With an expedient whimper, the UK unveils Brotherhood report

A truncated version of the UK government’s long-awaited report into Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen (Muslim Brotherhood or MB), commissioned in March 2014, was finally released on 17 December. That was the day Number 10 Downing Street strategists had thought would be dominated by a deal on European Union membership as prime minister David Cameron attended a summit in Brussels. In the event, Cameron will have to wait on his new deal (or ‘Brexit’), but seemed to have ducked major rows over the MB, with an 11-page document (comprising just over seven pages of text) that pictured the Ikhwan as “possible extremists”, whose threat is not sufficient to prescribe it.