
TCW has pertinently commented on how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has restricted government funding for students studying in the UK citing ‘concerns over radicalisation and tensions linked to the Muslim Brotherhood’. You can read the articles here and here.
We note that several Muslim countries – particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as the UAE – have proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood, which they identify as a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile the Brotherhood is free to go about its business in the UK for, despite many demands from across the political spectrum that it should be banned, Sir Keir Starmer has refused and instead offered only the pseudo-reassurance that the Labour government is keeping the Brotherhood ‘under very close review’.
