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This clip is a compilation of Sudanese Islamic scholars discussing the recent establishment of a women’s soccer league in Sudan (see MEMRI TV Clip No 7556). Sheikh Abu Bakr Adab said in a video that was uploaded to the Sudanese Salafi Path YouTube channel on October 4, 2019 that ...

On October 1, 2019, Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia) aired a report about a women’s soccer league that was recently formed in Sudan following the rise of a new government. The anchor said that the players in the league continue to play despite having faced harassment. The repor...

Nasr Al-Din Mufreh, Sudan's Minister of Religious Affairs, said in a September 7, 2019 interview on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) that Sudan is pluralistic in its views, values, cultures, ideologies, Islamic schools of thought, and religions, and he called upon Jewish minorit...

Sudanese writer Hajj Al-Warraq, the editor-in-chief of the Sudanese newspaper, Horiyat, said in a July 23, 2019 interview on Alghad TV (U.K.) that "cancerous religious zeal" has been growing and that it has been trying to kill creativity, arts, politics, and science. He criticize...

Sudanese opposition activist Khalid Omar Yousef said in a July 5 show on Sudania 24 TV (Sudan) that the Sudanese army has been controlled by Islamists for 30 years. He recounted that during his mandatory military service, high-ranking officers would make him and his comrades chan...

This clip is a compilation of Sudanese clerics calling on the Transitional Military Council to instate shari'a law in Sudan. Sheikh Nasser Ridha of the Sudanese chapter of Hizb-ut-Tahrir said on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) on April 21, 2019 that the current issue is to establish a...

French-Sudanese journalist Rachid Saïd Yacoub was interviewed on France 24 TV on April 10, 2019, a day before the military coup that deposed Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. Yacoub, who is the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Sudanese Professionals Association ...

MEMRI director of reform Mansour Al-Hadj was interviewed on the Al-Hurra TV (U.S.) about the military coup against Sudanese President Al-Bashir. He called upon "the world's countries, and first and foremost the United States, to refuse to recognize the (Sudanese coup) regime, and...

Sudanese cleric Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri said in a Friday sermon that aired on Sudan TV on March 15, 2019 that the perpetrator of the mosque attack in Christchurch, New Zealand was working for the Jews, who he said are the strongest in enmity towards Muslims. He said that the atta...

Sudanese cleric 'Alaa Al-Din Al-Zaki said in a Tayba TV (Sudan) show on February 5, 2019 that the Jews epitomize trickery. He recounted a story from the Quran in which the Jews were turned into apes for casting their fishing nets on Friday in order to circumvent the prohibition o...

A video by Sudanese rapper Aziz was uploaded to the Internet on January 8, 2019, against the backdrop of recent protests against the government of President Omar Al-Bashir. In his song, the rapper says that he is sending a message from people "dying in a dead country… [whose] men...

During a December 7 Friday sermon in Khartoum, which aired on Sudan TV, Sheikh Muhammad Tannoun talked about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and said that the Jews want to control the world through their religion. He accused the Jews of being behind every war in history, incl...

A debate about female circumcision in Sudan took place on "Shabab Talk," a show on Germany's Arabic-language Deutsche Welle TV channel. During the debate, Sudanese Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh said that he supports forms of female circumcision that only remove "a very small bi...

A debate about the sexual harassment of women in Sudan took place on Shabab Talk, an Arabic-language TV show on Deutsche Welle TV. Professor Muhammad Uthman Saleh, who is the head of the Sudanese Islamic Scholars' Association and who participated in the debate, said that the stat...

In a Friday sermon, Imam Muhammad Abu Obeida Hassan criticized calls to amend the Sudanese constitution in order to enable President Omar Al-Bashir to run for another term in office. Those who say that "the only alternative to Al-Bashir is Al-Bashir" are tyrant-makers, sycophants...

Sudanese strategic expert Major-General Younis Mahmoud said that there is evidence in the Quran that "these Jews, these Zionists, never adhere to treaties" and that "the handiwork of the Jews and the Zionists" can be seen in today's problems. He was responding to comments made by...

Abdallah Barakat, secretary-general of the Sudanese National Umma Party, said, with regard to the question of normalization of relations with Israel, that circumstances had changed and that Sudan could not continue to be "held captive" by slogans uttered since 1967. He was speaki...

Yemen's Minister of Health and Population Dr. Nasser Ba'aom, asked about what was being done to curb the phenomenon of khat chewing and its related diseases, at first said that Yemen had more pressing issues to deal with. After relenting and describing his ministry's actions to d...

Sudanese cleric Sheikh Muhammad Hassan Tanoun delivered a Friday sermon in which he said that "ever since [the Jews] existed on the face of the Earth, they have been the head of the serpent" and that "all things evil and all the tragedies on Earth are caused by their schemes, the...

Sudanese Minister of Investment Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi said that the Arab countries have "peddled in the Palestinian cause ad nauseam" and that normalization of ties with Israel should be determined on the basis of Sudan's interests. "I don't think it is such a big deal," he s...

In a Friday sermon delivered in Khartoum on February 17, Sudanese Imam Mohamed Abdul-Kareem responded to Sheikh Yousuf Al-Koda's call for normalization of ties with Israel, saying that any peace treaty with Israel is "null, void, and worthless" because "Jihad is a duty." Calling ...

Speaking on Sudania 24 TV on February 8, Sudanese Islamic scholar Yousuf Al-Koda said that "from the perspective of the shari'a, there is nothing to prevent normalization [of ties with Israel]," recalling the Hudaibiya agreement that the Prophet Muhammad had signed with people of...

In a January 13 Friday sermon delivered in Khartoum, Sudan, Sheikh Abd Al-Malik Al-Jabouri of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars called Donald Trump the "king of nightclubs, casinos, and brothels," and asked if ever in the course of history had such a man "emerged from the ...

Sudanese cleric Sheikh Muzammil Faqiri slammed the Muslim Brotherhood in a sermon delivered on Eid Al-Fitr. In the sermon, he said that ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and all the other Jihadi organizations had emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood and that "ISIS members are merely implementing th...

In a recent interview with the Turkish Anadolu Agency, Sudan Liberation Movement Leader Suleiman Arcua Minnawi, a.k.a. Minni Minnawi, said that the Sudanese government had brought ISIS into Darfur. "ISIS is present [in Darfur] under the auspices of the Sudanese government," he sa...