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| How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe |
| 2025-06-03 |
| France didn’t plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempt to take over Europe. But that’s exactly what it did a couple of weeks ago, when a classified report from the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro. The 73-page document, marked confidentiel-défense, was meant for top officials only. Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens of interviews, it lays out a stark diagnosis: The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France—not through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques, and soft power. It states: "The Brotherhood’s strategy is to install a form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities." The report is the most detailed government study to date of the Brotherhood’s presence in Europe. Written by two civil servants, it draws on months of fieldwork and analysis conducted in France and abroad, with input from diplomats, intelligence officials, academics, and religious figures. Its conclusion is blunt: The Brotherhood operates as a political project. Its goal is not sudden revolution, but gradual transformation. Its target is hearts and minds. Its strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And it is not coming just for France. It is coming for all of the West. The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement that seeks to impose Islamic law through gradual, ideological means—primarily via schools, charities, and religious networks. While it claims to reject violence, it has extremist offshoots such as Hamas, and its influence often blurs the line between nonviolence and radicalization. Its ideological lineage runs deep. Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt, the movement has always presented Islam as a total system—religious, political, legal, economic. But it was in Europe that this vision was tactically refined. After being banned or repressed in the Arab world, many Brotherhood ideologues took refuge in Western democracies. In Switzerland, al-Banna’s son-in-law Saïd Ramadan set up the Islamic Center of Geneva in 1961, and later raised his two sons, Tariq and Hani Ramadan, both of whom became leading voices of Islamist thought in Europe. In the decades since, the Brotherhood has methodically expanded its presence across the continent—embedding itself in local communities through a network of mosques, charities, educational institutions, and civic associations, all designed to promote its vision of political Islam under the cover of religious outreach. The numbers in France alone are startling. The Brotherhood’s French network comprises 280 associations, including 139 officially affiliated mosques and 68 more considered "ideologically close"—together accounting for nearly 10 percent of the mosques opened since 2010. Every Friday, some 91,000 people attend worship in these spaces. The movement also controls or influences 21 private schools (three of them state-funded) and 815 Quranic schools, where over 66,000 minors are taught to see themselves as part of a global Muslim community in moral and cultural opposition to Western secularism. What, exactly, do they teach at these institutions? Well, Brotherhood-linked schools have distributed texts that praise Sharia law as superior to man-made law, denounce interfaith marriage, and vilify Jews. Antisemitism is not incidental in Brotherhood-affiliated organizations—it is central. "Hatred of Jews," the report states unequivocally, is a core ideological element, often laundered through anti-Zionist slogans. In one mosque near Paris, a speaker recently declared "Je suis Hamas" ("I am Hamas") to a cheering audience. In others, anti-Israel rhetoric bleeds seamlessly into classic antisemitic tropes. Hassan Iquioussen, a prominent preacher linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and recently expelled from France, is cited for repeatedly spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. He claimed that "the Jews control the media," and that they "manipulate historical memory to maintain their grip on global opinion." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |