France moves closer to banning the Muslim Brotherhood: what is new?
Political analyst Dr. Jihan Gado has stated that the proposal to include the Muslim Brotherhood on France’s list of terrorist organizations represents a “radical shift” and a decisive turning point in French and European policy. She pointed out that this move comes as a result of an accumulation of security reports that have exposed the deceptive nature of the group’s activities and its systematic infiltration of Western societies.
In a statement reported by the newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabea, Gado explained that the movement relied for years on what she described as “quiet horizontal infiltration” in France, using concealed fronts including cultural organizations, educational associations, private schools, and social centers.
The political analyst noted that the adoption of this proposal would lead to immediate legal and security consequences, such as drying up external sources of funding for institutions and associations affiliated with the organization, placing its senior leadership under intensified security surveillance, taking strict legal measures against them, and ending the state of “implicit protection” that the group enjoyed for many years under the guise of freedom of expression and civic participation.
Gado considered that the French move would give significant momentum to other European countries to take similar steps, stressing that the current “legal uprising” aims to protect the values of the Republic and to separate religion from the state in the face of the threat of “political Islam,” which has distorted the image of moderate Islam and disrupted European social cohesion.
She concluded that this decision, although delayed, reflects a growing European awareness that the Brotherhood does not operate as a political party, but rather as a transnational system seeking to undermine the foundations of societies from within.
