"God commands justice and the doing of good" (Holy Qur'an, Nahl:90).

Judged by the signatories' broad representation of many of the Haraka Islamiya Group's organizations, institutes, and centers that are concerned with Islam and Muslims' affairs in African and Arab countries, Pakistan, Malaysia, and European States, the Call under study is definitely important and is worthy of a careful reply based on objective and authentic information for the following reasons:

1. The Call of the Haraka Islamiya ulama Group is addressed to Ahl Al-Sudan [People of The Sudan] although it was dedicated to a great extent to the Sudanese Muslims members of the Haraka Islamiya [Islamic Movement] leaders or youth who occupied positions of the ruling regime, i.e. the government and party of the National Islamic Front (NIF).

2. The Call touched upon significant areas of thought and action for which Sudanese Muslims and non-Muslims, in particular, and the International Community, in general, are equally concerned as they relate to the vital issues of the freedom of belief and political rights.

3. The Call provides a golden chance to refute before the whole world the ideology and political stand undertaken by the Muslim Brotherhood's Haraka Islamiya international leadership as well as other Muslim groups and thinkers who signed the Call to Ahl Al-Sudan. Because the Call ascertained the role their Haraka played, the Call equally indicates their responsibility regarding the political crisis of Sudan.
   

The international Haraka Islamiya is represented by Al-Shaikh Mustafa Mashhoor, the Principal Guide of Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt), in addition to his Deputy, Dr. Hassan Howaidi, and the prominent leader of Hizb Allah party in Lebanon, Ayat Allah Al-Uzmi Al-Sayed Mohamed Hussain Fadl-Allah. There are also other prominent leaders of the religiously oriented political parties of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Pakistan, and Malaysia. These leaders established their political parties with the decent slogans of Justice, Reform, Advancement, Development, Education, and the other important goals of contemporary life, in addition to well-reputed writers in specialized fields of knowledge and modern sciences including criminal law.

One important caution at this point pertains to the fact that the representatives of the Haraka Islamiya who signed the Call and members of their parties are only one section of the huge Muslim population of the world. This population is estimated as a billion persons whose majority are non-members of the Haraka.

The Haraka Islamiya Group must not be mixed up with the Muslim large population who subscribe to their own thinking and political preferences without prejudice to the right of Muslims or non-Muslims to adhere to their own faith, politics, and stands. A great many individuals and groups of these Muslims are Sudanese, of whom this writer is an individual, who strongly reject the political ideology, planning, and actions of the Muslim Brotherhood's Haraka Islamiya Group, especially in our homeland, The Sudan.

A great many Sudanese Muslims, politicians or members of trades unions and professional associations, in particular, stand firmly with their counterparts, the non-Muslim Sudanese, against the Haraka Islamiya Group's persecution, ideology and actions against non-Haraka members. They are struggling to overthrow the ruling regime of the Haraka for the distortion it made on our Sudanese life by abusing the freedom of faith with the non-civilized indoctrination and injustices of the so-called Islamic Project of the Haraka Islamiya group that seized political power in a treacherous night.

Still, this writer is hopeful that the Signatories of the Call to Ahl Al-Sudan would resort to the true voice of wisdom, peace, and humanity, the true mission of Islam as a great world religion. They should act as ulama, leaders and thinkers, individuals and groups that supposedly venerate Al-Adl wa Al-Ihsan [justice and goodness], not injustices, violence or transgression. They should move consciously and more sensitively to the mode and the ethics that reject treachery to challenge the unjust. They must do justice to the realities of the genuine and decent People of Sudan, the victims of the Haraka Islamiya Group's State and Party.

This writer hopes that they might condemn the grave crimes their Haraka thus far committed against humanity in Sudan. That they might respect the independence and preferences of the People of Sudan to decide for their own future by the free will without the Haraka's foreign patronage or patriarchy. They have to stay away from any intervention in the Sudanese affairs. The Haraka Islamiya has recklessly trivialized these affairs by the short-sighted and the narrow-minded support it vehemently offered to stabilize and entrench the NIF dictatorship against the Will of Sudanese since June 30, 1989 to the present time.
 
 

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