A group of researchers from the Emirati Trends Research & Advisory center, the University of Montreal and ”Pluriel”, the university research platform on Islam based in Lyon, have been collaborating since 2021 to produce the first academic index capable of measure the global influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. They have just released their first report covering the period 2022/2023. Exclusive extracts.
For decades, numerous books have denounced the dangerous nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, until 2011 and the Arab Spring, very little was known about their ability to manage countries. In Cairo, as in Tunis, when they came to power, it only took them a few months, if not a few weeks, to reveal their incredible incompetence. “To rise in the hierarchy of the Brotherhood, you have to obey and, above all, not think. As a result, it’s not the most intelligent who have come to power”, notes sociologist Sarah Ben Néfissa, co-author with Pierre Vermeren of the book “Les Frères musulmans à l’épreuve du pouvoir”1.
Senior members of the army and intelligence services are leading the protest against Benyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, who is accused of leading the country to ruin. What if salvation were to come from the army?
It is little known in Europe. Yet this force in charge of external operations for the Revolutionary Guards Corps – the Iranian regime’s paramilitary militia – is behind most of the terrorist attacks commissioned by the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is also at work in the Red Sea and the Straits of Hormuz, where its drones attack tankers and international commercial vessels. In the space of thirty years, it has woven a network of spies that operate even in European capitals, which it threatens more than ever. Here’s how it works.
In a remarkable book, entitled “the hidden face of the Mullahs. The black book of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, Emmanuel Razavi, senior independent reporter, regular contributor to Global Watch Analysis, reveals how the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood inspired Khomeini’s Shiite political Islam. Exclusive extracts
Independent since 1991, the former British Somalia is still not recognised by the international community. It raises only camels, sheep and goats, but its strategic location on the Gulf of Aden is of interest to Ethiopia, its large neighbour (120 million inhabitants), which has had no access to the sea since Eritrea became independent. Turkey and Qatar have established themselves in Mogadishu (Somalia), while the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in Berbera, the major port in Somaliland. The Chinese have a military base in Djibouti and Taiwan is interested in Sallahey, south of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, where an oil field has been discovered.
Avant novembre 2023 et les attaques ciblant les navires en mer Rouge, qui s’intéressait véritablement à la guerre civile qui ravage le Yémen depuis 9 ans ? Qui connaissait le groupe Ansar Allah (Partisan de Dieu), le nom officiel des Houtis ? Qui avait entendu parler du zaydisme, cette branche très minoritaire de l’islam chiite ? Aujourd’hui, ces rebelles venus des montagnes se sentent capables de perturber l’économie mondiale pour imposer leurs conditions aux États-Unis et à Israël.
I spent ten days in Israel with the great photographer Nadav Neuhaus. We met people who witnessed 7 October at first hand, as well as former hostages held in Gaza. We also viewed footage shot on the day of the tragedy that had never been broadcast. Everything, absolutely everything, adds up to confirm the extent to which Hamas committed the worst abuses.
The Israelis no longer want them. The incendiaries who enabled Benyamin Netanyahu to become Prime Minister again in November 2022 are now hated by a public traumatised by the massacres of 7 October. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security – Israelis have renamed him “Minister of National Insecurity” – Bezalel Smotrich, in charge of Finance, and Yariv Levin, Minister of Justice, architect of a detestable reform rejected by the public, have a political future as compromised as their master Netanyahu.
Rien ne prédestinait la Force Al-Qods, unité d’élite du Corps des Gardiens de la révolution iranienne (Pasdarans) et l’Organisation mondiale des Frères musulmans à se rapprocher. Pourtant, des documents issus des archives secrètes du ministère iranien du Renseignement révèlent l’inconcevable : des tractations ont bien eu lieu entre ces deux organisations, d’apparence rivales, pour faire face à leurs ennemis communs.
