Hadas' reentry into the country's parliamentary life is illustrative of the Sabah rulers' tolerance of both Islamist and liberal criticism, albeit within boundaries, of Kuwait's government. Other G.C.C. states, chiefly the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), have no such tolerance for the forces of political Islam. Viewing the Muslim Brotherhood as a security threat, officials in Abu Dhabi do not permit the Emirati Muslim Brotherhood's offshoot, al-Islah, to participate in the U.A.E.'s political arena. Unsettled by the events of 2011 in which reform movements and opposition activists shook the region, officials in the Emirates perceive the Muslim Brotherhood as a challenge to the U.A.E. and other Arab Gulf sheikdoms' leadership.
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