The Muslim Brotherhood in France (12)

Last month, we translated a report out of France that an explosive new government report was forthcoming on the Muslim Brotherhood in France. That report  (hat tip Francois deSouche) was issued last night, and today, French President Emmanuel Macron convened a defense and national security meeting. The release of the report, the contents of which, have been released to the media, is big news in France. It outlines the activities and the subversive goals of the Muslim Brotherhood in France.

The below article from Elle (Fr) is translated by Fousesquawk. It is the latest in our ongoing series of translations from original European articles on the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and the 12th such translation from France.

Translator's note: The French article uses the word "entrisme," which translates to "entryism" in English. While entryism is actually an English word, which has a very similar meaning to infiltration, I have chosen to use the more commonly known word, infiltration.

The Muslim Brotherhood: What we know about the report on "the infiltration" presented by the  Council of Defense.

Published 21 May 2025 at 13:19

Caption: Emmanuel Macron convened the Council of Defense and National Security on Wednesday morning, May 21.

A  Defense and National Security Council meeting, presided over by Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, May 21, is examining a report on the Muslim Brotherhood. The document describes the organization as a "threat to national cohesion."

An unprecedented  Council of Defense and National Security meeting is being convened on Wednesday, May 21, by Emmanuel Macron.  The theme of the meeting: The Muslim Brotherhood organization, a movement that advocates the plan of a conservative, political  Islam, and which was developed almost a century ago. Previously, the French government commissioned a report whose conclusions were published Tuesday evening. The principal lesson the document draws is clear: The Muslim Brotherhood would represent a "threat to national cohesion."

"The reality of this threat, even if it rests on a long-term temporality and does not resort to violent action, poses a risk of an attack on the associative fabric and republican institutions (...) and more widely to national cohesion," claims the report, the contents of which have been partially revealed by Le Figaro and Agence France Presse.

Equality between women and men attacked

Born in 1928 in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood movement developed in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Europe over the course of decades. It was banned in several countries, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and, very recently, Jordan.

In France, this movement is "established on a solid structure, but political Islam is first spread at the local level," emphasizes the report, submitted to the French government. The authors of the document, two high official specialists on the subject, see the spread of this Islamism "from the bottom up as a "short-to medium term threat".

The document stresses, in effect, the "subversive character of the plan led by the Muslim Brotherhood, " which aims "to work over the long term to progressively obtain modifications in local or national rules, particularly those regarding secularism and equality between women and men."

"Infiltration" within town halls

The report also expresses concern about the "concealment" and "infiltration" of the movement through "the antenna of power, particularly the municipalities". Emmanuel Macron,  following the Council of Defense and National Security Council (meeting), is expected to announce measures to combat the phenomenon.

This report is published at a time when France is in full reflection as to the place and organization of Islam, as the population of the  Muslim religion or traditions reaches 9% of the total population of the territory of Metropolitan (France). A topic of tension for French society, regularly fed by concrete cases, like the wearing of the full veil-which Gabriel Attal, ex-Prime Minister, also said he wishes to ban on Wednesday, May 21- or the calling into question of certain school programs.

However, the report insists on not (painting all Muslims with the same brush). It also nuances its remarks on Muslims of France, the organization identified as the national branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. "No recent document demonstrates the wish of Muslims in France to establish an Islamic state or to apply sharia (law)."