Italian media reporting indicates that the first training course for Italian imams will be conducted by two individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood According to one of the reports, Abdoulkheir Bregheiche is the organizer of the course which will be taught by Professor of Islamic Theology Salem Shekhi and consists of two days of lessons to be held for seventy people in Brescia. Abdoulkheir Bregheiche is both a leader of the Associazione Della Cultura Ed Educazione Islamica In Italia and the Unione delle Comunità ed organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia (UCOII) , both probably affiliated with the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella organization. Professor Shekhi is described in one of the reports as a member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), the theological body headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. The course is said to emphasize the “realities of a Western and secular Europe.”