As international efforts to classify the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization accelerate, a more urgent and clear call is coming from Sudan: peace cannot be built without criminalizing its roots.
The Sudanese Islamic movement—the most dangerous political front for the Brotherhood on the continent—has become a breathing space for extremist groups and a mastermind for destabilizing the country and the region.
From glorifying violence to legitimizing the physical elimination of opponents, to rigging state institutions and tearing apart the national fabric, this system has embodied a deadly totalitarian project.
Today, the demand to classify it as a terrorist organization is not only a legal matter, but an existential condition for saving Sudan from the “shadow state” that continues to fan the flames of the war that broke out in April 2023, as an inevitable result of decades of Brotherhood empowerment that infiltrated the army, established a parallel economy, and turned Khartoum into a haven for cross-border radical groups.
The Civil Democratic Alliance of Sudanese Revolutionary Forces (Sumoud) has called for the National Congress Party and the Sudanese Islamic Movement, the political front of the Muslim Brotherhood, to be designated as “terrorist organizations” at the local and international levels.
According to a statement issued by the Sumoud General Secretariat, which was seen by Al-Ain News obtained a copy of, the coalition listed the reasons that prompted it to launch a call for mass, political, media, legal, and diplomatic action to classify the National Congress Party/Sudanese Islamic Movement and their fronts as a terrorist organization internationally and locally, to be prohibited by the constitution and the law, and to criminalize membership in them.
