Where are the Islamists from the Sudanese revolution?

After last Friday's prayers at the Grand Mosque in Khartoum, Ibrahim al-Senoussi, 82, a leader of the Popular Congress party, was driven out by angry worshipers.

Senoussi, a member of the party founded by the late Islamic leader Hassan al-Turabi, was the presidential aide to the government of Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted by a popular uprising on April 11.

Witnesses said Senoussi tried to address the worshipers and invited them to accept the military council led by Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, who took over responsibility after the fall of Bashir, but worshipers boycotted him with a local chant condemning the Islamic group, ie Koz Nduso dos, and then threw stones at his car as he left.

The term "coz" is used locally to refer to the Islamic Group, founded by Turabi since the 1960s, and carried out a coup in 1989 led by Brigadier-General Omar al-Bashir. The country was ruled for 30 years under the name of the National Congress Party, 1992.

The Sunousi incident at the mosque came in response to the position of the Popular Congress Party leadership, which continued in the Bashir government, despite the demands of party bases to withdraw from that government much earlier.

On the other hand, many of the Turabi youth participated in the protests against Bashir, many of whom expressed his anger over the killing of a cadre of their party teacher Ahmed al-Khair in the city of Kassala by the security forces in these protests.

Since the 1960s, al-Turabi has taken several names: the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Charter Front, the National Islamic Front, and the National Congress. Turabi boycotted him after a dispute with Bashir in 1999 and founded the Popular Congress Party.

Following Turabi's departure in 2015, the People's Congress returned to participate in the cabinet with several ministerial posts.

Military or Islamic?
While some argue that the term of al-Bashir is more about military rule than of Islamists, others consider that the term of al-Bashir was a period of rule for the Islamic movement, and therefore the revolution on the Bashir regime necessarily includes this trend.

Earlier, the Sudanese historian Professor Abdullah Ali Ibrahim said that "the ruling Islamists were only referring to their enemies to take over the security apparatus with the rest of the task," despite the denial of many of the Islamic leaders in Sudan, and the assertion that the Islamic movement actually took power in 1989, but The government gradually turned into a president, and the suffering in the country included the Islamists and spread to other currents.

Since the secession of southern Sudan in 2011, Sudan has been plagued by inflation, a sharp rise in prices and a shortage of cash and basic consumer goods.

In 2013, al-Bashir, the most prominent of his Islamist intellectual leaders Ghazi Salahuddin, defected to the government's brutal handling of a popular gift in which more than 200 people were killed, according to unofficial statistics.

Saladin founded the Reform Now movement, followed by some young Islamists who see themselves as more open and liberal at the political level.

Now Islamists find themselves in a difficult situation after the fall of the Bashir government and the lack of acceptance by many of the demonstrators, despite their presence in the protests that led to the isolation of Bashir.

Before al-Bashir was deposed, the General Observer of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, Awadallah Hassan, visited the protesters in front of the headquarters of the army's general headquarters in Khartoum. He appeared in Tire, waving banners calling for the release of the detainees, which means the participation of this Islamic trend in the revolution against the Bashir regime.

After his isolation, the Political Secretariat of the Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement welcoming that step, stressing that "this blessed revolution can not be the party or party monopoly or guidance, but all involved without exclusion of only convicted."

Ghazi Salahuddin - who heads the National Front for Change coalition formed by several parties with close ties to al-Bashir - is another Islamist who was strongly present in the revolution, and certainly many of his supporters are young Islamists.

Salah al-Din accused political forces, which he did not name, of practicing exclusion against others, referring to "the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change," stressing the rejection by the Front of all forms of exclusion.

On Thursday, Salahuddin met with the head of the Political Committee of the Transitional Military Council, General Omar Zine El Abidine, and told him that the current stage calls for fighting the idea of ​​exclusion among the political forces.

"The experience of the Islamists who fell in Sudan through a peaceful and civilized revolution has only two options: the first is the realization of criticism and revision, and the second is the denial and the production of a speech behind me, based on the justification of the conspiracy theories," says writer and researcher Khabab al-Nu'man.

Khabab expected the first option to prevail, as the post-Islamic currents are produced beyond the mistakes of the previous stage.