[5] Haj-Omar wrote in June 2009 that "Iran's Green Revolution shows that freedom and citizenship rights are universal and that even an Islamic regime that came through legitimate elections can be questioned and rejected by those who put it in power."
"[6] In a March 2010 article, Haj-Omar lamented that Sudan did "not look like a country preparing for its first national elections in 24 years," given the continued censorship of newspapers and the "complete absence of public campaigning by political parties."
on national security and anti-terrorism issues, and consider a more serious and committed dialogue with Sudan's opposition groups about a future without the N.C.P.”[10] Writing on September 16, 2013, about the August 27 arrest by the Public Order Police (POP) of activist and engineer Amira Osman “for refusing to pull up her head-scarf,” Haj-Omar noted that the POP were a product of the so-called “Civilization Project,” a government Islamization program “that reached into every aspect of Sudanese social life, and placed restrictions on long entrenched traditional norms such as private parties with music, mixing between the sexes and the making and consumption of alcohol.” The worst of these restrictions were those on women's clothing, maintained Haj-Omar, who stated that things had only grown worse since the 2011 separation of South Sudan.
And this cannot be done without giving marginalized groups, and especially those enduring state-sponsored wars, the space to tell their narratives in the way they choose to.” She said that this aspect of the Sudanese struggle “is where we part ways with the recent revolutions in the Arab region,” because there is “an ethnic/racial divide is unique to Sudan.” Thus “the biggest challenge facing today’s generation of changemakers is how to create an inclusive pro-democracy movement that addresses the grievances of all Sudanese rather than falling hostage to rigid ideological and sometimes utopian thinking.”[14] On May 23, 2013, she reviewed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, saying that it would “strike a chord with a wide range of readers because it defines the psyche of multiple generations from the African continent – from our own Sudan, including those who left, those who stayed and those who returned after long years abroad.”[15] In a July 2013 review of Amir Ahmad Nasr's book My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind-and Doubt Freed My Soul, Haj-Omar called it an example of the fact that a new generation in Sudan was finally discussing “the relationship between Islam and identity.” Noting his discussion of how an Islam of “reason” and “free will” lost out to an Islam of “tradition” and Qur'anic literalism, she called his book “a gift to the generation that grew under the darkness of Sudan's murderous regime (whether inside or outside Sudan), the National Congress Party.
It will shake the foundations of many Muslims who have never been exposed to Islamic or Western philosophy; it will create a stir in a closed society like Sudan where the debate on religion, the secular state, and identity has been stunted.”[16] Haj-Omar sat on a panel about crowdfunding at RightsCon in Silicon Valley in March 2014,[17] and was scheduled to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2014.