A Plea to the Revolutionaries Aligned with the Islamists

You the educated ones—the suit-and-tie intellectuals—please, for the love of God, stop poisoning the minds of citizens and the youth by portraying this vile war as a war for dignity, while simultaneously claiming to stand with the revolution!

This war is, in its essence, purpose, and ultimate goal, an outright war against the revolution. It is an attack on everything the revolution stands for—its name, its cause, its legitimacy, and its aspirations.

How is it possible that you fail to recognize this glaring truth? A truth so self-evident that it requires no intellect, no insight, no intelligence—no more than the cognitive ability of the simplest of creatures, of single-celled organisms like the amoeba!

Does anyone with even a shred of awareness need an elaborate analysis to grasp that this is a war waged by the Islamists? The very people who, furious at the revolution, orchestrated the massacre of the sit-in protestors. Enraged by the will of the people and the resilience of the revolutionary youth, they staged a coup. Incensed by the loss of their grip on power, they ignited this war.

How, then, can anyone justify calling this a war for the dignity of the nation and its people?

Do you seriously believe that Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Shams al-Din Kabashi, and Ibrahim Jaber are defending the honor of Sudan? That Ali Karti fights for national dignity, rather than for his 99 residential plots and his lucrative exports of steel and cement? That Yasser al-Atta and his close associate Ahmed Haroun are champions of the nation’s honor? Or is it that they merely seek to resurrect the Islamist regime on the ruins of Sudan, to restart the machinery of plunder, corruption, and tyranny?

What is truly bewildering is that some self-proclaimed “free-thinking intellectuals”—who insist they stand with the revolution—have nonetheless aligned themselves with the war, placing themselves in the same trench as the very Islamists who have destroyed the country! Worse still, they call for honoring and celebrating the non-Islamist recruits fighting in this war. But these misguided individuals do not need medals or recognition; they need awareness! They are dying in a war that serves neither them, nor their families, nor their homeland. It is a war against their revolution and against their country.

We saw just yesterday how the Islamists—whether genuinely or in theatrical pretense—reacted with alarm when Burhan uttered a few deceptive words that seemed to criticize them. They panicked and raged, terrified that their unholy war against Sudan and its revolution might veer off course, or that their desperate return to power might be delayed.

We saw, too, how Dardiri Mohamed Ahmed, a leading Islamist figure, suddenly discovered—after two years of coup, war, destruction, and the deaths and displacement of millions—that Burhan’s rule was “illegitimate”—but only because Burhan dared to make a veiled jab at the Islamists!

How, then, can anyone still call this a war for dignity? Is there even a shred of doubt that this war—at its very core—is a war against the revolution?

To those of you in suits and jackets: for the love of God, stop advocating for this cursed war, where the fuel is the blood of Sudanese civilians. This is a war in which no one wins. Stop dancing on the corpses!

This war is killing our people with bullets from both sides. Every day it continues means more death, more displacement, and the further destruction of our nation. It means future generations will remain locked out of classrooms and stripped of their right to an education.

Brothers and sisters, you cannot support both the war and the revolution at the same time. Do not deceive the young men who have been mobilized into fighting—those who have no allegiance to the Islamists. As for the Islamist recruits, well, this is their war, and they are beyond redemption.

“O God, by Your power and might, let them raise no banner, achieve no goal, and make them a lesson for all who witness their fate. For God is not unaware of what they do.”

The great December Revolution shall endure—the revolution of freedom, justice, and peace! May God cast down the Islamists, wherever they may be found.