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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
MURDERING MUSLIMS - AND JOE BIDEN WANTS MORE OF THEM! - Qatar calls on Muslim migrants to hate their Western benefactors
After stating that Muslims who emigrate to the West must have "enmity and hatred for the infidels, staying far from their loyalty and love — for loyalty and love for them contradicts the faith," the fatwa proceeds to give its evidence, that is, it goes on to quote several supporting verses from the Koran, including:
You will never find a people that truly believes in Allah and the Last Day loyal to those who defy Allah and His Messenger — even if they be their parents, children, siblings, or extended family [Koran 58:22][.] ...
Oh you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends and allies, for they are friends and allies of each other; and whoever among you befriends them is from among them. Allah does not guide the unjust people [Koran 5:51].
Report: Iranians Say Joe Biden Has Not Kept Promise to Bring Muslims into United States
Iranians in the United States say they were hoping the election of Joe Biden as president would mean that their loved ones would be allowed to come into the country after the reversal of former President Donald’s Trump’s policy to restrict travel from countries with links to terrorism.
Iran is considered by the U.S. federal government as a state sponsor of terrorism, but Biden is framing his decision as stopping a xenophobic policy targeting Muslims.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Iranian Americans who are disappointed by Biden’s failure to keep his campaign promise:
One impact of the Trump travel ban was to divide families. Eli, a 34-year-old Iranian with a green card, lives in Los Angeles. Like all the Iranians interviewed for this story, she asked that her family name not be used for fear of retaliation if she returns to Iran. Eli says of all the issues she faced moving to the U.S., the travel ban was the worst.
“The travel ban – actually, the Muslim ban, I don’t know – or Trump ban, anything you name it – affect us very widely, and it has direct effect in our life,” Eli said.
The NPR report continued:
In the spring of 2018, Eli says she applied for a visa for her husband so he could join her in the U.S. They filled out the forms, paid the fees and waited – and waited. A backlog of cases and the pandemic were contributing factors, but she says that didn’t make it any easier.
“We are waiting for his interview, like, almost one year,” Eli said. “And it’s really hard time for us.”
NPR also interviewed another Iranian American, Mahdis, who said she met her husband while visiting relatives in Iran and he remains in the country.
“We thought that after President Biden is elected, then everything is going to be OK but unfortunately, it seems not,” Mahdis said. “I voted for him because he said that he’s going to be different from the previous president, but he’s not.”
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Qatar calls on Muslim migrants to hate their Western benefactors
Imagine if a U.S. governmental agency told all Americans who live abroad that they are obligated to hate the nations hosting them.
That's precisely what the Muslim nation of Qatar (a "U.S. friend and ally") is doing. According to the world-famous website, Islamweb.net — which is directed and financed by the state of Qatar — any Muslim who lives in a non-Muslim nation is obligated to hate his adopted nation and its "infidel" citizens (even while receiving benefits from them).
This comes in the form of a fatwa (an Islamic sanctioned decree) titled "Conditions that Legitimize Residing in Infidel Nations" (all translations in this article my own). Along with "preserving and upholding his Islam," the "first condition" for any Muslim who lives among non-Muslims is that he have "enmity and hatred for the infidels."
This, incidentally, applies to those millions of Muslim migrants voluntarily immigrating into and flooding Western Europe. If they take their Islam seriously, they are duty-bound to hate and be disloyal to those nations welcoming them and providing them with free food, shelter, and health care.
After stating that Muslims who emigrate to the West must have "enmity and hatred for the infidels, staying far from their loyalty and love — for loyalty and love for them contradicts the faith," the fatwa proceeds to give its evidence, that is, it goes on to quote several supporting verses from the Koran, including:
You will never find a people that truly believes in Allah and the Last Day loyal to those who defy Allah and His Messenger — even if they be their parents, children, siblings, or extended family [Koran 58:22][.] ...
Oh you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends and allies, for they are friends and allies of each other; and whoever among you befriends them is from among them. Allah does not guide the unjust people [Koran 5:51].
After quoting Muhammad in a sahih (authentic) hadith, saying, "Whoever loves a people is from among them," the fatwa concludes by saying, "Loving the enemies of Allah is among the greatest dangers for a Muslim, for loving them necessitates cooperating with and following them, or at least not rejecting them — hence why the prophet said, 'Whoever loves a people is from among them.'"
(Here it should be noted that merely being a non-Muslim makes one an enemy of Allah; no action is required.)
This teaching by Qatar's Islamweb.net is not out of the mainstream. For example, on the equally popular Islam Q&A, the same question is answered with the same exact answer: any Muslim who lives among non-Muslims must have "enmity and hatred for the infidels, staying far from their loyalty and love — for loyalty and love for them contradicts the faith."
Remember all this the next time you hear that "xenophobia" is responsible for Muslim failure to assimilate into the West. This may be true, though not because Western people "fear the stranger" — as commonly supposed — but rather because Muslim migrants hate the infidel.
In “Arabic Expert Unmasks Pope’s Muslim Ally,” Jules Gomes of Church Militant interviews Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Freedom Center, on the unholy alliance between the Vatican and Al Azhar:
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – A top Arabic scholar is exposing the “two-facedness” of Pope Francis’ Muslim dialogue partner and the failure of the pontiff’s Human Fraternity pact to stem the escalating persecution of Christians in the Islamic world.
Islamic historian Raymond Ibrahim is blasting grand imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb for “repeatedly contradicting all the lofty sentiments in the document he signed with the pope,” as the Holy See marks the anniversary of the Abu Dhabi deal, which was signed Feb. 4, 2019.
On Thursday, Francis and al-Tayyeb will participate in a virtual event hosted in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the International Day of Human Fraternity — a day now set apart by the United Nations General Assembly as an annual event.
United Nations secretary-general António Guterres and ruler of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed will lead the celebrations marking the controversial Catholic-Muslim concordat, Vatican media announced.
At his Wednesday public audience, Francis said he was pleased that “the nations of the entire world are joining in this celebration, aimed at promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue.”
In an exclusive interview with Church Militant, Ibrahim called out the “doublespeak” of Sheikh al-Tayyeb “if only when speaking in Arabic and appearing on Arabic media, as opposed to when ‘dialoguing’ with naïve Western leaders who are all too eager to believe what they want to hear.”
“For instance, the Document on Human Fraternity signed by al-Tayyeb emphatically insists on religious freedom, stating that ‘the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected,'” Ibrahim noted.
Ibrahim, author of recent bestseller Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, explained that al-Tayyeb is on record quoting “those learned in Islamic law [al-fuqaha] and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence” saying that apostates [converts from Islam] should be punished. To underscore the point, the top Islamic cleric cited a hadith [tradition], saying, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.”
“So much for religious freedom,” Ibrahim lamented, elaborating on how the grand imam “is renowned for turning a blind eye to the ongoing persecution of Egypt’s most visible non-Muslim minorities, the Coptic Christians.”
Despite the well-documented fact that Muslim mobs attack Christians almost “every two to three” days, al-Tayyeb told Coptic Pope Tawadros II, “Egypt represents the ultimate and supreme example of national unity” between Muslims and Christians, according to Ibrahim.
Some examples include the burning of churches and Christian homes, the coldblooded murder of a Coptic man defending his grandchild from Muslim bullies and the stripping, beating, and parading in the nude of a 70-year-old Christian woman, he added.
“The Grand Imam doesn’t have a single word for the persecution and displacement of the Copts — his own Egyptian countrymen,” remarked Ibrahim. “Instead, he claims that ‘the Copts have been living in Egypt for over 14 centuries in safety, and there is no need for all this artificial concern over them,’ adding that ‘true terrorism was created by the West.'”
Ibrahim, who has acted as a consultant for the U.S. Strategic Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency, was born to Egyptian parents and has studied under renowned military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
Ibrahim told Church Militant that “far from speaking up for Egypt’s Christian minorities,” al-Tayyeb “has confirmed that they are ‘infidels.'”
Ibrahim clarified:
While al-Tayyeb used the label in a technical manner — correctly saying that, as rejecters of Muhammad’s prophecy, Christians are infidels [kafir] — he also knows that labeling them as such validates all the animosity they feel and experience in Egypt, since the mortal enemy of the Muslim is the infidel.
To demonstrate al-Tayyeb’s duplicity, Ibrahim showed Church Militant an Arabic statement from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, which reads: “In March 2016, before the German parliament, Sheikh al-Tayyeb made unequivocally clear that religious freedom is guaranteed by the Koran, while, in Cairo, he makes the exact opposite claims.”
Ibrahim also named other Muslim commentators in Egypt who noted how al-Tayyeb had refused to denounce the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists as “un-Islamic,” despite al-Azhar’s dogmatic position on “infidels” and “apostates.”
Summing up his verdict on the futility of the Human Fraternity document, Ibrahim said: “While secular Western talking heads who don’t know the first thing about Islam continue squealing about how it is being ‘misunderstood,’ here is arguably the Muslim world’s leading authority confirming many of the cardinal points held by ISIS.”
He continued:
Al-Tayyeb believes that Islam is not just a religion to be practiced privately but rather is a totalitarian system designed to govern the whole of society through the implementation of Sharia; he supports one of the most inhumane laws — punishment of the Muslim who wishes to leave Islam; he downplays the plight of Egypt’s persecuted Christians, that is, when he’s not inciting hatred against them by calling them “infidels” — the worst category in Islam’s lexicon — even as he refuses to denounce the genocidal Islamic State likewise.
Al-Tayyeb’s signature on the Human Fraternity pact “does not seem to be worth much —certainly not the fanfare surrounding it,” the academic observed. “If al-Tayyeb is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Francis is a starry-eyed shepherd leading — or at least leaving — his flock to the slaughter.”
“It’s past high time he stopped playing ‘harmless dove’ and became ‘wise as a serpent’ — if only for the sake of millions of Christians being persecuted under Islam,” Ibrahim urged.
Egypt is home to the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Officially, about 10% of the population of 95 million are Christian, although many believe the figure is significantly higher.
'I'm a hostage': Haunting videos recorded by Dubai Princess Latifa al Maktoum in 'villa jail' after she was kidnapped by her father's henchmen following failed attempt to escape kingdom by jet ski
Princess Latifa al Maktoum, the kidnapped daughter of Dubai's ruler, has smuggled a series of haunting videos out of captivity, describing herself as being held 'hostage' by her father in the footage shared with Mail Online.
Speaking publicly for the first time in three years, the 34-year-old royal prisoner describes in vivid detail how her dramatic 2018 escape attempt involving jet skis and a yacht ended in her brutal recapture and forcible repatriation.
The Indian authorities handed her straight back to her billionaire father who has held her against her will ever since, with his henchmen promising her she would 'never see the sun again'.
In the most damming video filmed after her failed escape, the Princess says: 'I'm a hostage. And this villa has been converted into a jail. All the windows are barred shut.
'There's five policemen outside and two policewomen inside. I can't even go out to get fresh air. So basically, I'm a hostage.'
Daughter of Dubai ruler says she's being held 'hostage'
Princess Latifa al Maktoum, the kidnapped daughter of Dubai's ruler, has smuggled a series of haunting videos out of captivity describing herself as being held 'hostage' by her father
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Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Derby day in 2017 with his estranged wife Princess Haya
December 1985: Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is born.
August 2000: Her father, the ruler of Dubai, orders Latifa's sister Shamsa abducted from the UK.
Latifa says she has not been allowed to leave Dubai since this date.
June 2002: The teenage Latifa makes her first escape attempt, but is captured on the UAE's border with Oman and returned to Dubai on her father's orders. She says she was subsequently held in prison until 2005.
2010: Latifa meets Tiina Jauhiainen, a Finnish martial arts instructor. They become close friends, and the princess later confides in her about her earlier escape attempt and what had happened to Shamsa.
2017: The pair begin plotting their escape with clandestine discussions at the glitzy Dubai Mall. Tiina travels to the Philippines to meet a French former spy and naval officer, Herve Jaubert, who had written a book called Escape from Dubai.
February 24, 2018: Latifa and Tiina drive for six hours to reach Oman, where they boarded a dinghy to reach international waters before using jet skis to board the US-flagged boat Nostromo, captained by Jaubert.
March 4, 2018: The Nostromo is intercepted by commando units, allegedly including Indian special forces, who kidnap Latifa and take her back to the UAE.
December 2019: A UK judge finds that the allegations of abduction are proved to be true. He also rules that the sheikh subjected his estranged wife Princess Haya to a campaign of fear and intimidation.
March 2020: The judge's rulings are made public after the Supreme Court denies the sheikh's final appeal.
February 2021: New videos come to light in which Latifa, speaking from a 'villa jail', describes how her father's henchmen foiled her escape attempt and says she is being held 'hostage'.
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Last year the High Court in London found Latifa's father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 'ordered and orchestrated' her abduction and forced return to Dubai on two occasions, in 2002 and again in 2018.
Latifa escaped Dubai in February 2018 after recording a disturbing video in which she revealed her troubled relationship with her father.
In the video, Latifa accused him of jailing her for three years in 2002 when she tried to escape what she called his 'repressive control'.
The princess said she was drugged and tortured on the orders of her father.
She said was not allowed to drive, had no passport and was followed by a team of guards.
Latifa also claimed her older sister Shamsa is being kept against her will in Dubai after she tried to escape the kingdom and was abducted from the UK in 2000.
Latifa, who is one of the Sheikh’s 30 children by his six wives, fled Dubai by jet ski to rendezvous with a yacht waiting to sail to India.
After eight days at sea, the yacht she was travelling on was boarded by Indian commandos off the coast of Goa and she was returned to the custody of her father in Dubai.
The sheikh says Latifa was tricked into escaping by criminals who wanted money and that returning her to Dubai was a rescue mission.
He has been the subject of allegations that have come from a number of members of his family. As well as Latifa and one of her sisters, two former wives claim he abused them. The sheikh denies the claims.
Three years on from that episode, Latifa has released another series of videos, this time secretly recorded by in 2019.
Looking pale and frightened, she described the moment when the yacht on which she made her failed escape attempt, skippered by a hired former French spy she had hired, was stormed by Indian troops at sea.
Eight days into the voyage the Sheikh's military forces tracked her down 30 miles off Goa when the boat, Nostromo, was boarded by Indian special forces firing off stun grenades and tear gas.
'I kept saying you can't take me back,' she recalled. 'I want asylum and we're in international waters. You can't kidnap me. They were just on a mission and they were given orders.'
Latifa describes how she fought with two Emirati officers and bit one of them on the arm before her hands were zip tied and she was later tranquilised to keep her quiet.
She says: 'The same guy who tranquilised me came and then he tranquilised me again on my left arm. They put me on a stretcher, and as they were carrying me up steps of a private jet is when I passed out.
'When I woke up the jet had already landed in Dubai and I just felt really sad at this point. Everything I was working on for so many years to get my freedom was gone.'
The recordings were made at great risk to her personal safety and smuggled out of Dubai to her supporters in the UK who have her permission to release them in the hope it will secure her release.
The Princess – one of the Sheikh's 30 children by six different wives - tells how she has been imprisoned and threatened with being shot unless she cooperates with the official statements issued by her father.
Sheikh Mohammed and the Dubai Royal Court have claimed she is safe in the loving care of her family.
'They want me to break and they want propaganda from me,' she said. 'They also threatened me that I'll be in prison my whole life and I'll never see the sun again.'
The new footage, which will also be broadcast by BBC Panorama on Tuesday evening, fully supports a High Court judge's ruling last year that the Sheikh had ordered Latifa's kidnap and imprisonment, first in Dubai's grim Al Awir jail, then in the sealed villa.
India has never commented on its alleged role in the operation.
The ruler had previously been pictured alongside the Queen at horse racing events due to their shared passion for the sport, although the Queen was said to 'distance herself' from him following the High Court ruling.
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The Queen with Sheikh Mohammed on Derby day in 2011
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Princess Latifa and her best friend Tiina Jauhiainen in a selfie on the road to Oman on the first leg of their journey in 2018
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Staged-managed photos taken in 2018 showed Latifa posing with the former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson
The videos will also be a source of embarrassment to former Irish president Mary Robinson who visited Latifa in a stage-managed meeting and declared her a 'troubled young woman' without asking if she was being held against her will.
Ms Robinson, also a former UN High Commissioner for human rights, was labelled a 'willing pawn' in the charade, after she described Latifa as being 'in the loving care of her family'.
Ms Robinson now says she was ‘horribly tricked’ into attending the stag-managed meeting.
The former head of state said it had been a private meeting and that she had been surprised to see photos of her meeting Latifa had been released to the media.
Of the meeting Ms Robinson said she had been told the princess suffered from bipolar disorder and that she should not discuss the condition with her.
‘I was deeply tricked when the photographs went public, horribly tricked,’ she told the BBC. ‘I mean that was a total surprise. I was absolutely shocked.’
The meeting had been arranged by the Sheikh's second wife Princess Haya who was to later flee from Dubai in fear of her own life after her affair with one of her bodyguards was exposed.
Latifa said of Robinson: 'She said I was mentally troubled. She said that I was a troubled young woman, and I had a serious medical condition and I was getting help for it.
'That's implying that I have psychiatric problems. She knew that I was okay. She lied and it was all a set up.'
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A diagram showing Latifa's daring escape plan from the seas around the United Arab Emirates
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A court found that Dubai's ruler ordered commandos to snatch Princess Latifa (pictured right) from a yacht in 2018 as she tried to escape from the UAE with the help of former French spy Herve Jaubert (left)
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Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, right, with his estranged wife Princess Haya bint Al Hussein in 2017
All the videos were recorded in 2019 after a mobile phone was secretly smuggled into the villa where she is kept away from other members of the Dubai royal family and friends.
The Princess tells how her father, a close friend of the Queen, wants her to make a video where she says she is happy and living in Dubai voluntarily.
Latifa was able to secretly record the videos in the bathroom of her villa which is in the shadow of the Burj al Arab, one of the most famous buildings in Dubai.
She somehow made contact with her best friend, Finnish fitness instructor Tiina Jauhiainen, who took part in the failed escape bid, and lawyer David Haigh who together set up the Free Latifa campaign.
Tiina first met Latifa in late 2010 when she started giving her lessons in capoeira, a martial art, about five times a week. Over the years, Latifa confided in her and in 2017 asked for Tiina's help in trying to escape.
After plotting together in the glitzy Dubai Mall, according to Tiina's account, the pair drove for six hours to reach Muscat, the capital of Oman, where they got into a dinghy and boarded a US-flagged boat.
Latifa hoped to travel to India and then the United States to seek asylum, but on March 4, 2018 they were intercepted by commando units from India and the United Arab Emirates, Jauhiainen said.
Describing Latifa's state in captivity, Tiina told the BBC: 'She is so pale, she hasn't seen sunlight for months. 'She can basically move just from her room to the kitchen and back.'
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances has called for Latifa's case to be investigated.
The videos are being sent to the UN in the hope they will take a tougher stance against the Sheikh.
David Haigh, co-founder of the Free Latifa Campaign, told MailOnline: 'These videos go right to heart of the lie that Princess Latifa is happy being held in Dubai. She makes it very clear she was kidnapped, and she is a hostage.
'She has made these videos in the hope that the outside world will realise that she is being held against her will.'
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Princess Latifa Maktoum's Identity Card (pictured above) which states her full name as Sheikha Latifa Mohd Rashed Almaktoum
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Sheikh Mohammed's UK property empire includes the historic Dalham Hall which he bought in 2009 for £45m, to serve as a stud farm near to Newmarket race course
Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum's lavish collection of homes include a £75m Surrey estate, a historic Suffolk mansion and a sprawling Highland retreat with 63,000-acres of land.
He has also ploughed his extreme wealth into construction projects and sports, including one of the world's most successful thoroughbred horse racing stables, Godolphin, based near in Newmarket, Suffolk.
He bought Longcross estate on green belt land in Surrey in the 90s, as a place to escape the stifling summer heat in the Gulf.
Sheikh Mohammed later snapped up the historic Dalham Hall in 2009 for £45m, to serve as a stud farm near to the famous Newmarket race course.
His 63,000-acre Highland estate in Wester Ross was bought for £2million, 20 years ago. It boasts an incredible 58 bedrooms, a triple helipad and a 16-bedroom luxury hunting lodge.
His property portfolio has been mired in planning disputes with his Surrey mansion at the centre of claims portable cabins had been installed without permission to house his servants, and his Scottish estate was embroiled in a row over the construction of a hunting lodge.
In other business interests, the airline Emirates, which he launched, has a shirt sponsorship deal with Arsenal, worth £200million over four years - and has naming rights to their north London stadium.
His company DP World in 2019 acquired P&O Ferries for £322million, and in Essex he established the London Gateway. Built for £1.5billion, the deep water port on the Thames handles millions of shipping containers every year.
Timeline: The legal battle involving Dubai's ruler, his estranged wife and his daughters
The High Court in London last year published rulings relating to the legal battle between Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his former wife Princess Haya bint Al Hussain of Jordan.
Here is a timeline of events in the case.
July 15, 1949 - Sheikh Mohammed is born in Dubai.
May 3, 1974 - Princess Haya born in Amman, Jordan.
August 15, 1981 - Princess Shamsa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is born to Sheikh Mohammed, who has several wives.
December 5, 1985 - Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is born.
Summer 2000 - During a visit to England, Shamsa runs away from her family and seeks immigration advice to try and stay in the UK.
August 2000 - Shamsa is taken from the streets of Cambridge by men working for her father.
She is taken to her father's home in Newmarket, before being taken by helicopter to France and then to Dubai. She has not been seen in public since.
March 2001 - A woman claiming to be Shamsa contacts Cambridgeshire Police, saying she has been taken from England to Dubai.
December 2001 - The Guardian publishes an article suggesting Shamsa has been abducted from the UK.
April 2004 - Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya are married.
December 2, 2007 - Al Jalila born.
January 7, 2012 - Zayed born.
February/March 2018 - A video of Latifa is uploaded to the internet, in which she gives a detailed account of important events in her life. She also describes what she knows about her sister Shamsa's time in England and her subsequent abduction.
December 6, 2018 - The BBC broadcasts a documentary called Escape From Dubai: The Mystery Of The Missing Princess.
February 7, 2019 - Sheikh Mohammed divorces Princess Haya under sharia law without her knowledge. She says this date, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of her father's death, is deliberately chosen to 'maximise insult and upset to her'.
April 15 - Princess Haya travels to the UK with Jalila and Zayed.
May 14 - Sheikh Mohammed issues proceedings at the High Court in London seeking the summary return of his two children with Princess Haya to Dubai.
May 22 - First High Court hearing before Mr Justice Moor - the media, who are unaware of the hearing or even the proceedings, do not attend.
July 16 - On the eve of a 'scoping hearing' to consider media issues before Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division of the High Court, Princess Haya issues applications to make the children wards of court, for a forced marriage protection order and for a non-molestation order.
July 17 - Three journalists attend and lawyers for Sheikh Mohammed apply for them to be excluded. Sir Andrew says the hearing is relatively short while those in court 'simply scope out what lies before us' and to consider what information, if any, should be given to the media. The judge adds that the parties will issue a short statement explaining the nature of the proceedings.
July 18 - With the permission of the court, the parties release the following statement: 'The parties to these proceedings are HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein. These proceedings are concerned with the welfare of the two children of their marriage and do not concern divorce or finances.'
July 30 - At a hearing to work out issues, including the question of media reporting and to how to proceed to a final hearing to determine the welfare issues, Sir Andrew allows the media to report that Sheikh Mohammed has applied for the summary return of the children to Dubai, and that Princess Haya has applied for the children to be made wards of court, for a non-molestation order and a forced marriage protection order.
November 12-13 - Sir Andrew conducts a hearing to make findings of fact in relation to Princess Haya's allegations against Sheikh Mohammed.
December 11 - The judge delivers his ruling on the fact-finding hearing. However, strict reporting restrictions preventing its publication remain in force.
January 17, 2020 - The judge delivers a ruling on a series of 'assurances and waivers' given by Sheikh Mohammed to Princess Haya. He also conducts a hearing to determine whether his earlier rulings should be made public.
January 27 - Sir Andrew concludes that his earlier rulings should be published, but the publication is postponed pending a Court of Appeal challenge by Sheikh Mohammed to this decision.
February 26 - The Court of Appeal hears Sheikh Mohammed's challenge.
February 28 - Three leading judges dismiss his appeal and refuse to grant him permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. The stay on publication remains in force to give the father chance to make a fresh challenge to the Supreme Court.
March 5 - The Supreme Court announces that it has refused permission to appeal and all previous rulings are made public.
The judge's conclusions are that Princess Haya was subjected to a sustained campaign of fear and intimidation by her former husband. He also finds that Shamsa and Latifa were abducted on their father's orders.
February 16, 2021 - New videos come to light in which Latifa, speaking from a 'villa jail', describes how her father's henchmen foiled her escape attempt and says she is being held 'hostage'
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