The Muslim Brotherhood is half-way by means of its plan to “remodel Western society from inside” by covertly embedding itself in faculty campuses and different establishments throughout the US, a brand new report warns.
The evaluation, revealed by the Institute for the Examine of International Antisemitism and Coverage on Wednesday, calls on the US to designate the Islamist group as a terror group in a bid to thwart its efforts to penetrate all elements of American life.
“We at the moment are 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100-year plan to entrench themselves into key establishments in the US and different western societies to undermine and destroy our democracy,” stated ISGAP’s director, Dr. Charles Asher Small.
“This isn’t merely a political motion however a transnational ideological venture that adapts itself to Western programs whereas working to undermine them.”
The 200-page report claims to have uncovered the group’s “civilization jihad” technique, which entails influencing faculty campuses and different instructional establishments, in addition to authorities companies.
College campuses, specifically, are an “necessary strategic enviornment” for the group’s technique, in keeping with the report — titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Systematic Evaluation.”
The Muslim College students Affiliation, which operates chapters on greater than 600 faculty campuses — together with Columbia College and NYU — serves as “the first automobile for campus affect”, the report alleges.
The report claims, too, that the College students for Justice in Palestine group — which “cooperates with the MSA” — has been “significantly efficient in advancing Brotherhood aims” tied to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
ISGAP known as on the US authorities to designate the Brotherhood as a Overseas Terrorist Group as step one to stamping out the group’s affect.
The discharge of the report comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday formally labeled the Brotherhood, in addition to Council on American-Islamic Relations, as international terrorist organizations.
The Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist group based in Egypt practically a century in the past with offshoots which have been linked to previous violent assaults.
Its leaders insist it renounced violence many years in the past and seeks to arrange Islamic rule by means of elections and different peaceable means.
