Has the Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrated the UK?

CONFLICTED

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History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat about the Muslim Brotherhood. What happens when a Western democracy encounters an ideological movement it no longer has the language — or the institutions — to understand? The former Security Minister and long-time observer of the Middle East explains what the Brotherhood is, how it operates, and why the British state is struggling to deal with it. In this episode, Thomas questions Tom about… Tom’s time in Egypt during the Arab Spring His conversations with Brotherhood members The UK government’s secretive 2014 review of the Brotherhood a nd why Parliament challenged it The institutional blind spots inside Whitehall and MI5 How Brotherhood-linked networks operate in Britain today Why talking openly about the Brotherhood is so politically and legally fraught Strategies for the UK government to tackle the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood Join the Conflicted Community here: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Subscribe to Tom Tugendhat’s Substack here: https://tomtugendhat.substack.com/ Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.5	There's a moment in every government when someone realizes the system has no idea what it's looking at.
1:13.5	For Britain, one of those moments came when security officials were asked about one of the most
1:19.8	influential Islamist movements of the last century and discovered they couldn't even identify
1:26.1	its founding thinkers.
1:28.3	I'm speaking, of course, of the Muslim Brotherhood.
1:34.3	My guest today is the right honorable Tom Tuggenhot MP.
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