Entryism

Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, infiltration, a French Turn, boring from within, or boring-from-within) is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. If the organization being "entered" is hostile to entryism, the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge and subversion to hide the fact that they are an organization in their own right.

Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, infiltration, a French Turn, boring from within, or boring-from-within) is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. If the organization being "entered" is hostile to entryism, the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge and subversion to hide the fact that they are an organization in their own right. ==Alleged religious entryism== In 2025, a report authored by two senior civil servants in the French government and presented to President Emmanuel Macron, claimed that the Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood was engaged in a policy of political entryism for the purpose of "infiltrating" the country's republican institutions, and posed a threat to "national cohesion". The report accused the Federation of Muslims of France (FMF) as being the Brotherhood's "main actor" in France. In response to the report, Macron asked his government for proposals "to tackle the Islamist threat". Gabriel Attal, leader of the Renaissance party, suggested banning children under 15 from wearing the hijab in public spaces. The FMF denied these accusations and said "confusing Islam with political Islamism and radicality is not only dangerous, but counter-productive for the Republic itself. Behind these unfounded accusations there is a plan to stigmatise Islam and Muslims." The French Council of the Muslim Faith said that the report risks "fuelling fantasies and conspiracy theories, the consequences of which are unfortunately very real". Professor Mohammed Hafez of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in California said "To put it bluntly, I think talk of a Muslim Brotherhood threat to Europe is at best exaggerated and at worst is Islamophobia." Franck Frégosi, a political scientist whose work was cited in the report, "voiced fears that the French government’s aim, rather than responding to real security threats, is to offer political cover to limit the participation of French Muslims in public life and casts suspicion over all Muslims engaged in political activity." French political sociologist Amel Boubekeur argued that the purpose of the report was to reframe the political engagement of those opposed to the war in Gaza and to France's alignment with Israel, particularly among young Muslim voters, as a threat to national security in order to legitimize the government's repression of pro-Palestinian expression. ==Laws against entryism== Some jurisdictions have passed laws to discourage entryism. In New York State elections, changes in party affiliation by voters already registered are not formally processed until a week after that year's general election to prevent entryism in a primary election since they are open only to voters who are already enrolled in the party holding the primary. The state's Wilson Pakula law, passed after American Labor Party candidates were entering and winning Democratic and Republican Party primaries in the late 1940s, also requires candidates who are not members of a particular political party to get formal permission from the relevant jurisdiction's party committees before they run in a primary election. ==Further reading==

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