International Expert Reveals Strategies to Confront the Muslim Brotherhood in European Countries
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France continues its intense battle against the penetration of political Islam forces in society, undermining its complex organizational networks the values of the “Republic,” especially through several pockets in schools, cultural institutions, educational centers, and religious outreach centers. These networks manage to isolate individuals, reduce their integration opportunities, and transform them into channels for transmitting extremist and divisive ideas, initiating parallel communities.
Conspiracy of Terrorism
Day after day, numerous entities and institutions in Europe are exposed for their suspicious roles that almost become factories ready for fostering violence and terrorism. The situation exacerbates with abundant financial resources. Among the prominent locations where the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates is the Ibn Sina School in France, classified as an educational institution of the Muslim Brotherhood, labeled as terrorist in several Arab countries.
Danger of the Muslim Brotherhood
Dr. Aqila Dabishi, an analyst in international affairs and director of the French Center for International Studies, states that the Brotherhood‘s efforts “reflect their diverse influence in Europe,” especially in France and Germany, where their influence varies depending on local contexts and conditions. They engage particularly with Muslim communities by offering various services and programs, especially for students and other classes. Providing these services is a means to expand their influence and gain broader support within Islamic communities, aiming to achieve their religious and political agendas gradually within these societies. This interaction poses a challenge to governments, which may respond in various ways to address political and security matters.
She added that France has resorted to several levels to counter attempts to threaten extremist risks and ideologies, including working to contain the Brotherhood‘s ideology of hatred in Europe by banning extremist organizations affiliated with the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement within France, in an effort to deter the propagation of hate speech.
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Strategies of Confrontation
She continued that confronting the danger of these extremist groups in Europe has extended to besieging terrorist networks and all those responsible for them, in addition to freeing mosques and schools from foreign influences. There is also gradual removal of appointed imams while increasing the number of trained imams in France. Furthermore, there is monitoring of financial donations and combating attempts to segregate from French society, such as separation areas in public swimming pools and prayer hours in sports clubs, violations of gender equality laws, and attention to impoverished French neighborhoods through enhancing social, cultural, and sports offerings, healthcare, and rehabilitating neglected residential areas.