An official Austrian report accuses the Muslim Brotherhood of wanting to transform democracy from within.
The 2025 security report warns of Islamist infiltration into education, youth and the country's social and political institutions.
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Austria has published its 2025 security report and is not limited to jihadist terrorism or attacks. The document It also focuses on legalist Islamism., a strategy that often operates within the law and without open violence, but which seeks to influence society and politics in the long term. The report identifies education, youth, Muslim communities and political institutions as priority areas. According to the document, The Muslim Brothers are trying to gain influence in these areas to gradually transform democratic structures from within.
The report presents the Muslim Brothers as a network of ideological and institutional influence. The problem, according to the document, It is precisely that legalist Islamism can operate in language acceptable to European democracies, within associations, educational spaces, religious communities and political dialogue.. This strategy would allow them to gain public legitimacy, present religious demands as rights claims and gradually shape the political debate without openly appearing as an Islamist agenda. This is what makes legalist Islamism a particularly difficult problem for European democracies to combat.
The mechanism is not to present itself as a conservative religious force, but rather to use concepts such as anti-racism, inclusion, Islamophobia or defence of minorities to introduce demands inspired by an Islamist vision of society. This makes the debate particularly uncomfortable for institutions, because any limit can immediately be presented as discrimination against Muslims.
The right demands a European response
The political reaction in Austria has not been limited to the security services' alert. After the publication of the report, The People's Party of Upper Austria (ÖVP) has called for the Muslim Brotherhood to be classified as a terrorist organisation at a European level.. The group believes that it is not enough to monitor violent jihadism; it is also necessary to act against the structures of political Islam that work in the long term to gain social and institutional influence.
The petition places the debate on a European dimension. If the Muslim Brotherhood operates through transnational networks, associations, religious entities and community representation spaces, the response – the ÖVP argues – cannot be confined to each state. That is why it calls on the European Union to go a step further and treat the Muslim Brotherhood as an organised threat, not merely as a diffuse ideological current.
The France and Sweden debate arrives in Austria
The governments of France and Sweden have detected the same pattern that Austria is now observing. The report commissioned by the French government warned that the Muslim Brotherhood's network was attempting to influence local and national regulations, especially on issues such as secularism and equality between men and women, through schools, mosques and non-governmental organisations. In Sweden, The debate erupted following the French report itself., which pointed to the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country. The Swedish government announced an investigation into religious radicalisation, focusing on political Islam, integration, social exclusion and the impact on the institutions and functioning of a democratic society.
Germany is also looking in this direction. According to published reports, domestic intelligence services have warned the government of the concern. the Muslim Brotherhood's attempt to gain influence within parties, politicians and civil society organisationsone.
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