For decades, mass immigration from the Muslim world was observed in France with a mix of ideological condescension and institutional passivity. Under the pretext of diversity and tolerance, growing signs of radicalization and Islamist infiltration were ignored—if not outright justified—leading to the formation of ghettos in the heart of major cities.
Today, French intelligence services are sounding the alarm over the insidious advance of the Muslim Brotherhood. They do so through a declassified report, submitted to the Ministry of the Interior and published exclusively by Le Figaro, which paints a portrait of a country undermined from within by an ideological and organizational structure that has operated with impunity for over half a century.
The 73-page document is the result of months of fieldwork, meetings with experts, officials, diplomats, and religious leaders. It details the existence of a highly structured network: 139 places of worship directly linked to the Federation of Muslims of France, plus 68 considered affiliated, spread across 55 departments. While the federation officially acknowledges only 53 associations, investigators estimate the real figure at 280, covering sectors from education to social assistance and Islamic finance. An ecosystem designed, as the report puts it, to “guide the life of a Muslim from birth to death.”
More than 4,200 students are currently enrolled in 21 schools connected to this network, five of which have contracts with the State. One of the most emblematic, the Averroès High School in Lille, has come under investigation for illegal funding from countries like Qatar, Egypt, or Kuwait, and for the presence of teaching materials contrary to republican values. The report also identifies 815 active Quranic schools hosting 66,000 minors—one-third of these schools are affiliated with fundamentalist branches.
The report warns of a “Preaching 2.0” that spreads like wildfire across social media. Young people influenced by hybrid preachers—blending Salafism and the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood—receive uncontrolled ideological indoctrination. The organization, however, does not act openly. The key to its success has always been dissimulation: presenting a respectable, moderate face while consolidating power in neighborhoods, associations, and even public institutions such as the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM).
This strategy of legitimization has been carefully crafted to exploit European legal frameworks. The goal: not to integrate a ‘Muslim identity,’ but to impose it through demographic growth and the pressure of Islamized social norms through Sharia law.
Years of warnings from citizens, political parties, and security forces fell on deaf ears—if not outright condemned as ‘Islamophobic.’. Turns out it was all true, and perfectly orchestrated.
The report admits that the threat of the Brotherhood was not prioritized compared to the immediate risk of jihadist terrorism. This short-sightedness—or negligence—has allowed the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood to extend its roots, exploit European funds, forge international alliances, and build a young, convinced, and increasingly radicalized social base.
The report’s conclusion is unequivocal: France is not just facing a security issue, but an existential challenge. Political Islam—in its Brotherhood variant—does not seek coexistence but transformation. It operates through dissimulation, local clientelism, social space colonization, and the perverse use of democratic rights. What began as a “spiritual option” has become a silent but devastating ideological offensive.
France—the secular, the enlightened, the proudly republican—now watches as an anti-society grows from within its very foundations, one that does not aim to integrate but to replace. The only political party resisting this trend is the Rassemblement National party (National Rally), yet for Europe’s ruling elites, the true danger still lies with the so-called far right.
