Dr. Khalil Ibrahim and empty bravado

By Izzadine Abdul Rasoul

May 17, 2009 — The leader of the Justice and Equality Movement Dr. Khalil Ibrahim in an interview at Al Sharg Alawsat newspaper based in London warned freedom fighters in Darfur to join him or the National Congress Party in Khartoum or else. No other option was given. He further said that no one will be allowed by him to speak in the name of people of Darfur. The warning of the Islamist fundamentalist Dr. Khalil was directed at all including the founder and Chairman of Sudan Liberation Movement/Army Abdul Wahid Nur whom he labelled as a politician and not a military person, adding that Abdul Wahid has only a handful of forces based on the top of the Marra Mountain.

Dear readers, let us take the speech of this man very seriously and see with whose tongue he speaks. Khalil Ibrahim is known to have been a leader of the Mujahedeen who turned the South Sudan, Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains into hell at the beginning of Mullah Bin Laden’s regime in Khartoum and his brother Jibreel Ibrahim was the person who signed the contract of the house rented for Bin Laden at Manshia in Khartoum. Dr. Khalil Ibrahim should know that the war he has waged against these three mentioned areas was a priority of the Islamic Fundamentalist regime to establish an Islamic system in Africa before the movement split into many factions.

It’s known to everybody including the former allies of Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, that his problem with the current regime in Khartoum is not ideological rather than one of power positions. Many of his former allies always say that Khalil is revenging his sheikh and spiritual leader, Dr. Hassan Al-Turabi, rather than fighting for the sake of the people of Darfur.

The sad and deplorable thing is that he plays GOD Father and tries to snatch the freedom stick from all freedom fighters who struggle against political Salafists in Khartoum to establish a country that would expands freedoms for all, respecting human rights and rule of law.

Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, if you remember in 1990 when you were sent by your spiritual leader Dr. Turabi to Egypt to preach the Islamic fundamental ideology to Sudanese students, you can recall a very dirty history against yourself. And let me remind you the text of your recorded speech. Sir, Dr. Khalil, because of your religious and tribal hallucination you denied and repudiated all African tribes including the Fur tribe in particular. I am not going to speak about the tribes — which historically were created for protection purposes — but today, because of the existence of rule of law, human rights and good governance, most of the people on our globe including my fellow Sudanese are also on their way to shun tribalism, though yes, it’s still a reality in the current life of our community.

Dear readers, the following was part the speech of Dr. Khalil about the future of Darfur: “There is a tribe that has stolen the name of the region, and the history written about them is not true. The future of the region is in the hand of the intelligent commercial Zaghawa tribe whose members historically do not belong to Zunooje (Negros) but came from North Africa, from a well-known Arab Barbarian north African family in Morocco who invaded Europe to spread the religion of Islam.”

My dear readers who are SPLM/A members, to make sure of the credibility and correctness of this quotation, please pass it to your the SPLM Agriculture Minister for Southern Darfur, Omer Fur, and Mohamed Adam Sabeeil who is from Zaghawa tribe; they were both among the audience at that big political rally made by his Excellency Dr. Khalil Ibrahim.

When the chance for questions was opened, I was the first person to be given a chance for questions because I had a bushy beard, so they considered me as belonging to the Islamic group. However, my reason for having such a beard was lack of money to buy blades with which to shave.

In fact my expression of anger on the speech of Dr. Khalil was not on the points he had made on the Darfur region, rather when he had said that the Zaghawa tribe does not belong to the black African family but to North African Barbarian Arabs. I explained to his Excellency what the Arabic word ‘Zunooje’ connotates; I said, “ Dear sir; the dismayed word you have used against your African brothers does mean black skin and tangled or woolly-haired. So for you to find out that whether you and your tribe belong to this family or not you should look at them and yourself in the mirror and if you are still confused then you can go to your DNA.”

“Second, my dear Dr. Khalil, the name Morocco is not from the Arabic word Al Magreib (Far West) given to the country; but historically was named after the African tribes living in that area called Moors. However, the name Barbarians is an abusive name given by Greeks to fellow North Africans for their continuous invasions to South European kingdoms. In addition to that the percentage of Arab population in North Africa that you claim to be one of them is twenty percent of the total population. Neverthless, we consider them as an important element in African social construction,” I added

For my comments, Dr. Khalil Ibrahim responded by just saying that he is not an historian to know all these detail about Barbarians.

Now Dr. Khalil if you got tired and you want to release your brother and to implement the recommendations of the Islamist conference held in Alefoon to unite the global fundamentalists, please leave others to continue their struggles against the tyrants in Khartoum. However, everybody knows that your threat to other comrades is based on the International Jihadist, Islamist Fundamentalist point of view, which wants to finish up their devilish act committed against the people of Darfur carried out under the umbrella of Arabization and Islamization.

Dr. Khalil, yes you can claim that you are the biggest and strongest movement in Darfur, but you should know that your brother Mini Minawi, the current Presidential Assistant, was also made the biggest and the strongest movement and now he is the midget after he was slashed by his masters in Khartoum and he wept on the lens of the camera like a child — and I myself cried with him, don’t you know why?

Dear brother Dr. Khalil Ibrahim if you would allow me to call you brother! The Jalaba central government in Khartoum who in twenty years time manipulated you and others to kill your brothers in three above-mentioned areas are now pushing you into a new trap to indulge yourself in conflict with your brothers and again be the killer of your own clans and families in Darfur. Please do not fool yourself again by the recommendations of what is so-called the Alefoon conference held for universal Jihadists. In Sudan’s history of politics those who fought were the people of Darfur, those used to beat up political opponents in universities were the people of Darfur until they stood up and have seen the light. So, Dr. Khalil Ibrahim look forward not backward my dear brother.

What today supports what I say is the speech of the President Bashir who denied crimes committed by forces under his command when hosted in BBC Hardtalk. He said that the army has merely been on the sidelines of a ‘tribal struggle’ in Darfur.

“The source of the violence in Darfur is caused by a tribal struggle, that’s the nature of the struggle there. The government is playing the role of intervention to help stop this struggle. I challenge anybody to bring me evidence which proves the Sudanese armed forces attacked and killed citizens in Darfur,” Bashir concluded.

Listen to the speech of Bahsir carefully my dear sir; yes, after you sign the deal with them these former allies of yours will supply you with weapons as long as they are not coming from their pocket but from Sudan’s oil revenues. Even men, they would give you in millions, since children of Sudan who are not theirs are just like insects. They can send them to hellfire to perish, and then in the media they would say ‘look at the people of Darfur how they kill each other!’

This is now happening in South Sudan; they kept our brothers in South Sudan busy with tribal conflicts so as to forget their important issues. Through the history of Sudan we learned that the Jalabas and the Islamists don’t care to set all Sudan on fire as long as they are strong and their interests in Khartoum are safe. But whenever they smell danger coming and calculate that they will lose, then they immediately look for peaceful solutions by using such words like ‘we are brothers, ‘you are our uncles’ for Southern Sudanese, ‘we are all Muslims’ for the people of Darfur, and ‘we are all Nubians’ for the Halfaween in the far North — and this is the part of their inherited culture across the Arab world.

It has been said, “If you take a wrong train any station you get off at is a wrong station.” Now rethink your statement, Dr. Khalil.

The author is the Managing Editor of the Citizen Newspaper – Sudan. He can be reached at [email protected]

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