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The David Horowitz Freedom Center and many others have been warning about the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) for years. France is several decades behind to its own detriment. “France looks to ban children from wearing Muslim headscarf as government tackles ‘political Islamism,’” AFP, May 21, 2025:

French President Emmanuel Macron’s political party has announced that it wants to ban minors under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in public.

It comes as his government held a security meeting on Wednesday to discuss the spread of  ‘political Islamism’ in France.

The meeting, which included the head of government and key ministers, addressed a report which sounds the alarm about the Muslim Brotherhood and the rising influence of the Islamist movement – which it said poses ‘a threat to national cohesion’ in France.

After the meeting, the Elysee Palace said measures will be taken, ‘some of which will be announced’ while others will remain classified.

The report into the movement, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, was commissioned by the government and prepared by two senior civil servants.

It ‘clearly establishes the anti-republican and subversive nature of the Muslim Brotherhood’ and ‘proposes ways to address this threat’, said the Elysee Palace.

It comes as Macron’s Renaissance party said it would forbid ‘minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,’ phrasing that generally means places outside the home like the street, cafes, parks and stores.

It added the hijab ‘seriously undermines gender equality and the protection of children’…..

Under current French legislation, “civil servants, teachers and pupils cannot wear any obvious religious symbols such as a Christian cross, Jewish kippa, Sikh turban or Muslim hijab in government buildings, which includes public schools.” But the French government is also now “pushing for a new law to ban the headscarf in domestic sports competitions, a move critics of the law argue would be just the latest rule discriminating against visibly Muslim women.” As expected, leftist critics are calling the move “Islamophobic,” despite fact that France has seen “deadly jihadist attacks.” Many argue “they are just practising their religion and should wear what they want.” No, they shouldn’t, since they are in violation of all Western laws of equality between the two genders. In Islam, there is no such equality. The female covering is in accordance with the Sharia, despite the lie that some advance about it being solely a cultural practice:

And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only what is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment except to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack desire, or children who know nothing of women’s nakedness. And do not let them stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn to Allah together, O believers, so that you may succeed.” (Quran 24:31)

If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted:

O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” (Quran 33:59)

It is baffling that France would be now focusing on Muslim Brotherhood and “political Islamism” in a manner that suggests such information is new. This information has been widely circulated for decades. The largest terrorist funding trial in the history of the United States, the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2008, was an international eye-opener which revealed the extent of Muslim Brotherhood network activity inside America; many of these Brotherhood groups were raising funds for Hamas under the noses of authorities. According to the Justice Department:

The government’s case included testimony that in the early 1990’s, Hamas’ parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, planned to establish a network of organizations in the U.S. to spread a militant Islamist message and raise money for Hamas.

They didn’t just plan it. The successfully executed it, and a list of unindicted co-conspirators that included virtually every mainstream Muslim organization in the U.S. was established in this case. That list can be viewed HERE.

Nevertheless, Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations are now firmly established in America and all over the in West. The MB has not been secretive about its goals; in fact, it has been brazen. Leftists have shielded them while pushing their own Marxist DEI agenda, which served as a shield for any nefarious operations being undertaken by visible minority groups. The MB seized on this golden opportunity and still takes advantage of it, smearing anyone who casts light on its modus operandi or criticizes Islam as “Islamophobic.” “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America” states:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

It was written by Mohamed Akram in May 19, 1991, discovered during the Holy Land Foundation trial, and later published by the Investigative Project. See more from the Center for Security Policy HERE. There is no excuse for any Western leader to be ignorant of this information and to see the need to crack down upon what is a war against the West.

Another important document openly discusses the Islamic religious imperative behind the global ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood. A document entitled “Jihad is the way” was written by Mustafa Mashhur, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from 1996 to 2002. Here is an excerpt — and once again, this information was readily available to Western leaders and the mainstream media:

Muslim Brotherhood goal: Islamic world domination

– “…the Islamic Ummah [nation]… can regain its power, be liberated and assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men, as the teachers of humanity…”

– “…know your status, so that you firmly believe that you are the masters of the world, even if your enemies desire your degradation…”

– “It should be known that Jihad and preparation for Jihad are not only for the purpose of fending-off assaults and attacks against Muslims by Allah’s enemies, but are also for the purpose of realizing the great task of establishing an Islamic state, strengthening the religion and spreading it around the world…”

– “…Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries. The Muslim homeland is one and is not divided. The banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and it shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, the State of Islam will be established…”

Means: Jihad – a mandatory religious duty

– “This is followed by the power of arms and weapons… This is the role of Jihad.”

– “Jihad is a religious public duty… incumbent upon the Islamic nation. Jihad is a personal duty to fend off the infidels’ attack on the nation…”

– “The youth should know that the problems of the Islamic world, such as Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, or the Philippines, are not issues of territories and nations, but of faith and religion….

Read more HERE.

Where have France’s leaders been? Where have the leaders of other Western countries been? Have they been asleep? Or were/are they willfully neglecting their duties? Despite what France is now trying to do to counter the Muslim Brotherhood’s rising influence and that of “political Islamism,” French President Emmanuel Macron is aidingMuslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas as he condemns Israel in its battle to stave off obliteration by Hamas and other jihadists. Macron’s argument is about the suffering in Gaza, despite the fact that Hamas is entirely to blame. Hamas isn’t only an Israel problem. It is a Western problem.

The era of open-door migration that spanned over a decade and continues in many leftist-governed countries aided the mission of the global jihad by allowing in vast numbers of unvetted, sharia-adherent Muslim migrants. Such reckless immigration helped advance the Muslim Brotherhood goal of taking over the West via its stealth “Civilization-Jihadist Process.” France embraced open-door mass migration along with other Western European countries.

One of the tricks used by the Muslim Brotherhood is to smear anyone as “racist” or “Islamophobic” who criticizes Islam, or who warns about creeping Sharia, or about Muslim Brotherhood documents and stratagems. This is the MB’s way of shutting down its opponents and protecting its stealth goal of establishing the Sharia in Western countries.

France and other Western countries do not only face a battle from within, being waged by violent and stealth MB jihadists. As France now toys with the idea of banning “children from wearing Muslim headscarf as government tackles ‘political Islamism,’” expect heavy opposition from the leftist/Islamic alliance. Aggressive leftists and their hatred of the West are every bit as much of a threat as Muslim Brotherhood operatives as they work in alliance with those operatives.