Dubai Police Chief Accuses Muslim Brotherhood of Plots
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Dubai police have stepped up accusations against the Muslim Brotherhood of plotting to topple Gulf monarchies, saying a group of UAE activists arrested for threatening state security was linked to the organization, a report said Friday.
The Brotherhood, which is the emerging force in the Arab world after the Arab Spring uprisings, "met people from the Gulf and discussed toppling Gulf regimes," Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan was quoted as saying by the Emarat al-Youm daily.
Khalfan warned that the Muslim Brotherhood "would lose a lot if they challenge Gulf states," and that the oil-rich region is a "red line."
"The Gulf is not a red line for Iran only. It is also for the Muslim Brothers," he was quoted as telling a forum in Dubai, referring to traditional tension between Sunni monarchies and Shiite foe Iran.
Khalfan has repeatedly accused the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the most influential Islamist group in the Arab world, of plotting to take over the Gulf states.
He also said that a group of UAE activists arrested recently was also linked to the Brotherhood and accused it of pledging allegiance to the supreme guide of the Islamist organization.
"It is a small group that has deviated from the right path and declared allegiance to the (supreme) guide, who appointed one of them as an emir (local leader)," he said.
Egyptian Mohamed Badie is the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt 84 years ago.
The UAE had earlier this month announced it has dismantled a group plotting against state security without identifying their affiliation or the number of arrests.
The UAE, a federation of seven emirates led by oil-rich Abu Dhabi, has not seen any pro-reform protests like those which have swept other Arab countries, including Gulf neighbors Bahrain and Oman since last year.
But the government has increased its clampdown on voices of dissent and calls for democratic reforms.
27 July 2012, 21:33
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hello
welcome to the Arab Apring that the gulf Nations, doing the deeds of the west sprung on Egypt, Libya, Tunisia Syria and god knows who else.
as the saying goes < watch what you are wishing for> aka muslim extremist , aka Al qauida
28 July 2012, 13:46
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I for one would not in any way form or shape advocate any uprising in the UAE or Saudi Arabia simply because the leaders of these countries are immaculate and have done to their countries what other developed nation such as Germany and the USA dream of their achievements. Any uprising would bring down all these great achievements and turn these countries into poor, uncivilized and fanatic hubs that we all are simply not in need of. I lived in both of these countries and I confess that had we had regimes like them in Lebanon we would have been at the top of the scale economically and politically. God bless the gulf states because they are a balancing power in our region which is going through uprising the outcome of which is still unknown and unguaranteed.
