Edwin Samuel said the Islamist political group has recently engaged in activities

The Muslim Brotherhood is linked to activities that compromise British national security, according to a UK government spokesman in the Middle East and North Africa.

Edwin Samuel said the Islamist political group has recently engaged in activities “which to us seem to be against British policy and against British national security, hence, these (activities) must be reconsidered.”

He told AlArabiya.net Arabic: “Some activities and propaganda speeches of organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are considered a violation of British laws.”

Samuel said that the long-delayed results of a report into Islamist groups in Britain, most prominently the Muslim Brotherhood, will be released within the next two months.

Britain ordered an investigation into the Brotherhood in April 2014, following concerns that the group was engaged in radical activities.

Samuel noted that the review is focused on the stance towards the Muslim Brotherhood in regard to British national security, adding that it does not tackle the movement’s activities outside of Britain.

“The first aim of the report is to specify whether Muslim Brotherhood activities threaten national security or not,” Samuel said.

But the British government has “no desire” to publish the report in full, Samuel added: “We will limit what we publish to a summary of the major points,” he said.

The diplomat noted that one of the British government’s priorities is to weaken terrorist groups, adding that this is what pushed it towards stricter laws on radical Islamist parties and organizations, and to adopt social programs for the purpose of raising awareness.

Mohammed Soudan, the London-based foreign relations secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, disputed any notion that the organization compromised British national security.

“The Muslim Brotherhood has never had a link to any violence. We are always on the side of peaceful struggling,” he told Al Arabiya News. “To protest is not a crime.”

Soudan said that, while he does not know the content of UK government’s report into the Brotherhood, it would doubtless have been published by now were it to contain anything suspect.

“If the report found anything illegal… I believe they would have announced it right away.”

Soudan said there were now Muslim Brotherhood movements in 85 countries worldwide. “They are peaceful people, they are supporting the societies they live in.”

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