Meanwhile, General Dāhī Khalfān, the Dubai Police Chief, severely criticized Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group in the aftermath of a crisis that erupted over statements by Egyptian preacher Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī, the secretary-general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which the United Arab Emirates deemed as “interference in the country’s national security”.

“The states and governments of the Gulf will never all the Muslim Brotherhood to turn the tables as the group did in other countries,” said Khalfān in an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Watan.

Qaradāwī had lashed out at the UAE at the Qatar-based al-Jazīrah channel after the Gulf state deported Syrian families that staged protests against the Syrian regime outside the Syrian consulate in Dubai.

“The regimes in the Gulf are classier, more advanced and more disciplined than republics,” said Khalfān, adding, “Those who are bragging today about the Arab Spring and the Muslim Brotherhood will definitely regret tomorrow”. [Ayman Hassūnah, al-Misrī al-Yawm, March 22, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic