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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 | Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian Pasdaran: The unspeakable Alliance

Rien ne prédestinait la Force Al-Qods, unité d’élite du Corps des Gardiens de la révolution iranienne (Pasdarans) et l’Organisation mondiale des Frères musulmans à se rapprocher. Pourtant, des documents issus des archives secrètes du ministère iranien du Renseignement révèlent l’inconcevable : des tractations ont bien eu lieu entre ces deux organisations, d’apparence rivales, pour faire face à leurs ennemis communs.

Exclusive Document | What do European security services say about the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe?

The Islamologist Lorenzo Vidino, an eminent specialist on the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, produced, in October 2023, as part of the program on extremism at George Washington University, a report entitled ''Verbatim: What European Security Services Say About the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe''. Exclusive extracts.

All about Hamas | The Nazi sympathies and the viral anti-Semitism of Hamas’s inspirations

Officially founded in December 1987 by the Muslim Brother Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and two of his acolytes, Hamas has introduced Islamist fanaticism and suicide attacks into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, the roots of the terror practised by this Islamist movement, which lays claim to the Muslim Brotherhood, go much deeper into the history of the region. Its first mentor was Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. This was followed...

France | SOS Hospital on the verge of a nervous breakdown

The heatwave episode that crosses France accentuates tensions in hospitals. But the heat wave is only an aggravating factor in a crisis which has continued to worsen, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, and which is putting the hospital on the brink of agony: in Ile-de-France, 16% of the beds in the 38 AP-HP hospitals are closed due to lack of staff, i.e. twice as many as before the Covid! The overcrowding of the hospitals is symptomatic of the global crisis...

Islamism | Attacks on secularism: French teachers, the last black hussars of the republic

Rejection of secularism, denial of science and conspiracy... Teachers in the national education system find themselves confronted with a challenge not only to the republican model, but also to the Enlightenment, against a backdrop of a general decline in the level of students. Understaffed, teachers do not feel supported by their superiors, who seem to be out of touch with reality.

For Salman | Historical truths about the “Satanic Verses” in Islam

“The Satanic Verses”, which led to Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa condemning Salman Rushdie to death, is a work of fiction. However, the incident evoked in this novel and from which its title is inspired, refers to a proven historical fact, mentioned both in the Koran and in the main books of the Sira, the chronicles of the life and words of the Prophet of Islam.

For Salman | Verbatim: The Satanic Verses, Part II, Mahound

In his novel, Salman Rushdie devotes to the incident of the ‘‘satanic verses’’ - an indisputable historical fact that the Koran evokes, without detour or ambiguity (Verse 52, Sura 22) - the second chapter of the novel entitled Mahound.

Exclusive | French West Indies: Guadeloupe ill with organised crime and Islamism

Under the pretext of fighting against compulsory vaccination, gangs have been extorting money from businesses in Guadeloupe. You had to pay not to have your shop or supermarket burnt down. Suddenly, Paris discovered that the French departments of the West Indies are gangrenous with organised crime, and that this type of crime even has the best relations with local elected officials. And this is not the only evil from which these islands suffer. The proof: as soon as you arrive...