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National Islamic Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While its legal front is the political party, the National Congress, there is little actual distinction between the two. In 1969 the government was overthrown by General Gaafar al-Nimeiry in a coup d'état, after which the members of the Islamic Charter Front were placed under house arrest or fled the country. It supports the maintenance of a Islamic state run on sharia and rejects the concept of a secular state. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Islamic_Front   (845 words)

Islam and Islamization in Sudan: Religion and Peacemaking: U.S. Institute of Peace The sharia cannot be at the heart of national consensus because of the discriminatory measures it establishes and because it is subject to conflicting interpretations by citizens who claim to be equally committed to Islam. The Islamists' aggressive drive leading to the dissolution of the Sudanese Communist Party in 1965 and the expulsion of its representatives from the constituent assembly and their relentless pressure on the traditional parties to adopt an "Islamic constitution" helped create the ferment that led to Nimeiri's coup. When Turabi says that the NIF has been dissolved after the coup, he is on one level accurate for the NIF has vanished as a civilian, political party to be re-constituted as the Popular Defense Forces, the regime's parallel army and trusted power base. www.usip.org /religionpeace/rehr/sudanconf/Mahmoud.html   (2647 words)

National Islamic Front The National Islamic Front began life as the Islamic Charter Front and was known as the Muslim Brotherhood during the 1970s, taking its inspiration as a modern, urban-based Islamic party from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Sentenced to several years in prison, Tuhami was eventually released ahead of schedule and became a senior advisor to the NIF's oil committee as well as an appointee to the National Assembly. A geologist and member of the Umma Party, became Nimeiri's Minister for Energy and Mining after Nimeiri's 1976 National Reconciliation overtures to his hitherto banned opponents. www.sudanupdate.org /WHOSWHO/NIF.HTM   (1003 words)

Sudanese Political Parties By late 1988, however, other DUP leaders had persuaded Mirghani that the Islamic law issue was the main obstacle to a peaceful resolution of the civil war. Sadiq al Mahdi indicated approval of political positions adopted by the Umma Party during his detention, including joining with the SPLM and northern political parties in the National Democratic Alliance opposition grouping. Originally founded in 1945, the Umma was the political organization of the Islamic Ansar movement. www.sudan.net /government/parties.html   (1566 words)

ESPAC - Working for Peace in Sudan The National Islamic Front refuses to serve in the cabinet. They agree that there should be a cease-fire, the state of emergency should be lifted, a national constitutional conference should be held by the end of the year, that Islamic legal punishments in the September 1983 laws should be frozen and that a national preparatory committee be formed. The resultant Koka Dam declaration floats the idea of a national constitutional conference preceded by the lifting of the state of emergency, the repeal of the September 1983 sharia laws, cease-fire and abrogation of Sudan’s military pacts. www.espac.org /peace_process/search_for_peace4.html   (3444 words)

MSN Encarta - Al-Qaeda In 1992 he relocated to Sudan where he was welcomed by the ruling National Islamic Front and its leader, Hassan al-Turabi, who had established strict Islamic rule. Front organizations and charities from which contributions were diverted to fund terrorism were closed down. The bipartisan National Commission also found that while the administration of President George W. Bush had been warned about al-Qaeda’s determination to launch an attack within the United States, there was probably no way to have prevented the attacks. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610346_2/Al-Qaeda.html   (1715 words)

WorldNetDaily: Committee hearing on Sudan today The National Islamic Front government came to power in 1989, the same year a peace accord was signed resolving the political aspirations of the South and dealing with the separation of religion and state, explained Winter. The National Islamic Front government is clearly the primary abuser, and the people of the South in particular are the primary victims. For more than a decade, the extremist NIF has ruled in Khartoum, the nation's capital, forcing dissidents off their native lands and funding slavery rackets that have victimized inhabitants in the southern regions of Sudan. www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22200   (1805 words)

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ): The Sudan Since 1989: National Islamic Front Rule The Bashir-Turabi regime was built upon the relatively narrow political base of the National Islamic Front (NIF), a party that was the direct descendant of the Muslim Brotherhood and created by Turabi in 1985 after the overthrow of Nimeiri with whom he had been closely associated. The Umma Party head with its traditional Islamic base dating to the 19th century Mahdiya was politically and religiously unable to rescind Islamic law as state law with any clarity and certainty. The war in the south has spread to other military fronts on the east, south central, and western regions of the Sudan and a liberation of the north from the south remains an option. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2501/is_2_23/ai_77384487   (1181 words)

Sudan's National Islamic Front, a brief recap It is important to note that the National Islamic Front was one of the political forces participating in the Third Democracy. So the NIF reformulated Sudan's institutional, social and economic framework in conformity with its precepts, the most prominent of which was the confrontational role Sudan was to assume on the domestic and international scene. But since NIF cadres had staged the military coup, the front was able to survive by directly controlling state institutions, under the pretext that the coup leaders were civilian Muslims. www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/980126/1998012605.html   (320 words)

Sudanese Women And War I must admit that it is very disappointing that the National Islamic Front did not lavish on the Mujahidat a similar promise as the one they bestowed on their male counterpart: the promise of having seventy-three houris all clamoring for the martyr’s attention at the same time. However, the National Islamic Front in university did encourage their female members to exercise--exercise is not a common activity for Sudanese young women as it is in the West for many reasons. After the coup, the National Islamic Front members went further in the militariziton of women and created the Mujahidat camps whose role was an expansion of that of "fityat al-nahda". www.secularsudan.net /War/WomenAndWar.htm   (6259 words)

Crisis of Impunity - Afghanistan's Civil Wars Both the Taliban and the parties constituting the United Front have repeatedly committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including killings of detainees, aerial bombardment and shelling, direct attacks on civilians, rape, torture, persecution on the basis of religion, and the use of antipersonnel landmines. The Islamic Party of Afghanistan (Hizb-i Islami-yi Afghanistan) led by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar was favored by Pakistan throughout the war with the Soviet Union and later when it attempted to oust the Rabbani government. The various parties that comprise the United Front also amassed a deplorable record of attacks on civilians between the fall of the Najibullah regime in 1992 and the Taliban's capture of Kabul in 1996. www.hrw.org /reports/2001/afghan2/Afghan0701-01.htm   (7960 words)

The emergence of the National Islamic Front (from history of the Sudan) --  Encyclopædia Britannica More results on "The emergence of the National Islamic Front (from history of the Sudan)" when you join. The emergence of the National Islamic Front (from history of the Sudan)--  Encyclopædia Britannica an Islamic organization established in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in May 1971, following summits by Muslim heads of state and government in 1969 and by Muslim foreign ministers in 1970. www.britannica.com /eb/article-24329?tocId=24329   (879 words)

History of THE SUDAN He rules at first through a Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation, a body closely linked to the NIF (National Islamic Front) which is the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. For thirteen years the Khalifa maintains a military Islamic state in keeping with the early traditions of the caliphate, and on occasion his efforts at expansion meet with some success - as in his interference in 1889 in neighbouring Ethiopia. The underlying strength of the Islamic movement derives from the strong Mahdist tradition in the Sudan. www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa86   (3288 words)

A July 1998 DTI report notes with apparent approval that Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF) government is determined to complete its new oil pipeline because of its importance to staying in power The National Islamic Front (NIF) government is determined to complete its new oil pipeline because of its importance to staying in power. In 1998 the main SPLA forces nearest to the oilfields were in the Nuba Mountains, where the Nuba SPLA are still fully involved in defending their own area against the latest onslaught of the National Islamic Front. A July 1998 DTI report notes with apparent approval that Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF) government is determined to complete its new oil pipeline because of its importance to staying in power www.sudanupdate.org /REPORTS/PEOPLES/nuba-oil.htm   (775 words)

Minorities At Risk (MAR) The primary demands of the Northern Alliance, of which Dostam and his National Islamic Front are members, focus on creating a central government with political representation for all of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups in a more federalized structure, with provincial areas having more control over their own affairs. Supreme Coordination Council of the Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan (SCCIRA or SCC): An anti-Rabbani alliance formed in 1994, comprised of former premier Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami, the National Liberation Front (ANF) of former president Mujaddidi, General Dostam's National Islamic Front, and the Shiite Hizb-i-Wahdat faction. The parties in this alliance include: Harakat-i-Inkilab-i-Islami, the National Liberation Front, the Islamic Front, both factions of the Hizb-i-Islami, the Islamic Unity Party and the Jam'iyat-i-Islami. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/afghuzb.htm   (2221 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Region The battle for Sudan's identity Their goal is to overthrow the National Islamic Front (NIF), which seized power in Khartoum in a 1989 coup. Thus, what started as a conflict between the Arabised, Islamic north and the non-Muslim African south is fast becoming a fight between a fundamentalist Islamic movement at the country's centre and a diverse alliance of peoples and political groups committed to religious and ethnic diversity and challenging the government from the periphery. This is changing what has long been a regional contest between north and south into a national revolt that could topple the NIF regime. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/481/re7.htm   (1244 words)

Dhimmi Watch: National Islamic Front Scorns the International Community in Darfur, Seeks US Help in Asserting Absolute Primacy of Shari'a in Khartoum The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum has, over fifteen years of tyrannical rule, assembled an unsurpassed record of bad faith, unspeakable cruelty, and massive human destruction. It is hardly surprising that Khartoum would adopt this position of diplomatic intransigence, one animated by the Islamicist ideology that continues to define what is after all (despite its effort at self-renaming) the National Islamic Front. The National Islamic Front regime insists that when in Khartoum, non-Muslim southerners will be fully www.jihadwatch.org /dhimmiwatch/archives/001589.php   (1812 words)

Islami Jatiya Oikya Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Islami Jatiya Oikya Front (Islamic National United Front), a political front in Bangladesh, led by Jatiya Party (Ershad). The front won 14 seats in the parliamentary elections 2001. IJOF includes five parties, JP (Ershad), the Islamic Shashontontro Andolan and three smaller parties. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islamic_National_Unity_Front   (1812 words)

SudanTribune article : Khartoum’s National Islamic Front: A Pattern of Evil Sudan& version of Islamic law (shari&) is distinguished, at the behest of the National Islamic Front, by a notoriously brutal penal code (hudud). It is of a piece with the vast and terrible cruelty that defines the policies and actions of the National Islamic Front throughout Sudan. The question is not whether the National Islamic Front regime is directly complicit in the slaughter at Camp Barlonyo---this is beyond reasonable doubt. www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=1893   (2804 words)

US Policy Toward Sudan, 03/22/'95 Sudan is a tragedy, a country beset by problems which pre-date the current National Islamic Front (NIF)-led regime and which past governments have either failed to address or, particularly in the case of the current NIF regime, exacerbated. The National Islamic Front (NIF)-dominated regime is facing increasing economic, military, and political difficulties. There is presently no credible political alternative to the ruling National Islamic Front. www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Urgent_Action/sudan_US.html   (2135 words)

Political Affairs Magazine - Cry, the Beloved Country: Interview with Sudanese Communist Party FE: The NDA is an umbrella group of all the opposition parties fighting against the rule of the National Islamic Front. The Government of the Sudan is composed mainly of the Muslim Brotherhood and their party, which is the National Islamic Front. And the government sided with the Arab tribes, for two reasons: one, because of being Arab, which is racist at its root, and two, because the African tribes were generally opposing the rule of the National Islamic Front. politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/460?PrintableVersion=enabled   (2743 words)

Terrorism: Q & A Sudan No. The National Islamic Front backed Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War, and the United States, which provides food aid to combat famine in the war-torn south, has not had a permanent diplomatic presence in Sudan since 1996. President Omar el-Bashir, who heads the National Islamic Front government, condemned the attacks and said Sudan would cooperate in the war on terrorism. Religion is a key issue in Sudan& civil war, which has lasted 47 years (with a 10-year interruption) and pits the ruling National Islamic Front—which aims to impose strict Islamic law on all of Sudan—against the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, based in the non-Muslim, sub-Saharan south of the country. www.terrorismanswers.org /sponsors/sudan_print.html   (1253 words)

Lieberman's 'honorable' stand on Sudan [Free Republic] According to Senate Resolution 109, "the National Islamic Front government is deliberately and systematically committing crimes against humanity in southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains. The war in Sudan is often portrayed as "Muslim" against "Christian" but the recent political moves by the National Islamic Front in Khartoum have widened the combat. Senate Resolution 109 also calls upon the President "to intensify and expand United States diplomatic and economic pressure on the National Islamic Front government in conjunction with and urging other countries to impose sanctions regimes on that government that are similar to sanction regime imposed on that government by the United States." www.freerepublic.com /forum/a399ac6820a2d.htm   (1560 words)

Frontline Fellowship - Terrorism and Persecution The alleged agreement was struck between Bin Laden’s top aide, Dr. Ayman-Al-Zawahri, and ‘Sudanese Islamic leaders’ the CSIS brief said.” (The National Post, Canada, 28 September 2001). The NIF is as Islamic as its friends Osama and the Taliban. A unit of Islamic mujahedeen in Bosnia has been financed by Bin Laden “by means of small convoys of recruits from the Arab world through his businesses in Sudan.&; (The Los Angeles Times, 7 October 2001). www.frontline.org.za /articles/terrorism_persecution.htm   (1375 words)

Nat Hentoff On Oct. 21, President George W. Bush signed the Sudan Peace Act, which declared that the Khartoum government of Sudan (the National Islamic Front) is guilty of persistent genocide against the black Christians and traditionalists in the South of that long-divided nation. Eibner told Kansteiner of "murder, abductions and the burning of villages and humanitarian facilities" by the military forces of the National Islamic Front. So far, the American media has largely ignored the fact that, while peace negotiations between Khartoum and the SPLM are sporadically going on, the Sudanese government is continuing the ethnic cleansing of blacks in areas where foreign oil companies have their installations (and the source of the National Islamic Front's large profits). www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/hentoff021303.asp   (715 words)

[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ] Qanuni is virtually assured of a seat in the National Assembly, but his ultimate fate might lie with the success enjoyed by allies within the National Reconciliation Front. In the National Assembly Members of Sayyaf's party in the National Assembly might be expected generally to support Hamid Karzai's government but also to favor pushing the country toward greater conservativism on religious issues. Mohaqeq was Wahdat's main representative in northern Afghanistan once the Taliban gained control of Kabul in 1996, becoming an ally of the United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (aka the Northern Alliance). www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections/parties.asp   (2356 words)

Rug Notes Index - M Oriental rugs and carpets by Barry O'Connell,Spongobongo.com MAK was either a front or in cooperation with the CIA, ISI, and Saudi Intelligence. Not known to be a CIA front Middle East Research Associates was meant to be a vehicle for Don to cash in on his knowledge of the oil region. Hashmatullah Moslih is a deputy in the United Front’s foreign ministry. www.spongobongo.com /rwm.htm   (4695 words)

doc-43matrix_sudan.doc Sudan's National Islamic Front government, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, their allies and enemies, are entangled in the international geopolitical struggle for control in Central Africa. Human rights advocates have also documented horrific political repression by the National Islamic Front (NIF) government of Khartoum. A 1989 coup brought the National Islamic Front (NIF) to power. www.allthingspass.com /uploads/doc-43matrix_sudan.doc   (2392 words)

index.aspx?pageid=22&countryid=46 Watching from the North with malign intent is the National Islamic Front, which hopes that a failure of the GOSS will kill off Southern dreams of a referendum and eventual full independence from the North. National elections are not due until December 2007 but Kenya is the middle of a bizarre election contest between two factions of the same cabinet. National elections are blocked by the stalemate between the government and the northern rebels, who style themselves the Forces Nouvelles (AC Vol 46 Nos 18 and 20). www.africa-confidential.com /index.aspx?pageid=22&countryid=46   (11647 words)

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