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Jul 27

Who is supporting the bloodiest civil war on the planet?

The answer may surprise you.

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Since 15 April 2023, an estimated 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan, while around 15 million have been forced from their homes.

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), have retaken the capital and pushed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), into regions such as Darfur.

The scale of the catastrophe dwarfs the war in Israel, yet it receives only a fraction of the international media attention.
So who benefits from Sudan’s destruction?

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General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan leads the SAF and is Sudan’s de facto ruler.

The SAF is closely connected to Islamist political forces associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which have historically opposed Sudan’s ethnic, religious and political diversity.

Al-Burhan’s forces have received support from Iran and Qatar.

That may not be surprising.

What is more surprising is that NATO and Western countries are also backing the same side.

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Jul 14

Sheikh Hamad
1952 - 2026
Emir of Qatar
Architect of coordinated global terrorism

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Tributes are pouring in from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and Iran for Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, supreme ruler of the radical Wahhabi state of Qatar from 1995 to 2013.

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Born in British-protected Qatar and educated in England, Sheikh Hamad climbed the ranks of the Armed Forces after Qatar was given independence in 1971.

He then overthrew his father in a 1995 coup and started using the nation’s gas wealth to build a global media empire, cultivate Islamist movements, buy influence in Western institutions and pursue an outsized foreign policy.

How did Sheikh Hamad gain a reputation as a moderniser while leaving absolute monarchical rule largely intact?

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Jul 6

HOW SPAIN HELPED BUILD THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S EUROPEAN NETWORK

When the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe is discussed, attention usually focuses on Britain, France, Germany, or Belgium. Far less attention is paid to Spain. Yet according to senior Brotherhood figures themselves, one of the most important events in the institutionalization of the Brotherhood in Europe took place in Madrid in 1984. The conference held there helped transform scattered Islamist exile communities into a coordinated European project.

This is the story of how Spain became one of the Brotherhood's most important footholds in Europe, its involvement in Islamist terrorist attacks in Spain and beyond, how the network's supporters envision a future return to Al-Andalus, the name used for Muslim-ruled Iberia before the Christian Reconquista and how Spain has become a growing hotbed of Islamist influence under the Socialist government of Pedro Sánchez.

THE SYRIAN ROOTS OF THE NETWORK

The first Brotherhood figures in Spain were mainly Syrian activists and Middle Eastern students who arrived during the 1960s. Franco’s government had opened educational and cultural channels with Arab states to break Spain’s post-war isolation. Some of those students founded associations that later moved beyond campus life and positioned themselves as community representatives. This became one of the Brotherhood’s core strategies in Spain: build small organizations that appear broader and more representative than they really are.

THE FIRST MATRIX: AME

One of the earliest Brotherhood-linked bodies was the Muslim Association of Spain, known as AME. It became the initial matrix from which several later Brotherhood-related projects emerged. One of its founders was Riay Tatary, a Syrian-born cleric who maintained ideological ties to Syria’s Islamic Vanguard and later became president of the Islamic Commission of Spain. Tatary’s career shows how Brotherhood-linked figures moved from activist circles into official religious representation.

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Jun 15

HOW A SWEDISH DRUG GANG BECAME A PROXY OF THE IRANIAN REGIME

Over the past decade, Sweden has experienced one of the worst gang violence crises in Europe. Bombings, contract killings, grenade attacks, child hitmen, executions ordered from abroad, and entire neighborhoods caught in gang wars have become recurring headlines.

At the center of much of this violence sits a criminal organization known as Foxtrot. What began as a Swedish narcotics network evolved into a transnational criminal organization that Swedish, Israeli, British, and American authorities now say has been used by Iran as a proxy for operations inside Europe. This is the story of Foxtrot.

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WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF FOXTROT?

Rawa Majid, better known throughout Sweden as "The Kurdish Fox," was born in Kermanshah, Iran, in 1986. His family were Iraqi Kurds who moved to Sweden when he was only a few weeks old, eventually settling in Uppsala, a university city north of Stockholm.

Majid's criminal career began with stolen goods during his teenage years before expanding into narcotics trafficking. After spending years in prison on drug-related convictions, he emerged with a growing reputation inside Sweden's criminal underworld.

Authorities increasingly viewed him not as a street criminal but as an organizer capable of coordinating large-scale trafficking operations and violent enforcement networks.

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HOW FOXTROT WAS BUILT

Foxtrot emerged during the late 2010s and quickly became one of Sweden's most influential criminal organizations. Unlike traditional gangs built around a specific neighborhood, Foxtrot operated more like a business network.

Police investigations linked the organization to large-scale narcotics distribution, weapons trafficking, contract violence, extortion, money laundering, and organized recruitment.

Authorities believe Foxtrot became one of Sweden's most important wholesale drug distributors, supplying multiple criminal groups while maintaining links extending beyond Sweden into Norway, Turkey, Iraq, and other parts of Europe.

Its influence became so significant that Swedish authorities increasingly described it as one of the country's most dangerous organized crime networks.

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Jun 11

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S 40-YEAR STRATEGY INSIDE FRANCE

Designated as a terrorist organization by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, the Muslim Brotherhood spent decades building influence not in the Arab world, but inside Europe.

Backed politically and financially by networks tied to Qatar and Turkey, the Brotherhood quietly expanded through mosques, schools, charities, NGOs, youth organizations, and local politics across France.

In May 2025, a French government-commissioned report dropped a warning that shocked the country: the Brotherhood had spent decades constructing ideological “ecosystems” capable of reshaping parts of French society from within.

This thread breaks down the strategies the Muslim Brotherhood uses to try to take over France.

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HOW THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BUILDS LOYALTY IN FRANCE

According to the report, Brotherhood-linked influence in France rarely begins with ideology or radical preaching. It begins through local community structures operating in neighborhoods where distrust of institutions, unemployment, isolation, and weak state presence have existed for years.

The report describes networks built around youth sports clubs in Seine-Saint-Denis, tutoring associations in Lille, mosque-linked charities distributing food during Ramadan in Marseille, mentorship circles, Quran classes, and job assistance programs that provide practical support and a sense of belonging long before politics openly enters the picture.

French authorities argue that by the time religion or ideology becomes central, the individual is already socially embedded inside the ecosystem through friends, mentors, routines, and community identity, creating long-term loyalty that is far more difficult to break than direct radicalization.

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HOW “ISLAMIC ECOSYSTEMS” EXPANDED ACROSS FRANCE

The report repeatedly uses the word “ecosystems” to describe Brotherhood-linked networks operating across parts of France. The concern is not one mosque or one association in isolation, but interconnected structures that reinforce each other socially, financially, educationally, and politically.

A mosque connects to a tutoring center. The tutoring center connects to a youth association. The youth association receives municipal funding. The same network then organizes conferences, charity drives, Quran classes, women’s groups, and community outreach programs under different names but within the same ideological sphere.

These ecosystems become self-sustaining because every institution feeds the others, making the network far more resilient and influential than any single organization alone.

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May 12

The most comprehensive report on sexual violence during the October 7th massacre

It is time for the UN to officially list Hamas as a perpetrator of systematic sexual violence as a weapon of war.

The thread is about 6 key findings

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Hamas systematically used sexual violence as a tactical weapon during the October 7th massacre.

There were clear patterns of abuse across multiple locations, and these continued in captivity.

The atrocities were rooted in Hamas’ deeply antisemitic, genocidal ideology that explicitly permitted extreme brutality and the dehumanization of Jews.

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This was not random or incidental. It was a calculated part of their genocidal strategy to terrorize and break Israeli society.

Sexual violence was widespread and systematic, occurring in at least six different locations.

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