By RFIPalled on 05-25-2019 Modified the 25-05-2019 at 19:01

Sudan is preparing for a general strike. Faced with the blocking of the dialogue with the military, the leaders of the civil revolt announced two days of walkout Tuesday and Wednesday, May 29. However, Sudanese society is divided over the ideals of the revolution. The Sudanese Islamists believe that religion is not enough in the center of the game and fear a disappearance of sharia, Islamic law, partly applied under Omar al-Bashir.

It was a show of force on Friday night in Khartoum. Several hundred Islamists gathered on Palais Avenue for a street prayer and a rally. They want to show their distrust of the leaders of the revolution.

" We are against the coalition because it no longer wants sharia to be the source of our laws. The revolution has deviated from its path. We are here to put it back in the right path. The coalition wants to make Sudan a secular country. However, we have always been regulated by Islam and it will always be like that, "said 28-year-old Dabaallah Barradine.

Under Omar al-Bashir, corporal punishment, including stoning and flogging, was sometimes practiced. However, according to Malek Abbas, the former dictator did not go far enough.

" Bashir only used part of it. We, we wish a total application of sharia. That's what the Sudanese want, "he says.

The generals initially declared wanting the maintenance of sharia, but since then several officers deemed close to the extremists have been dismissed. Mohamed Ibrahim, a professor who came to pray with the Islamists, fears a secularisation of the revolution.

" The leaders are against Islam. They are leftist parties and liberals. They inevitably influence the spirit of the protesters. Islam contains celestial decisions that are not made by humans and, therefore, these rules must prevail over all others, "said Mohamed Ibrahim, professor at the Center for Strategic Studies in Khartoum.

Gathered a few blocks from the sit-in, the heart of the revolution, the Islamists show that it will be necessary to count on them to draw the Sudan of tomorrow.

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