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.).
Commissioned by the Élysée Palace during a special Defense Council held in January 2024, a report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of infiltration (entryism) in France was prepared by the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. Under the supervision of diplomat Pascal Gouyette and Prefect François Courtade, a group of senior civil servants—tasked in April 2024—visited four European countries and ten French departments, interviewed over 200 individuals (including intelligence officers, religious leaders, researchers, elected officials, and diplomats), and submitted a report to the authorities in July 2024.According to the Ministry of the Interior, the report “highlights a serious threat, characterized by a double discourse combining insularity, concealment, and apparent respect for the rules, with the aim of replacing national unity with new forms of allegiance that break away from the republican tradition.”Ten months later, the government—at President Macron’s request to formulate “proposals commensurate with the seriousness of the findings”—decided to publish a “redacted version” of the report (to protect sources, as is standard when declassifying documents from “Secret Défense” status).The report was described as “damning” by Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.
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This is the story of a man who joined jihad at the age of 21, fought the “Great Western Satan” for two decades, seized power by force, and was “elected” president of the republic—not through the ballot box but through Bay’a, the oath of allegiance sworn by his followers. And now, here he is, received with honors at the Élysée and presented as a “moderate” who has renounced jihadist violence and is supposedly leading a democratic transition! All while his followers continue to massacre minorities in his country.
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.
Sociologist, Iranologist and political scientist on the contemporary Muslim world, Amélie Myriam Chelly is the acclaimed author of an excellent Dictionnaire des islamismes (Éditions du Cerf, 2021). She has just published, with the same publisher, a “documentary novel” entitled “Le Coran de sang”. Interview.
For years, Canada’s democratic and secular academic and cultural communities have been voicing their dissatisfaction and concern at what they describe as “the penetration of Islamists and political Islam in general into various academic and educational institutions”. Many activists feel that freedom of expression is under serious threat, particularly in their country’s universities. Wokism has been there: it’s a problem that Western Europe is also experiencing.
On 11 September 2001, journalist Carine Azzopardi was covering the attacks in New York, where she happened to be. On 13 November 2015, her partner and father of their children, music journalist Guillaume Barreau-Decherf, 43, was murdered at the Bataclan. In her book “Ces petits renoncements qui tuent” (Plon), Carine Azzopardi gives the – anonymous – testimony of a French teacher, confronted on a daily basis with the vindictive Islamism of some of his pupils. He refuses to give up and remains hopeful.
Rejection of secularism, denial of science and conspiracy… Teachers in the national education system find themselves confronted with a challenge not only to the republican model, but also to the Enlightenment, against a backdrop of a general decline in the level of students. Understaffed, teachers do not feel supported by their superiors, who seem to be out of touch with reality.
On 18 November 2022, the Brussels Court of First Instance condemned an Internet user, considering that his comment published on the social network Facebook seriously called into question my honour and reputation, which are rights guaranteed by Article 8 of the European Court of Human Rights. The court found that the comment called into question my ethics and my competence as a teacher “by imputing to her a subjectivity and xenophobia that would not allow her to give exams without an assessor by her side”, without presenting any verifiable factual elements.
