Emmanuel Macron assembled some of his top ministers at the Élysée on Wednesday. Their purpose was to devise a strategy to counter the growing expansion in France of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The nebulous organisation, formed in Egypt in 1928, has as its aim a global caliphate and it is in Europe where it is enjoying its greatest success. In many Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan and Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is proscribed.
The French report describes Britain as an ‘outpost’ for the Middle Eastern branch of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Brotherhood’s influence in France was detailed in a 73-page report that was declassified this week by Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior, who has long warned about their infiltration into all walks of French life.
The report’s authors, an ambassador and a senior prefect, carried out extensive research in France but also elsewhere in Europe. Among their interviewees were academics and Muslim leaders at national and local level.
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