Thus, making Islam the official religion and Arabic the official language. He believed that this would end Sudan’s Identity crisis. But according to an article this would never happen, not even by force, due to the fact that Sudan always has been and always will be a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state. Even though Bashir was a military dictator and believed in all of this, he remained in power because he kept getting re-elected as president. It wasn’t that people were willingly electing him to be their president, but things just kept happening. The first time was because his two main opposition candidates dropped out and the second time because many people did not show up to vote. And the people who did show up to vote was in favor of him being