Britain has been infiltrated, the Muslim Brotherhood's quiet takeover is already underway, and the West is listening to the wrong Muslims.
Rauda Altenaiji and Ahmed Sharif Al Ameri are part of a new wave of Emirati voices speaking out, proudly and publicly, in defence of the Abraham Accords and the world's only Jewish state. They feel safer walking through Dubai at 4am than London at 8pm, and their leadership has stopped sending students to British universities for fear they'll be radicalised.
But beneath the warning are harder questions. The UAE enforces its famous tolerance through some of the world's harshest laws — including execution. Is that a model the West could ever, or should ever, follow? Is their picture of coexistence too perfect to be true? And when two polished young influencers appear defending Israel and the Accords, who exactly is behind them — and why?
In this conversation, recorded live at the ARC 2026 conference, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Rauda Altenaiji and Ahmed Sharif Al Ameri — Emirati commentators and social-media political voices — about the Abraham Accords, Islamist extremism in Britain, the Muslim Brotherhood, antisemitism, migrant workers' rights, the death penalty, and why they believe London is losing its identity while the Gulf thrives.
Filmed at ARC 2026
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👁️🗨️ Watch if you want to understand how two Emiratis see Britain's extremism problem — and why they believe the West is listening to the wrong Muslims.
🎙️ We Discuss:
🔴 Why two Emiratis publicly defend Israel and the Abraham Accords — and what it cost them
🕌 The Muslim Brotherhood "invasion" of the West, and why they say it now works through PR, not conquest
🇬🇧 Why the UAE will no longer send its students to study in the UK
⚖️ How the UAE treats antisemitism as terrorism — and the one case that ended in execution
🏙️ Why they'd walk through Dubai at 4am but not London after 8pm
👷 The truth about the UAE: the uncomfortable questions on migrant workers, labour laws and 87.9% of the population
💀 Tolerance enforced by the death penalty — model or warning?
📖 The idea of a "civilisational jihad"
🎓 How a Muslim woman was branded Islamophobic by a white British university professor
🤔 "Is this engineered?" — answering the suspicion that these influencers came from nowhere
🌍 How to spread coexistence to the rest of the Arab world
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💬 Comment below — is the UAE's model of enforced tolerance something the West should learn from, or the very thing it should fear?
