Report: Muslim Brotherhood is “Islamizing Europe”
Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism released a new report showing that the Muslim Brotherhood is operating across Europe to “Islamize” the continent, fuel antisemitism, and delegitimize Israel.
Report: Muslim Brotherhood is “Islamizing Europe”
Soeren Kern | Ideological Defense Institute | February 27, 2026
On February 26, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism released a new report showing that the Muslim Brotherhood is operating across Europe to “Islamize” the continent, fuel antisemitism, and delegitimize Israel.
The 73-page report—“The Muslim Brotherhood Across Europe”—documents a broad network of organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, among others.
The report states: “In Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood operates through “soft” methods that emphasize a façade of moderation and pragmatism in order to advance its objectives. Despite this outward “moderate” posture, the organization consistently rejects the principles of liberal democracy and Western values, which do not align with its radical ideological aims, including efforts, overt and covert, to “Islamize” the continent as a whole. This façade means that the public appearance is “moderate,” while the long-term objectives aim to alter norms and legal frameworks.”
The report says the Brotherhood seeks to promote a separate “Islamic citizenship” model, weaken shared civic identity, increase communal isolation, and heighten social friction across European societies. It aims to “shape the narratives, identity, and political orientation among communities and younger generations” by infiltrating “advisory bodies, religious councils, educational frameworks, and youth organizations.”
The Muslim Brotherhood also maintains close ties with terrorist groups such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, “which explicitly deny the State of Israel’s right to exist and seek to target Jews worldwide.”
The report warns that European states maintain an “ambivalent position” towards the Brotherhood. Although European intelligence agencies recognize the movement as “inherently anti-democratic” and “seeking to fundamentally reshape society and governance,” European governments and pan-European institutions “continue official dialogue and cooperation” with the organization.
Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, concluded: “Those who close their eyes today will pay tomorrow, with the security of their citizens and with Jewish lives. The Muslim Brotherhood is not a civil society movement; it is a conduit for extremism and terror in the heart of Europe. Behind a façade of ‘moderation’ lies a network tied to Hamas and foreign funding that destabilizes democracies from within. Europe must wake up.”
The Israeli report is the latest in a series of studies on the activities and structures of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.
In December 2025, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament published a 53-page document, “Unmasking the Muslim Brotherhood: Brotherism, Islamophobia, and the EU,” which warned that the Brotherhood is a “wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing disguise, shunning violence for a slick, pragmatic façade. They pose as reformists, eager to work within existing systems and engage with governments and society. But we must not be fooled—this tactical pivot is not a change of heart. Their ultimate aim remains to dismantle Europe’s secular democratic institutions and erect a theocratic regime rooted in the Quran.”
In May 2025, the French Interior Ministry released a declassified version of a government intelligence report, “The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islam in France,” which concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood’s “ultimate goal is to bring the whole of French society into Sharia law.”
These reports and many others clearly document the Muslim Brotherhood’s objectives to spread its ideology across the continent. In Europe, however, so far only Austria has banned the Muslim Brotherhood. It did so in July 2021 by means of an anti-terrorism law that prohibits the possession or dissemination of Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. Until other European governments build the courage to ban the group, radical Islam will continue to entrench itself and seek to undermine Western civilization.
Soeren Kern is a fellow at the Ideological Defense Institute.
