{"id":8245,"date":"2026-03-17T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:11:50","slug":"dutch-parliament-approves-motion-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2026\/03\/17\/dutch-parliament-approves-motion-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Parliament Approves Motion to Ban Muslim Brotherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2026\/03\/17\/dutch-parliament-approves-motion-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood\/netherlands-muslim-brotherhood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8246\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/netherlands-muslim-brotherhood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/netherlands-muslim-brotherhood.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/netherlands-muslim-brotherhood-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Dutch Parliament has narrowly approved a motion to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist group that seeks to establish a global Islamic Caliphate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Dutch Parliament Approves Motion to Ban Muslim Brotherhood<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/idicenter.org\/commentary\/dutch-parliament-approves-motion-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ideological Defense Institute<\/a> | March 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>On March 17, the Dutch Parliament narrowly approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tweedekamer.nl\/downloads\/document?id=2026D10782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion<\/a> to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist group that seeks to establish a global totalitarian caliphate (Islamic empire) and is enjoying huge success in entrenching autonomous parallel Islamic societies in Europe and other parts of the West.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tweedekamer.nl\/kamerstukken\/detail?id=2026Z04726&amp;did=2026D10782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote<\/a> in the House of Representatives (<em>Tweede Kamer<\/em>) was 76 in favor and 74 against. The measure was submitted to parliament on March 9 by the Freedom Party (<em>Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV<\/em>), a civilizational party led by Geert Wilders.<\/p>\n<p>The motion cited a May 2025 intelligence report by the French Interior Ministry which revealed the extent to which France is being infiltrated from within by the Muslim Brotherhood. The report\u2014\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interieur.gouv.fr\/actualites\/dossiers-de-presse\/publication-du-rapport-freres-musulmans-et-islamisme-politique-en-france\">The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islam in France<\/a>\u201d\u2014described the group as a \u201cthreat to national cohesion\u201d and concluded that its \u201cultimate goal is to bring the whole of French society into Sharia law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/idicenter.org\/commentary\/dutch-parliament-approves-motion-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Parliament has narrowly approved a motion to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist group that seeks to establish a global Islamic Caliphate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49],"tags":[181,182],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","category-netherlands","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-netherlands"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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