The Islamic Movement’s Strategy .. Dismantling the Revolution and Assassinating the State Under the

07:05 PM April, 29 2025

Sudanese Online
محمد عبدالله ابراهيم-الخرطوم-السودان
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By Mohammed Abdullah
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Today marks the 745th day of Sudan’s descent into a senseless war that has torn the country apart and inflicted an unbearable toll on civilians in the form of death, destruction, and displacement. This war is no longer a mere conflict between two sides. it has evolved into a comprehensive assault on humanity, memory, and the future. It has become a systematic project to destroy the Sudanese dream of freedom, peace, and justice. The instruments of repression have merged with the tools of ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity are now cloaked in false rhetoric about patriotism and sovereignty.

This war is not a coincidence, but rather the result of a long-term plan orchestrated by the Islamic Movement, which has returned from the shadows relying on its legacy of dismantling the state and crushing the will of the people. Since the fall of Bashir’s regime in 2019, political Islamists have suffered an unexpected and devastating blow. The glorious Sudanese revolution caught them off guard and uprooted their authoritarian project deeply embedded in the state’s structures. Unable to accept defeat, they chose the path of war, conspiracy, sabotage, and revenge. The Islamic Movement viewed the popular revolution as an existential threat to its Islamist agenda. While regime loyalists wagered on the death of the December Revolution, as they had done in September 2013, the will of the people surprised them once more and brought down their throne. Shocked by their fall, they temporarily went into hiding, especially after their leaders were arrested. But they never truly left the scene. they began regrouping, launching a cold war and conspiracies against the transitional government. They waged systematic media campaigns to discredit revolutionary forces, fomented division, infiltrated state institutions, and activated their cells in the army, police, and security apparatus in preparation for their return.

The Islamic Movement knew well that their battle would not only be fought in the streets, but also within the state apparatus, where their active cells, supported discreetly by officers in the military council, embraced their agenda. They worked to dismantle the civil-military partnership that formed the basis of the transition, orchestrated conspiracies, and manufactured economic and security crises. At the heart of this scheme was the October 25, 2021 coup. a turning point that was not a “classic” military coup but a well-planned move backed by Islamists. Its goal was to sabotage the transitional period, fracture the unity of revolutionary forces, and pave the way for the old regime’s return under a new guise. Although the coup failed to achieve its objectives, it succeeded in one thing: plunging the country into a dark tunnel of crises and divisions.

With the coup’s failure to form a government and amid growing popular resistance, the Islamic Movement took another step forward: to sabotage the Framework Agreement, which posed a genuine threat to their ambitions, as it offered a path for the return of revolutionary forces. It had to be derailed. Thus, they instigated a military confrontation between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), igniting the war on April 15, 2023. According to their calculations, they believed the army would win in four or five days, backed by political and popular cover and by trained Islamist battalions. These were not impulsive estimates, but the product of decades of ideological indoctrination within the military institution. Yet their miscalculations proved fatal, and the country was transformed into an open battlefield where civilians became casualties in a war that wasn’t theirs.

The roots of their Islamist project trace back to the 1989 coup, when Omar al-Bashir seized power with direct support from the Islamic Movement. They turned Sudan into a laboratory for their extremist ideas, imposed their vision on education, the judiciary, and society, and fully infiltrated the military establishment. The army, security, and police were subjected to systematic “Islamization and indoctrination,” where ideological loyalty became a condition for promotion. Admission into military colleges was no longer based on merit, but on absolute allegiance to the Islamist project. These institutions became pipelines for officers indoctrinated in political Islam. Today, the military leadership remains under the grip of the Islamic Movement, despite attempts to disassociate from it.

The indoctrination of the state did not stop at official institutions. The Islamic Movement’s influence extended into the social and cultural fabric of the nation. Education, media, and culture were reshaped to reflect a narrow ideological vision, producing distorted generations armed to serve as tools of death in Sudan’s wars. The Islamic Movement ideologized an entire society, restructuring it to serve a closed ideological project that neither tolerates diversity nor recognizes others.

With the outbreak of the current war, the mask has completely fallen. The conflict is no longer about power or resources. it has become a tool of comprehensive vengeance against the Sudanese people. Numerous circulating videos document horrific crimes: identity-based killings, rape, torture, summary executions, and countless other violations. The country now teeters on the edge, besieged by terrorist battalions seeking not only to silence the voice of the revolution but to uproot it entirely from collective memory. turning Sudan into an open slaughterhouse for anyone who dares to demand an end to the war or a return to democratic civilian rule.

To be continued…

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