The Regime of Action Islam in the Sudan
By Mohamed Suliman 2009
I am now at home in Khartoum, a city of ubiquitous trivial and serious gossip. It overwhelms you with immense details that dissolve away any picture you may have had of the wood that is real Khartoum. The trees keep changing, the wood, however, remains the same. Since 1989 everything about the putschists in Khartoum has changed, except their most important feature being Jihadist, or as I prefer to call them, Action Islamist.
Broadly speaking, there are three Islamic groupings, traditional, political and Jihadist, or better labelled, Action Islam.
Traditional Islam is not party political. A traditionalist can and usually does, join the political party of his or her choice.
Political Islam, however, demands of its followers to join its political party and, often enough does accept the rules of democratic competition and seeks power, usually, through the ballot box.
Action Islam abhors traditional Islam just as much as it abhores populist political activism. It believes only in action.
Now let me elaborate on what I mean by Action Islam.Read more