Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Senior Fellow Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by the Huffington Post on Islamic Terror in Europe

Senior Fellow Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by the Huffington Post on Islamic Terror in Europe

Senior Fellow Lorenzo Vidino Quoted by the Huffington Post on Islamic Terror in Europe


Huffington Post

In recent years, several European governments have begun to revise their policies toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations. The trend began in 2014 when the British government ordered a review of the movement, its presence in the UK, and the question of how official policy should treat it. The process did not culminate, as some critics of the Brotherhood had hoped, with the designation of the group as a terrorist organization. Nonetheless, it amounted to a stinging indictment of the Brotherhood’s ideology and aims. The report found that the group has “selectively used violence and sometimes terror in pursuit of their institutional goals,” warned against its habit of political double-talk, and advised the British government to be wary of engaging Brotherhood affiliates as partners.

Similar findings have begun to emerge elsewhere on the continent. Last March, the Swedish government’s Civil Contingencies Agency published a controversial report on the Brotherhood which found that the movement was creating a “parallel society” in the country, at odds with Swedish values.

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