Collectif pour l’Inclusion et contre l’Islamophobie en Belgique (CIIB)

Estab­lished in Sep­tem­ber 2014, the Col­lec­tive for Inclu­sion and Against Islam­o­pho­bia in Bel­gium (CIIB)—also known in French as Col­lec­tif pour l’Inclusion et con­tre l’Islamophobie en Bel­gique—serves as a sup­port and report­ing hub for vic­tims of anti-Mus­lim dis­crim­i­na­tion in Brus­sels and nation­al­ly, work­ing close­ly with legal offices and orga­ni­za­tions like Unia  . CIIB’s man­date includes doc­u­ment­ing cas­es of Islam­o­pho­bia and pro­vid­ing legal and psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port, espe­cial­ly to Mus­lim women who wear vis­i­ble reli­gious sym­bols  . How­ev­er, a con­fi­den­tial Bel­gian intel­li­gence report dat­ed April 2025, pro­duced by PFCECT (the inte­grat­ed task force of SGRS and VSSE), char­ac­ter­izes CIIB as a “Mus­lim Brotherhood‑leaning pres­sure group”. The assess­ment notes that CIIB was found­ed by sev­er­al individuals—including one with explic­it Broth­er­hood ties—and that it prop­a­gates a nar­ra­tive com­mon­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Broth­er­hood ide­ol­o­gy: sug­gest­ing that Euro­pean soci­eties are inher­ent­ly hos­tile to Islam and Mus­lims. The intel­li­gence analy­sis also frames CIIB as effec­tive­ly the Bel­gian affil­i­ate of France’s dis­solved Col­lec­tive Against Islam­o­pho­bia in France (CCIF), and flags it as poten­tial­ly seek­ing to influ­ence pub­lic pol­i­cy and under­mine demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues  .

Ref­er­ences

• Brus­sels Times: Intel­li­gence report flags CIIB as Brotherhood‑leaning

• Yabi­la­di: Bel­gian agen­cies tar­get CIIB over alleged Mus­lim Broth­er­hood links

• Euro­pean Union FRA: Overview of CCIB/CIIB and its mission

• FRA reports: CIIB’s 2021 case sta­tis­tics on Islam­o­pho­bia in Belgium