{"id":55259,"date":"2025-10-04T23:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55259"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:28:43","slug":"they-keep-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/they-keep-looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"They Keep Looking Back\u2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Al-Tahir Satti<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man once came to Imam Ibn al-Jawzi confessing: \u201cI have committed adultery, and the woman became pregnant.\u201d The Imam rebuked him: \u201cWhy did you not use withdrawal when you committed the sin?\u201d The man replied humbly: \u201cI was told that withdrawal is disliked (makruh).\u201d The Imam shouted in anger: \u201cLeave my sight, man! You were told that withdrawal is disliked, yet you weren\u2019t told that adultery is forbidden?\u201d<\/p>\n

What is astonishing today is that some people judge the contact between Khalid Omar Yousif, a leader in the \u201cSumood Alliance,\u201d and Abu Aqla Keikel, commander of the \u201cBatahna Shield,\u201d as a sinful act \u2014 yet they do not see Keikel\u2019s armed seizure of Al-Jazira as sinful, or even morally questionable. May God forgive this people, Keikel, Khalid \u2014 and that man who sinned long ago.<\/p>\n

Phobia and Denial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amid their pointless squabbles, I came across two striking claims: \u201cKeikel is a miniature model of Islamist criminality.\u201d
\n\u201cHe is a pawn on a chessboard run by the National Congress Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khalid Omar, it seems, is not defending himself; he is suffering from a deep phobia of the Islamist movement and the former ruling party.<\/p>\n

In his subconscious, Batahna Shield \u2014 with all its soldiers and supporters from Al-Jazira and across Sudan \u2014 exists only as an extension of the National Congress Party. In this mindset, not only the Batahna Shield but also the Joint Forces and all popular supporters of the army are merely branches of the old regime. Such is the thinking of today\u2019s activists.<\/p>\n

And of course, to them, the Sudanese Army itself is \u201cthe Islamists\u2019 army.\u201d Anyone who fights the Dagalo militia must either be an Islamist or be incited by one. Every supporter of the army is, by their logic, managed by Islamists. In their narrow imagination, Sudan has no people left outside two camps: Abu Dhabi\u2019s \u201cSumood Alliance\u201d and Ali Karti\u2019s \u201cIslamists.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Obsession Turned Doctrine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khalid Omar is not alone in need of psychological therapy. Consider this statement by Mohamed al-Faki: \u201cThe alliance between the army, the Rapid Support Forces, and the revolutionary forces must be restored to confront the Islamists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al-Faki, too, is afflicted with the same Islamist phobia. His entire hope for political alliance revolves not around rebuilding the country, but around fighting Islamists.<\/p>\n

This comes as no surprise. During his time in power, Al-Faki spent all his energy setting traps for Ali Karti\u2014and failed in three separate attempts. Having achieved nothing tangible, he reduced his political mission to hunting one man. He never planted a single tree in his village, for his idea of achievement was limited to \u201ca successful ambush.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, look at Babiker Faisal. From the moment he learned to write until tomorrow\u2019s column, he has had no issue other than the National Congress Party. His own political coalition, the Democratic Gathering, has splintered into five or more factions, yet he remains singularly obsessed with \u201cIslamism,\u201d or \u201cthe Islamic Movement,\u201d as he calls it when readers tire of his repetition.<\/p>\n

The Phobia of the National Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Driven by his obsession, Babiker Faisal recently accused the National Congress Party of rejecting a Turkish mediation initiative and sabotaging negotiations with the UAE\u2014though Turkey never offered a formal initiative at all. It merely suggested that it might present one. The government agreed, and the UAE simply did not respond, because it seeks to pose as a neutral mediator while concealing the fact that it is, in truth, a hostile party.<\/p>\n

And so it goes: all their discourse circles endlessly around the National Congress Party. Their entire intellectual horizon is limited to it. Anyone who disagrees with them\u2014on politics, economics, or even on whether Real Madrid played better than Barcelona\u2014is immediately branded a \u201cNational Congress loyalist.\u201d They have inflated the party to mythical proportions unmatched by any propaganda in the world.<\/p>\n

This collective phobia has stripped their parties of confidence in their own ideas, programs, and supporters. And that is how they are so easily devoured by their rivals. It is the law of nature: a gazelle can run over 90 kilometers per hour, while a tiger barely reaches 60. Yet the gazelle is often caught\u2014not because the tiger is faster, but because the gazelle keeps looking back, over and over, to measure the distance between itself and the predator. In doing so, it slows down just enough for the tiger to catch it \u2014 and devour it whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Al-Tahir Satti A man once came to Imam Ibn al-Jawzi confessing: \u201cI have committed adultery, and the woman became pregnant.\u201d The Imam rebuked him: \u201cWhy did you not use withdrawal when you committed the sin?\u201d The man replied humbly: \u201cI was told that withdrawal is disliked (makruh).\u201d The Imam shouted in anger: \u201cLeave my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55260,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259\/revisions\/55260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}