Who Distributes Indulgences? Sudan’s Islamists Celebrate the Return of Ibrahim Beqal
Ahmed Othman Jibril: “The political Islamist movement grants indulgences to the kizan and reproduces corruption in Sudan.”
The group behaves as though Sudan were its private property, managing the state’s institutions like a family estate and distributing indulgences, citizenship, and sovereignty solely on the basis of political allegiance.
Mubarak Ardol questions the standards that make Beqal acceptable in the name of the homeland, while others are branded as traitors. Who holds the right to grant certificates of nationality in this country?
Sudanese political leader Ahmed Othman Jibril stated that the recent welcome extended by the Islamist movement to Ibrahim Beqal, described as a kizani, upon his “return to the homeland,” represents a blatant example of lawlessness and abuse of power.
In an article published by Al-Taghyeer newspaper, Jibril asserted that this group acts as if Sudan were its property, running its institutions like a family farm and granting indulgences, citizenship, and sovereignty solely according to political loyalty. He added: “Those who committed massacres and later returned to the fold were pardoned, while those who demanded justice faced bullets, enforced disappearance, or elimination.”
He described these practices as selective justice and a marketplace of allegiances, stressing that the power of forgiveness is not a partisan privilege nor a legal decree fabricated at will, but should be exercised through an independent judiciary, not through political organizations’ backrooms.
Jibril continued: “What is happening today is not reconciliation but bargaining over the remains of an entire people. In reality, this humiliation of the collective conscience, if it continues, will lead to the accumulation of popular resentment and the outbreak of a new revolution.” He emphasized that governing Sudan in this way does not build a state but runs a collective farm under a new political cover.
Meanwhile, Misbah Abu Zeid Talha, commander of the Al-Baraa ibn Malik Brigade, revealed unexpected details about the fate of Ibrahim Beqal Seraj, following his escape from Salha to Nyala and then to Chad.
In a post on his account, Talha wrote: “Professor Beqal will soon be in the embrace of the homeland,” suggesting the imminent resolution of his case and his return to Sudan, after defecting from the Rapid Support Forces, fleeing, and joining the Muslim Brotherhood’s army camp, according to Sudan Independent.
Mubarak Ardol, a leader of the Democratic Bloc, responded to Talha’s statement confirming Beqal’s return, asking what standards make Beqal acceptable in the name of the homeland, while others, like Khalid Omar “Sikk,” are accused of treason, and some individuals are demonized. “Who holds the right to grant certificates of nationality in this country?” he asked, sparking a wide debate among activists and political figures, according to Tag Press.
