Another Muslim Brotherhood Sh_thole - Religious Hatred Destroys Sudan

Here is the news :

Sudan’s military announced on Thurs unseated President Omar al-Bashir

four months of protest, dozens of deaths and endless chants of “revolution!” 

finally ouster of despised leader who ruled vast country for 30 years

plagued by famine and war

euphoria soured when replaced by Lt. Gen. Awad Ibn Auf

Auf, Bashir perpetrated war crimes in Darfur

My comments : Sudan's dictator Omar Bashir has been overthrown after 30 years in power. The write up in the New York Times is lengthy. But the story is crap. A stupid waste of time.

Its just another shithole country flushing itself down the toilet. 

Sudan's troubles are quite irreversible.  Tribal issues, African Muslim versus African Christians and animists, African "arab" Sudanese Muslims versus African non arab Sudanese Muslims, Sufis, Sunnis, Salafis etc etc. Its complicated. 

The recent history goes something like this. There "were" about 30 million Muslims (largely African 'arab' speaking Sudanese) plus another 12 million Christian and animist Sudanese. 

There has been a long running religious war (most recently since the 1970s) in Sudan between the Muslims and the Christians / animists.

The 12 million Christians live mainly in the south. 

For some time now oil was also discovered and extracted mostly in the South.  Oil money kept Sudan going - it financed all the religious and other hatreds that made up Sudan. 

In 2011 as a result of the Muslim - Christian hatred, Sudan got divided into two countries ie Sudan and South Sudan. South Sudan became an independent country.

But after South Sudan became independent in 2011 the oil revenues dried up.  South Sudan is landlocked and had no choice but to export its oil through Port Sudan - which is in "north" Sudan.

The Sudanese extracted a heavy toll on South Sudan's oil exports, demanding to share the oil revenues 50 / 50.  This was very difficult for the oil producers especially after oil prices crashed. 

So in 2012 South Sudan just stopped producing oil - because Sudan was asking too much.

So since 2012 Sudan has been getting into a deeper and deeper shithole.  Before 2012 the dictator General Omar Bashir had been able to use oil money to sustain crony capitalism, buy political patronage, plaster over corruption and the incompetence (just like in Malaysia). 

Once the oil money stopped, the good times ended. So yesterday on Thursday 11 April 2019 the Sudanese have "overthrown" Omar Bashir.  Just like Malay voters decided to kick out Najib and the BN on May 9th 2018,  also because the oil money has dried up (or has been substatially reduced) in Malaysia. 

Sudan first popped up on my radar in the 1970s (when I was in high school) when the country was ruled by military strongman General Jaafar al Nimeiry. Al Nimeiry was doing fine until in the late 1970s he went ape shit and declared Sudan a  'shariah state'.  This was the first modern Islamic state to declare itself a 'shariah' state. 

Jaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry was President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985.

Came to power after a military coup in 1969. 

Initially pursued socialist and Pan-Arabist policies. 

Late 1970s he moved towards Islamism

In 1983 he imposed Sharia law, precipitating the Second Sudanese Civil War. 

Declaring the sharia state was Jaafar Nimeiry's greatest misstep that has ultimately taken Sudan to :

i.  the rise of Hassan Turabi, the Muslim Brotherhood and Omar al Bashir 

ii. the split into two countries ie Muslim Sudan and Christian South Sudan

iii. the continuing disaster in Sudan

Believe me folks, Sudan is going to get worse.

But the real disaster that has been hoisted upon Sudan were Hassan Turabi and the Muslim Brotherhood or Ikhwan Muslimin. Yup those same guys Nurul Izzah invited into our Parliament. 

Hassan Turabi of the Muslim Brotherhood was the defacto power behind Sudan for a substantial amount of time. Here is a quick history of Hassan Turabi:

Hassan Turabi

1959 Turabi member of Islamic Charter Front, offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood

Islamic Charter Front became large political group in Sudan

1964 al-Turabi became its Secretary general 

Al-Turabi remained in Islamic Charter Front until 1969

1969 Jaafar Nimeiry assumed power

1970 al-Turabi jailed six years, 3 years exile in Libya

1977 "national reconciliation", Turabi allowed back from exile

Turabi and supporters played major role

infiltrating top echelons of government 

"Islamizing society from the top down"

Turabi became Minister of Justice in 1979.

1983 -  Jaafar Nimeiry declared harsh Sharia law 

1985 - brutal Shariah law resulted in coup against Nimeiry 

National Islamic Front rule (NIF)

1989 - coup by General Omar Bashir 

1989 -  2001 -  Turabi "intellectual architect", "power behind throne"

Turabi leader of NIF,  speaker of parliamentary assembly 

1991-96 - Osama b Laden moved to Sudan at personal invitation of Turabi

Turabi granted bin Laden safe place to conduct jihadist activities

bin Laden helped Turabi fight Christians in South Sudan

bin Laden married one of  Turabi's nieces 
Turabi died in 2016

My comments :  In 1982 at age 22, I met Hassan Turabi in the United States, at a "Islamic" conference organised by offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood (whom I did not know at that time).  I asked him a question 'How do you propose to handle non Muslim minorities in a Muslim majority country?'

(At that time, other than having read about  Gordon Pasha and the Mahdi's uprising in the Sudan I did not know much else about Sudan's own multi ethnic, multi cultural and multi religious complexities.) 

With the benefit of hindsight over the past 37 years, Turabi's  answer  to my simple question in 1982 now  explains the destruction wrought by the Muslim Brotherhood and the total collapse of ALL Muslim societies across the universe.

Turabi flicked his wrists, pondan style, and said 'We can give the non Muslims some rights'.

This was just another way of saying, 'We can tolerate the vermin'.

And after that Hassan Turabi went home to Sudan to :

"Islamize society from the top down"

infiltrate the top echelons of government 

"intellectual architect", "power behind throne

Turabi granted bin Laden safe place to conduct jihadist activities

bin Laden helped Turabi fight Christians in South Sudan
in 2011 their country split into two

and so many other exciting things. Hooray. 

The whole jing-bang ie Shaytan, Iblees, Taghut, the Devil, Lucifer and the entire gang had a real party time in Sudan - killing, butchering, raping, murdering human beings. 

For what? 

Now their country has been split, they are poorer than ever.

And they have a lot more suffering coming up.

They have already entered their hell fires.
These people will never make it to "heaven". 
What a miserable destiny.