Jordan's King Abdullah II hosted a meeting in the port city of Aqaba on Friday with leaders and senior officials from Iraq, Egypt and the UAE, including Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
Jordanian state television tweeted a photo of King Abdullah alongside Sheikh Mohamed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi.
Sheikh Mohamed was accompanied to Aqaba by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Zayed and Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Tahnoun, Adviser for Special Affairs at the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Wam state news agency reported.
Earlier in the day, King Abdullah attended talks on the Aqaba Process — a counter-terrorism forum founded by the king in 2015 — with East African heads of state and western officials to discuss security in the region.
The Aqaba Process meetings included the participation of the presidents of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique as well as Tanzania’s prime minister, state media reported.
The process aims to enhance co-ordination and exchange of expertise and information among regional and international stakeholders to counter terrorism and extremism, Petra news agency said.
Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
Islamophobia definition
A widely accepted definition was made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims in 2019: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” It further defines it as “inciting hatred or violence against Muslims”.
