Following the sanctioning of foreign Muslim Brotherhood groups by the Trump administration, the European Parliament recently took its own action against the transnational radical Islamist group.
As Europe begins to respond to the threat of radical Islam across the continent, an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted for a resolution that condemned the Muslim Brotherhood and its actions.
European Parliament member Céline Imart of France, who sponsored the resolution, called the vote “a historic victory because it is a European first. For the first time, Europe has voted on a text that tackles Islamist entryism and the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Imart posted on X that she had “broken a taboo that Europe has been dragging around like a chain: this victory signifies a major doctrinal shift in the institutions⦠We were able to transcend partisan divides on a major issue for our societies and our youth.”
Lorenzo Vidino, director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that, “This is something that the French and the Austrian governments have been pushing for almost a decade,” noting a growing consensus across Europe that wants action.
The resolution was led by the European Peoples Party, or EPP, a center-right coalition that is the largest group in the European Parliament. “The voting does reflect a gap between the right and the left,” said Vidino, “with the right voting almost entirely in favor of the resolution, and a good part of the left, although with some notable exceptions, voting against it.”
As part of her post on X, Imart made it a point to thank “the negotiators from the other groups with whom I had the pleasure of working – excluding the socialists and the far left, who boycotted the text.”
Vidino said, “The Brotherhood remains something that is seen through the political lenses of our own political debates, where it shouldn’t be… because it’s a challenge to our societies.”
A press release on the resolution issued by the European Parliament’s news website stated that Islamist entryism targets “democratic institutions, the rule of law, equality between women and men and fundamental freedoms.” It stressed that Muslim citizens must be protected from discrimination as “a democratic obligation,” while “warning against treating organized Islamist networks as representative interlocutors.”
The release also stated, “While Europe must remain free, open and faithful to its principles, it can no longer fund, consult or legitimize networks that use its language, procedures and funding to weaken its values from within,” but “MEPs stress that anti-discrimination policies must not be used to shield Islam from criticism or legitimize organized Islamist networks.”
The resolution was slammed by ENAR, a pan-European anti-rac
