Editing Muslim Brotherhood (section)

====United Kingdom====
The Muslim Brotherhood uses [[London]] as an administration base.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thearabweekly.com/britains-expected-ban-hamas-puts-spotlight-muslim-brotherhood-activities | title=Britain's expected ban on Hamas puts spotlight on Muslim Brotherhood activities &#124; | access-date=1 December 2022 | archive-date=1 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201024431/https://thearabweekly.com/britains-expected-ban-hamas-puts-spotlight-muslim-brotherhood-activities | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://carnegie-mec.org/2019/03/11/surviving-repression-how-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-has-carried-on-pub-78552 | title=Surviving Repression: How Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Has Carried on | access-date=1 December 2022 | archive-date=1 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201024404/https://carnegie-mec.org/2019/03/11/surviving-repression-how-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-has-carried-on-pub-78552 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The first Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organisations in the UK were founded in the 1960s, which comprised exiles and overseas students.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Jenkins|first1=J|last2=Farr|first2=C|title=Muslim Brotherhood Review: Main Findings|date=2015|publisher=Government of UK|location=London|isbn=9781474127127|page=bullet point 19 onwards|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486932/Muslim_Brotherhood_Review_Main_Findings.pdf|access-date=16 February 2018|ref=c_farr_pt31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122132105/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486932/Muslim_Brotherhood_Review_Main_Findings.pdf|archive-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> They promoted the works of Indian theologician [[Abul A'la Maududi|Abu A'la Mawdudi]] and represented the [[Jamaat-e-Islami|Jama'at-e-Islami]]. In their initial phase they were politically inactive in the UK as they assumed they would return to their home countries and instead focused on recruiting new members and to support the MB in the [[Arab world]].<ref name=":0" />

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the MB and its associated organisations changed to a new strategy of political activity in western countries with the purpose to promote the MB overseas but also preserve the autonomy of Muslim communities in the UK.<ref name=":0" />

In the 1990s, the MB established publicly visible organisations and ostensibly "national" organisations to further its agenda, but membership in the MB was and remains a secret.<ref name=":0" /> The MB dominated the [[Islamic Society of Britain]] (ISB), the [[Muslim Association of Britain]] (MAB) and founded the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] (MCB). MAB became politically active in foreign policy issues such as Palestine and Iraq, while MCB established a dialogue with the then governments.<ref name=":0" />

Since 2001, the ISB has distanced itself from Muslim Brotherhood ideology along with the MCB.<ref name=":0" />

In April 2014, [[David Cameron]], who was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] at the time, launched an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood's activities in the UK and its alleged extremist activities.<ref name="DavidCameron">{{cite news|title=David Cameron orders inquiry into activities of Muslim Brotherhood|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/cameron-muslim-brotherhood-orders-inquiry-extremism|access-date=1 April 2014|archive-date=1 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401024152/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/cameron-muslim-brotherhood-orders-inquiry-extremism|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a 2015 government report, the MB was found to not have been linked to terrorist related activity against in the UK and MAB has condemned [[Al-Qaeda]] terrorist activity in the UK.<ref name=":0" />