The Muslim Brotherhood is halfway through a 100-year plan to covertly reshape Western society from within, embedding its ideology in universities, activist networks, nonprofits, and government agencies, while simultaneously exploiting America’s freedoms to undermine them, according to a sweeping new intelligence report released Wednesday.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is urging the U.S. government to finally classify the global Islamist movement as a terrorist organization, warning that the Brotherhood’s ideological network has already taken deep root in key sectors of American life.

“We are now 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100-year plan,” said ISGAP director Dr. Charles Asher Small. “This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them.”

The 200-page report asserts that the Brotherhood is waging a “civilization jihad” — a long-term campaign to shape Western societies using their own institutions. Universities are described as “a strategic battlefield,” where Brotherhood-aligned groups are allegedly spreading radical ideology under the guise of student activism and identity politics.

At the center of this campus network, the report names the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which is active on more than 600 college campuses, including Columbia University and NYU. The ISGAP report alleges the MSA has served as “the primary vehicle for campus influence,” working alongside groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — which was involved in last year’s violent takeover of Hamilton Hall at Columbia.

SJP, the report says, has been “particularly effective” at advancing Brotherhood-aligned messaging tied to the Israel-Hamas war.

ISGAP researchers say the Brotherhood’s efforts are not grassroots; they are financed and sustained by foreign regimes that use Islamist ideology as a geopolitical tool.

“It is an organized, multi-generational project to manipulate Western democracies and silence moderate Muslim voices, often powered by the ideological and financial backing of Qatar,” said ISGAP research fellow Dalia Ziada.

The report comes as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the influential civil-rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. CAIR, which is not designated as a terror group by the U.S. government, was recently exposed in a bombshell report for rewarding university activists who disrupted campuses with anti-Israel agitation, including students punished by administration authorities.

Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has influenced Islamist movements around the world. Hamas — the group responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Israel — was created from Brotherhood-aligned institutions in Gaza. Despite claiming it renounced violence decades ago, the Brotherhood’s enduring ideological infrastructure, researchers say, proves otherwise.

“The Brotherhood has learned to use the very freedoms of democracy as tools to erode it from within,” Small said. “Designation is essential to safeguard our freedom and way of life.”

ISGAP argues that without action, Brotherhood-affiliated networks will continue to dominate campus politics, influence political activism, and shape public policy — while moderate Muslim voices are drowned out.

“The United States must act now, with clarity and courage,” Ziada warned. “Designation must be the beginning of a process — not the end of one.”

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