Opposition forces and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) \u2018strongly condemned\u2019 the 8th General Conference of the Islamic Movement (IM) that began in Khartoum on Thursday, 15 November, Radio Dabanga has learned.<\/p>\n
They stated this conference, which was concluded on Friday and was led by Sudan\u2019s president Omar al-Bashir, is \u2018unrelated to the people of Sudan or their issues\u2019.<\/p>\n
Kamal Omar, political affairs secretary of the Popular Congress Party (PCP), claimed in an interview with Radio Dabanga that the ruling authority is \u2018holding this conference to give themselves Islamic credit\u2019.<\/p>\n
He continued saying that leaders of Sudan \u2018lack faith, consideration, politics and ethics\u2019, what is evident given \u2018they are the ones killing citizens in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile\u2019.<\/p>\n
In addition, the government is spending nine billion Sudanese pounds in the conference, while the yellow fever epidemic is killing citizens in Darfur and tens of thousands of people in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile are denied access to relief, the secretary stated.<\/p>\n
The IM was reportedly attended by 120 Islamists from 30 countries, including Khaled Meshaal from Hamas, Rashid Ghannouchi, the President of Alnahda Party in Tunisia, Mohamed Badie the advisor of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in addition to 4.000 Islamists from different states of Sudan.<\/p>\n
On his turn, Omar declared his party is not taking part in the conference he described as \u2018falsely islamized\u2019.<\/p>\n
He stressed the conference is distorting the idea of Islam, and that he is fighting to overthrow the regime and establish a \u2018new Islam\u2019 that values citizenship, democracy and the rule of law. The secretary added that al-Bashir should be the one ‘taken to court, instead of him arresting his own citizens’. <\/p>\n
\u2018Disappointing\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Omar called the participation of Arab leaders in the IM as \u2018disappointing\u2019 and he wonders how these leaders can talk about Arab Spring revolutions in their countries and at the same time accept al-Bashir\u2019s regime by visiting him in Khartoum.<\/p>\n The secretary asserted al-Bashir is \u2018worse than Mubarak and Zine Abidin Ben Ali, as he killed more people then both former leaders’.<\/p>\n He also said that the Arab leaders attending the IM should now visit Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as currently there are no differences between him and al-Bashir.<\/p>\n \u2018IM provides nothing new\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The spokesman of the SRF, Abu al-Qasim Imam El-Haj, stated the IM \u2018provides nothing new\u2019 and that it does not represent the people of Sudan. <\/p>\n He explained that the \u2018so-called Islamic conference is in fact the NCP\u2019, which is killing people in South Kordofan, in Blue Nile and in Darfur.<\/p>\n El-Haj pointed out that these people came to power \u2018with the worst form of political Islam\u2019 and described the conference and its participants as a group that \u2018kills and loots people in the name of religion\u2019.<\/p>\n Political Islam has nothing more to offer the Sudanese than the crises they have experienced so far, he continued, saying that there is no solution to the crisis introduced in the country by the NCP.<\/p>\n The spokesman suggested that the only way out is that people stand behind the SRF, who aims at implementing a comprehensive change in Sudan and a radical change of regime.<\/p>\n Photo: Khartoum<\/em><\/p>\n