She argued in an October 2011 article that the current period of Sudanese history, beginning with the ascension to power of the National Congress Party, was “the darkest, not just for Sudanese citizens but for humanity as whole,” given that “after Hitler, Stalin and Mao it is Omar Al Bashir that has presided over the largest massacre in the history of mankind.” Nonetheless many Sudanese see no alternative, their minds having been closed “in a box forbidding them to think critically and creatively[,] especially when it comes to questioning the relationship between the state and religion.”[9]