“Crisis in France: Author Writes on Islamism, Needs Police Protection”, meforum.org, April 27, 2023:
Islamists have leveled death threats at an influential French academic, forcing her to live under police protection after writing a hard-hitting book about the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy to Islamize Europe. Islamist activists have, as expected, denounced her work as “Islamophobic,” but some Islamists and non-Muslim leftwing academics have on this occasion taken the invective to another level by falsely comparing the scrutiny of Islamism to Nazism.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS), one of the leading research institutions in Europe, is a long-time observer of the Islamist landscape in the West. In January 2023, she published her magnum opus, The Brotherhood and its Networks: The Investigation (Le Frérisme et ses reseaux, L’Enquête), a 400-page book that meticulously dissects the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to spread Islamism in Europe.
Far from being an anti-Islam polemic, Bergeaud-Blackler’s book — whose preface was written by Gilles Kepel, a highly respected French political scientist who has written more than a dozen books about Islamism and Jihadism — offers a dispassionate and scholarly presentation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s history, doctrine, structure, and modus operandi. She rigorously documents how the Brotherhood systematically extends its influence into the heart of Western societies through entryism, a strategy of infiltrating core governmental and non-governmental institutions to propagate its ideology, which Bergeaud-Blackler calls “Brotherism” (Frérisme) and describes as “an intellectual politico-religious project aimed at establishing an Islamic world.”
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