Tigani (cont.)
THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AND RULING POLITICS
 

                     A CRITIQUE OF THE MUSLIM ULAMA AND LEADERS'
                                  CALL TO AHL AL-SUDAN (16)

I can't believe that an ordinary Muslim would dare write the way you did in your Call, O Ulama, Leaders, and Thinkers of Muslim Brotherhood and Haraka Islamiya. I feel sorry for you since all your respectful knowledge and respectful leadership as Arab and Asian individuals and representatives of Muslim groups had only led you to disregard and belittle the vast majority of the noble People of Sudan as you tried to convince them that the Haraka Islamiya of za'im Dr. Hassan Turabi and president Bashir, who are the Killers and Criminals of War of Sudan, have to be extensively supported as leaders of the Haraka Islamiya Revolution for freedom and political pluralism!

You astonishingly wrote that there is a Revolution that instated a state and society of believers who are thus privileged (by whose mandate?) to do whatever they wanted with the 30 million Sudanese or more. Then having been instated and is now breaking to pieces of failure and criminality that are cursed by People day and night, the same Revolution has to be extended to Shoura consultation of Masses with one another, as "free organizations and assemblies or associations" with the marginal space for the Mustamineen [the subjugated second-class citizens and politicians to the superior ruling party of the Haraka Islamiya].

Such a poor understanding of Sudan and Sudanese!

You should have consulted Sudanese or the many non-Sudanese, Muslim or non-Muslim, who admired and deeply respected our People while they researched and published hundreds of books and thousands of articles on the rich politics of Sudanese before phrasing up your Call in this insulting, belittling, and contemptuous manner.

One reason perhaps for this poor Call is that it might have been founded upon the writings of Hassan Turabi on Sudanese society that simply portrayed Sudan as a country with no faith, no tradition, and no heritage. Turabi deceived you obviously: That was what Sudan is about! So, let us experiment a pure model of Haraka Islamiya to make the International Revolution, the dream of full control of individuals and groups of society and state the era's reality!

You believed the liar, the betrayer of his own African country and race.

What a disaster that Muslim ulama, leaders, thinkers, and trades unionists would dare addressing Sudanese and Sudan with such an offensive language and context!

Let me assure you that the reference you made to your own auspicious and good tiding regarding the stage of "Political Openness" after your Revolution experimented in a round of massacres the destruction of Sudanese State and Society, constituted a serious offensive attack on Sudanese sovereignty, dignity, heritage, and well-being. You unfortunately continued
to offend, belittle, and hurt Sudanese national sentiments and legitimate struggles for freedom the way your Call flatly indicated.

O Muslim Ulama, Leaders, and Thinkers Signatories of the Call to Ahl Al-Sudan:

You should have known that Sudanese were and will never be in need of the crazy rule Turabi and Bashir imposed on them. Sudan was already moving with auspicious nationalism and good tiding toward the comprehensive solution of the Sudanese political problem that was never and is never in need of the Haraka Islamiya Revolution or the premature disillusionment to experiment a tyranny coated with a flawed version of Shoura indoctrination to replace international freedoms and human rights, especially the freedom of Faith Sudanese so long enjoyed for centuries in their African free Homeland.

Other than the one step forward, namely that of mentioning Democracy, Pluralism, and Masses' Will, the meanings and real context of the Call by the International Islamic Movement representatives was nothing but the same epistemology and ideology of Muslim Brotherhood that aimed to destabilize the political conditions of the Region with terrorism, that aimed to spread suspicision among Muslims and hatred between Muslims and non-Muslims to be able to enforce Brotherhood dreams of speedy richness and Solajan Al-Mulk [the absolute monopoly of authority].

Despite of the overwhelming pressure of humanity, Muslim or non-Muslim, to realize the enjoyment of democracy and international human rights norms that do guarantee every body the opportunity to experience the wisdom of Ta'ruf [knowing each other] as the Lord gloriously taught with Tafakur and Ta'aqul [thought and wisdom], the Haraka Islamiya regrets and is sorry not for the Istibaha of its za'im Hassan Turabi and president Omer Bashir to all prohibitions of Islam concerning Sudanese People's blood, property, and human dignity, the International Haraka Islamiya.

Haraka is only calling for the need to act with brotherly relations toward the warring factions of the Haraka's State and Party in Sudan so as not to bloodshed or confiscate property of the Haraka's losing faction [that of Turabi apparently]. This stance definitely indicated the blood and property of the other non-Brotherhood Sudanese, Muslim and non-Muslim, was halal (legal)!

How prejudiced! How brutal and inhuman!

How biased and blinded with injustices this Call and the Call Signatories are!

You made of yourselves, O Muslim Ulama, Leaders, and Thinkers signatories of the Call, enemies of the People of Sudan.

You need to apologize and rephrase your Call using a righteous language that:

1. strongly condemns the Haraka Islamiya military coup and dictatorial rule since June 30, 1989 to the last moment of its next removal;
   
2. respects without interference the People of Sudan's strong movement to free Sudan of the Haraka Islamiya failure rule to be able to establish the pluralist regular rule of Democracy, Pluralism, Masses' Judgment, sovereignty of people, and the rule of law;
   
3. respond favorably to the call for justice and righteousness to prosecute za'im Dr. Hassan Turabi and president Omer Bashir and all their military and civil accomplices before independent judiciary for all of the Crimes against Humanity they committed in or outside Sudan;
   
4. starts a truthful, honest, and just dialogue amongst yourselves and with all others interested in solving disputes and advancing the cause of Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights guided with a rigorous revision of any mix-up of religious faith with modern politics of the sort your Call confusingly offered.
   

I wish to end up my critique with this splendid verse of the Holy Qur'an: "O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to Piety, and fear of God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do." Amen.

I equally cite the same glorious verses of the Holy Qur'an you have correctly cited in your Call:

"Our Lord! Forgive us, and our brethren who came before us into the Faith, and leave not in our hearts, racour (or sense of injury) against those who have believed. Our Lord! Thou art indeed full of Kindness, Most Merciful"
(Al-Hashr:10).

END//Mahgoub El-Tigani//Critique of Muslim Ulama//July 6,2000//