Political, academic and media elites don’t grasp the full extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of Western institutions. Democrats don’t believe in enemies and Bush is convinced that “Islam is a religion of peace” and that “the Saudis are our friends”. To be fair, it is not easy to comprehend the monumental project undertaken by the Islamists. They have launched a civilization-jihad, an all out holy war, on all fronts, in all places. They aim to conquer a technologically and economically superior civilization through nothing but deceit and terror. You just have to admire their imagination … and chutzpa.

The NEFA Foundation has a must read report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in North America. The full report is long and informative. We reproduced the executive summary and conclusions here.

Executive Summary

The current federal court case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) in Dallas, Texas,1 offers an unprecedented inside look into the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, as well as its goals and structure. The documents discuss recruitment, organization, ideology and the development of the organization in different phases in the United States. The prosecution in the case has presented many internal Muslim Brotherhood documents from the 1980′s and early 1990′s that give a first-ever, public view of the history and ideology behind the operations of the Muslim Brothers (known as the Ikhwan or The Group) in the U.S. over the past four decades. For researchers, the documents have the added weight of being written by the Ikhwan leaders themselves, rather than interpretations of secondary sources.

The most compelling evidence of the Brotherhood’s true aims is contained in an internal memorandum written in 1991 by a senior Brotherhood leader and titled: “On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America. In the document, the author is strikingly clear about the ultimate goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States:

“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 Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” 2

The exhibits make four things clear:

1) Many of the existing organizations that have set themselves up as the interlocutors between the Islamic community in the United States and the outside world (including government, law enforcement and other faiths) were founded and controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood from their inception. Many of them changed their names over time to achieve broader national acceptance.

2) The Brotherhood established a highly-structured organization with many different faces inside the United States while deliberately and continually seeking to hide the brotherhood’s links to its front groups.

3) The agenda to be carried out by these groups in the United States in reality had little to do with publicly-proclaimed goals of the organizations, such as promoting civil rights protection for Muslims. Rather, the true goal is to destroy the United States from the inside and work for the establishment of a global Islamist society.

4) The primary function of the Brotherhood structures, from the early 1990s forward, was to support, materially and politically, the Hamas movement in the Palestinian territories, as instructed by the office of the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo.

Notes

1 United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al, No. 3:04-CR-240-G, United States District Court for the Northern Division of Texas, Dallas Division. All exhibits are referred to by the number assigned to them in court, and are additionally available for download via the NEFA Foundation website.

2 Government Exhibit 003-0085; 3:04-CR-240-G; U.S. v. HLF, et al. p.21.

Conclusions

These evidentiary documents demonstrate unambiguously that the international Muslim Brotherhood has, for more than three decades, carried out a systematic plan to implement “civilization jihad against the United States, with the aims of making the nation part of the broader Islamic caliphate or Muslim global state. This has been the task of the inter-related organizations that make up the Muslim Brotherhood presence here.

While membership in the Muslim Brotherhood is not illegal, the Group has shown a keen desire to portray each group as independent and unaffiliated with the Ikhwan structure. To this end, strict security measures have been implemented in the organizations and security and secrecy are sources of worry and discussion.

The documents also show that while not publicly advocating violence, the Brotherhood has engaged in weapons training and has maintained a specific, clandestine security branch to monitor law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ interest in the Brotherhood activities.

It is interesting to note that none of the documents deal with the stated goals of the Group organizations, such as protecting the legal rights of Muslims or insuring their civil rights are honored. Rather, in both tone and tenor, the documents deal with the advancement of the ‘civilization-jihad’ theme in different ways, demonstrating that this was the primary goal of these organizations since their inception.

Muhamed Akram’s 1991 document reads like the Protocols of the Elders of Arabia and unlike the Protocols of the Elders of Zion it has the added feature of being verifiably true. The Investigative Project on Terrorism extracted three notable quotes.

Enablement of Islam in North America, meaning: establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims’ efforts, presents Islam as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic state, wherever it is.

In order for Islam and its Movement to become “a part of the homeland” in which it lives, “stable” in its land, “rooted” in the spirits and minds of its people, “enabled” in the live [sic] of its society and has firmly-established “organizations” on which the Islamic structure is built and with which the testimony of civilization is achieved, the Movement must plan and struggle to obtain “the keys” and the tools of this process in carry [sic] out this grand mission as a “Civilization Jihadist” responsibility which lies on the shoulders of Muslims and on top of them the Muslim Brotherhood in this country.

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 Allah’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.

The Brotherhood’s plan for North America is similar to the Islamist scheme that worked so well in Europe. In her book Eurabia, author Bat Ye’or, the preeminent historian of Islam, jihad, and dhimmitude, portrays the means by which the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) spread the economic and cultural jihad from the Middle East to Europe. The military jihad arrived later as the radical Muslim population reached critical mass.

View selected Government exhibits and documents from U.S. v Holy Land Foundation.