Frequently Asked Questions

CERIF defines "brotherism" as an Islamist ideology that seeks to de-secularise our societies and works to impose this agenda across numerous sectors, including education, culture, law, the economy, and so on.
This subversive movement wages a psychological war, employing methods of infiltration and influence, and operates primarily within the law thanks to its numerous influencers, intermediaries and lawyers.

In order to fully preserve its intellectual, editorial and scientific independence, CERIF does not accept any funding that is conditional on the direction of its work, its publications or its public statements. Its analyses are conducted freely, in accordance with criteria of documentary rigour, source verification and public interest.

CERIF relies on the support of donors who contribute to its running without interfering in the choice of topics, researchers, conclusions or organised events. This strict separation between financial support and intellectual output guarantees the freedom of our research.

Your generosity is therefore essential: it enables the continuity of our work, the organisation of academic events, the publication of reports, the provision of reliable resources and public access to well-researched information on Islamism, brotherism and their effects on democratic societies.

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CERIF is an independent research organisation with no ties to any political group, party, ideological movement or interest group.

In order to preserve this independence and ensure the scientific rigour of its work, CERIF relies exclusively on the voluntary support of its donors.

Donations are not conditional: they do not entitle the donor to any consideration, influence or right to scrutinise the centre’s research priorities, publications, scientific events or public statements.

Donors support a mission, not an agenda.

Dare to know! That is the motto of the Enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant takes up Horace’s phrase in his essay What is Enlightenment? (1784):

“The Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Minority, that is to say, the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another; a minority for which he is himself responsible, since the cause lies not in a defect of understanding but in a lack of resolve and courage to use it without the guidance of another.
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding! That is the motto of the Enlightenment."

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