Tigani (cont.)
THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AND RULING
POLITICS
A CRITIQUE OF THE MUSLIM ULAMA AND LEADERS'
CALL TO AHL AL-SUDAN (9)
Your Haraka came to degrade, eradicate, and abuse this heritage as
your State and Party made of the Arab language and Islamic faith a violent
political tool to do away with the non-Arabized Sudanese, to force them to
abandon their genuine cultures, to surrender their social well-being to falsely
assimilate that of the ruling minority your Haraka supports.
- The emphasis you made on "elements of the Arab Islamic Identity" you are
so deeply concerned for in your Call as components of the Sudanese Civilization
should not figure out as the most important or the most venerated symbols
of civilization in Sudanese history or present terms but must fairly function
as an African activity within the framework of Sudan's African identity
and future for Sudan is largely African in languages, cultures, races, and
ethnicity.
In Sudan, many Arab elements have been Sudanized and Africanized since
ancient times, not vice versa. Hence, it is unbecoming that the majority
African Sudanese be converted into a disfigured Arab entity for the sake
of a few Arab elements Sudanese always shared in peace and with noble
hospitality as part of their deeply-rooted African values
- Despite the ruthlessness and excessive savagery they exercised to establish
Revolution of the Haraka Islamiya as a brutal non-Islamic inhuman
entity, you only painstakingly depicted your Revolution's criminality as
"the exceptional case that might have been necessitated by circumstances
of the Revolution."
You failed to admit with bravery and integrity - as Muslims are required
to do - the bitter truth that the international Haraka Islamiya did
in fact allowed the ruling regime to make of the decent, free, beautiful,
cooperative, artistic, and creative life of Sudanese, wherever they lived
in the one million Africa's largest nation in space, a Hole of Hell.
- The international Haraka Islamiya's State and Party disfigured
the generous, noble, friendly, and sisterly relations that existed between
Sudanese, Muslim or non-Muslim, and many Muslim leaders and thinkers who
were also welcomed to visit Sudan to perform contractual cultural, religious,
and social activities as a friendly relationship or for business.
The Haraka Islamiya converted these good activities into acts
of terrorism as it changed the platform of dialogue into camps of training
terrorists. The pens were changed into guns and the ink made into blood
to kill many innocent tourists in Egypt, Tunisia, and many other countries.
The free movement of the non-Sudanese Muslim guests was abused to assassinate
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in Addis Ababa 1995. For these and other
horrible crimes, Sudan paid and is paying dearly until this moment: Sudanese
are wrongfully persecuted in regional and international airports as citizens
of a terrorist State.
Most recently, a Sudanese was insulted by some Arab press and labeled by
another Arab-based magazine an "ugly black." Well! Let us ask, for example,
Al-Shaikh Al-Ahmer, Speaker of the Yemenite Parliament who signed the Call
for Ahl Al-Sudan as supposedly they might have known or heard of the
noble Negro origins of Adnan and Qahtan.
The Prophet Hadith stated: "Ahl baiti dolm [black], humr [brown],
and beed [white]" which comprised the one and same humanity, as is
now proved by scientific anthropological research that the Homo sapiens, the
first sober-minded intelligent human was the African Negro, the origin of
humans, the cradle of civilization.
Were Sudanese "white" or "yellow" when they opened Africa's Black Sudan for
all nationalities to live in happiness with them centuries ago? Were they
ugly Blacks when every year they made the pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Islam
for "mutual benefits and recitation of the name of God"? Was their blackness
"ugly" when Sudanese beautiful and intelligent African women and men were
respectfully married to Arab citizens and Asians everywhere in the region?
Dear Ulama, Leaders, and Thinkers signatories of the Call for Ahl
Al-Sudan: Sudanese are suffering the brunt of living under the Haraka
Islamiya pariah rule that stretched its poisonous failures to haunt Sudanese
and trivialize their good life and noble image wherever it could reach them.
The Sudanese Africans whom no doubt many of the signatories personally known
have welcomed for years many of the signatories or their friends, especially
when they were persecuted by their own governments or even organizations in
their own homelands, for example the Palestinians of all Ahzab, Hizb Allah
or the progressive secular Ahzab that Hizb Allah supporters and other
Muslim Brotherhood like to label as Hizb Al-Shaytan [Satan], those
who reconciled Israel as well as those who are still in war with Israel.
It is shameless that signatories of the Call forgot to remember these glorious
qualities of Sudanese versus the criminal acts Haraka Islamiya State
and Party committed against Sudanese for more than a decade.
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