Virgule
Islamism

Washington Declares War on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Financial Networks

For years, the fight against terrorism was fought primarily on the battlefield. Success was measured by the number of militant leaders eliminated, weapons caches destroyed, or terrorist cells dismantled. That era now appears to be over. Today, the battlefield lies at the heart of international financial networks, where the funds that enable extremist organizations to survive, recruit, and reorganize are channeled. For Washington, money has become the true center of gravity of the threat.

Exclusive Survey | France: Fierce battle around the “Catholic vote”

Practising Catholics represent barely 10% of the French electorate. Nevertheless, they are the object of all the covetousness in the race for the presidential elections next April. Although they do not weigh much in quantitative terms, their positioning - on the border between a traditional right-wing, which is stagnating in opinion, and a national and identity-based right-wing, which is making strong progress - makes them a pivotal segment of the electorate around which the balance of power between the three...

Islamism | France & Belgium: The thorny issue of the organisation of Muslim worship

The issue of the organisation of Muslim worship in Europe is not new. It is linked to many aspects, including cultural, national and linguistic ones. Since the end of the 1980s, public authorities in several European countries have been urging Muslim leaders to manage their faith. But the institutions designed to organise the Muslim faith remain unstable and unrepresentative.

France | The CFCM carried away by “political” and “consular” Islam

With the launch of the French Islam Forum (FORIF), whose first session was held on 5 February at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council in Paris, a calamitous parenthesis of nearly 20 years has just closed. By recording the “death” of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) last December, the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for religious affairs, finally realised that this Council had become an obstacle to the fight against Islamist separatism, which had been...

Islamism | Has Erdogan finally abandoned the Muslim Brotherhood?

Is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about to let go of the Muslim Brotherhood? The AKP of the Turkish Raïs claims the same ideology as the Brotherhood: political Islamism. But the reasons for this renunciation are not ideological. They are linked to the violent economic crisis which is hitting Ankara. And the polls that give the Turkish President losing in the next elections.

Islamism | France: The pangs of “consular Islam” !

The ambivalence of Dr. Chams-Eddine and Mister Hafiz, capable of moving - in the space of barely three months - from a manifesto against Islamism to an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, finds its explanation in the fact that the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris - like all his predecessors since the creation of this mosque in 1926 - is an official of the Algerian State: the Grand Mosque was erected as a sign of France's gratitude to...

France | The Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates National Council of Imams

Last September, the new rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chams-Eddine Hafiz, published a resounding book entitled “Le manifeste contre le terrorisme islamiste”, in which he castigated the supporters of political Islam. He thus established himself as a champion of moderate Islam. No one could have imagined then that, less than three months later, the enlightened rector would make a strange and radical turnaround, to ally himself with the Muslim Brotherhood, the mother house of Islamism, against the French...

Muslim Brotherhood | North Africa turns the page on Islamist governments

In quick succession, disappointments have followed one another for the Muslim Brotherhood in the Maghreb, since the spring of 2021. From the Algerian legislative elections, in April, to the Moroccan general elections, in September, through the institutional coup de force of President Kaïs Saïed in Tunisia , in July, the Maghreb countries turned - each in their own way - the page of Islamist governments that had come (or associated) to power a decade earlier in the wake of the...

Counterterrorism | Austria puts Muslim Brotherhood on blacklist of terrorist organizations

Eight months after the Vienna attacks, the Austrian authorities have just toughened their anti-terrorism legislation. With the new anti-terrorism law adopted on July 8, Austria has taken the plunge, being the first European country to put the Muslim Brotherhood on its blacklist of terrorist organizations.