A Belgian intelligence report from late April describes the Collective for Inclusion and Against Islamophobia in Belgium (CIIB) as a “Muslim Brotherhood-leaning pressure group,” La Dernière Heure reported on Wednesday.
The confidential document was written by the PFCECT, the integrated capacity for combating extremism and terrorism of the General Intelligence and Security Service (SGRS) and the State Security Service (VSSE).
The report said that “the CIIB is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood due to its historical antecedents, the occasional support it receives, and the narrative it propagates.”
On its website, the CIIB describes itself as an organisation that "dedicates its daily efforts to combating racism, including xenophobia and Islamophobia, by working collectively with citizens who are victims of discrimination and society in general".
According to the intelligence report, the CIIB “disseminates a narrative borrowed from the Muslim Brotherhood that tends to promote the idea of an inherent hostility in European societies and states toward Islam and Muslims.”
It says the CIIB was “founded by seven individuals, including a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an activist of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology.”
The report assesses that the CIIB is the Belgian branch of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), an organisation dissolved in December 2020 after the murder of schoolteacher Samuel Paty.
The activities of the Muslim Brotherhood “represent a risk to public institutions,” and pose risks of “subverting values,” said the report, which went on to add that their desire “to influence public policies related to Islam” constitutes “interference".
