Washington has stopped arguing about the Brotherhood’s ideology and started following its money. Europe should read the paperwork.

On 23 July 2026, the US Treasury sanctioned a man who lives in London.

His name is Mahmoud al-Abyari. He is Egyptian, and he is not a fringe figure. Treasury calls him a senior leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood’s General Secretariat — the administrative core of the international organisation. He has held senior positions in the movement for years.

According to Treasury, he raised money for Filistin Vakfi and Hayat Yolu, two institutions Washington had already sanctioned over their ties to Hamas, and worked with Brotherhood organizations to provide financial support to Hamas itself. He was designated under Executive Order 13224 — the United States’ central counterterrorism sanctions authority — for acting on behalf of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a group Washington labelled a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in January.

Read that again. The secretary general of the Brotherhood’s General Secretariat. Based in Europe. Sanctioned for terrorism financing.

One name, four continents.

Al-Abyari was not designated alone. Treasury named three other individuals and three entities in the same action, and the map they form is the point.

Tujah Bulah Global, operating in Indonesia under the alias Seven Spikes Global, was created by Hamas to generate revenue for its military wing, Treasury says. Madad Palestine Charitable Society, based in Gaza, collected donations for civilians and knowingly diverted the money to Hamas’s military purposes.

Then there is El-Kahira for General Trading, based in Türkiye. Treasury says it........

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