Doha, 19 Nov 2014 – An international body of Muslim scholars has dismissed United Arab Emirates decision to designate the group as “terrorist”, expressing “astonishment” over the charges.
The inclusion of the group was “not based on any analysis or investigation, whether legal, logical or rational,” said the statement of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), co-signed by the union’s chairman, Egyptian-born scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Reuters reported on Monday, November 17.
“The Union expresses its complete and extreme astonishment of its inclusion by the UAE among the terrorists groups and rejects this description completely,” said the group, which says it seeks to promote scholarship and awareness of Islam.
On Saturday, November 15, Emirati officials released a new terror list that included the names of 83 organizations.
The UAE Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Islah (or Da’wat Al-Islah), and Fatah al-Islam (Lebanon) are at the top of the UAE terror list.
Other groups like Al-Qaeda, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) in Syria are also branded terrorist.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Afghanistan’s Taliban are also in the blacklist.
International bodies representing world Muslims such as the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) and Islamic Relief have been also banned.
The UAE blacklist included the names of several American and European Muslims organization like the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, the Islamic Relief, a UK-registered charity that is working with the British government and Muslim Association of Britain.
Two US-based groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society, are also included in the list, sending a shockwave among thousands of their members.
The union said the UAE list ignored groups engaged in what it called “non-Islamic terrorism” against Muslims, saying this raised questions about the motives behind the designations.—Agencies
Don’t fly on emirates.
Hey UAE, watch your own back and oil your own machine.
Chair and mas are supporting so many poor muslims in us that it is unimaginable to put them in spot.
Even if it is free, I will never fly on UAE flights.
According to the U.S. Department of State annual report on human rights practices, the UAE is violating a number of fundamental practices. Specifically, the UAE does not have democratically-elected institutions and citizens do not have the right to change their government or to form political parties. In certain instances, the government of the UAE has abused people in custody and has denied their citizens the right to a speedy trial and access to counsel during official investigations.
The government restricts freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and the local media practises self-censorship by avoiding directly criticizing the government or royal families. Freedom of association and freedom of religion are also curtailed.
Despite being elected to the UN Council, the UAE has not signed most international human-rights and labor-rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the Convention against Torture. Journalists from overseas frequently record and document human rights abuses that occur within the UAE.
UAE and Saudi leaders will be the first to enter hell.
Uae is munafiq cuntry every true muslim knows.every thing is halal their.ifur ready to pay money.openning dance bar on sharia land is act of real terrorism in islamic view.uae is lappy dog of us .they r out of islam.CAN UAE DEFINE THE TERM s TERROR.TERRORISM,TERORIST.
@assemanad – what the hell is wrong with u guys , they wudnt have said just like that without any proof . anybody who is againt a few muslims grps does make him a hater of muslim but makes a human , but u wont understand