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The relationship to Islam and Islamism among Muslims in France (Part 2): Index of the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret implanting

How can the number of Muslim Brothers in France be measured, when members of this Islamist Brotherhood are prohibited from publicly claiming affiliation with it? In the name of the principle of taqiyya (duplicity), active members of Brotherhood organisations are instructed to lie if they are questioned about their membership of the Brotherhood. A survey that merely asked them directly about this would not be very relevant. This is why, with the contribution of researchers specialising in the Muslim Brotherhood, we also developed seven indicators, constituting specific “markers” of Brotherhood ideology, which enable us to gauge the number of Muslim Brothers without asking the direct question of membership of the Brotherhood, thus establishing an “Index of the the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret implanting in France”.

Document | A French report reveals the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration strategy in Europe

Commissioned by the Élysée Palace during a special Defense Council held in January 2024, a report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of infiltration (entryism) in France was prepared by the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. Under the supervision of diplomat Pascal Gouyette and Prefect François Courtade, a group of senior civil servants—tasked in April 2024—visited four European countries and ten French departments, interviewed over 200 individuals (including intelligence officers, religious leaders, researchers, elected officials, and diplomats), and submitted...

Mister Joulani & Doctor Charaa | A Jihadist at the Élysée Palace!

The new master of Damascus, Ahmed al-Charaa, alias Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, welcomed with honors at the Élysée Palace! On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Emmanuel Macron chooses to make Paris the first Western capital to embrace the former jihadist leader who seized power by force, following the flight of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. In an effort to appear “moderate,” the new Raïs abandons his war name (Abu Mohammad al-Joulani), removes his jihadist...

France | How social networks turned the parliamentary elections upside down

Social networks had an impact on the European and parliamentary elections, as the various polls and staggering statistics showed. Much less present on social networks and very divided, the New Popular Front has nevertheless managed to turn digital tools into a strike force capable of competing with Jordan Bardella, who has become almost an influencer on young people's favourite applications. A winning bet.

Investigation | New Popular Front: The poison of division

Despite a deceptive victory in the 2nd round of the parliamentary elections, the campaign of the New Popular Front (NFP) was undermined by the excesses of Mélenchonism - a veritable scarecrow capable of scaring off secularists, universalists and social democrats - and weighed down by the purge carried out within LFI against dissident MPs who dared to challenge Jean-Luc Mélenchon's divisive strategy. This is a logbook of an election campaign consumed by the divisions and infighting that prevented the NFP...

France | Rassemblement National, the repressed anti-Semitism comes back galloping!

As part of its “de-demonisation” strategy, the National Rally is doing everything it can to distance itself from the fascist and anti-Semitic past of the National Front and its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen. So much so that the RN not only claims to be contributing to the fight against anti-Semitism but is now posing as the ultimate “protector of the Jews”, a label accorded to it by eminent figures including the famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld. And yet, despite all...

France | The deadlock of radicalism: French fracture(s)

The “France, what have you done with your left?” launched by Jean-François Kahn in his latest pamphlet is being followed this strange summer by a new concern. “France, what have you done with your sense of moderation and Cartesian reason?” we might ask ourselves as we gaze up at the uncertain skies in the wake of a legislative election that saw the tumult of passions and radicalism prevail over consensus and restraint...

Platform | From Bakunin to Mélenchon: The “revolutionary” origins of the new left-wing Judeophobia

Pierre-André Taguieff is a philosopher and historian of ideas, director of research at the CNRS, and the author of an abundant body of work*. When, how and why did the concept of “Jew-capitalism” come into being? This figure of the main enemy of revolutionaries - socialists, anarchists, communists - is at the heart of the first form of modern Judeophobia on the left. From Charles Fourier to Karl Marx, the amalgam between Jews and “speculators”, “international bankers” or “international finance”...

France | From far right to communitarian left: The tectonics of anti-Semitism

Since the Dreyfus Affair, left-wing movements have been perceived as Judeophilic, despite historical anti-Semitism dating back to the 19th century, which saw the left confuse Judeophobia with anti-capitalism. And since the Nazi horror, anti-Semitism has been relegated to the far right. Except that the decolonial and indigenist excesses of wokism are in the process of giving rise to a left-wing neo-anti-Semitism that has nothing to envy the abjectness of fascist currents on the far right.

European Elections | Raphaël Glucksmann clears a path between “Jupiter” and “Robespierre”!

The PS/Place Publique candidate won over Macron voters disappointed by the president's right-wing approach, as well as Mélenchon voters frightened by the radicalisation of the Insoumis. Just when you thought the PS was dead and buried, a large space is opening up for the social-democratic and secular left in the run-up to the 2027 presidential election.