ISIS- Daesh entering Sudan without a deterrent
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
This article comes against the background of the Extremism, which has
become epidemic growing and spreading like a cancer from the Levant
region to the Middle Eastern region and around the globe, engulfing
the State of Sudan under the leadership of the movement of political
Islam, the arbitrary despotic regime of the National Congress Party
(NCP). It is a milestone in the jihadist storming unprecedentedly the
privacy of Sudanese families and robbing their daughters and sons and
loved ones in daylight without a deterrent. In the aftermath of that
are the grieving parents and relatives who get no tangible support
from the State. What prompted me to write this article is the pain of
grief that I felt when I talked with a couple of my acquaintances
whose loved ones joined the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as
well as my empathy with my compatriots whose sons and/or daughters
went to join the fundamentalist jihadi group. The transmission of the
epidemic of the (ISIS) to Sudan occurred when news media outlets made
headlines in March 2015 announced that nine medical students of
Sudanese origins studying at a private medical college in Khartoum
entered Syria through Turkish crossing to Syria for a volunteer work
in ISIS hospitals. At the time, it became clear that all those
students but probably one their parents live in the West. Then came
the third of the andirons where other twelve Sudanese medical students
leaving Khartoum to join the (ISIS) to work as volunteers in its
hospitals.
Political observers ask as to why all the students from just one
private medical school in Khartoum. It remains phenomenon-making
people wonder of the phenomenon in which all Sudanese students who
joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were studying at the
same private Faculty of Medicine despite the presence of so many
private and public medical schools throughout Sudan. Some analysts
started speculating the possible underlying reasons for the
phenomenon. University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) aka
University of Mamoun Hummaida, in honor of its founder and owner,
Professor Dr. Mamoun Hummaida , former Minister of Health for the
state of Khartoum. It is a private university founded in 1996 in the
City of Khartoum. This medical school is highly academic where
students need showing ongoing high achievements. This means higher
performance in clinical academic expected from the students at all
times without much regard to other activities such as cultural and
political activity and periods of entertainment found in other
universities where the Students Affairs Deanship allows activities
such as seminars and leisure pursuits and entertainment events to
break the boredom. This is most likely makes medical students in the
Mammon’s Medical College as machines calcified feeling demoralized and
bored and easy targets prey for consoling which comes from whomever
especially if enveloped in religious preaching format. It is no wonder
that the atmosphere is conducive for the jihadis imposing themselves
as paternalistic guardians for the students for radicalizing
especially the gullible young naive lacking worldly experience and so
eager to believe appearances. The annual tuition fee for the Medical
School Student amounts to about 150 million Sudanese Pounds about
£16000 Sterling Pounds; the amount only the well to do parents can
afford paying that fee. The parents of students joined the ISIS ranks
are in the category affording the payment, as they are either medical
doctors or professionals working in the West or businesspersons.
Daesh is abbreviation of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL/ISIS) in Arabic.
The Consequences of the spread of ISIS to Sudan echoed its effects to
haunt Khartoum, Britain, Canada, USA, Turkey and Syria causing extreme
grief and sadness to parents and relatives of scores of radicalized
male and female medical students at a private college in Khartoum
joining the (ISIS- Daesh). The students referred to hold passports
from Western countries mentioned above along with Sudanese passports.
Majority of the students who referred to, their parents are citizens
with dual nationalities living in the Western countries as Diaspora.
Among the purposes of the parents of those students besides studying
medicine in Khartoum was to give them opportunity leering from the
established Sudanese culture and customs and traditions. What raises
anger and bewilderment is that the government of the National Congress
Party (NCP) does not pay any attention to what is going on and
continues turning a blind eye to what is happening.
Deterioration of Religious Discourse in Sudan is the most important
cause for the phenomenon of extremism among the Higher Education
students joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/Levant
(ISIS/ISIL).
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a terrorist organization
adopts Takfiri ideology (infidels), and has the arsenal variety of
munition and weapons. It managed of controlling several cities and oil
wells in both Iraq and Syria, following the implementation of a series
of terrorist attacks and massacres against the population of these two
states. The ISIS or Daesh became the organization with lenticular
branches in Yemen, Libya, Sinai, Somalia, Nigeria, and Pakistan!
Moreover, it already drew the map for the geographical territories
expected for its spread and published it. The ISIS means that - in
practice – it threatened all Arab countries alleged map of the state
targeted by the organization covered all the Arab world, which is what
actually happened! It spread out terrorist operations in many
countries in the region, according to their confessions - people Daash
- most recently, what happened in Kuwait, Tunisia as a sad living
example!
New recent breaking news indicated that before boarding a plane to go
to Turkey in search for his daughter, Ambassador Ali al-Sadig, as
saying that there are unidentified agencies paying bribes in US
dollars to facilitate for the Medical Students from the University of
Mamoun Hummaida, including his daughter, to join the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – Daash. Moreover, journalists reported quoting
the official Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ambassador Ali al-Sadig as
saying that his daughter left Khartoum airport to Ankara in Turkey
without obtaining an exit visa with 12 of her colleagues. They are
stressing that they did not go through the routine procedures followed
by every passenger departing the country, which means that there is a
large network working to smuggle of students out. Ambassador Ali
al-Sadig is the spokesperson of Sudan’s Foreign Ministry. The biggest
catastrophe that Sudan and its people bear the consequences of all of
these terrorist acts. The regime of the NCP-led genocidal criminal has
hidden subversive hands for enhancing and enabling terrorists in the
implementation of terrorist acts in all the neighboring Arab and
African countries. Harboring terrorists fleeing from Egypt, Libya and
others by the Muslim Brotherhood government in Khartoum is the
greatest scourge borne by the components of Sudanese people who have
tried hard and struggled to overthrow the regime so far been
unsuccessful, though.
To show that the ruling (NCP) remains in complicity with terrorists,
the authorities in Khartoum released Muhammad Ali al-Juzuli the
coordinator of an organisation known as (the Stream of One Nation).
The Sudanese authorities allegedly detained Muhammad Ali al-Juzuli for
a period of 240 days (they claimed) because of his support of the
organization Daash. Moreover, he even became Amir (a prince) to ISIS
(i.e. Daesh) in Sudan, according to other rumors! Al-Juzuli’s
attachment to the ideology of Daesh for ending the presence of the
Arab rulers who are accomplices with Israel for not fight it, which
are fundamentalist remarks yet the NCP regime has released him from
detention. This action indicates the complicity of (NCP) regime
administrators with this al-Juzuli. These contradictory positions and
contrasting acts do not give positive indications for Sudan, and lead
to further restrictions and penalties that weighed upon the Sudan
since the nineties of the last century and that only affect the
ordinary in particular. Furthermore, those positions in particular,
reflect the lack of sincerity of Omar al-Bashir’s statements that
broadcasted between now and then, particularly with regard to fighting
terrorism and opposition to keep Sudan on the US terrorist sponsoring
list. This also reflects the contradictory acts, treachery inherent in
the ruling Islamist group in Khartoum. The actions of Islamism group
are always driven by lust for fulfilling hidden interests without any
moral scruples or pangs of conscience! The regime disowned Iran, which
supported them and was a friend to them by expelling the Iranian
Cultural Attaché and closed down the sub-centers (Iranian cultural
centers), which were widespredly deployed in the Sudan. This was done
under the pretext of posing threat to the security and to the
intellectual and the social norms of the Sudan! The underlying reasons
for the awakening of al-Bashir is the mounted pressure of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and other the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
countries.
The real reasons for the drastic measure taken by the NCP regime
lately against their master of grace Iran is the (bending) to the
international and regional pressures exerted. Thus, Omer al-Bashir and
those around him bowed to the warnings and pressures of the (KSA)
after the dubious visits of the Iranian war barges to Port Sudan along
with the warm reception of Iranian officials. Moreover, the suspicious
industry and smuggling weapons to extremists in Libya resulted into
the series of successive air raids such as those that destroyed the
Yarmouk factory in Khartoum, next to the air raids to the Eastern
Sudan by unidentified warplanes believed belonging to Israel! Thus,
terrorism will continue to be an integral part of the ruling Islamism
regime of the NCP and the harboring of the fundamentalist jihadi
terrorists will continue. As the adage goes, snakes cannot get rid of
their venom.
I conclude by quoting Harriet Tubman who was an African-American
abolitionist- Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, humanitarian,
and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. He is quoted as
saying:” Never wound a snake; kill it’.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His
blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/
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