SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Women football aimed at distracting Sudanese from crises: radical Islamists

4/10/19: Sudan Tribune - Women football aimed at distracting Sudanese from crises: radical Islamists

 Sudan Tribune reports that Sudanese hardline Islamist clerics have attacked the transitional government, claiming that it is promoting women’s football to distract Sudanese from national crises.

 Describing the government as secular, Mohamed Abdelkarim criticised the launch of a football league for women, saying that "these secularists who stole the revolution do not care about people’s livelihood as much as they care about spreading corruption.”

 Islamist preacher Abdul Hay Yousif, a supporter of al-Bashir’s regime, accused the Minister of Youth and Sports – Wala’a Essam al-Boushi – of blasphemy.

Noting that the women’s league is celebrated by “foreign embassies led by the US,” he said “no wonder [al-Boushi] grew up in exchange programmes and made [the league] in the eyes those Americans.”

 He further accused her seeking to destroy religion and morals, rather than provide economic reform, social prosperity and sanitation.