{"id":58341,"date":"2025-12-08T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58341"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:04:36","slug":"the-tagaddum-gods-punish-us-by-making-us-haul-the-islamists-boulder-up-and-down-the-mountain-for-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/the-tagaddum-gods-punish-us-by-making-us-haul-the-islamists-boulder-up-and-down-the-mountain-for-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cTagaddum Gods\u201d Punish Us by Making Us Haul the Islamists\u2019 Boulder Up and Down the Mountain for Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdallah Ali Ibrahim<\/strong><\/p>\n

(I recall here a not-so-old commentary I wrote after witnessing the gloating that erupted yesterday among the \u201cNo to War\u201d advocates, who erupted in whistling and clapping after a group of Western countries designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Whoever counts on the world for cover remains naked.)<\/p>\n

I ask myself: what is the magical \u201cplayground trick\u201d that the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) and Tagaddum think they possess\u2014this thing they believe will deliver a guaranteed, decisive victory over the Islamists and finally grant them, and the country, peace of mind?<\/p>\n

They lay in wait for the Islamists after the 1969 coup and mockingly called them \u201cHat\u2019hout\u2019s Brothers.\u201d Yet that supposedly progressive coup collapsed, by 1983, into a full-blown theocracy\u2014Islamists by another name.
\nThey stalked them again before and after the April 1985 uprising, smeared them as \u201cthe regime\u2019s acolytes,\u201d chased their leader Hassan al-Turabi to the far edges of Khartoum, and defeated him.
\nThen the Islamists returned with the 1989 coup, establishing the most hardline theocratic state imaginable.
\nThen the revolutionaries crushed them again as \u201cremnants\u201d in 2019\u2014and stomped on them.
\nThen they returned once more.
\nAnd here we are again, summoned\u2014as always\u2014to mobilize for their \u201cfinal eradication.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t there something profoundly absurd in all this?
\nHow long must we continue this endless, futile contest with the Islamists?
\nOur decades-long, ever-repeated mobilization to defeat them\u2014yet never truly defeating them\u2014can only mean we have been struck by the \u201cIslamist Curse\u201d, much like the curse of Sisyphus.<\/p>\n

According to Greek myth, the gods punished Sisyphus by forcing him to roll a massive boulder up a mountain. Each time he reached the top, the boulder would tumble back down, and he would begin again. Push. Fall. Push again. On and on\u2014until the end of time, had the pagan Greeks believed in such a thing.<\/p>\n

It seems the FFC and Tagaddum do not wish us to see the flaw behind their insistence that we shoulder this Islamist boulder they have strapped onto our backs.
\nTheir flaw is painfully simple: they are incapable of defeating the Islamists.
\nSo the Islamists slip back through some tragic crack in their performance, and the same tired questions echo once again: Where did these people come from?<\/p>\n

And we\u2014the people\u2014are left hauling the boulder through the valley because, after failing again and again, and becoming addicted to failure, the revolutionaries emerge spotless, \u201clike a hair pulled from dough,\u201d only to shout:
\n\u201cBlame the Islamists!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdallah Ali Ibrahim (I recall here a not-so-old commentary I wrote after witnessing the gloating that erupted yesterday among the \u201cNo to War\u201d advocates, who erupted in whistling and clapping after a group of Western countries designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Whoever counts on the world for cover remains naked.) I ask myself: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58341","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\/58341","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=58341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58342,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341\/revisions\/58342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}