What the movements themselves published about their aims — and what government reviews concluded after reading it.
The most thorough public review by a European government remains the United Kingdom’s Muslim Brotherhood Review, commissioned by the Prime Minister in April 2014 and laid before the House of Commons on 17 December 2015. It traced the movement from its founding in Egypt in 1928, whose first Supreme Guide, in the review’s words, “called for the religious reformation of individual Muslims, the progressive moral purification of Muslim societies and their eventual political unification in a Caliphate under sharia law” (para. 8).
Its overarching conclusion (para. 39) is quoted in full in the source entry below. The review also records the movement’s own counter-claims — see paras. 18 and 36 — and this archive cites those too. A close reading is on the blog.
Ten years later, France’s Interior Ministry published the second such review by a European government — Frères musulmans et islamisme politique en France (May 2025), presented to the Conseil de défense after 45 academic interviews and fourteen field visits. Like the British review, it states its own limits in the same conclusion: it finds a threat to national cohesion from “islamisme municipal”, while recording that no recent document shows an intent to establish an Islamic state in France, and that the threat “does not resort to violent action”. Both halves are quoted in the source entry below.
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