What is it going to take for the British government – any British government, of any party – to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood? 

It was revealed today that the UAE is now limiting the number of students it will enrol at British universities because of the prevalence of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) influence on campuses. The UAE pays for most of the higher education of its citizens, and until now many UAE students have come to Britain. But having spent many years alerting the UK authorities to the ever-growing influence of the MB on campus, and having seen no evidence that anyone in a position to act is taking any serious notice of those concerns, the UAE has now decided that enough is enough and that it has no choice but to stop paying for students to come to Britain because the risk – indeed, the likelihood – of their being radicalised here is too great.

Little about the threat it poses is unknown

The UAE’s decision that Britain is, in effect, too far gone as a breeding ground for Islamist radicalisation is a damning indictment – albeit only the latest –........

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