Sudan in the quagmire of the new Abbasids (Jalaba and Janjaweed) By/ N̰âgû Sasaborno N̰âgû Jammba
Since the outbreak of the latest war in Khartoum, which destroyed entire towns and villages and displaced millions, it is an extension of the old and renewed wars in Sudan since the nominal independence in January 1956.
Witnessing the heinous crimes practiced by the Sudanese army and the RSF militias against unarmed civilians during their meta-conflict since April 15, 2023 in every city overrun and the way in which innocent citizens are humiliated by both sides (burying people alive, beheading, children relishing the bodies, slaughtering citizens and divisions like sheep, accompanied by takbirs and cheers in the presence of children without feeling remorse or fear;).
We have witnessed that the armed movement groups fighting with the army against the RSF have captured dozens of RSF soldiers and also African soldiers fighting with both sides, but they will not show this brutality in a personal way, as they showed humane treatment and compliance with the law of war and the rules of engagement, so the question is where did this inhuman brutality come from in a way that people are surprised in every event that occurs?
Sudanese witnessed more obvious manifestations in a video that showed a boy from the pillar grabbing a man of his father’s age by the beard and filming him for the public; we also saw a boy humiliating a woman of her mother’s age while calling her profanities such as (Sharmouta;) without feeling that he committed a crime!
These scenes and other atrocities can only be understood by linking them to the pastoral Arab-Islamic culture and Arab history based on racial superiority, patriarchal militancy, and authoritarianism because these practices are fundamentally at odds with the generally tolerant African-Sudanese human being.
The history of the Abbasid state, which began in 132 AH/750 AD and lasted for more than five centuries until it was eliminated by the Mongols in 656 AH/1258 AD, reveals a picture that is identical to what is happening now in Sudan, as if the Mongols were the only good thing that stopped this brutality in a regressive manner after the blood and tears were spilled between cousins.
Al-Tabari mentions in his history that Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, the proponent of the Abbasid call in Khurasan, executed about six hundred thousand men, women and boys, while al-Yaqoubi mentions in his history that he killed one hundred thousand.
Al-Yaqoubi also reports that the leader of the Abbasid call before its emergence, Ibrahim al-Imam, had written to al-Khorasani to kill any boy who reaches five inches if he doubts his loyalty.
However, when the Abbasids seized power, their first caliph, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah, declared that they had fought the Umayyads because of their bad behavior, violating people, humiliating them, and monopolizing the spoils!
He ordered his uncle, Abdullah bin Ali, to dig up the graves of the Bani Umayyah caliphs, take out their remains, whip them, crucify them, burn them or burn what was left of them and scatter their ashes in the wind. He forced the citizens of Iraq and its cities to come to watch the scattering of the Umayyad ashes and promised the citizens that the rulers of the Umayyad structure would not be present until the day after the scattering of their ashes and the horses were quickly released in the desert to scatter the ashes so that they are scattered in distant places and not collected until eternity!
Those whose remains were scattered after being burned were Muhammad’s companions, relatives and cousins of the Bani Umayyah!
If the Abbasids, in the early days of Islam, were so brutal to their cousins and relatives, how do you expect them to improve the blood of the black Sudanese?
The atrocities committed in Sudan by the Sudanese Abbasids cannot be understood outside the Arab-Islamic pastoralist equation, and the ways to wean it and stop its expansion need awareness of the danger of this structure and serious action by African peoples and humanity to put an end to it instead of crying and repeating prayers to God without action commensurate with the stage.
Creating the future and peace in our country begins with defeating the Arab-Islamic state structure and bringing in a tolerant secular state that is committed to the law and the will of the Sudanese people and manages diversity and pluralism without coercion.
So to stop the tragedy that Sudanese are living through, we need to establish a secular and democratic system that paves the way for safety for all, which starts with a critical reading of the official Sudanese child’s Islamo-Arabic education that led us to this aggressive behavior.
The basis for raising a child in the new Sudan must be the rejection of intolerance and the promotion of peace through self-respect – respect for family, friends and communities – and respect for others in their culture and histories – which is the cornerstone of education based on love of work, the development of imagination and talents, the spirit of discovery and giving to family, country and humanity in everything that elevates the values of truth, goodness and beauty, and the perpetuation of the culture of tolerance that has its roots in the cultural history of Kushite Sudan.
If this does not happen, Sudanese people will cry and watch the Abbasi, Jalaba and Janjaweed scenes for a long time and no one will be spared, not even the Jalaba and Janjaweed.
January 18, 2025
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