French author George Malbrunot says Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, places the fight against Islamic organizations at the top of its priorities while tolerating religions other than Islam, including Catholicism.

The war on "radical Islam" - especially political Islam - has become obsessive in Abu Dhabi, Malbrunot said in an article published in the Le Figaro newspaper. He no longer confined the organization of the Islamic state, al-Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah to its blacklist of terrorism. Muslims and the former Union of Islamic Organizations in France, which became known to the Muslims of France.

He notes that Abu Dhabi considers all strikes to be permissible in this war against the Islamists.

UAE authorities control religious workers' practices and quell any political protest (Reuters)

Control of religious practices
Abu Dhabi, which declared 2019 the year of tolerance, also prevented Qatari fans from attending the final of the Asian Cup, which Qatar has won, a move that is highly intolerant, according to many Internet users in their criticism of the UAE.

Malbrunot adds that foreign workers in the UAE - unlike Saudi Arabia - if they can practice the Catholic religion, the authorities control their religious practices and suppress any political protest or exploitation of religion.

"We are interfering in Friday sermons for the common good and to avoid the spread of the hate speech we have seen in many countries, including Europe," the author told an AFP official.

He adds that in a country where there are subtle and strict observers, the intelligence charge of any person is an enemy that allows the authorities to suppress beyond reasonable limits. For example, the UAE was jailed for four months by British interrogators before being pardoned at the end of last year.

The obsession of Abu Dhabi
Malbrunot says the UAE looks like a country sharing some values ​​with the West, such as interfaith dialogue, which the pope is attending Monday with the sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque.

The writer notes that the attendance of Sheikh Al-Azhar is no coincidence, because Abu Dhabi supports Egypt under the leadership of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi politically and financially in its war against the Islamists.

He pointed out that the UAE was the first Arab country to reopen an embassy to the Syrian regime in late December, adding that Abu Dhabi did not intend to overthrow the President of the Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad or the emergence of democracy, but its obsession was to remove the Muslim Brotherhood.