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From France, A Fresh Warning About Islamism
Ilan Berman
June 3, 2025

Not all that long ago, warnings about a creeping Islamist infiltration in Europe were widely ridiculed as conspiracy theories or, worse, “Islamophobia.” In previous years, when politicians like Geert Wilders of the Netherlands and Britain’s Michael Gove, or authors like France’s Michel Houellebecq raised alarms about the growing prevalence of political Islam on the Continent, they were routinely dismissed as cranks, alarmists, or simply as racists. These days, though, such concerns are getting harder to refute. Just ask the French. Last month, a new government report caused a national firestorm when it concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s most influential Islamist movement, is trying to penetrate the country and subvert its institutions.  READ MORE

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THE FREE PRESS How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe A new report found that, in France, Brotherhood-linked schools have distributed texts that praise Sharia law as superior to man-made law, denounce interfaith marriage, and vilify Jews. France didn’t plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempt to take over Europe. But that’s exactly what it did a couple of weeks ago, when a classified report from the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro. The 73-page document, marked confidentiel-défense, was meant for top officials only.