If Trump AND Arab nations can see the dangers of the terror-supporting Muslim Brotherhood, why can’t we? asks NICK CANDY

The US President’s decision last week to label parts of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups should be a wake-up call for the UK.

Donald Trump could no longer stomach American-based Islamic charities and organizations working as fundraising fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, whose Lebanese branch is accused of helping terror groups launch rocket attacks on civilian and military targets in Israel.

Banning these chapters in the Middle East is the first step

depriving them of their talents and resources. Let’s not be naive. The Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist organization that has been committed to the unification of Muslim societies into a single caliphate under sharia law since its founding in Egypt in 1928.

In addition to aiding attacks on Israel and sympathies with Hamas, the group also supports the murderous government in Sudan, helping prolong the disastrous civil war there; This fuels the flow of refugees, many of whom eventually make their way to the UK on small boats.

While the Muslim Brotherhood is allowed to infiltrate mosques, charities and moderate Islamic organizations in the UK, it is banned in many parts of the Arab world, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). These countries know all too well the deadly cost of allowing radical Islamist ideologies to spread in their societies.

But far from following their example, we gave asylum to members of the Muslim Brotherhood. One of its operators, Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, fled Egypt for London before facing charges of bomb-making and planning to blow up electricity poles and gas pipes; on these charges he was later convicted in his absence and sentenced to seven years in prison.

What did England do despite knowing about the terrorist conviction? We put him up in a four-star hotel in West London for 17 months while we assessed his asylum application. And during his stay, he raped a woman in Hyde Park; He was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for this crime in May.

If David Cameron’s government had banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 2015, he would have been deported. However, the investigation concluded that the group ‘deliberately, consciously and openly incubated and supported’ Hamas. The report revealed that ‘people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood applauded Hamas’ suicide attack’.

Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood supporters attend a protest in the capital Amman in November 2014

Cameron went on to comment that his ideology and activities were ‘contrary to the British values ​​of democracy, the rule of law, individual freedom, equality and mutual respect and tolerance for different faiths and beliefs’.

He described how the Government sought to exert influence over other UK Muslim groups, such as the Muslim Association of Britain and the Muslim Council of Britain, knowing that it was in dialogue with these organisations.

The fact that the Brotherhood was not banned shows how much they have become a part of the Order.

Today, with Islamist-fueled tensions in the UK much worse since the Hamas atrocity on 7 October, the missed opportunity is astounding. Yesterday, the streets of London were once again filled with keffiyeh-wearing protesters waving Palestinian flags and chanting hateful slogans.

In May, the French government published its own investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood, which found that the group – under the guise of the Federation of French Muslims – had seized control of 139 mosques.

The report describes how experienced activists in the organization will use their influence on local councils to normalize wearing the veil and fasting in a country that is supposed to be secular.

It continued that the aim of the Brotherhood was ‘to structure the lives of Muslims from birth to death’.

The report identified two countries where the Muslim Brotherhood is stronger than France: Sweden and England. Sweden has launched an investigation, but there is no sign that our government is taking the matter seriously.

A Reform UK government will not make the same mistake. While in Downing Street, Nigel Farage made it clear that the Muslim Brotherhood would be designated a terrorist organization and banned in the UK.

While in Downing Street, Nigel Farage made it absolutely clear that the Muslim Brotherhood would be designated a terrorist organization and banned in Britain.

Last night, the UAE embassy in central London hosted a gala dinner to mark Emirates’ 54th National Day, where the £25 billion worth of annual trade between the two countries will be enthusiastically celebrated.

But we also need to listen when the UAE and other friendly Arab countries warn us against extremist groups.

Many people in Britain want to treat the Muslim Brotherhood as if it were an oppressed group fighting for freedom. The reason states like the UAE ban the Muslim Brotherhood is because it seeks the subjugation of Muslims under a single extremist order and uses any means of violence necessary to achieve this.

President Trump at least saw their true nature. We need to follow suit before its tentacles reach ever deeper corners of our national life.

Nick Candy is the founder and CEO of Candy Capital.