Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council on Sunday signed a declaration of principles with the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement-North Sector (SPLM-N) on separating religion and state.
The agreement was signed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, by Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of the ruling Sovereign Council, and SPLM-N leader Abdul Aziz Alhilu.
The document calls for separating religion and state, respect of diversity, forming a united army, redistribution of wealth and power and adoption of the federal system.
This caused widespread rejection from religious figures and people across the country.
An imam of a mosque in the capital, Khartoum, said, “We reject secularism completely in the first place, and we wish religion to progress, and God willing, with unity, we will defeat everyone who wants to bring down Islam.”
The rejection of secularism did not only come from imams of mosques and citizens, as sheikhs of the Sufi orders, the Fiqh Council, and all religious denominations denounced this as well.
