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S8 Ep174: PREVIEW — Edmund Fitton-Brown — Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Fitton-Brown identifies Turkey and Qatar as principal state sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood, providing financial resources, media platforms, and territorial sanctuary for exiled

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

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PREVIEWEdmund Fitton-Brown — Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Fitton-Brown identifies Turkeyand Qatar as principal state sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood, providing financial resources, media platforms, and territorial sanctuary for exiled Islamist leadership and operatives throughout the region. Fitton-Brown acknowledges that Hamas's armed conflict with Israel generates considerable risk to the Muslim Brotherhood's strategic "deniability" and institutional separation from militant operations and terrorist designations. Fitton-Brown argues paradoxically that Hamas ultimately strengthens the broader Muslim Brotherhood movement by generating globally inspiring headlines through its military resistance against Israeli military operations, thereby amplifying the organization's ideological appeal and recruitment potential despite operational complications for the parent organization.
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0:00.0

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0:34.0

This is John Batchel, a conversation about the Malsam brothers, the Iquan,

0:37.7

and exile out of Egypt, their home.

0:42.5

However, Evan Fitten Brown of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

0:47.0

my colleague, identifies two branches of the Muslim brothers that are not likely to be put on the foreign terrorist organizationalists

0:51.2

soon by the United States.

0:53.8

Some are, but not these.

0:56.1

Why not?

0:57.3

He explains the threat that these Muslim brother branches pose to the United States and the world,

1:05.6

having to do with money and manpower.

1:09.0

Here's Edmund Fitton Brown to remind us

1:11.9

the Muslim brothers of Turkey and Qatar

1:14.8

are dangerous. More of this tonight.

1:19.4

You know, in a sense,

1:21.1

you have two principal state sponsors

1:23.6

of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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