than again some people have such low selfesteem that they will believe anything anyone tells them and their are other people who have their own crusade against Islam and especially against Sudan that they willing to believe woman whose whole story does not make sense.
Her parents origin keeps flip flopping
She claimed SUdanese Islam clerick issued Fatwa against her, but there was no such fatwa issued against her.
She claimed her parent were murdered infront of her by murahleen tribesmen, but these tribes don't live anywhere near Omdurman.
She claimed to be Osama Bin Laden mistress when he visited MOrroco 1996, but BIn Laden who than was a wanted man never travelled to Morroco, matter fact 1996 Bin Laden was in Sudan.
She claimed that she was under FBI witness protection program, but FBI don't even know who Kola Boof is.
Kola claimed that the radical Islamic government in Sudan killed her father for speaking out against the government back in 1978, but what she forgot was that the Islamic government came to power 1989.
Kola claimed to have taken part in SPLA meeting back in 1977, but again she forgot that SPLA was founded 1983.
She claimed that an Arab man tried to shot her outside a hotel in LA, again she couldn't proof these phony claim like her other claims.
She claimed their was a slavery going on in Sudan, but the slavery in Sudan turned out to be nothing more than Western Hoax setup to humiliate Sudan, 60 min did dedicated a whole hour in exposing the hoax slave trade manufactored by the Christian Missioneries and Kola Boof to try to humiliate Sudan.
Even the SPLA distant themself from Kola Boof's lunatic lies.
The more Kola tells her fairy tales the more she exposes her lies.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Post Number: 62
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:21 am: |
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So where is Kola Boof now? What happened to her? |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 1175
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:23 am: |
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What do you mean what happened to me?
I'm standing right next to you.
Guess who wrote me tonight?
Dr. Molefi Asante!
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Schakspir
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Post Number: 83
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 02:17 pm: |
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....And Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Pinky and the Brain, Beetlejuice, Freakazoid, Harry Potter, Adolf Hitler, Little Lulu, Baby Huey, Mickey Mouse, Speedy Gonzalez, Dick Tracy, Magilla Gorilla, Fred and Wilma Flinstone, etc. Yes, she does get quite a bit of mail around where she comes from. ;o) |
Kola_boof
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Post Number: 1185
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:17 pm: |
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Dr. Molefi Asante is a Professor at TEMPLE University.
It wouldn't be hard ....AT ALL.....for anyone to verify whether he contacted me or not.
AND...he's a huge fan of my books.
Unlike you, he's actually read them.
He says that I'm "one of our greatest writers", and he's quite impressed with my "nerve".
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