Marxist Thought in Revolutionary Islam

Thus a Western view of Islamic political culture in the era of the global village. Freedom in Sudan discussed in the terminology of Western norms of political discourse seems an impossible task, if it is accepted that the Sudan is a creature of modern revolutionary Islam, which is in its shi'a formulation a throwback to medieval Muslim orthodoxy and opaque to external pressure. Undoubtedly the prevailing Western characterization of Sudan's government is that it is Islamic, radical, and missional, a characterization very much supported by the fact that the present government of Sudan was installed as a result of a 1989 military coup against the first-ever democratically elected government in Sudan's history. It is also supported by the apparent fervor with which Islamic governments and loyalists, including that of the Sudan, urge the view that Israel and the West are in a conspiracy against true democracy and against Islam (Fadlallah 178ff; Jansen 168); that state policy = there is no God but God and his name is Allah (Daniszewski A1); and that the West is to blame for the kidnapping strategies of Muslim political activists in the 1980s (Fadlallah 181). As Daniszewski (A1) says in the context of a 1997 border clash with Ethiopia, "The I

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ad been shot dead by police. Salim Wad Hassan was in Darfur with what was left of the sheep. Salim Wad Musa had lost two of his wives in the famine, and a third had recently given birth to a stillborn child. Mohammid Wad Ali had died of a mysterious illness, and Adam Wad ash Shaham was at death's door. The nuggara herds had been attacked badly by the new train of mange (Asher 314-5). This pre-Turabi account does not prove that the peaceful transfer of power has been enabled by the shari'a any more than individual freedom has. But the supremacy of shari'a has provided a basis on or perhaps from which political rivalries can be pursued. Shari'a appears to have obliged advocates and opponents of the ruling regime to declare the foundation of their political credibility and to formulate the content of opposition in structured terms. Thus for example, the prime minister ousted by the 1989 military coup, Sadek Mahdi, made a something of a structured ideological enterprise out of going into exile to lead a rebel coalition. Once installed in Ethiopia, Mahdi (Turabi's brother-in-law) stated in early 1997 that "Islamic governance" had failed in Sudan (Daniszewski, 2A). Daniszewski quotes Mahdi as favoring a north-south governance plebiscit
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