The UAE pulls the plug on sending students to British universities because they have become incubators for jihadism.
The UAE cut funding for students in the UK after identifying systematic Islamist radicalization on British campuses driven by Muslim Brotherhood networks. An Arab state now treats a European campus as a radicalization risk. The reversal is complete. Western universities have become incubators for Islamist networks, protected by cowardice and disguised as tolerance.
When institutions refuse to draw red lines, they do not educate minds, they manufacture extremism.
This is not a message. It is an alarm.
Milei: ‘In the UK, citizens are being imprisoned for exposing horrifying crimes committed by Muslim migrants’
🚨BREAKING: Argentinian PM Javier Milei at the Davos conference:
“Is it not true that as we speak, in the UK, citizens are being imprisoned for exposing horrifying crimes committed by Muslim migrants? Crimes that the Government seeks to conceal?” 💥 pic.twitter.com/MSXYzNLoNi
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) January 23, 2025
Yes, they are. You’d almost think that the socialist internationalist top dogs of shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain want the country to be Islamized, as they figure a Muslim population will be more accepting of the authoritarian regime they are imposing. After all, authoritarianism is the default mode of Islamic regimes throughout history. But it would be inconceivable to think that they’d destroy their own country in pursuit of raw power, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t it?
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The United Arab Emirates has restricted funding for citizens to study at Britishuniversities over tensions with the UK for its decision not to ban the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.
Abu Dhabi has excluded British universities from a list of institutions eligible for state scholarships while including universities in Israel, France and the US, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
In the year ending September 2025, 213 students from the UAE were granted visas to study at British universities, a drop of 55 percent from the year ending September 2022.
The move indicates a serious deterioration in relations between the UAE and Britain, with the FT quoting sources saying Emirati officials “don’t want their kids to be radicalised on campus”.
In response, British officials reportedly emphasised the importance of academic freedom.
They are as dense as they come.
The root of the row appears to be a disagreement over the Muslim Brotherhood, which the UAE has urged Britain to ban.
In December the UAE even took the unusual step of paying for Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, to travel to Abu Dhabi to meet senior officials over a “shared opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood”.
Farage, whose party leads national opinion polls, vowed in September that Reform will ban the Brotherhood if it is elected.
Under ‘close review’
The Labour government has said it is keeping the issue of proscribing the Brotherhood under “close review”.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Cairo in 1928 and is one of the world’s largest and best-known political Islam groups.
It has long maintained that it is a peaceful organisation that wishes to participate in politics democratically.
But it is considered a major threat by many autocratic governments in the Middle East and North Africa.
In rare instances in which free elections are held in the region, parties affiliated with the Brotherhood often either win outright or form the largest opposition party.
The group is banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
In 2017 Britain’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, after an inquiry into the government’s policy towards “political Islam”, concluded that political Islamists were a “firewall” against violent extremism and should be engaged with, either when in power or in opposition.
But the inquiry itself, commissioned by the previous, coalition government, reportedly followed lobbying by UAE officials.
The UAE has a track record of seeking to encourage a crackdown on non-violent political Islam in the UK.
In January 2025, the UAE labelled eight British organisations as terror groups over alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood, although none of these organisations are considered to have broken any British laws.
In response, Reform MP Richard Tice urged the Labour government to “act on” the organisations named by the UAE, a state where political opposition to the government of any kind is banned and risks heavy prison sentences.
In 2023, it was revealed that the UAE had paid Alp Services, a private intelligence firm based in Geneva, to smear Britain’s largest Muslim charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), by seeking to link its officials with the Muslim Brotherhood and violent extremists.
Now calls are growing for a ban on the organisation.
Farage told the Reform conference in September that “we will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country. Quite why we have been so gutless about this, both Conservative and Labour, I do not know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”