The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain: organizational structure and sources of funding

 The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain: organizational structure and sources of funding

The Muslim Brotherhood organization is facing unprecedented European measures to limit its activity and track its sources of funding, which have recently reached European capitals, which have represented, over the past decades since 1960, a safe haven for the organization’s activity, most notably London, which houses a large number of leaders of the international organization of the Brotherhood and embraces the organization’s activities. Its global headquarters, also in Switzerland, is where the organization faces successive measures to besiege it, most of which relate to tracking financial activities and funding sources.

 The Brotherhood in Britain

The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain is linked to a very importantw system of interests, which are related to political, security and social matters, which has made them of great importance to successive governments. This is done through a tight institutional system, which includes a system of associations, which has reached approximately (60) organizations within Britain. . While the volume of direct and indirect investments of the Brotherhood in Britain has grown. Estimates indicate that the Muslim Brotherhood organization possesses financial wealth ranging between (8-10) billion dollars. The Muslim Brotherhood's companies and institutions obtained legal status, due to Britain's fear that the group's activities would turn into secret activity to strike British interests and threaten its security. The Muslim Brotherhood - Britain is the group's base and a center for its operations in Europe.

The most prominent leaders of the Brotherhood in Britain

Ibrahim Munir (died on November 4, 2022): He held the position of acting guide, as Munir ran the group from the British capital, London. He had held the position of spokesman for the Brotherhood in Europe since 1982, and had resided for years in the British capital, London. He was also one of Founders of the Islamic Unity Forum (IUF), based in London.

Mahmoud Al-Ebiary: Assistant Secretary-General of the International Organization of the Brotherhood in London, who is responsible for the group’s postal group, and was supervising the transfer of instructions and assignments received from the General Guide or the Acting Guide to the rest of the Brotherhood’s leadership through a special postal group that includes a narrow and limited circle of leaders, and information indicates He holds the position of Secretary-General of the international organization, succeeding Mounir.

Essam Al-Haddad: He is a former member of the Islamic Relief Organization and a founding partner of the organization and is considered one of the most senior officials and leaders of the Brotherhood, along with Muhammad Sudan, Secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Brotherhood who also resides in London.

The facades of the Brotherhood in Britain

There are about 60 organizations inside Britain, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam groups, including charitable organizations, intellectual institutions, and even television channels, according to the Telegraph newspaper in October 2014, citing an unpublished government report. The most prominent of these institutions are:

- The Islamic League in Britain (MAB): represents the most prominent Brotherhood entity in the Kingdom and was founded by Kamal Al-Helbawy, a former member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Office, and the former official spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, who later split from the group. The leadership of the MAB Party includes leaders Brotherhood members such as Azzam Al-Tamimi, a former activist in the Islamic Action Front (the political party of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood). Muhammad Sawalha, former member of Hamas. Osama Al-Takriti, the son of the leader of the Iraqi branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

- Islamic Relief Organization in Britain: A prominent Islamic institution, closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood network, and has branches in more than (20) countries. She enjoyed great access to prominent government officials. Islamic Relief activities included speeches by Prince Charles. Islamic Relief also became the first specialized Islamic charity to receive funding from the British government for projects on the African continent in 1994. In 2012, Swiss banking giant UBS closed Islamic Relief’s accounts and “blocked donations from its clients coming to the charity,” it was reported, Due to fears of terrorist financing. Four years later, HSBC did the same.

- The Islamic Council of Britain (MCB): The largest political support organization working on behalf of Muslims in Britain. It was founded in 1997 by the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is an umbrella organization for more than (500) Islamic institutions spread throughout Britain. In 2009, Britain decided Placing her under censorship due to her support for violent operations, The Times, December 2015.