In response, the janjaweed are encouraging Arabs in eastern Chad to attack black Muslims there, in the hope of creating chaos and stemming the flow of weapons to the rebels.

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While many black Muslims follow a divergent strain of Islam, Vickers found a home in the Wahhabi-connected AMC and served as its executive director from June 2002 until February 2003, after he left the American Muslim Alliance.

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These black Muslims do not subscribe to the same brand of militant Islam that the Arab Islamist regime subscribes to, thus they are being attacked in a manner similar to that which occurred in the south of Sudan.

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