Brotherhood penetration of Europe dangerous, exudes extremist generations

Mustafa Kamel

The Brotherhood seeks to spread globally, especially in Europe, to search for new incubators. Through a dualistic discourse, it has penetrated European circles through the use of slogans calling for democracy and peaceful coexistence among the various stratum of society, while in Arab and Islamic countries it uses a discourse of “I” and exploits Islamophobia as a weapon to influence its opponents and attract more supporters to its ranks.

Brotherhood activity spread within Europe in an attempt to pressure European decision-makers to fulfill the group’s demands. It has cultivated an even more dangerous generation, whose aim is to spread the group’s extremist ideas to the new generations by employing its extremist methods in some institutions.

Threat

The Brotherhood threat is spread throughout Europe, as the group has centers in major countries such as Britain, Germany and Italy, in addition to periodic and annual conferences and meetings, which are organized to attract more than 170,000 visitors, tickling the feelings of Muslims through repeated political and religious seminars that favor the terrorist organization.

In Britain, Brotherhood leaders completely took control of 13 organizations and associations in London alone, including Essam al-Haddad, Ibrahim Munir, and Ibrahim el-Zayat, who previously headed the Islamic Community of Germany (IGD), in addition to Forum Of European Muslim Youth And Student Organizations (FEMYSO), a network of 42 organizations bringing together young people from more than 26 countries that also has connections with the European Parliament.

Within Germany, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) monitored a noticeable increase in the Brotherhood’s influence within the eastern state of Saxony. The head of the intelligence service in Saxony, Gordian Meyer-Plath, announced that the Brotherhood has taken advantage of cultural organizations to exploit the lack of places of worship for Muslims who came to Saxony as refugees, seeking to expand the group’s infrastructure and spread its view of political Islamism. It has also extensively bought buildings to establish mosques or centers for Muslims, especially in the cities of Leipzig, Riesa, Meissen, Pirna, Dresden, Bautzen and Görlitz.

In Italy, the Brotherhood’s presence by controlling places of worship relies on Qatari funding, as Qatar funded about 140 mosques and Islamic centers in Europe at a value of €71 million, most of which are concentrated in Italy.

The Brotherhood realized that control of Europe lays in controlling the central Islamic councils, which enables them to put political pressure on Western governments from multiple directions, since the central Islamic councils have influence over a large sector of Muslim communities in Europe, most notably the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD), the Islamic Council in Berlin, the Islamic Center of Munich, And the Supreme Council for Muslim Youth, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (UOIF), and the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII), among others.

More dangerous generation

The French magazine Closer has warned against a new, more dangerous generation of the Brotherhood in Europe carrying the group’s extremist ideas, as evidenced by the inflammatory statements of terrorist mufti Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who repeatedly defends and justifies suicide attacks and violence against women. Although Qaradawi has withdrawn from leading some of these institutions, a new group of terrorist thinkers have received the torch from him and follow in his footsteps and teachings.

Under the headline “Brotherhood Organization in Europe: Most Dangerous Minority,” the magazine said, “The Brotherhood organization, founded in 1928 and banned in many countries, is currently introducing a new generation and grandchildren and developing its advocacy strategy throughout Europe.” It noted that the stated goal of the group’s conferences is to teach the young generation how to express the message and spirit of Islam in the Western world. But in reality, this is an invitation to join the terrorist organization and embrace its ideology. The magazine considered that the Brotherhood is a minority that provokes sedition and spreads its toxins in Europe with Qatari funding.