Sometimes it just seems like the world is descending into absurdity. This is one of those times; now, on Saturday, we learn that a Muslim-majority nation, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is halting subsidies for UAE students wanting to study abroad in a certain country, out of concern that the students may become radicalized; in other words, taken in by Islamic radicals, preaching hate and terror.
That country would be the United Kingdom. Yes – that United Kingdom.
The United Arab Emirates believes that its students in Britain could be subject to indoctrination and radicalization by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to London-based news outlet The Times.
In the UAE and several other Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the Muslim Brotherhood has been designated as a terror organization.
Some Central Asian countries have also given it that designation. In Texas and Florida, the Muslim Brotherhood has been labeled a terror group, though the federal government has not labeled it as such.
Well, the Muslim Brotherhood is a terror organization. Understandably, any responsible nation wouldn’t want its younger generations exposed to this kind of hate, and certainly won’t want to underwrite that exposure.
The Emirati Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs offer funding to cover “tuition, living stipends, travel and health insurance for top-performing students who are pursuing degrees in priority fields,” according to the report.
It will still offer its robust state-sponsored study abroad program for students who wish to study in other countries.
The country has not completely banned studying in Britain, according to the report, but those who wish to do so will have to pay their own way.
Maybe the Muslim Brotherhood will pay their way.
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This whole thing is venturing into the surreal. The once-Great Britain, it seems, isn’t very British anymore. The country that was once America, Original Recipe, has thrown open the doors to all and sundry – you know, like the Biden administration did here – as has the rest of Europe, with a few exceptions. They are losing their culture, and in another generation or two, the United Kingdom probably won’t exist in any recognizable form. This thing isn’t all that surprising from the standpoint of the UAE; they have, at least for the Muslim world, been active in countering Islamic terror groups and Islamic radicalism, according to our State Department’s fact sheet on that country.
But this, this is a bad, bad, sign. When a group like the Muslim Brotherhood is so deeply ingrained in British society, including presumably British educational institutions, that the United Arab Emirates is discouraging its young people from studying there, that’s disconcerting.
The UAE, we might note, is apparently still sponsoring their young skulls full of mush to come study in the United States. It’s hard to know how much better that is; here, in American academia, their young students may not be radicalized in the Muslim Brotherhood sense, but they may well be inculcated in “woke” horse squeeze, including such delights as gender ideology, communism, and climate scoldery.
At least they wouldn’t be running around trying to blow people up. Not in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood, anyway.
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