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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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May 5

Qatar is spending millions on Islamist projects in Poland.

It’s not surprising that a new “mega-mosque” is currently being built in Strasbourg, the second capital of the European Union, and home to a large Muslim population.

But why is Qatar funding Islamist projects in Poland, a Catholic country and a homogeneous society?

Qatar notices what is changing in Poland, and it is preparing for what might be coming next.

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Even though Poland rejected mass illegal migration, it has a growing number of legal Muslim migrants. In 2024, Poland issued 94,103 work permits to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries.

There is also the growing concern that Poland will be forced to accept migrants relocated by Brussels. Poland’s current exemption from the EU’s relocation mechanism will expire at the end of 2026.

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The Muslim Brotherhood is already in Poland.
In 2015, the largest Islamic center in Poland was built in Warsaw. It was funded by the Muslim League, whose former president, Samir Ismail, is linked to figures associated with Hamas.

It’s important to draw a distinction between the Muslim League and the Muslim Religious Union. The latter represents the historic Muslim minority community known as the Polish Tatars, who have lived among the Polish people since the 14th century.

Unlike the Polish Tatars, the Muslim League was founded by Arab immigrants who felt the existing organization did not represent their version of Islam.

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May 4

Black Lives Matter forgot to kneel for these Black people.

In Sudan, more than 60% of the population suffers from acute food shortages. Millions have been forced to eat leaves or animal feed to survive.

According to the 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, around 28.9 million Sudanese are acutely food insecure, with tens of millions living on just one meal a day.

Sudan’s brutal war, waged by the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) against its rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is now entering its fourth year and has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.

Reports based on interviews with Sudanese farmers, traders, and humanitarian workers describe how the conflict is pushing communities toward famine, driven by the collapse of agriculture and the use of starvation as a weapon, including the deliberate destruction of farms and markets.

Women and girls are among the most affected, facing a heightened risk of violence and rape when going to fields, markets, or even collecting water.

After years of intense Gaza reporting, the international mainstream media is turning a blind eye to the suffering in Sudan.

Black Lives Matter is quick to call out so-called “systemic racism” in the West, but doesn’t seem to care that their African brothers and sisters are being slaughtered by the thousands. Why is that?

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Christians in Sudan have been particularly targeted by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and views Christians as its ideological enemy.

Rafat Samir, general secretary of the Sudan Evangelical Alliance, told Fox News that “opposing Christians is their religious duty. Whoever does something to harm Christians is considered favourable to the law or to Allah.”

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The majority of Sudan’s Christian population lives in the Nuba Mountains, where residents have described daily bombings of churches and Christian villages. Fox News noted that “the Evangelical church in Omdurman… was bombed even though it was not in a combat zone.”

These are religiously motivated strikes meant to destroy the local Christian population.

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Mar 20

The Netherlands has officially BANNED the Muslim Brotherhood

For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has quietly built a network of institutions, leadership structures, and affiliated organizations across Europe.

While numerous countries outside the EU have designated the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, the network it has constructed in Europe is only growing stronger.

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The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Sunni Islamist movements in the world. Founded in Egypt in 1928, its central objective is the establishment of a society governed by Islamic law, Sharia.

The movement promotes a gradual process of Islamization by using a nation’s existing social and political structures to fundamentally change society.

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Moderate Muslim countries have long recognized the danger the Brotherhood poses.

That’s why Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan have designated it as a terrorist organization, accusing it of promoting extremism and undermining state stability.

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