They didn’t arrive with violence, and they didn’t need to.
According to the new ISGAP report, the Muslim Brotherhood spent fifty years doing something far more effective: building influence slowly, quietly, and deeply inside Western institutions — especially in the United States.
What makes this report different is not the warning itself.
It’s the evidence: internal documents, network maps, financial trails, and five decades of case studies.
Together they reveal a long-term project that took full advantage of Western openness — and used it as a tool.
The Money That Fueled the Movement
Every long game needs funding, and the report points again and again to the same centerpiece: Qatar.
Not as a bystander, but as an active sponsor of organizations tied to the Brotherhood’s ideology.
Through charities, education deals, cultural programs, and major media platforms, the funding created an ecosystem.
Not one organization: a network.
One that could promote messaging, support activists, and shape discourse without ever looking like a single coordinated machine.
Some of these networks, the report says, were also connected to financing routes for Hamas and other extremist groups, through foundations and NGOs that presented themselves as humanitarian.
Universities: The Perfect Entry Point
If democracies have a soft underbelly, universities are it.
Open, idealistic, welcoming, and vulnerable.
The report describes how, starting in the 1970s, Brotherhood-linked activists built:
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student associations
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Islamic centers
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academic partnerships
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faculty alliances
Over time, these became institutional power bases.
Places that could influence curriculum, invite specific speakers, shape Middle East discourse, and frame criticism of Islamist ideology as hatred or bigotry.
Out of this academic world grew a movement that would later explode globally: BDS.
According to the report, campus networks helped BDS take root, not only as a political stance but as a cultural identity for students.
It became a bridge between Islamists and progressive groups, a tactical alliance that served the Brotherhood’s long-term ambitions.
Inside Government and Public Institutions
The strategy didn’t stop on campus.
Over decades, organizations linked to the Brotherhood gained entry into:
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civil rights discussions
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diversity programs
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interfaith coalitions
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government advisory roles
The goal wasn’t to overthrow institutions.
It was to shape the rules, control the language, and influence how society understands extremism, identity, and community representation.
According to ISGAP, lawsuits and civil-rights framing were used as tools , not only for protection, but for leverage.
The Power of Controlling the Story
Perhaps the most effective tactic wasn’t money or institutions, it was narrative.
The report explains how terms were rewritten:
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“Islamophobia” stretched to include criticism of political Islam
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anti-Israel activism became a moral identity
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opposition to Islamist ideology was reframed as racism
This narrative control made it nearly impossible to challenge the movement without being labeled hateful.
That was the brilliance of the strategy: use the values of democracy to silence democracy’s own defenses.
After October 7: The Infrastructure Revealed Itself
When Hamas attacked on October 7, something happened instantly:
networks built over decades activated overnight.
Campus protests, coordinated messaging, legal support, and digital campaigns appeared almost immediately.
The report argues that this wasn’t spontaneous, it was the visible tip of a very old and well-prepared structure.
Why ISGAP Says the U.S. Must Act Now
ISGAP’s conclusion is blunt:
the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for being designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization - mainly due to financial, ideological, and operational ties to Hamas.
They argue that without this step:
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extremist financing will continue to flow
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campuses will remain ideological battlegrounds
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policy spaces will stay vulnerable
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moderate Muslim voices will continue to be overshadowed
The report is not a call to panic.
It’s a call to wake up! before the second half of the 100-year plan becomes even harder to undo.
Click here to read the full report.
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