This European country will not look the same: The Muslim Brotherhood has chosen - where our headquarters will be | Mr. Shapira
An opinion piece by Mor Shapira in Maariv warns against the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the West, using financial, academic, and legal infrastructures. The article quotes former senior officials and reports from MEMRI, and describes how the movement exploits liberal democracies to establish influence, while calling on the West to cooperate with Israel in the fight against its ideology.
An opinion piece by Mor Shapira in Maariv warns against the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood movement into the West, focusing on Europe and the United States. The article claims that while Arab countries declared the movement a terrorist organization, the West treated it as a conservative and pragmatic actor, allowing it to build an unprecedented influence infrastructure. This infrastructure includes a decentralized financial empire under the guise of charity, infiltration of American academia through Islamic centers near campuses, and translation of political Islam principles into terms of 'social justice' and 'struggle against colonialism.' The article quotes the late movement leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi on a 'quiet conquest' of Europe, and warns that British patronage in the past and legal and academic tolerance in the present have allowed the movement to strike deep roots. It calls on the West to adopt the Arab model and act together with Israel to outlaw the movement's networks, arguing that it is a subversive movement exploiting democracy to undermine it from within.