{"id":131267,"date":"2026-06-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=131267"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:24:11","slug":"13-00-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=131267","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Brotherhood Quietly Expanding Influence Networks Across Germany, Italy, Israeli Gov\u2019t Reports Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2026\/06\/09\/muslim-brotherhood-quietly-expanding-influence-networks-germany-italy-new-israeli-govt-reports-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Brotherhood Quietly Expanding Influence Networks Across Germany, Italy, Israeli Gov\u2019t Reports Warn<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ailin Vilches Arguello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/t2025-10-04T144900Z_1_LYNXNPEL9308M_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-ITALY.jpeg\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, Oct. 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Claudia Greco<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Muslim Brotherhood has steadily built an extensive network of organizations, financial structures, and influence operations across Germany and Italy while maintaining a carefully moderated public image, according to new Israeli government assessments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel\u2019s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism released new reports this week detailing the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Italy and Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Founded in Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood seeks to implement Islamic law around the world by any means necessary, embracing both violent terrorism and lawful political activity. The most influential Brotherhood-created group today is Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that perpetrated the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to the Israeli ministry, approximately 12,000 individuals in Germany were estimated to be ideologically or organizationally connected to the Muslim Brotherhood network as of 2024, with major concentrations identified in North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Bavaria, and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Even though German authorities have intensified oversight of Islamist actors and financial networks associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in recent years, the report notes that the organization has continued to maintain its operational continuity through decentralized structures, affiliated entities, and recurring rebranding efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Among the principal organizations identified in the report as operating within or alongside the Muslim Brotherhood-linked network across the country are the German Muslim Community (DMG), Muslim Youth in Germany (MJD), Islamic Community Milli G\u00f6r\u00fc\u015f (IGMG), the Council of Imams and Scholars in Germany (RIGD), and the European Institute for Human Sciences (EIHW).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli officials warn that these groups seek to expand their influence \u201cfrom the bottom up\u201d by investing heavily in education, religious outreach, youth engagement, and leadership development programs while maintaining a restrained and moderate public profile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Although the organizations within the network appear, on the surface, to operate independently, their activities are in fact coordinated by a small group of senior activists that effectively serves as a \u201ccore leadership nucleus\u201d directing the network as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWhile externally presented as community-oriented and apolitical, their activities help sustain a continuous institutional and ideological framework linked to the Muslim Brotherhood network,\u201d the report notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">These groups are also reportedly connected to pan-European Muslim Brotherhood structures, as well as organizations affiliated with the movement in Qatar and Turkey, and Germany-based entities linked to Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On the financial level, intelligence monitoring has identified an extensive economic infrastructure underpinning the Muslim Brotherhood network, spanning charitable associations, donation flows, real estate assets, and diverse business entities.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The assessment also points to the Europe Trust as a central investment and real estate arm overseeing a major Berlin real estate complex used as an operational hub, alongside external funding channels linked to Middle Eastern actors, including charitable foundations in Qatar and Kuwait.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli officials warn that these organizations tend to maintain a tightly controlled public profile, especially online, steering clear of explicit anti-Israel or antisemitic language while foregrounding narratives of moderation, interfaith cooperation, civic participation, and opposition to violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">However, the report notes that these groups are fully aware they remain under ongoing scrutiny by domestic security services, raising concerns among intelligence officials that more radical agendas may continue to be advanced in less visible environments beyond public oversight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In a separate assessment, the Israeli government also identifies five major organizations in Italy as affiliated with the global Muslim Brotherhood network: the Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy, Young Muslims of Italy, the Bayan Institute, the Islamic Alliance of Italy, and the Association of Palestinians in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to the report, these groups operate an extensive infrastructure centered on religious education, imam training, and the development of future Muslim leadership across the country, while also seeking to expand their influence over Muslim communal representation through mosques, educational institutions, and youth organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThere is a significant gap between these organizations\u2019 effort to project an image emphasizing integration, tolerance, and dialogue, and cases in which social media posts and on-the-ground activities, since Oct. 7, 2023, have included elements of political incitement and the dissemination of anti-Israeli narratives,\u201d the report notes, referring to Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel more than two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Among the most common and prominently promoted narratives identified in the report are claims portraying Israel as a genocidal state, comparisons between Israeli actions and Nazi Germany, calls for sweeping economic, academic, cultural, and diplomatic boycotts, and messaging that legitimizes violence against Jews and Israelis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The report further notes that Italian organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood appear to rely on a decentralized financial model that includes local fundraising, government tax-allocation mechanisms, and foreign funding sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Brotherhood Quietly Expanding Influence Networks Across Germany, Italy, Israeli Gov\u2019t Reports Warn Ailin Vilches Arguello A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, Oct. 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Claudia Greco The Muslim Brotherhood has steadily built an extensive network of organizations, financial structures, and influence operations across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131356,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131267\/revisions\/131356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}