The United Arab Emirates has escaped the popular unrest shaking the Arab world, but its campaign of arrests targeting Islamist activists shows how wary the oil-producing state is about the spread of political Islam after the "Arab Spring".
Analysts say UAE decision-makers fear the Gulf Arab state is not immune to the increasing influence of Islamists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco.
UAE security forces have arrested up to at least 20 Islamist activists since April, seven of them had been stripped of their citizenship.
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