While Israel is locked in a visible, kinetic battle with Hamas, an equally insidious struggle is unfolding in the corridors of Western power.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological architect of Hamas, is executing a “quiet march through the institutions” of Europe, aimed at hollowing out the foundations of democracy from within – an invisible strategy that seeks to transform Western civilization without firing a single shot.
The European Commission, the unelected executive arm of the European Union, assured Europeans in 2019 that it was not spending their hard-earned taxpayer money on supporting the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). In response to a question by Charlie Weimers, a Swedish Member of European Parliament, about the Commission’s funding of the MB, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas said:
“[T]he European Commission does not finance extremists. On the contrary, we have very strong oversight and audit of our financing… and if you have evidence to the contrary, I would be very interested to have it.”
As historian Faisal Devji has recently shown, the meaning of the term Islam began to change during the 19th century. In the colonial context of South Asia and the Middle East, the likes of ‘pan-Islamic’, anti-colonial activist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897) began to turn it into something rather more modern, in opposition to European imperialism and the West more broadly.
Many Westerners, it seems, still choose to believe a lie: that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is a political and social movement that can be engaged, moderated, and safely accommodated within democratic systems.
This belief is both mistaken and dangerous.
Recent developments in Egypt expose an alarming reality that should shake not only the Egyptians, but also the US and other Western countries.
The Dutch parliament has voted to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, marking a significant escalation in efforts to counter Islamist influence in Europe.
The motion, backed by a majority of MPs on Tuesday, also calls for action against “affiliated organisations” linked to the group. This follows a wider European campaign scrutinising the ‘Brotherhood’s’ work—albeit, far less focussed than in the U.S.
WASHINGTON — The State Department and Treasury Department jointly announced Tuesday that the US is designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as foreign terror groups.
Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, the leader of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, will be listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to address Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs,” Rubio said in a statement.
Today, we are designating the Lebanese, Egyptian, and Jordanian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups. Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States will eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that threaten U.S. citizens…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) January 13, 2026
If Canada did this the Liberal party would be declared illegal.
As an Egyptian-Canadian journalist of the Muslim faith and human rights defender, I strongly urge the Canadian government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
The story of this malicious transnational Sunni Islamist organization starts in Egypt in 1928. The ideas of its founder, Hassan al-Banna, spread globally, influencing charitable organizations, political parties and violent Islamist groups, such as Hamas.
Donald Trump this week moved to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which supports sharia law and the creation of a caliphate, as a terror organisation. Given its own exposure to the Brotherhood’s influence, should Britain consider doing the same?
Earlier this year, the French Ministry of the Interior published an official report on the organisation’s networks, strategies and methods inside democratic societies. It concludes that the Brotherhood’s core threat is not conventional terrorism but instead subversion from within. It documents a deliberate, long-term campaign to infiltrate civic life: religious councils, educational settings, charities, advocacy groups and municipal political structures.
OTTAWA — As the United States prepares to declare a contentious Islamic group a terrorist entity, pressure is growing here at home for Canada to follow suit.
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated his administration’s intention to declare the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist organization founded in Egypt nearly a century ago — a terrorist organization.
Carney loves the Muslim vote nothing will be done in Canada.
President Donald Trump told Just the News on Sunday morning that he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, striking a blow against a group long blamed for destabilizing the Middle East and radicalizing young Muslims.
“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump said. “Final documents are being drawn.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that he had designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist groups.
Both of these organizations have had longstanding ties to radical Islamic terrorism.
In a post on X, the governor noted that his proclamation “bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down.”
It has been working to reestablish the caliphate for almost a century
In 1918, V.I. Lenin renamed the Bolshevik Party the Russian Communist Party. Western scholars and policymakers soon began studying communism and the threat it posed to free nations.
In 1920, the German Workers’ Party adopted a new name: the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Western scholars and policymakers soon began studying Nazism and the threat it posed to free nations.
According to Visegrád24 on X, a motion in the Dutch Parliament to ban the Muslim Brotherhood narrowly failed today, falling just two votes short. The proposal was introduced by Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), and MP Maikel Nunes. Despite strong backing from the PVV, the motion collapsed after the right-wing anti-immigration party Forum for Democracy (FvD) unexpectedly withheld its support. It is unclear at this point what made FvD change its mind.
“The Ikhwan (Arabic for “brethren”) 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 (Muslims) so that it is eliminated and God’s religion (Islam) is made victorious over all other religions.”
This disturbing excerpt formed part of a 1991 strategic memo that outlined the Muslim Brotherhood’s plans to conquer North America. It was produced as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation case, the largest terror-financing trial in United States history.
US Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, on July 16 introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025. This bill implements a new, modernized strategy for designating the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a terrorist group.
