Rubin via João Figueiredo . Plz have a look-see. The core of it: «Fearing this fate for their own countries, Saudi Arabia and the UAE mobilized ideational resources at home and abroad to balance against the Muslim Brotherhood after they rose to power in Egypt in 2012. The ruling regimes feared the potential that a Muslim Brotherhood regime could project its ideological power and undermine domestic political stability in other states. In the religious realm, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic political activist outlook challenges Saudi Arabia’s quietist, status quo orientation toward politics. These massive information and disinformation campaigns, using both traditional media and new social media technologies closely connected to the state, were accompanied by repressive measures against supporters of the Brotherhood in their own countries. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi shared a sigh of relief when in 2013 the Egyptian military ousted the Islamist Morsi regime—and they ensured (or insured) their newfound peace of mind by pledging billions in aid to shore up the military’s grip on power.»
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:55:55 +0000
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