![Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at the Hallam Conference Centre in London, Britain December 18, 2019 [Toby Melville/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2cbc6ca9906e4e6c9c5b241f05e05e0c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Palestinians and other Arabs are not interested in the promotion of ‘religious tolerance’ by highly intolerant regimes.
![A man prays at a memorial three days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, US August 6, 2019 [Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ff0aef0f8aa9499ba431fa6efa50cb5d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Mass violence is not the product of religion or culture. It is born of narratives of insecurity.
![Sudanese protesters burn tyres and set up barricades after their sit-in in Khartoum was dispersed on June 3, 2019 [Anadolu/Mahmoud Hjaj]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/898d0075f1a144648313f347c37e4b7e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
What happened on June 3 has pushed the country to the edge of the abyss.
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An open dialogue between the protesters and the Sudanese army could pull Sudan from the brink of failed statehood.
![Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they march along the street during anti-government protests in Khartoum, Sudan on December 25, 2018 [Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9defb854a852491c8f86f5331d8eff92_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
And what happens next?
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The US is becoming very skilled on conjuring up failed states, and helping them fail even more.
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Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent.
![Armed conflicts in Darfur and the south of Sudan persist [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014416144028411734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
What would it take for a breakthrough in Sudan’s ‘national dialogue’?
The Muslim overreaction to the pope’s remarks may go to support his point about Muslim’s problems with rationality.
African Union mediators have set another ultimatum in the Darfur conflict, with no sign that the two recalcitrant rebel factions are going to sign the Abuja deal.