French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered the government to draw up proposals to tackle the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of political Islamism in France.
The announcement came after Macron chaired a security meeting to examine a report warned about the Muslim Brotherhood, saying the movement poses "a threat to national cohesion" in France.
"Sweden is mentioned in the French report and in many respects faces similar challenges to France in terms of integration and countering parallel social structures that challenge liberal democracy," Mats Persson, Minister for Employment and Integration, said on X.
"Today, I will convene a Swedish group of experts to obtain a situation report on Islamist infiltration in Sweden," he wrote.
The French report into the movement, which was founded in Egypt in 1928, was commissioned by the government and prepared by two senior civil servants.
It "clearly establishes the anti-republican and subversive nature of the Muslim Brotherhood" and "proposes ways to address this threat", the presidency said ahead of the meeting.
In particular, the report describes how the organisation is working on a long-term basis to gradually bring about changes to local and national rules, especially those concerning secularism.
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