On Saturday, June 15, the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies issued a book entitled “When Political Islam Rules… The Case of Sudan.” The book was prepared by Dr. Haider Ibrahim Ali, Director of the Center for Sudanese Studies. The book discusses the failure of the Islamists’ experience of rule in Sudan due to their attempt to apply an intellectual model that does not respond to the requirements of the social, political, economic and cultural reality, and their attempt to impose this model on Sudanese society.
The book consists of seven chapters that address the problems facing Sudanese society under Islamist rule, the challenges of democracy, how Islamists deal with human rights and the clear contradiction between their declaration of belief in human rights and their practice in the experience of rule. The book sheds light on the most important rights that are violated in Sudan, such as the right to life, and the violations that Sudanese people are subjected to, such as enforced disappearance, genocide, ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings and the right to a fair trial.
The author devotes a chapter to discussing the Sudanese constitution and how it deals with human rights, especially the problem of multi-party politics. He also devotes a chapter to women’s freedom, the violations that women are subjected to, how to deal with Sudanese female activists and the penalties that are applied to those who violate the general law, which may include flogging. Another chapter is devoted to the situation of non-Muslims in Sudan, in which he presents the sectarian problems and harassment that non-Muslims are exposed to in Sudan.
