NationStates Jolt Archive


Islamic Revolution in West Africa(Earth V)

Bedou
26-01-2007, 16:33
In Georgia the latest in a string of terror attacks provoked a hostile response from the Bedou Sultan living in Lebanon.

The large Bedou population in Lebanon reposnded with support as well as the support. Lebanon was now a Bedou state...even if not in name.

There were Bedou communities globally but few were as concentrated the community in Lebanon...few, but not none.

In Senegal and Guinnea there existeed the largest Bedou population per capita anywhere in the world.


Almost immediately word spread of the attacks and local clerics issued fatwa against the offences and the actions taken.

However when word reached the Bedou that the Sultan had declared a Jihad against the perpetrators of the crimes, this sparked a never expected response by the Bedou of these nations.

Disorganized traders and nomads men who worked the harshest parts of the lands and vowed to defend the nations borders were the Bedou, they were not interested in wealth but seem to accumalate it readily by their practices and their amazing propensity for being technophiles.

These men who lived always in tents and wore the traditional garbs of Islam, who made peace with all who came to them with peace in their hearts, were now armed--as their cultural dictates prescribe all Bedou must be armed, the defend the faithful, and to ensure that there exists no oppression in their sight-lest All-h see them as not fulfilling their duty.

These men in hours were organized militia who had recruited from outside the Bedou as well, those men who agreed with the Bedou clerics and the Sultan on the matters of the extremist actions taken in the name of Islam.



In three days time major news networks all over the world had recieved word of uprisings Senegal and Guinnea, thus far only minor clashes resulting in no deaths had occured between law enforcment and the gathering hoard.

By the evening of day three a messenger arrived at both capitals with letters for the respective governments...

The letters were nearly the same and while no public access to the actual letters had been granted the general understanding was the letters contained a simple ultimatum.

Submit to All-h by way of the edicts ofthe Sultan Mohammed II, so proclaim the Bedou, the faithful an the rightgeous of your lands.
Or be counted among the hypocrites and defilers of the words of the Prophet(pbuh).


The understanding is that with the Sutlan's declaration of Jihad, all Bedou were now at war...everywhere.
The declaration had been made and so anyone should consider it to men that any Bedou they encountered were at war.

Already Bedou from other parts of Africa were making their slow way to Senegal and Guinnea to rally...and with all likelihood began an offnesive war against those whom the Sultan proclaimed Jihad against.
Bedou
28-01-2007, 18:11
[ooc: this is one reason why my government does not particularly like the idea of using Allah in a politically entangling manner - as now you've have declared war on two states that have been given protections for their sovereignty by numerous players...]

OOC: Citizen unrest is not war. And if I was to just say the governments just jumped up and said "yeah!! I want to join up!!!" that would be lame.

A government being pressured by its citizens to take actions is not war.

That is like saying if Catholics took up arms to defend the church they would be declaring war on the state by demanding the state take action.--in other words it would be wrong.

Now the nations were open, I claimed them as a 3 billion plus nation--instead of just having the nations all decide to be buddies--which is just plain stupid. And takes no RP skill what so ever, completely lacks any originality---I did what is at least remorely realistic----I used the national demographic to begin to effect political change.




However, no Sovereign nation has been violated as it is the CITIZENS who make the nation.

Tell me how do you explain your nations being united? Did they just all agree to be friends for no reason? Because without some ideological reason that is nothing short of impossible---religious agreement especially in Islam is singularly the most motivating factor for such an event---Bedou Islam(Wadi Rum) is the unifying factor here and like traditional islam before the schisms of the Imams and Caliphate debates ---it has not predilection to ethnicity or national origin.

My explanation and unification of these nations is the most thoughtout I have read thus far---while not being exceedingly verbose.


So if these nurmerous players wish to ensure the sovereignty of the nations of Senegal and Guinea then I expect they will support the majority of the citizens.

AND

Finally,
The Bedou religion has no political entanglements--the citizens have made demands of the government. This is not a decalration of war on one state to antoher or to one faith to a state.
It is a declaration of the citizens that there will be internal consequenses if their governments do not;
1. Defend the majority religion
2. Up hold and defend the sovereignty of nations being attacked using said majority religion as a shield.
3. represent the wishes of the people as the government is expected to---