The Trump administration aims to outlaw the global networks of the Muslim Brotherhood by adopting a “bottom-up strategy” modeled after the one used against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Pasdaran) in 2017.
In a letter dated June 18, 2025, addressed to the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the acting General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Salah Abdel Haq, announced the Brotherhood’s “full support” for the Iranian regime and proposed a joint strategy to “gather forces” and “unify the efforts” of Islamist movements.
While expressing satisfaction over the “defeat” inflicted on Israel on October 7, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood considers the Israeli attack on Iran as “A new phase in the aggression against Palestine.”
Calling for an end to divisions between Sunnis and Shiites in the name of the necessary “unity of the Islamic ummah” in the face of the “common enemy” that is the “Zionist entity,” the Brotherhood’s Guide proposes to his Iranian counterpart a “comprehensive strategic vision” aimed at rallying the will of the “living and active forces” of the “Islamic Ummah,” by “unifying their efforts” to confront the “fire of occupation and its supporters [which] makes no distinction between our origins or our schools of thought” and seeks to “expand the aggression to the entire resistance environment, whether it be a central state like the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the Islamic movement [i.e., Hamas], at the heart of which lies the Muslim Brotherhood.”
For the past 30 years, through my articles, books, and lectures, I have continuously tried to raise awareness and sound the alarm about the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood Association to our societies—dangers that are even greater for Arab and Muslim societies, which this violent and reactionary entity has helped destroy or plunge into chaos (Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Libya, etc.).
The new master of Damascus, Ahmed al-Charaa, alias Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, welcomed with honors at the Élysée Palace! On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender, Emmanuel Macron chooses to make Paris the first Western capital to embrace the former jihadist leader who seized power by force, following the flight of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
In an effort to appear “moderate,” the new Raïs abandons his war name (Abu Mohammad al-Joulani), removes his jihadist turban to don military fatigues—long enough to pose as the military leader of the “liberation” (Tahrir)—before trimming his beard in Muslim Brotherhood style and appearing in a suit and tie once he is inaugurated as “President of the Syrian Arab Republic.” His investiture came not through ballots, but through Bay’a—the oath of allegiance—given by the various armed factions that took part in the anti-Assad uprising, during a “Victory Congress” held in Damascus on January 29, 2025.
By receiving this controversial figure—while the jihadist militias of the organization that brought him to power (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) continue to commit abuses against Alawite, Kurdish, and Druze minorities—the Élysée is choosing to lend credibility to the fiction that after two decades of jihadist activism (in Zarqawi’s network, the Islamic State in Iraq, and al-Qaeda), al-Joulani has, in just six months of rule, transformed into a “moderate” politician, committed to democracy, pluralism, and… inclusion!
Laurent Fabius must be turning in his hospice bed—he who, as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2012, famously said that “Jabhat al-Nusra” (al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch, founded and led by Syria’s current president) was “doing a good job”…
Who really is Ahmed al-Charaa, aka Abu Mohammad al-Joulani? Has he truly renounced jihadism? Will his presidency be the start of a pluralistic regime? Or is it merely the prelude to a new form of despotism, replacing Baathist authoritarianism with radical Islamism?
A seven-part portrait of a true chameleon, who has spent the past two decades constantly shifting both appearance and ideological allegiance…
According to a CSA poll published on April 27, 2025, 88% of French people support banning the Muslim Brotherhood in their country. This position appears to have near-unanimous support: the desire to outlaw the Islamist Brotherhood is backed by more than three-quarters of the population, regardless of socio-professional categories, age, gender, or political leaning.
“I love you Elon!” Upon hearing of his victory, Trump immediately thanked the “amazing” Musk, calling him a “genius” and a “star.” The world’s richest man, head of Tesla and SpaceX, has indeed played a major role in the return of the populist American president, funding his campaign (with at least $120 million) and offering his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to support him.
Since the announcement of the first results of the U.S. presidential election, videos posted on TikTok, where users film themselves either exulting or bursting into tears, have become ubiquitous. It must be said that social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, and X, formerly Twitter) played a crucial role in the race for the U.S. presidency.
With him, it’s a return to the lost paradise of the wide-open spaces of the American West. An armed sheriff leading his caravan, the Republican candidate surfs on the vertigo of a disoriented America.
From Joe Biden’s resignation on 21 July to the vote on 5 November: the Vice-President of the United States will have had just a hundred days to campaign. Kamala Devi Harris, 60, the daughter of a Jamaican economist and an Indian scientist, and a former prosecutor in California, is caricatured by her Trumpist opponents as “a leftist” and by the wokes as “a cop”. The reality is that of a pragmatic centrist, admittedly not very charismatic, but hard-working and honest. This, in the face of the freewheeling bulldozer that is Trump, can convince and reassure undecided voters….
