Mohamed Louizi

Mohamed Louizi is a Franco-Moroccan engineer born in 1978 in Casablanca, an essayist and trainer specialising in Islamism. A former member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement for some fifteen years, from 1991 to 2006, first in Morocco and then in France, he has become one of its most well-informed critical analysts.

He was active within the Moroccan Attawihid wal’Islah movement and the Justice and Development Party (PJD), and later, in France, with the UOIF (Union of Islamic Organisations of France), where he chaired the Lille branch of the Muslim Students of France. His break with the organisation in 2006 stemmed from a fundamental ideological disagreement and the realisation of the UOIF’s dependence on a supranational strategic agenda.

His areas of expertise include brotherism and the networks of Muslim Brotherhood, Islamism in France and Europe, and the analysis of militant double-speak. Since 2007, he has run the blog “Écrire sans censures!” and analysed the undeclared Islamisation strategy known as Tamkine. He was heard by the Senate’s commission of inquiry into Islamist radicalisation (2020) and has spoken at the European Parliament as well as in several security think tanks.

He is the author of *Why I Left the Muslim Brotherhood. An Enlightened Return to an Apolitical Islam* (Michalon, 2016) and *A Plea for an Apolitical Islam* (Michalon, 2017). He describes himself as a Muslim who advocates for an apolitical, civic and non-violent Islam, distinguishing between Islam and Islamism.