ICC Note:
Islamist groups in Sudan threaten the Sudanese government with Jihad if their demands of Shari’a law go unmet. The government has previously promised a constitution based on Shari’a law, which would manginalize thousands of Christians still living in the north after Sudan split into two countries last year. Many Christians are trapped in the north and live in refugee camps on the outskirts of Khartoum because the government has closed the boarders with the south.
09/26/2012 Sudan (Sudan Tribune) – A coalition of Sudanese Islamist groups has threatened to declare Jihad against the government if it refuses their demands a constitution based on Islamic Shari’a law.
The threat by the Islamic Constitution Front (ICF), a group of Islamist political parties and individuals lobbying the government to create an Islamic constitution, comes after the country’s president Omer Al-Bashir announced on 13 July the formation of a committee comprising unidentified “religious scholars and experts in law, politics and economic” tasked to draft a permanent constitution for the predominantly Muslim country following the secession of the mainly Christian South Sudan in 2011.
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ICF’s Secretary-General Nasir Al-Sayed threatened that they might resort to “Jihad” against the government by mobilizing the public to protest in demand of an Islamic constitution.
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This is not first time that the ICF has attempted to bully the government over the Islamic constitution issue. It previously threatened to depose President Al-Bashir if the government fails to act on their demands.
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ICF is composed of several Islamist group and individuals mostly representing Salafist groups and individuals and far-right political parties such as the Just Peace Forum (JPF) led by President Al-Bashir’s uncle Al-Tayyeb Mustafa.
Al-Bashir, himself an Islamist, has already made several statements confirming that Sudan’s upcoming constitution will reflect the country’s Islamic and Arab identity.
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