Mirna Fahmy-Diplomatic Inside
The recent murder of a Jewish Rabbi has triggered the assumption of the existence of activities related to the Muslim Brotherhood in some Arabic countries that previously banned their entries.
On Sunday morning, which marked November 24, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel woke up to the news of the death of a missing Jewish Rabbi (priest) Zvi Kogan, 28, in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Israel says that the Rabbi was murdered after being abducted on Thursday and vowed to track down its killers. His body was recovered early Sunday morning, and his family has been notified.
All the accusations were eventually forwarded by many Pro-Israeli social media users towards Iran and its allies who might have entered the country unnoticed of their background. The Iranian embassy in the UAE said it “categorically rejects the allegations of Iran’s involvement in the murder of this individual.”.
In less than 24 hours, the UAE’s Ministry of Interior has announced the arrest of 3 individuals responsible for the killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan. The arrest comes in record time after the UAE Ministry of Interior assembled a team of search and investigation.
It was figured out that they are Uzbek nationals named as follows: Olimpi Tohirovich (28 years old), Makhmudjon Abdurrahim (28 years old), and Azizi Kamilovich (33 years old).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had denounced the killing of the Rabbi as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act” and said Israel would do everything it could to bring those responsible to justice.
Kogan was a resident of the UAE and also a Moldovan national, according to local authorities. He worked with the New York-based Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement.
The murder of the Rabbi has revoked fear and unsettledness for Jews for being targeted globally, even in one of the safest countries like the UAE, which welcomes all the religions and their factions. However, there are still those who believe that the UAE will not tolerate antisemitic actions towards the Jews on the land, unlike Canada, and even on some college campuses and some city streets in the United States and other parts of the world.
It’s all amid the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza that started after Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023 killing 1,706 Israelis and over 44,363 Palestinans are getting recorded since the war up till now.
The number of soldiers is critical for the sensitive Israel. Approximately 356 Israeli soldiers have died during the Gaza war and 47 since the ground offensive began on September 30, 2024 in Southern Lebanon.
Because of this war, there have been recent violent clashes that happened to the Jewish and Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on November 7 of this year. The violence erupted after a Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Israeli fans were reportedly ambushed by groups shouting pro-Palestinian slogans, resulting in injuries to several individuals. The Dutch police have since arrested numerous suspects linked to these incidents, with the total number of arrests exceeding 60.
In Montreal, Canada, similar events have highlighted a troubling surge in antisemitism, particularly during a violent protest that took place on November 22, 2024. The protest, organised by groups opposing NATO, escalated into chaos, with demonstrators burning an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and engaging in violent acts such as smashing windows and setting vehicles on fire. The police reported multiple arrests and noted that the protest involved not only anti-NATO sentiments but also antisemitic rhetoric, including calls for violence against Jews. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) expressed alarm over the rising antisemitic incidents, noting that Jewish Canadians feel increasingly unsafe. This sentiment is echoed in recent polls indicating that a significant portion of the Jewish community believes Canada has become less safe since October 7, 2023, when tensions escalated globally due to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
UAE’s authorities’ response to the murder was applauded by many people in the west who call their judiciary “two-tiering policing.” They even praised the leadership of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, which made the UAE one of the most forward-thinking countries in the world, ensuring that the WEST should all learn from this Muslim country!
Many Jews have also thanked the UAE authorities for taking swift action and arresting the suspects who murdered the Rabbi in record time, again admitting that the whole world has a lot to learn from the seriousness with which the UAE takes public safety and social security.
This isn’t the first time for Iran to be suspected of such murder in the UAE. It has been suspected of kidnapping and later killing British Iranian national Abbas Yazdi in Dubai in 2013 and also kidnapping Iranian German national Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 from Dubai, taking him back to Tehran.
What happened in the UAE regarding the murder of the Rabbi has sparked the mention of the “Muslim Brotherhood” in a new form. “We have previously warned that political Islam will move, after its defeat in Gaza and Lebanon, from military action against Israel to security action through the Muslim Brotherhood and following the Guardian Jurist, to security and terrorist action in the Gulf countries in particular, and Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, and the Arab countries in general, and here it is striking in Jordan to destabilise it and kill. A Jewish cleric in the Emirates,” Muhammad Ali Al-Husseini, a Saudi-Lebanese Shiite Islamic researcher and cleric, posted on his X account.
Al-Husseini added that the political bankruptcy of the Islamic group pushes it towards suicidal options, in keeping with its entire dark history. Extreme caution, preparation, cooperation, and coordination must be exercised for a new phase of radical Islam.
UAE is set as an Islamic country example for banning any extremist ideologies that the Muslim Brotherhood has adapted, bringing chaos to many Arabic-speaking countries.
“The Muslim Brotherhood has already destroyed Libya, Syria, and Yemen and attempted to occupy Egypt,” Amjad Taha, an Emirati journalist and researcher in Middle Eastern political affairs, said on his X account. “Now, they seek influence in Congress and the British Parliament, acting as proxies for Iran and radical Islamists. Some terrorists wear ties and suits to blend in, earning the label moderate activists’ until they face justice or are eliminated. Ban them now.”
Taha has endlessly posted on his X account about how the west is drowning because they opened their arms to radical Islam. He stressed that the events in Montreal are a “small warning of worse things to come.” “From Canada to France, Australia, and the Netherlands, many have warned the West on numerous occasions about the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood settling in cities, occupying the streets, and holding the youths’ minds hostage to their propaganda,” he said. This is about hatred, death glorification, antisemitism, and terrorism wrapped in suits and ties; it is not just about the Israeli or Palestinian problem.
In September 2024, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), an Islamist party connected to the local Muslim Brotherhood movement, became the largest group in Jordan’s parliament. They capitalised on people’s resentment of Israel’s attack on Hamas. The populace is generally sympathetic to the Palestinians, despite the kingdom’s diplomatic ties with Israel and its status as a key US ally. Some of the biggest protests in the area, including pro-Hamas rallies, have been coordinated by the IAF.