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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
For decades, the United States has operated under a dangerous illusion — that the Muslim Brotherhood, with its polished rhetoric and carefully curated “moderate” façade, is somehow distinct from the extremist ideologies that have destabilized entire regions. This assumption has survived not because it is supported by intelligence assessments, but because it is convenient. It allows policymakers to pretend that the Brotherhood is a “reformist” alternative to jihadism rather than its ideological incubator.
But the tide is turning. The latest European intelligence reports — from France, Belgium, and an unprecedented EU briefing presented on November 20th — have shattered this façade. On November 23rd, more than 70 international experts and human rights activists gathered at The Hague, in front of the International Criminal Court, issuing a simple and urgent message: the Muslim Brotherhood is not a social movement or a civil society actor. It is a global destabilization network — and the West can no longer afford to ignore it.
For Washington, this moment should be a wake-up call. America is not immune. And the Brotherhood’s threat to U.S. national security is neither abstract nor distant — it is structural, ideological, and embedded.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s founding doctrine is unambiguous: replace democratic governance with an Islamic political order, gradually, through patient infiltration. Its own documents — including the infamous 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum” uncovered during the Holy Land Foundation trial — describe its mission inside America as a “civilizational-jihadist process” aimed at destroying Western civilization from within.
This is not commentary. This is evidence submitted in a U.S. federal court. And yet, despite this, the Brotherhood has cultivated influence in American political, academic, and community institutions by promoting itself as a moderate voice — a strategy explicitly highlighted by former Dutch politician Henry Van Bommel at The Hague, who noted that the movement’s long-term goal is “to eliminate Western civilization from within through ideological influence and political engagement.”
To American policymakers, this language should not sound foreign. It echoes precisely what U.S. counterterrorism officials have been warning for years: the Brotherhood is a pipeline, not an endpoint. It produces the ideological scaffolding upon which more violent actors — from al-Qaeda to ISIS to Hamas — build.
America today faces a triple vulnerability. First, the Brotherhood’s unparalleled network of front groups allows it to influence local elections, interfaith coalitions, university campuses, and diaspora communities while remaining legally untouchable. Unlike overt extremist organizations, the Brotherhood does not recruit bomb-makers; it recruits influencers, advisors, donors, and political operatives. Its danger lies not in the streets, but in the conference rooms.
Second, the Brotherhood excels at weaponizing democratic openness. Dr. Julio Levit Koldorf captured this perfectly in The Hague: Western progressives, unaware of the movement’s true aims, “blindly enable a totalitarian ideology that opposes democracy, human rights, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and secular governance.”
America’s own discourse — from DEI departments to activist networks — has been infiltrated by narratives that mirror Brotherhood messaging, especially regarding Israel, the Middle East, and the legitimacy of liberal norms.
Third, the Brotherhood provides ideological cover for Islamist extremism that eventually targets America directly. Every U.S.-designated terrorist organization tied to political Islam — from Hamas to certain al-Qaeda branches — traces its ideological roots to the Brotherhood’s teachings. While the Brotherhood may refrain from operational violence, it supplies the worldview that legitimizes it.
Critically, the threat is not to American Muslims. It is to American democracy. As Ramon Rahangmetan noted in his speech: “This is not a speech about Islam or Muslim communities. It is about a political movement identified by European intelligence agencies as a long-term ideological threat to democratic cohesion.”
The Brotherhood thrives on conflation — insisting that criticism of its political ideology is an attack on Islam itself. This manipulation has allowed the organization to shield itself behind American pluralism, exploiting a uniquely tolerant society to advance an intolerant agenda.
America cannot afford to remain passive. The U.S. already has legal grounds for action. Countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Austria have designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist movement. Washington has ample evidence to conduct its own review, and recent intelligence from Europe underscores that the threat is not limited to the Middle East — it is transnational.
The real question is no longer whether the Brotherhood is dangerous, but whether America has the political will to treat it as such. The stakes could not be higher. A movement committed to the erosion of democratic systems cannot be allowed to operate freely within them. And a country that fails to identify ideological subversion is destined to be shaped by it.
The Brotherhood is testing the resilience of American society. Washington must decide whether it will respond with clarity — or with denial. America cannot confront global extremism while giving shelter to its architects.
How to make sense of Trump designating the MB a terror org (and by the way, why can’t congress start to enshrine some of the EO’s so the next administrataion of leftist goons doesn’t un-do them?) while cozing up to Qatar, Syria, and Saudi Arabia?
It doesn’t make sense and suggests it will just be words on paper. Canada’s got a lot of those sort of edicts as well, which serve no purpose because they’re ignored and Islamic violence continues to rule the day.
In addition, even if there is actual follow through on this designation, how to square that with a president and commander in chief who’s going to build a Qatari Air Force facility in Idaho, already accepted a Qatari airplane, has legitmimzed this terror-funding and jihadist-protecting state for months now, has invited the president-in-a-suit from Syria to the White House, and is giving the keys to the kingdom to Saudi Arabia while appearing not to use any leverage with them. And that’s just the short list.
The cliff notes are: While better than the presidents who came before him in recent history, Trump appears clueless about the grave threat of Islam. And at the rate things are going, doing a bit better than past presidents isn’t cutting it. We’re already way behind the curve and this slow pace isn’t keeping up.
All muslims are terrorists.
That’s why.
“Radical” muslims are active in the overthrow of the nations.
“Peaceful” muslims are setting up footholds (“community”) and waiting for activation from their imam/mullah/mufti.
Militant islam showed its face in DC pretty unmistakably, so change is on the wind, the kind crapocrats won’t like, probably.
The Mulsim Brotherhood and all the others are not the problem. The problem is ISLAM itself. The MB and the rest are merely symptoms of the disease. You might want to peruse the writings of your colleague here, the great ROBERT SPENCER.
Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to America may be seen in what it did to Egypt
No further proof is need then what happened when it took political and military police power in Egypt. The MB engaged in sever persecution of the Christians in that nation, it did maliciously did terrorism them. Sometimes it literally terrorized of them to death.
One of the reasons why the Muslim Brotherhood to America is because it’s against the US Constitution and \would like to replace it as the law of the land in America with Sharia.
For their Islamic scheme for achieving the advancement of Islam and its Sharia in United States by the members Muslim Brotherhood is called the “stealth jihad” which is which by insidious infiltrate o the United States government both dangerously subversive to the US Constitution which those stealth jihadists in that that insidious Brotherhood” would want to replace the US Constitution with Islam’s Sharia.
This as subtly effective and also is demonically clever in an Islamic sense. Furthermore, this, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
Two of the reasons why the Muslim Brotherhood a threat to America is the one fact alone that the MB has close firm and strong connections with Hamas, exposes it for what it really is.
Second, Americans need to and should be aware of those stealth jihad- minded Muslims who are living in the United States, as those members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and attempt to have Sharia law enacted in this country. Those facts that this is the United States, and has something that is far better than Sharia law. It’s the US Constitution. This is America, not Saudi Arabia or Iran.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Many believe Islam is the problem and should somehow be curtailed. Well, the greater problem is democracy itself. Islam is hell bent to force itself on people’s and nations. It’s in their book, their teachings and in their psyche. In the democratic western world Muslims vote in blocks, not by individual choice. If Muslims reach 10% or more of a voting population, you may rest assured that wily and unscrupulous politicians will cooperate fully to get their vote. It’s the Achilles heal of democracies. To fix this mess will require only one law in each and every democracy – strip their right to vote and use their own teachings to do it. If they wish to and indeed are taught to conquer non-believers, then suspend their constitutional rights and treat them for who they are, enemy aliens.
We don’t want them or their Sharia Laws forced upon us and we don’t need Open Borders we need to send all Illegal Aliens/Future Democrat Voters and Supporters to live in the UN Facility
Part of the problem is the Islamic apostasy law, which means that disaffected and nominal Muslims can potentially be pressured into enabling, or at least refraining from turning in, their radical co-religionists. This is another reason to resist blasphemy laws, which can be used to rein in Christians in the same way that the apostasy law operates to control Muslims. A Christian family in Pakistan was threatened with blasphemy charges if they did not withdraw their police complaint about the forced conversion and Islamic marriage of one of their young women https://morningstarnews.org/2025/11/christian-woman-in-pakistan-forcibly-converted-married-brother-says/
if a muslim slits your throat no moderate muslim would object , thats providing that there is such a thing , because he would be seen as an apostate and denying what the koran teaches . he too could look forward to being terminated . there is evil then there is islam .
Islamic expert Dr. Bill Warner says over 60% of Islam centers on
dealing with “the other” – that is, with all non-Muslims. And
dealing with them in a draconian way – by subjugating them
through terror or humiliation or murder through Jihad.
That is Islam in a nutshell. But a nut grows into a tree – whose
branches are brutalization of women – persecution or outright
annihilation of Jews and Christians – stomping out the human
ability to think about and assess one’s religion by demanding
full submission to its edicts from cradle to grave.
What kind of religion is that? But there it is – blurred by charges
of Islamophobia and promoted by American leaders like G.W.
Bush – Obama- Biden and countless others for the destruction
and subjugation of America. Their number one Islamic cohort,
the Muslim Brotherhood, believes in that too.
The Muslim Brotherhood is like a monster virus – unseen, all
around us, able to eventually wipe out a Constitutional belief
system affecting hundreds of millions. And with the help of the
globalist Communists – that’s exactly what is happening.
“The Brotherhood thrives on conflation — insisting that criticism of its political ideology is an attack on Islam itself.”
Well, they got that right. Criticism of the Brotherhood is an attack on both their band of psychotics, and on Islam as well. The Brotherhood didn’t create their murderous organization out of thin air.
“Peaceful Muslims” are apostates, the Brotherhood is just following the Koran’s cue cards.
If you considered MB as terrorist organization. You must apply the same designation to Islam itself. Unlike SA, Egypt, UAE, Turkey, Iran and rest, Who want to conceal the true goal of Islam. MB has no such pretension That’s why it support HAMAS, Hizb’allah, Islamic Jihad, PLO and the rest. Islam like communism its ultimate goal is to control the world and create Islamic utopia.
America can’t designate MB terrorist organization and kowtow to Qatar and allow millions Muslims to come to America.. Islam like communism can’t coexist with free self governing societies.
Excellent article. For more background on the MB, everyone should also watch the 2012 documentary by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (which FPM’s Mark Tapson was involved in) “Jihad in America: The Grand Deception” (online at youtube). Brilliant and shocking film (watch for Bush and Clinton) that presents detailed documentation of all the points made by Rachel Avraham — but in 2012! In 2025, everything the film warns about the MB has happened. How? One reason: Qatar.
From: “Qatar’s Campus Conquest: Importing Muslim Brotherhood Policies in a War for the Future of the West” by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, Nov 28, 2025 at gatestoneinstitute.org
“Qatar continues to conduct one of the most extensive foreign influence operations in modern history. Through hundreds of billions of dollars — estimated at up to a trillion dollars — funneled into Western universities, research centers, media platforms and political advocacy networks, Qatar has become the leading global patron of the Muslim Brotherhood in pushing an ideological agenda aimed at reshaping democratic societies from within. New findings by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) show that Qatar’s funding is a strategic investment in Islamist soft power. ISGAP’s latest report highlights a crucial and overlooked fact: the ruling family of Qatar has pledged Bay’ah — a spiritual oath of loyalty — to the Muslim Brotherhood. ISGAP [reports] Qatar is using universities, cultural institutions and educational programs ‘to promote its ideology’ and advance the Brotherhood’s decades-long strategy of infiltrating Western society.”
What happened between 2012’s warnings and 2025’s chaos? Qatar bought off Western society. In 2025, Trump signed multi-$billion deals with Qatar. So did the UK, Canada, France, Germany and others. Qatar and their Muslim Brotherhood literally bought the Western world for islam’s conquest.