A senior committee within the Islamic Movement in Sudan proposed dissolving the movement and integrating it in the ruling party in Sudan or turning it into an organization.
This came in the first public initiative related to the status of the "ideological organization of Sudanese Islamists" since they came to power three decades ago.
Leaders in the "Islamic Movement," north the Nile River State, rejected Saturday the proposals made by the movement's senior leader, Nafea Ali Nafea, to dissolve the movement or integrate it into the ruling National Congress Party while members of the movement in Kassala State agreed on the proposal.
The Islamic Movement, which is the Sudanese version of the International Muslim Brotherhood and is headed by President Omar al-Bashir, has changed its name in succession.
It has been called the Islamic Charter Front, the Islamic Trend and the Islamic National Front before the late leader of the Sudanese Islamists, Hassan al-Turabi, announced dissolving it on the eve of the June 30, 1989 coup, which brought President Omar al-Bashir to power.
It was later reconstituted following the split of Islamists in 1999.
The committee, which is responsible for studying the situation of the Islamic Movement and is headed by the former first vice president Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and a number of Sudanese Islamist leaders, has decided to integrate the movement in the ruling National Congress Party or turn it into an organization without giving details on the reason behind this decision.
Al-Akhbar independent newspaper reported that the two proposals will be submitted to the movement's leaders in a matter of days to decide on them and agree which option to choose.
Notably, the movement is headed by President Omar al-Bashir, and Prime Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh is Bashir’s acting member in spite of the doubts surrounding the "Islamization" of Bashir and Taha.
Secretary General of the Islamic Movement is Sheikh Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan.
