Yesterday, ISGAP launched our second detailed report on the entryism of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canadian society, its civil service, strategic sectors of its economy, higher education and community organizations. Earlier this year, ISGAP launched a similar report in the United States, which then designated the Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities, the first such designations in US history. Sudan's branch followed in March. Overdue and insufficient: they treat as a collection of branches what is in fact a single architecture, financed from Doha, coordinated from Istanbul, laundered into respectability through the universities, leading media outlets, cultural, sporting institutions and charities of the West, with London as a strategic center.
The name “the Muslim Brotherhood” seems like a benevolent society; however, nothing could be further from the truth. This reactionary social movement fuses a reactionary, violent, perverted, form of the rich and culturally diverse religion of Islam with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the words and ideas that literally led to the Shoah. It is not only antisemitic. It is antidemocratic, sexist, homophobic, with the greatest victims of its violence Muslims themselves. The Muslim Brotherhood is at the vanguard of a global insurrection movement with its goal to destroy democratic nations and replace them with a global caliphate.
That architecture begins in 1928 in Ismailia, northern Egypt, where a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna founded the Society of the Muslim Brothers. Its credo, still published on the movement's own website, reads: God is our goal, the Prophet our exemplar, the Qur'an our law, jihad our way, martyrdom our highest aspiration. Al-Banna did not build a political party. He built an order, entered through bay'ah, an oath of allegiance whose ten pillars he set out in Risalat al-Ta'alim. The sixth is obedience: “Full compliance with the commands of the leadership and prompt execution of their commands in difficulty and prosperity.” Britain's 2015 government review, led by Sir John Jenkins, saw the same from outside: from its foundation the movement organized itself into “a secretive ‘cell’ structure, with an elaborate induction and education program.”
Members are bound to a doctrine, not a jurisdiction. That is how a movement with no army moves in concert across four continents.
The doctrine is tamkin, empowerment through institutional entrenchment, pursued in stages from the individual to the family to the state to the caliphate, and finally to what al-Banna's heirs call ustadhiyyat al-‘alam, mastership of the world.
ISGAP's groundbreaking November 2025 report, The Muslim Brotherhood's Strategic Entryism into the United States, traces five decades of that method in North America. Its anchor is the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, seized by the FBI, entered into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution, which calls the Brotherhood's American work a “civilization-jihadist process” aimed at “destroying the Western civilization from within.” It was a hundred-year plan. They are forty-three years into it.
Antisemitism is not incidental to this project. It is its connective tissue. Hamas's 1988 covenant, never rescinded, declares itself “one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine” and cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by name. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the movement's most influential religious authority, told Al Jazeera's viewers on January 30, 2009, a central pillar of his teachings, that Hitler's slaughter of the Jews was “divine punishment,” and that “the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”
He said it from Doha. Qatar did not merely tolerate al-Qaradawi; it made him. He arrived in 1961, took Qatari citizenship, and was handed a state pulpit, Sharia and Life on Al Jazeera, seventeen years, tens of millions of viewers. When Mohamed Morsi governed Egypt, Qatar sent roughly $7.5 billion. When his government fell in 2013, Qatar housed the fleeing leadership in a five-star hotel in Doha and gave them airtime. In 2017, when four Arab states demanded that Qatar sever its ties to the Brotherhood, Doha refused and prevailed. Hamas leadership is still sheltered and given sanctuary in Qatar, despite the horrors of the October 7th pogrom and all the violence it unleashed in the region for the past three years.
These funds have reached our campuses. ISGAP's Follow the Money investigation documented billions sent from Qatar to American universities, with only a fraction reported to the Department of Education. ISGAP’s 2023 report found tens of billions of dollars in reported and undisclosed foreign-government funding to leading US institutions by the Qatari regime. US universities taking Qatari money averaged 300 per cent more antisemitic incidents on their campuses, compared to US universities not taking their money. ISGAP's 2025 report documented over $1.07 billion in Qatari funding to Georgetown University, a school that feeds graduates into the State Department. Our 2026 report on Qatar Foundation International mapped $65.3 million across 220 initiatives reaching into American classrooms; three weeks later, QFI announced it was closing. ISGAP also uncovered $1.3 billion to Texas AM in unreported funds, that led to the closure of the campus. ISGAP’s report of the Brown University Choices Program that created curriculum for K through 12th grade throughout the US, funded by Qatar, that erased Jewish and Christian presence in 1000s of schools' curriculum across the United States, funded by none other than Qatar.
Istanbul supplies what Doha's money cannot: command and control. Some 1,500 Brotherhood figures relocated to Turkey after 2013, among them acting Supreme Guide Mahmoud Ezzat. Its satellite channels, Mekameleen, Rabea, al-Sharq, broadcast from Turkish soil under Turkish protection, and Erdogan held funeral prayers for Morsi in all 81 provinces, calling him a martyr. Then, in March 2021, Ankara told those channels to soften their coverage of Cairo. They did. By 2022 Mekameleen had vacated its Istanbul studios. An organization that goes quiet on command is an organization under command. Today Turkey is threatening Syrian land, and Israel with radical and aggressive rhetoric in keeping with his Muslim Brotherhood ideology.
In the West, the method is opacity. Jenkins concluded that “much about the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK remains secretive, including membership, fundraising and educational program,” sustained by “a complex network of charities.” France's Interior Ministry counted, in May 2025, some 139 mosques, 280 associations and 21 schools tied to the movement, and named the strategy entrisme — entering republican institutions to change them from within. Only once has a Western court pulled the thread through: the 2008 Holy Land Foundation convictions, which included conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The goal was never to seize a building. It was to own the institutions that decide what a society believes. The US can take the lead by passing the DETERRENT Act, enforcing Section 117, designating the movement, and not merely its branches. And for everyone else in the West, follow the money — all of it.
With yesterday’s launch, it is time that Canada and other Western democracies call for a thorough formal investigation into this violent anti-democratic movement designed to undermine our social cohesion and domestic security.
Dr. Charles Asher Small is founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is also the Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Critical Antisemitism Studies at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK.