CORRECTION: Muslimische Jugend Österreich (MJÖ) and FEMYSO

In our new­ly issued report “Europe and the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Part 3: Coop­er­a­tion Between US and Euro­pean Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Groups,” we wrote on p. 5:

HAFEZ is a found­ing mem­ber of the MUSLIMISCHE JUGEND ÖSTERREICH, an Aus­tri­an Mus­lim youth orga­ni­za­tion that is a mem­ber of FEMYSO.

That has been cor­rect­ed to:

HAFEZ is a found­ing mem­ber of the MUSLIMISCHE JUGEND ÖSTERREICH, an Aus­tri­an Mus­lim youth orga­ni­za­tion that has been a mem­ber of FEMYSO.

to reflect the denial by the MJÖ that they are a cur­rent FEMYSO mem­ber, claim­ing they were only a mem­ber between 2003 and 2005. How­ev­er, accord­ing to a report from reli­able Aus­tri­an media, the dura­tion of MJÖ’s FEMYSO mem­ber­ship is under contention:

The MJÖ admits to hav­ing been an “asso­ciate mem­ber” of FEMYSO, a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood orga­ni­za­tion, between 2003 and 2005, but today has no ide­o­log­i­cal or orga­ni­za­tion­al ties to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. How­ev­er, the NZZ jour­nal­ist Elisalex Henck­elf found the fol­low­ing in 2015 on the web­site of the Young Mus­lim Women ofAus­tria (JMÖ), a sub-orga­ni­za­tion of the MJÖ: “At the Euro­pean lev­el, the MJÖ works as a mem­ber of the Euro­pean umbrel­la orga­ni­za­tion Forum of Euro­pean Mus­lim Youth and Stu­dent Organ­i­sa­tions (FEMYSO).” (NZZ.at of 28.10.15). Dudu Kücükgöl, a board mem­ber of MJÖ in 2015, expressed dis­plea­sure with the jour­nal­ist on Face­book: “Some­times out­dat­ed doc­u­ments are still online.” In the web archive, how­ev­er, it can be proven that this doc­u­ment was only put online after Sep­tem­ber 2007, i.e. two years after the alleged with­draw­al from FEMYSO. [Trans­lat­ed from Ger­man with Google Translate]

Read the rest here.

The cor­rect­ed ver­sion of the report, des­ig­nat­ed Ver­sion 1.1, has now been post­ed online.