User talk:Johncoyphoto

I have noticed over the years that the criticism section of the Wiki article on Franklin Graham is regularly sanitized?

As an African based journalist and photographer who has worked with actual Sudanese refugees from both the south and the north it is deeply disturbing to me to find that that Franklin Grahams Sudan involvement is not mentioned on his wiki page.

Some could argue that he did the right thing when he refused to be part of the 1994 peace talks with the LRA; however it is an undisputable source of criticism.

Is there any way someone could help me with this?

Sincerely -John

Criticism
Graham came under criticism for comments he made about Islam in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when he referred to Islam as "a very evil and wicked religion." Further criticism came on April 18, 2003, when he preached at a Good Friday service at the Pentagon.

In 1994 the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was willing to negotiate peace with the Sudanese and Ugandan governments for the first time as part of a Carter Center peace initiative in witch the LRA founder Joseph Kony was willing release some of his child soldiers to UNICEF as a gesture of good will. However, talks broke off when Franklin Graham refused to participate in the negotiations refuting clams that Christian militants where involved in the 1994 massacres and raps along the Uganda, Sudan border. It is considered by many historians as a pivotal moment which escalated a pre-world-war-two Germany type paranoia in Sudan which some believe lead to the 2003 Darfur genocide.


 * I'm struggling to find any mention of criticism of Graham in the sources that you've quoted. I simplified the statement on the wiki article and asked for a citation. Ἀλήθεια (talk) 13:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)


 * thanks.

-john