International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation organization belonging to the movement acts stealth subversion aimed at weakening independently, adapting its actions to the European societies from within, patiently laying environment in which it operates, but a the foundations for its replacement with an foundation of commonly accepted principles Islamic order. According to pessimists, ofcials and goals unites all of them. of Brotherhood-linked organizations have These organizations have gained positions of astutely realized that their most fruitful approach prominence within their countries' Muslim is to cozy up to European elites and gain their communities. Even though their conservative trust. They are taking advantage of the and politicized interpretation of Islam is European elites' desperate desire to establish a generally not shared by the majority of Muslims dialogue with any representatives of the Muslim residing in Europe, Brotherhood-linked community and putting themselves forward as organizations have often managed, through the voices of European Muslims, then using the activism and foreign funding, to overshadow power and legitimacy that comes from such other Muslim organizations, become the favorite interaction to strengthen their position inside the partners of most European governments and, community. consequently, often develop into the de facto representatives of local Muslim communities. Government ofcials and experts are 25 Assessments of the European Brothers closely irremediably split on the assessment of the movement, creating a complex, often chaotic resemble those of the global Islamist situation in which institutions swing erratically movement, with analysts split between between actions that reect both optimistic and optimists and pessimists. More specically, pessimistic views of the movement. In optimists argue that the European Brothers are substance, no European country has adopted a simply a socially conservative force that, unlike cohesive assessment followed by all branches other movements with which they are often of its government. There is no centrally issued mistakenly grouped, encourages the integration white paper or set of internal guidelines sent to of European Muslim communities, offering a all government ofcials detailing how European model in which Muslims can live their faith fully Brotherhood organisations should be identied, and maintain a strong Islamic identity while assessed, and eventually engaged. This leads to becoming actively engaged citizens. Pessimists huge inconsistencies in policies, not only from see a much more sinister nature in the one country to another but also within each European Brotherhood. Thanks to their country, where positions diverge from ministry resources and the naiveté of most Europeans, to ministry and even from ofce to ofce of the they argue, the European Brothers are engaged same body. It should be noted that there are in a slow but steady social engineering signicant differences from country to country program, aimed at Islamising European Muslim in terms of both presence of Muslim populations and ultimately at competing with Brotherhood offshoots and attitudes of local European governments for their allegiance. The governments towards them. pessimists accuse the Brothers of being modern-day Trojan horses, engaged in a sort of