{"id":58293,"date":"2025-12-07T02:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58293"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:52:17","slug":"the-brotherhood-are-terrorists-but-what-about-dagalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/the-brotherhood-are-terrorists-but-what-about-dagalo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brotherhood Are Terrorists\u2026 But What About Dagalo?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I See<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adel El-Baz<\/strong><\/p>\n

1
\nWith astonishing haste, Khalid Salik rushed to announce that the U.S. Congress is considering designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Khalid celebrated \u2014 unsurprisingly \u2014 for he remains a political adolescent, seduced by lies and petty machinations. Why? Because he believes that such a designation would make it easier to eliminate his political rivals, and he has no objection to wiping them out entirely under that label, clearing the way for him and his clique to sit comfortably atop Sudan\u2019s throne. What a small, arrogant, ignorant man. He hasn\u2019t read a single line from America\u2019s long record of terrorist classifications, nor does he know that the U.S. has branded most resistance movements around the world as \u201cterrorist\u201d before eventually reversing course whenever its interests shifted \u2014 as they always do. Today, even ISIS leaders roam freely in Washington!<\/p>\n

If you asked Khalid what crime the Brotherhood committed to deserve being labeled a terrorist organization, he would shrink in embarrassment and mutter incoherently, as he always does when confronted with a question beyond his depth. What terrorist acts have the Brotherhood committed? When and where? Did they wipe out ethnic groups as happened in Geneina? Did they burn hospitals and kill patients as in El Fasher?
\nWhat exactly did they do?<\/p>\n

If the Brotherhood \u2014 in their current weakened state \u2014 deserve, in America\u2019s eyes, to be labeled terrorists, then what about the Dagalo militia, which has killed, annihilated, and committed every crime imaginable? Khalid has no answer except mumbling. Falsehood is always brittle; truth stands clear.<\/p>\n

Khalid refuses to support designating the Dagalo gang as terrorists because \u2014 according to his absurd logic \u2014 such a label would \u201ccomplicate\u201d the war rather than solve it. But labeling the Brotherhood as terrorists solves the issue and doesn\u2019t complicate it?!<\/p>\n

Strangely, Khalid feels no shame drowning in contradictions and blatant falsehoods. With a face stripped of honesty and dignity, he and his cohort descend to new depths of exposed humiliation.<\/p>\n

2
\nThe Prince\u2019s Steeds Rear\u2026 and the Thanks Go to Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe UAE welcomes the efforts of President Trump, President of the United States of America, in preventing Sudan from sliding into extremism.\u201d Thus read the UAE Foreign Ministry statement. The Emirates expressed gratitude for Trump\u2019s efforts \u2014 efforts that have not yet taken place!<\/p>\n

In reality, it was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who initiated contact, meeting Trump in Washington and urging him to intervene in Sudan\u2019s war. Naturally, any state genuinely keen on stopping the war should thank Prince Mohammed bin Salman \u2014 not Trump, who merely listened to the Prince\u2019s requests while barely aware of the situation.<\/p>\n

But the UAE and its steadfast ally, the militia, chose instead to applaud Trump\u2019s nonexistent efforts, conveniently forgetting \u2014 after a long silence \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s actual role.<\/p>\n

The Prince\u2019s horses rear\u2026 yet Abu Dhabi sends its thanks to Trump.
\nTruly astonishing.<\/p>\n

3
\nIn Loving Memory of Hashim Siddiq<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I sat listening to the speakers at the memorial held in Doha for my late friend, the poet and playwright Hashim Siddiq \u2014 may mercy be upon him \u2014 I drifted into thought. I wondered: If only these poems and tributes had reached him during his long solitude in his home in East Bant neighborhood, how happy he would have been. He would have departed this world content with the gratitude and loyalty shown to him that night.<\/p>\n

But where were those celebrating Hashim Siddiq that evening throughout his years of isolation? We never heard a word from them. They never visited, never asked about his health, even as he spent years battling loneliness and nursing the many wounds inflicted upon him by figures within Sudan\u2019s artistic community. Hashim lived among them \u201clike a strange twilight bird.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, my thanks go to the esteemed actor and loyal friend Al-Sunni Dafallah, whose tremendous effort enriched the event. I must also thank my friend, the artist Tariq Al-Amin, who did everything possible to commemorate Hashim Siddiq, organizing global tributes out of deep love and loyalty \u2014 reinforcing the people\u2019s affection for a man who dedicated his life to them through poems, songs, and plays: from \u201cNabta Habibati\u201d to \u201cThe Forbidden Smile\u201d to \u201cLaugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day will come when we tell our story with Hashim Siddiq \u2014 a friendship spanning decades, filled with untold tales.<\/p>\n

Between our footsteps\u2026
\nOn the path of love
\nStood loyalty
\nLike a tree\u2026
\nUntouched by storms of discord
\nOr the wounds of time.<\/p>\n

King Lear<\/strong><\/p>\n

No visit of mine to Cairo \u2014 to its bookstores, theaters, and caf\u00e9s \u2014 is complete without praying two rak\u2018ahs at Al-Hussein Mosque. Every corner holds a memory steeped in joy and the warmth of friends. May Allah have mercy on Abdullah Hamdna, and bring my friend Al-Haj Warraq safely back to us. My consolation that night was that my friend Khalid Al-Tijani accompanied me to watch King Lear.<\/p>\n

This time \u2014 a few weeks ago \u2014 I was astonished to see the Egyptian National Theatre revived after a long absence, returning with one of the great classics of Western drama: William Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear, written in the early 17th century, first performed around 1605\u20131606, and published in 1608.<\/p>\n

I first watched King Lear in fifth grade when Bakht Al-Rida\u2019s theater scene was thriving, and teachers competed to stage Shakespeare\u2019s works. Glorious days\u2026 if only they could return.<\/p>\n

The play, in essence, is a tale of loyalty and betrayal. Lear abdicates his throne to his three daughters after asking each to declare her love for him. Goneril and Regan exaggerate with false flattery, while Cordelia refuses hypocrisy. Enraged, Lear disowns her. The two sisters seize power, reveal their true nature, humiliate their father, and cast him out. He wanders, broken, losing his sanity.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a parallel plot, Edmund betrays his father Gloucester and brother Edgar, plunging the kingdom into chaos. Cordelia returns with an army to save her father, but both are defeated; she is killed, and Lear dies of grief.<\/p>\n

A sweeping tragedy \u2014 and a moral Shakespeare captured perfectly: \u201cHypocrisy leads to ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wished I could invite some of the hypocritical politicians lounging in Cairo\u2019s caf\u00e9s to watch the play \u2014 they might have learned something useful \u2014 but I left after the performance for the Carthage Festival.<\/p>\n

At the end of the show, I met the legendary actor Yehia El-Fakharany \u2014 may he be granted health and strength \u2014 performing King Lear at eighty with the vigor of a young man. (Wake up, our great teacher Maki Sunada!) Theater breathes life back into life.<\/p>\n

My thanks to Professor of Drama Dr. Shams Al-Din Younis and his wife, my former student journalist Samah Taha, for their kind invitation. Their gesture gave me a precious escape from the sorrow and brutality saturating our days. My gratitude as well to the National Theatre Director, Ayman Al-Shiwi, for his warm welcome and kind words about the Sudanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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