DUBAI // People linked to the Muslim Brotherhood have begun attacking the UAE through social media, the chief of Dubai Police says.
"There are some in the UAE who are in direct contact with the Muslim Brotherhood and are being controlled by them," Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim said yesterday. "But the UAE . is rising against them to defend the country."
Gen Tamim said in a post on Twitter yesterday that "since Muslim Brotherhood has 'become a state', anyone advocating its cause is considered a foreign agent". The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won the largest number of seats in Egypt's first post-revolution elections.
This week, Dubai Police arrested the general manager of the Ras Al Khaimah Holy Quran Foundation for alleged sedition.
Saleh Al Dhufairi, believed to be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was arrested for "promoting ideas, whether in speech, writing or any other means, that cause sedition and harm national unity and social peace", police said.
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In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
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Starring: Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Natasha Rothwell
Rating: 4.5/5
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Weight of equipment: 45kg
Altitude (metres above sea level): 0
Terrain: Ice rock
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Temperature: -50°C
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A foster couple or family must:
- be Muslim, Emirati and be residing in the UAE
- not be younger than 25 years old
- not have been convicted of offences or crimes involving moral turpitude
- be free of infectious diseases or psychological and mental disorders
- have the ability to support its members and the foster child financially
- undertake to treat and raise the child in a proper manner and take care of his or her health and well-being
- A single, divorced or widowed Muslim Emirati female, residing in the UAE may apply to foster a child if she is at least 30 years old and able to support the child financially
Killing of Qassem Suleimani