Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘grand jihad’ grows north of – Latest News
In a chilling inner memo, the Muslim Brotherhood laid out its long-term strategy to overcome North America by way of what it known as a “civilization-jihadist process” geared toward “sabotaging” and “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.”
The detailed 18-page doc, written in 1991, surfaced in 2007 during the Holy Land Foundation trial — the largest terrorism financing case in US historical past.
More than three a long time later, the Brotherhood’s strategy is no longer theoretical. It is materializing simply north of the US border in Canada.
Murad Adailah, head of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, in an interview. REUTERS
The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist motion based in Egypt in 1928, is dedicated to establishing a international caliphate ruled by sharia, an usually excessive set of legal guidelines on a vary of spiritual and societal issues that Muslims imagine was given to them by God.
Though usually cloaked within the language of charity and civil society, the Brotherhood’s true goal stays Islamist dominance — one thing its leaders have repeatedly emphasised.
Indeed, the group’s founder Hassan al-Banna as soon as declared, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”
And whereas the Brotherhood renounced violence within the Nineteen Seventies, its ideology is broadly seen as a “stepping stone” to violent jihad.
Its teachings supplied the muse for jihadist teams like Hamas and al Qaeda and impressed infamous terrorists like Osama bin Laden, Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the Oct. 7 assaults in Israel.
Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie walks out of a defendant cage to talk earlier than choose during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 18, 2014. AP
State actors like Qatar and Turkey strategically lend the Brotherhood substantial help, giving it the assets and legitimacy needed to broaden its affect throughout the West.
In Canada, although, these realities are virtually completely absent from public dialog or debate.
The nation’s shockingly permissive immigration insurance policies, multiculturalist ethos and normal complacency towards national security threats have made it fertile ground for the Brotherhood’s insidious ambitions.
Sealed entrance to the Muslim Brotherhood’s workplace in Amman. AFP by way of Getty Images
Brotherhood-affiliated organizations have proliferated in Canada for many years, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy warned final month, methodically increasing and spreading radical Islamist ideology with out concern of repercussion.
These organizations, usually posing as benign spiritual or charitable entities, have constructed an in depth infrastructure of mosques, faculties and group facilities throughout the nation — with the help of important taxpayer funds.
Senior Brotherhood management in Canada has reportedly inspired followers to take up key authorities positions to push insurance policies in step with sharia.
This strategy mirrors the Brotherhood’s operations in Europe — and there, authorities have begun to take discover.
A not too long ago leaked French authorities report described the Brotherhood’s European actions as a political project designed to steadily remodel democratic societies by way of “strategic ambiguity.”
Senior Brotherhood management in Canada has reportedly inspired followers to take up key authorities positions to push insurance policies in step with sharia. REUTERS
The report warned of the Brotherhood’s duplicitous nature — charming in public, conniving in non-public — and of its aspirations, that are essentially at odds with democratic pluralism. The British authorities reached related conclusions in a 2015 investigative review.
In Canada, these warnings have gone largely unheeded. Politicians concern dropping the more and more important Muslim vote, and dread being labeled “Islamophobic,” probably the most feared phrase within the nation.
As a consequence, the nation is witnessing troubling signs of burgeoning extremism.
Muslim Brotherhood supporters protesting in Cairo. AP
Antisemitic incidents in Canada spiked by a staggering 670% in 2024, and the 83 terrorism-related expenses filed between April 2023 and March 2024 represented a 488% soar.
Those figures, together with the more and more menacing nature of pro-Hamas demonstrations and widespread youth radicalization, all level to the Brotherhood’s growing grip on the ideological panorama.
And they pose critical ramifications for US national security.
The porous northern border, mixed with Canada’s lax immigration vetting procedures, creates an preferrred launch pad for extremist cross-border propaganda and recruitment — and even terror operations.
Antisemitic incidents in Canada spiked by a staggering 670% in 2024, and the 83 terrorism-related expenses filed between April 2023 and March 2024 represented a 488% soar. dts News Agency Germany/Shutterstock
Protestors in Amman, Jordan, waving flags and indicators in opposition to the US-led Middle East financial convention. AFP by way of Getty Images
Last yr, for example, a Pakistani national was arrested as he tried to enter the United States by way of Quebec to hold out an ISIS-inspired mass assault on the Jewish group in New York.
A new invoice in Congress seeks to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group — however it will imply little to continental security if Canada doesn’t observe go well with.
North America urgently wants a coordinated response.
The United States should press Canada to blacklist Brotherhood entrance teams masquerading as spiritual and charitable organizations, and to scrutinize its activists’ and ideologues’ actions.
Further, US authorities ought to pay nearer consideration to a big selection of cross-border actions that might have Brotherhood connections — together with educational exchange applications, stay talking occasions and asset transfers.
The Canadian fentanyl risk that President Donald Trump decries pales compared to the Muslim Brotherhood’s aspirations of a North American Islamic caliphate.
Trump should get Canada to forestall its Islamist risk from metastasizing additional — or risk the United States turning into collateral harm within the Brotherhood’s “grand jihad.”
Casey Babb is an adviser with Secure Canada and director of the Promised Land Project at Ottawa’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the place Joe Adam George is a national-security analyst.
