When anti-racism gets in tune with the Muslim Brotherhood

ifthere is a cultural battle that the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have won, “it is the one which consisted in imposing the question of Islamophobia at the heart of European institutions”, observes Samir Amghar, a sociologist specializing in the Brotherhood. “They changed register after realizing that religious discourse did not pass through a secularized space,” he explains. Still according to the sociologist, this metamorphosis of the discourse was accompanied by an exacerbation of the “victim discourse” and a propensity for exaggeration – opportunely reinforced by the reports dramatizing the situation of Muslims in Europe (see episode 4 ) – allowing Brotherhood identity entrepreneurs to assert that they would be “persecuted as the Jews were in the 1s…