A few months ago the substack article below appeared on my feed.
It describes how the French security services delivered a classified report to Emmanuel Macron (“frères Musulmans et Islamisme Politique en France”1) which describes in detail a plan for an Islamic takeover of France led by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The substack article claims that Macron ignored it, and even hid it from the public, and that the newspaper Le Figaro obtained it via a leak and made it public.
The archived Le Figaro article referred to can be found here and below as a PDF:
Here’s an exec summary (AI-generated) of the above Le Figaro article in English:
This declassified report details a 73-page government study commissioned by French ministries regarding the expanding influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in France and Europe. Authored by a prefect and an ambassador following extensive field visits, academic consultations, and intelligence briefings, the report outlines an intentional, long-term strategy to establish an Islamic order governed by Sharia.
The Brotherhood operates via a dual structure: a public-facing organization alongside a secret governing council. In France, its primary footprint is linked to Musulmans de France, encompassing 139 affiliated and 68 allied places of worship across 55 departments, serving roughly 91,000 worshippers on Fridays. Though its formal core is estimated at 400 to 1,000 individuals, its broader ecosystem spans over 280 associations active in education, charity, finance, and youth outreach. Historical funding from Qatar and Saudi Arabia supported its expansion, while its local strategy focuses heavily on establishing private schools, Quranic classes, and community businesses.
The report highlights a growing “hybridization” with Salafism, driven by online influencers and a new generation of preachers who capitalize on anti-French sentiments, victimhood narratives, and opposition to secular laws. Furthermore, the Brotherhood targets European institutions through umbrella groups like the Council of European Muslims (CEM), leveraging EU funding while promoting agendas centered on blasphemy laws, halal standards, and claims of state-sponsored Islamophobia. The document warns that public authorities have underestimated this gradual, subversive threat in favor of immediate counter-terrorism priorities.
Here’s a PDF of a machine translation of the full Le Figaro article:
The main thing that jumped out at me was that the Le Figaro article makes no mention of there having been a leak, or that the report had in any way been hidden.
I think the substack author has got that particular part of this story wrong, though the parts outling the report’s contents, and how shocking they ought to be, seem to be accurate.
It looks like this was a government-commissioned report delivered to the executive, classified as secret for a (relatively short) period, then declassified and made public2.
Here’s a brief news report (in English) from May 2025 discussing the report and the government’s reaction to it:
I don’t think a minor error in the representation of how the report became public should detract from the importance of its contents, nor from the core message, which is that Western governments seem to be sleep-walking into a deliberately propagated transformation of their societies from the grassroots upwards.
However, I can add a fascinating observation from own experience.
After I had read the substack article, I decided to find the report itself so I could take a look through it. The bibliography didn’t give a link, only the report’s name.
So I enlisted the help of Gemini, and in this note I describe what happened.:
The fact that the report was NOT “leaked” and was apparently made very public and discussed throughout the media quite extensively makes it all the more disturbing that the first response of Gemini was to deny its existence.
In English: The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islam in France
I am not so naive as to rule out the possibility that - for whatever ends - what was actually published was an edited version of what was initially delivered to the politicians.
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