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03/07/12(Wed)20:38 No.2005762i
opened up my copy of Robert Young Pelton's travel book, The World's
most Dangerous Places and discovered this gem about Joseph Kony.
"Arch-dingbats
and the only fundamentalist African Christian terrorist group based in
Sudan, this cockeyed, ramshackle mob wants to turn Uganda into a
theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments-though by DP's admittedly
fallible reckoning, their efforts to do so have displayed a frankly
appalling lack of respect for commandments two, five, seven, nine, and
ten, and we think they should also answer as regards commandments one,
three, and four. With Christianity, as with Islam, it is its most
fanatical adherents who are also its worst advertisements. The LRA is
largely composed of Acholi tribes-people and is led by former alter boy
and stern-faced lunatic named Joseph Kony. He is the nephew of LRA's
spiritual founder, a prostitute named Alice Lakwena. She founded
something called the Holy Spirit Movement back in 1988, and told her
fighters she could protect them from bullets (she couldn't, and fled to
Kenya). Today, the LRA no longer clings to such primitivism. Now, they
think they can deflect bullets with tree oils (they can't, but the LRA
keep on coming). The LRA has long been armed and uniformed by
northern Sudan, but Khartoum has recently been trying to put some
distance between themselves and their proteges. Yes, eagle-eyed readers
will note, this is a fundamentalist Christian terrorist group sponsored
by a fundamentalist Islamic regime. It kinda' brings a tear to DP's eye
to see teamwork like that." |