More specifically, the chapter examines the nature of the Islamic state and the key characteristics of the politico-religious doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood and its various offshoot Islamist parties, both in the Maghreb and elsewhere. The chapter thus calls for a refocusing and adaptation of the approach of Islamic banks in order to make their financing accessible for small projects undertaken by the disenfranchised.
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Abstract Index Editors' notes Cite this article About the author. This report was intended to inform British government policy towards the Brotherhood. Published in , the report concluded that while the Brotherhood has pursued non-violent incremental political change, it might still be willing to use violence in pursuit of its goals.
Despite significant pressures from the Saudi and Emirati governments, the report did not lead to any ban or terror designation of the Brotherhood in the UK. Lobbying efforts against the organisation were also made in Washington, where in Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Mario Diaz-Balart introduced a bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.
The legislation did not pass in Congress, but the issue came up again during the Trump presidency. According to Daniel Benjamin, former counterterrorism coordinator at the State Department, the administration looked into it in and but concluded that there was no basis for such a designation.
Within months of taking office, they decided to expand an extremist symbol law to include foreign militant and non-militant organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood. The operation, which was unrelated to the militant attack, as it was the conclusion of a massive intelligence-gathering effort that lasted more than a year, did not result in any convictions, possibly because the prosecution is yet to find concrete evidence that crimes have been committed by the people targeted in the raids.
Human rights organisations like Amnesty International also criticised the move. This leads to the question of why the Austrian security agencies were doing the bidding of their Egyptian and Israeli colleagues when they could have worked to counter actual terror threats on Austrian soil. If activist and scholarly work on Islamophobia continues to be perceived as threatening or somehow conspiratorial — as Vidino has suggested it should be — this would marginalise further Muslim and anti-racist activists and academics.
Designating or de facto treating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation in a European country would create a precedent that would encourage similar official terror designations in the rest of the continent. Such a development would legitimise the brutal repression of political opposition in many Muslim-majority countries, including the killing and imprisonment of pro-democracy-minded individuals.
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