When we published our investigation into the Safwa Centre and its Islamist influences, Factuel found that the Wikipedia page about the organisation’s founder, who had called for the murder of the Charlie Hebdo editorial team, was not only mentioned approvingly, but also had any connection to the Muslim Brotherhood removed. The article was written by an author known for his incitement against French personalities.
“On the Wikipedia page of Mohamed Hassan Dadou, you can see in the history that the information proving his proximity to the Muslim Brotherhood was deleted by the same author who can be found on the page of another user who was recently expelled from France: Hassan Iquioussen,” declares Michel Sandrin, a long-time Wikipedia contributor and author of a study on the subject, which will be published by Editions du Cerf in 2024.
“On the Wikipedia page of the ominous “Mohamed El Hassan Ould Dedew”, the founder of the Safwa Centre, a new organisation based on BarakaCity, which was dissolved by the current Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, is praised to the skies: “Muslim scholar”, “scholar”. Although he was portrayed as a highly gifted young man who was able to memorise “the entire Quran” at the age of five, it turned out that the famous Mohamed El Hassan Ould Dedew is none other than Mohamed Hassan Dadou, an influential preacher within the Muslim Brotherhood who wrote a call for murder against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, as the newspaper Marianne reported in 2020.
The problem: on the Wikipedia page, which is available in seven languages, there is currently no reference to the danger posed by the preacher, although his entry is the first entry suggested by Google. […] Factuel
“L’inquiétant lissage de profils liés aux Frères musulmans sur Wikipédia” (Factuel) – Fdesouche