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No other government but the Trump administration would be likely to venture into the highly complicated arena of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the West. “Trump Administration Weighing Immigration Ban on Members of Islamic Extremist Groups,” by Neil Munro, Breitbart, August 13, 2025:

Top Trump administration officials are drafting plans to restrict both temporary visits and legal immigration by Muslims affiliated with the revolutionary Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups.

“We are taking a new look at sections within the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act] that have never been used before to really get a better sense of who these applicants are, and then we’ll be able to assess” what can be done to exclude militant Muslims, said Joe Edlow, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.

“We’ve got to make sure that [would-be immigrants] do not espouse ideology that is incredibly detrimental to the safety and security of this country,” he told Breitbart News on Monday.

Officials are preparing to apply the terrorist label to some Islamic groups linked to the sprawling Muslim Brotherhood movement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told radio host Sid Rosenberg on Tuesday. “All of that is in the works — obviously, there are different branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them.”…

The Breitbart article also points out that “the group, largely led by Muslim university graduates living in Europe and the United States, is suppressed by nearly all Arab countries.” Yet it operates freely in Western countries.

It is critical to recall the unindicted co-conspirators that were listed in America’s largest terrorism funding trial in history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. The list identifies: individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood, individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations, and individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the Palestine Section of the International Muslim Brotherhood. There are many others listed as well. Read the full list HERE, as published by the Investigative Project. Note that the powerful lobby, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is identified under “individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.”

Recall also Biden’s pact with the Muslim Brotherhood-linked group EMGAGE, and his conundrum over the Hamas’ war on Israel. In early 2020, the organization Emgage launched its Million Muslim Votes campaign in order to galvanize a million Muslim Americans to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Emgage’s website stated: “The MMV campaign was our celebration and a reflection of our determination to build elections as a vehicle of change for our community’s political will.” The organization reportedly had spectacular success in uniting Muslim voters, who turned out in unprecedented numbers in key battleground states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania. Emgage ultimately boasted that “in 2020 we helped turnout 1,087,086 registered Muslim voters. And we’re just getting started.” Emgage and Biden shook hands in a pact, in which each made promises to the other.

As Israel battled Hamas following October 7, Frank Gaffney wrote that Biden:

engaged in outreach to one of his core constituencies: the Muslim Brotherhood. He met privately with five so-called ‘American Arab and Muslim leaders’ including: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison; Wa’el Alzayat of Emgage, a political mobilization operation; and interfaith influence-operator Imam Mohamed Magid.’ Each has personal and/or organizational associations with the Brotherhood, a group whose Palestinian franchise, Hamas, perpetrated the horrific jihadist attack on Israel on October 7th.

Meanwhile, many American offshoots of Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups operate inside Canada with significant influence. Robert Spencer stated in 2023: “It’s the same story all over, only in Canada the project is more advanced.” This is an important fact given Canada’s shared border, double that of the US-Mexican border. In Canada, there have been considerable efforts by Muslim groups to fight investigations by the Canada Revenue Agency and present queries about money flows as “Islamophobic.” For instance, last November, the Canada Revenue Agency raised concerns about the self-declared Muslim Brotherhood links of the Muslim Association of Canada.

In 2022, the Muslim Association of Canada asked a court “to halt a federal audit of its activities as a registered charity, alleging the probe is discriminatory and violates its charter rights.”

Focus on Western Islamism also reported on this. Remember, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) was formerly named CAIR-CAN, and is an offshoot of CAIR.

An Islamist organization in Canada has obstructed the enforcement of anti-terror finance laws imposed after 9/11 and has convinced government officials to direct public funds to support Islamist-directed projects in the country. In particular, the organization has made liberal use of the “Islamophobia” charge to hinder investigations into Muslim nonprofit organizations accused of funding terror operations in the Middle East.

The organization in question, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, demonstrated its influence in 2017 when it drove Christine Douglass-Williams from her post on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Douglass-Williams, who was ousted from her post after the NCCM complained about her writings for Jihad Watch, said elected officials are unlikely to stand up to the NCCM for fear of being called “Islamophobic.”

Breitbart continues:

The Brotherhood has spawned a vast array of related groups for particular purposes, both legal and illegal. These offshoots include terror groups such as Hamas, charities for Muslim causes, advocacy centers such as mosques, as well as fundraising, pro-migration, and political groups.

So far, Western governments have done little to stop Islamic migration or the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood in their countries.

The leftist-Islamic alliance has employed the powerful “Islamophobia” subterfuge, which has served it well to shut down criticisms of Islam. The open-borders policies of leftist governments have also enabled an invasion of Sharia-adherent Muslims throughout Western countries, including the North American continent.

Sharia-supporting Muslims invariably support the central cause of the Muslim ummah, as declared by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): the Palestinian “resistance.” They are encouraged and emboldened by powerful Islamic lobbies, which were identified in the Holy Land Foundation trial for their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas.

According to the Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America…

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

As for Europe, as the Breitbart report notes:

Paris intelligence said that after facing pushback in the Islamic world in the middle of the last century, the Egypt-founded Muslim Brotherhood turned its sights on Europe, initially in countries like the UK, Germany, and Switzerland and later spreading to Belgium, Italy, and France in a bid to restart the Islamic “Western conquest strategy.” Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna is cited as having then said: “We will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland and fight to defeat it until the whole world cries out in the name of the Prophet.”….

Despite Paris’ intelligence, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has served as little more than a Muslim Brotherhood stooge as he sets his sights on targeting Israel in the midst of Israel’s war on Hamas. As the tiny Jewish state battles for its very survival, Macron has said that European countries “should ‘harden’ their position on Israel, and that recognizing a Palestinian state, with some conditions, was ‘a moral duty.’”

The leftist-Islamic alliance is now thoroughly embedded in governments all over the Western world, even as Trump now seeks to confront the Muslim Brotherhood in restricting temporary visits and legal immigration by Muslims affiliated with the group. It is only a beginning, but one that is necessary to begin to confront this problem that has been left to fester all over the Western world. The group is also well versed in Western laws and lawfare, and so it is an arduous process to confront its operatives. Certainly the Holy Land Foundation trial was a beginning. As Andrew McCarthy, lead prosecutor in the Holy Land Foundation trial, says:

Much has been made of an appeals-court decision to expunge references to several U.S. Muslim groups from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case. Too much, in fact.

It was never about the list. It was about what evidence unmistakably tells us: The Muslim Brotherhood and its American satellites are working to undermine the United States from within and to destroy Israel by any possible means, including terrorism. The Brotherhood can hide the list. After all, we should never have seen it in the first place. They can’t hide the evidence — no matter how much help they get from their friends in and out of government. That bell can’t be unrung.

Hear it from a Muslim: Islam is not merely a religion but a political system, complete with its own military force, the Muslims, and a fighting doctrine known as Jihad, aimed at imposing, establishing, and enforcing its laws in the West.pic.twitter.com/x1UjrLkiIB

— Alexander Duncan (@AlexDuncanTX) July 29, 2025

As Marco Rubio and Joe Edlow, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, state: “officials must protect Americans’ legal rights as they try to constrain the Brotherhood’s revolutionary political movement.”

Rubio stated that designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization is “also in the works.” He noted the challenges of the process, “such as having to designate each branch of the Muslim Brotherhood individually.” He also stated that “terrorist designations could be challenged in court, and there was an internal procedure for documenting and justifying the decision.”

To complicate matters, leftist leaders and their supporters throughout the West have betrayed their countries in the service of a woke politically correct agenda, manipulated and exploited by Muslim Brotherhood operatives.

We wish the Trump administration every success in confronting this mammoth Islamic force.