THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AND
RULING POLITICS
By Mahgoub El-Tigani, Ph.D.
Member of Sudanese Writers' Union (in exile)
This reply to the Call published by the Muslim Brotherhood International
Haraka Islamiya (Islamic Movement) Group is meant to ascertain this
writer's viewpoint to the Sudanese, in particular, and the whole world, including
the Haraka Islamiya Group, in general.
A few points of this reply may overlap with the strong condemnation and the
total rejection of the People of Sudan to the existing June coup military
government. It is a government that has been openly controlled by the National
Islamic Front of the Sudan that is a part of the International Haraka Islamiya
Group. This writer, however, is solely responsible for all
that is written in this reply.
The writer solemnly believes that the only Protector of the whole universe
is the All-Mighty Lord who protects and runs His kingdom as He wishes.
The People of Sudan, more than any other humans, individuals, party or international
regional or national groups, are the only legitimate authority with the full
right to act or decide for the People of Sudan on their own right. The People
of Sudan are the only legitimate source of authority to decide on their own
national interests that the Haraka Islamiya Group trivialized and continued
to abuse. The People of Sudan are the only People mandated to act in the Sudan
as the khalifa (vicegerent) of the All-Mighty Lord in Sudan.
A Sudanese Muslim, I am frightened with the extent and degree of injustice
that the Call of the Haraka International contained. I condemn in the strongest
terms possible the suppression Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya Group and all
those who supported it willfully exercised against the People of Sudan.
The reply is meant to ascertain this necessary condemnation so that the Haraka
Islamiya Group spends no time deceiving the world that it did not condone
suppression against humans, Muslim or non-Muslim.
The Haraka International is now gravely concerned for the suppression exercised
by their own factions of the Khartoum Government against one another. It is
time to confront the Haraka International with their own suppression of Islam
and the Muslims as well as the brutal suppression they exercised for no reason
against the Sudanese non-Muslims.
The Sudanese, Muslim or non-Muslim, have every right to ask the Haraka right
away: why did you intrude in Sudanese affairs?
Why did you support the aggression and brutality of your branch of the Haraka
in Sudan, the National Islamic Front whatever name it had before or after
the June 1989's military coup?
Why did you abrogate the Sudanese Peace Agreement, democratic rule, and public
freedoms?
Why did you arrest Sudanese distinguished leaders, Muslims or non-Muslims,
tortured, and killed many of them?
With all of the other Muslims and non-Muslims, leaders and members, why did
you arrest, for example, Al-Za'im Al-Muslim Al-Muhtaram, Mohamed Osman Al-Mirghani,
detained him in Kober prison, confiscated his property, tortured his family
members, and insulted his large Khatmiya group with all kinds of torture?
While you would, hopefully, start preparing some answers, so many questions
are in need of answers, so many crimes are in need of prosecution, and so
many decisions have to be taken by Sudanese in light of your Haraka intrusions
in Sudan and Sudanese affairs.
M.E.
July 6, 2000
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