Donald Trump this week moved to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which supports sharia law and the creation of a caliphate, as a terror organisation. Given its own exposure to the Brotherhood’s influence, should Britain consider doing the same?
Earlier this year, the French Ministry of the Interior published an official report on the organisation’s networks, strategies and methods inside democratic societies. It concludes that the Brotherhood’s core threat is not conventional terrorism but instead subversion from within. It documents a deliberate, long-term campaign to infiltrate civic life: religious councils, educational settings, charities, advocacy groups and municipal political structures.
