United Arab Emirates Designates Two American Muslim Groups As Terrorist Orgs

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Daily Caller:

Chuck Ross

Nov. 15 2014

 

The United Arab Emirates has officially designated 83 groups as terrorist organizations, including two based in the U.S., the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society.

 

UAE’s cabinet made the announcement following a meeting on Saturday.

 

Other groups designated as terrorists include al-Qaida, al Nusra, Boko Haram and the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

CAIR’s designation is interesting given its high profile here in the U.S.

 

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CAIR Responds to UAE ‘Bizarre’ Terror List

 

 

Us...Terrorists! No way! Oh sure just because we've been involved with some terror groups and were founded and receive money from them is no reason to call us terrorist!

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State Dep’t Asks UAE Why It Labelled CAIR a Terrorist Group
November 18, 2014
Patrick Goodenough

 

(CNSNews.com) – A State Department spokesman said Monday the administration was seeking clarity from the United Arab Emirates over its decision to list two American Muslim groups as terrorist organizations.

Spokesman Jeff Rathke seemed unaware that one of the two groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has long been engaged in outreach programs with the U.S. government.

 

He said the administration was “seeking to gain more information on why” the UAE had included include CAIR and the Muslim American Society (MAS) on the list. Others among the more than 80 groups listed ranged from the Muslim Brotherhood to al-Qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL).

 

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Arrest of Brotherhood leader triggers debate

by Mohammad Ghazal and Taylor Luck

Nov 22, 2014

 

AMMAN — Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood spoke out against authorities’ arrest of the movement’s deputy overall leader Zaki Bani Rsheid, calling his jailing a “political stunt”, while officials insisted that the hawkish politician broke the law.

 

Bani Rsheid was arrested at the Brotherhood’s Amman headquarters late Thursday for a post on his Facebook page prosecutors deemed harmful to the country’s ties with neighbouring states, describing the move as an attempt to “place pressure” on the Islamist movement.

 

Bani Rsheid criticised the UAE for adding the Brotherhood to its list of terror groups, following a crackdown on the group and its supporters.

 

“The arrest of Zaki Bani Rsheid was nothing less than an attack on the freedom of speech and an attempt to silence the opposition,” said Mohammed Zyoud, secretary general of the Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front Party and a close confidant of Bani Rsheid. “Not only our organisation, but all of civil society will not remain silent.”

 

On Saturday, the Brotherhood appointed lawyers Hikmat Rawashdeh and Abdul Katter Al Khatib as the defence team for Bani Rsheid, who was transferred from Juweideh prison to the Marka correctional facility in northern Amman earlier in the day.

 

Authorities are expected to refer Bani Rsheid to the State Security Court for “acts harmful to the country’s relations with foreign states”, as per the recently amended Anti-Terror Law, next week.

 

The charge carries between two-and-a-half years to seven years in prison, according to the law.

 

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Arrest of Brotherhood leader triggers debate

by Mohammad Ghazal and Taylor Luck

Nov 22, 2014

 

AMMAN — Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood spoke out against authorities’ arrest of the movement’s deputy overall leader Zaki Bani Rsheid, calling his jailing a “political stunt”, while officials insisted that the hawkish politician broke the law.

 

Bani Rsheid was arrested at the Brotherhood’s Amman headquarters late Thursday for a post on his Facebook page prosecutors deemed harmful to the country’s ties with neighbouring states, describing the move as an attempt to “place pressure” on the Islamist movement.

 

Bani Rsheid criticised the UAE for adding the Brotherhood to its list of terror groups, following a crackdown on the group and its supporters.

 

“The arrest of Zaki Bani Rsheid was nothing less than an attack on the freedom of speech and an attempt to silence the opposition,” said Mohammed Zyoud, secretary general of the Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front Party and a close confidant of Bani Rsheid. “Not only our organisation, but all of civil society will not remain silent.”

 

On Saturday, the Brotherhood appointed lawyers Hikmat Rawashdeh and Abdul Katter Al Khatib as the defence team for Bani Rsheid, who was transferred from Juweideh prison to the Marka correctional facility in northern Amman earlier in the day.

 

Authorities are expected to refer Bani Rsheid to the State Security Court for “acts harmful to the country’s relations with foreign states”, as per the recently amended Anti-Terror Law, next week.

 

The charge carries between two-and-a-half years to seven years in prison, according to the law.

 

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