UK first to hear wake-up call about Muslim Brotherhood threat, but lags in counteraction

CAIRO - 12 August 2025: Although the U.K.  in 2015 was one of the first Western countries to release a report on the Muslim Brotherhood and its plans for British Muslims in particular and the British society in general, it has failed to acknowledge the report by any meaningful action for 10 years now. 

The British report resurfaced in David Abraham’s “The Muslim Brotherhood has no place in British society” on the Telegraph newspaper on Aug. 9, less than a month after the U.S. bipartisan bill “Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025” was reintroduced on July 16. 

In turn, the bill was reintroduced after France had issued a similar report in May to find that the Islamist group is a “threat to national cohesion.” 

Unlike the British report, the French one found a reaction, where President Emmanuel Macron asked the government to come up with proposals to counter the facts found in the report, dubbing the findings “serious.” 

The French report said the Muslim brotherhood has led to “the creation of increasingly numerous Islamist ecosystems,” and with a “bottom-up” strategy, it aims to alter rules and values and affect local politics. 

The British report found similar results, stating that the Muslims Brotherhood’s discourse is moderate in public, but radical in private, and that the “secretive” organization threats democratic values. 

The U.S. bill, on the other hand, focuses on the Muslims brotherhood as a “foreign terrorist group,” rather than any influence in the U.S. itself. It was previously introduced in 2015/2016, around the time the U.K. released it report.

The Telegraph article notes that the fiercest opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood are Muslim themselves, but are dismissed by the “Islamist gatekeepers.” Through subtle takeover of platforms, they become the only representative of British Muslims, leaving entire sections of the diverse Muslim community unrepresented.

“The Brotherhood has created a political ecosystem where Muslim identity is defined not by faith, but by fealty to a cause,” according to the Telegraph article, which added that the group turns religion into ideology. 

For its part, the French report said that the radical group has lost its influence in the Arab world and has since shifted its efforts to Europe. 

Only two years prior to the release of the British report, a revolution ousted the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 2013, after it became clear how the Muslims brotherhood used democracy to ultimately dismantle it, all in the name of a religion they attempt to hijack. 

The overthrow that was met by brutal terrorist attacks in the country for several years. Both the hegemonic actions of the group before 2013 and the terrorist attacks after that exposed the Muslim brotherhood to Arab nations, losing much of the popularity it cultivated for many decades.