7th century or bust.

September 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A coalition of Sudanese Islamist groups has threatened to declare Jihad against the government if it refuses their demands a constitution based on Islamic Shari’a law.

The threat by the Islamic Constitution Front (ICF), a group of Islamist political parties and individuals lobbying the government to create an Islamic constitution, comes after the country’s president Omer Al-Bashir announced on 13 July the formation of a committee comprising unidentified “religious scholars and experts in law, politics and economic” tasked to draft a permanent constitution for the predominantly Muslim country following the secession of the mainly Christian South Sudan in 2011.

ICF’s Chairman Al-Sadiq Abduall Abdel Majid declared, in a statement released on Tuesday, their group’s rejection to the constitution committee and demanded that the government holds a plebiscite on the process of constitution-creation.

In the same statement, ICF’s Secretary-General Nasir Al-Sayed threatened that they might resort to “Jihad” against the government by mobilizing the public to protest in demand of an Islamic constitution.

Al-Sayed also slammed the constitution-drafting committee, describing it as a group of non-achieving technocrats who lack the qualifications to “determine the fate of millions of Muslims”.

This is not first time that the ICF has attempted to bully the government over the Islamic constitution issue. It previously threatened to depose President Al-Bashir if the government fails to act on their demands.