Where Compassion Died: The Siege of El Fasher - 10.30.2025

Sudan’s government says the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has killed at least 2,000 people in the three days since it seized control of the city of El Fasher in the Darfur region. This comes as the World Health Organization says it’s appalled by reports that 460 patients and their companions were slaughtered at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. On Wednesday, U.N. refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said tens of thousands of displaced people have been arriving at Tawila, a refuge for civilians fleeing the violence. They described widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings and indiscriminate attacks, particularly affecting the most vulnerable.

Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet: “We have accounts of people with disabilities who were — who were executed, who were killed, as they were unable to flee. But we also hear people that are trying to leave the city and manage to get out of the city, but on the way, they’re caught up and they are also being shot.”

Shame on the UAE and on those who remain silent in the face of such atrocities. Is this what your religion teaches you — to turn away from barbarism and mass killing? Where is the rage and moral outcry in the Muslim world as Sudanese paramilitaries reportedly slaughter at least 2,000 innocent people after seizing El Fasher?
Is land, power, or politics more sacred than the teachings of Islam — compassion, justice, and the sanctity of human life?

What will your report card say at the end of your life when you stand before God? Silence in the face of such horror is complicity.

The world is watching as Muslim nations that claim moral leadership look the other way. True faith is not measured by rhetoric or wealth, but by courage to stand against injustice. The people of Sudan cry out for solidarity, mercy, and action — not indifference.

History will remember who spoke and who stayed silent.