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Muslim Brotherhood gathering at Le Bourget: preaching, victimhood and communitarian mobilization

Despite an attempt by the Ministry of the Interior to ban it, political Islam made a major comeback at the Bourget Exhibition Center. For this annual Muslim Brotherhood fair, the first in seven years, calls to mobilize the Muslim electorate, victimhood narratives, denunciations of secularism, and the promotion of the veil and Islamic clothing, including for young girls, drew a large audience.

Exclusive Document | Global Power Index of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization

A group of researchers from the Emirati Trends Research & Advisory center, the University of Montreal and ''Pluriel'', the university research platform on Islam based in Lyon, have been collaborating since 2021 to produce the first academic index capable of measure the global influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. They have just released their first report covering the period 2022/2023. Exclusive extracts.

Islamism | The resounding failure of the Muslim Brotherhood in the test of power

For decades, numerous books have denounced the dangerous nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, until 2011 and the Arab Spring, very little was known about their ability to manage countries. In Cairo, as in Tunis, when they came to power, it only took them a few months, if not a few weeks, to reveal their incredible incompetence. “To rise in the hierarchy of the Brotherhood, you have to obey and, above all, not think. As a result, it's not the...

Field Report | The Israeli general’s revolt against Netanyahu

Senior members of the army and intelligence services are leading the protest against Benyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, who is accused of leading the country to ruin. What if salvation were to come from the army?

Exclusives Revelations | Force Al-Quds: Iranian Threats to Europe

It is little known in Europe. Yet this force in charge of external operations for the Revolutionary Guards Corps - the Iranian regime's paramilitary militia - is behind most of the terrorist attacks commissioned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is also at work in the Red Sea and the Straits of Hormuz, where its drones attack tankers and international commercial vessels. In the space of thirty years, it has woven a network of spies that operate even in...

Field Report | Somaliland, the ghost state that stirs up desire

Independent since 1991, the former British Somalia is still not recognised by the international community. It raises only camels, sheep and goats, but its strategic location on the Gulf of Aden is of interest to Ethiopia, its large neighbour (120 million inhabitants), which has had no access to the sea since Eritrea became independent. Turkey and Qatar have established themselves in Mogadishu (Somalia), while the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in Berbera, the major port in Somaliland. The Chinese...

Yemen | Qui sont les Houthis, ces obscurs rebelles qui perturbent le commerce international ?

Avant novembre 2023 et les attaques ciblant les navires en mer Rouge, qui s’intéressait véritablement à la guerre civile qui ravage le Yémen depuis 9 ans ? Qui connaissait le groupe Ansar Allah (Partisan de Dieu), le nom officiel des Houtis ? Qui avait entendu parler du zaydisme, cette branche très minoritaire de l’islam chiite ? Aujourd’hui, ces rebelles venus des montagnes se sentent capables de perturber l’économie mondiale pour imposer leurs conditions aux États-Unis et à Israël.

Field Report | 7-October: Things seen in Israel

I spent ten days in Israel with the great photographer Nadav Neuhaus. We met people who witnessed 7 October at first hand, as well as former hostages held in Gaza. We also viewed footage shot on the day of the tragedy that had never been broadcast. Everything, absolutely everything, adds up to confirm the extent to which Hamas committed the worst abuses.