SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - Sudan: what future for the country’s Islamists?

2/5/19: Guardian – Sudan: what future for the country’s Islamists?, by Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Peter Beaumont

 Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Peter Beaumont examine the future of political Islam in Sudan, with the Islamist Popular Congress Party (PCP) unwilling to accept their exclusion from negotiations on Sudan’s democratic transition.

 Analyst Hafiz Ismail said that political Islam’s association with the regime is “toxic,” adding that Islamists will not get elected again. Columnist Shamael Elnour also said that there is no future for political Islam in Sudan, citing the public’s strong hatred towards Islamists and their ideology.

 However, Qusai Abdalla of the PCP said “people…want to drag [Sudan] into a conflict between the Islamists and the leftists,” and that “Islamic parties will remain in Sudan, because Sudan is an Islamic country.”