Middle Eastern country stops sponsoring students studying in Britain over fear of radicalization: report

A Muslim-majority state successful the Middle East volition nary longer sponsor students seeking to survey overseas successful Britain, claiming that it fears students volition go radicalized.

The United Arab Emirates believes that its students successful Britain could beryllium taxable to indoctrination and radicalization by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to London-based quality outlet The Times.

In the UAE and respective different Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the Muslim Brotherhood has been designated arsenic a panic organization. 

Some Central Asian countries person besides fixed it that designation. In Texas and Florida, the Muslim Brotherhood has been labeled a panic group, though the national authorities has not labeled it arsenic such.

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a concern forum astatine Qasr Al Watan during the last halt of his Gulf visit, successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Amr Alfiky)

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The Emirati Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs connection backing to screen "tuition, surviving stipends, question and wellness security for top-performing students who are pursuing degrees successful precedence fields," according to the report.

A antheral mows the writer tract successful the courtyard of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, England. (Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

It volition inactive connection its robust state-sponsored survey overseas programme for students who privation to survey successful different countries.

The state has not wholly banned studying successful Britain, according to the report, but those who privation to bash truthful volition person to wage their ain way.

The UAE has battled against the Muslim Brotherhood crossed the Middle East for years. In 2013, it backed Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew a Muslim Brotherhood-linked regime, according to Reuters.

Egyptian anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters outcry slogans and clasp posters of the precocious President Gamal Abdel Nasser during a rally to denounce the country's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood radical successful Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (Amr Nabil/Associated Press)

It has besides worked with proxies to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood successful Yemen and the African countries of Chad and Sudan.

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In 2015, an enquiry by the British authorities determined that the Islamist radical is contrary to British values and that rank successful the radical could beryllium a motion of extremism. Still, the state did not designate it arsenic a panic group.

Certain Muslim involvement groups successful the U.K., including the Muslim Association of Britain, the British Muslim Initiative and the Islamic Society of Britain person been suspected of being linked to Muslim Brotherhood ideology.