Barbara Kay: New report suggests Muslim Brotherhood has plans to transform Canada - National Post
Photo by Getty Images/iStockphotoArticle contentA new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) argues that the Muslim Brotherhood — the world’s oldest political Islamist group in the Arab world but forbidden to operate as an official political party in several Arab countries — revealed in a 1991 internal explanatory memorandum its “grand mission” to eliminate and destroy western civilization “in America and Canada,” from within. As with many things, Canada appears to be late in addressing this threat. Hopefully, not too late.
The Trump administration takes the Brotherhood’s threats seriously and has produced an admirably robust counter-terrorism strategy dedicated to a number of its chapters’ defenestration. Other western governments, responding to rising anxiety over Islam-related changes in their societies, have published reports on Islamist “tamkeen,” a doctrinal term that can mean simple “entrenchment” or the “acquisition of power to build an Islamic state based on Shariah.”
Columnist Jesse Kline keeps you up to date with what’s happening in Israel and the effects of antisemitism on life here in Canada. Friday mornings.
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There’s been a growing awareness of the Muslim Brotherhood over the past decade. In 2015, the United Kingdom issued a report about the group concluding that, “In common with the Muslim Brotherhood elsewhere, Muslim Brotherhood-related organizations and individuals in the U.K. have openly supported the activities of Hamas.” In 2021, the European Conservatives and Reformists Group issued a report about Muslim Brotherhood networks in Europe, which warned that funding Brotherhood-related groups risked “the destruction of our own values.” And in 2025, France published an internal security report on the Brotherhood warning that the group was engaged in “entryism” — a political attempt to quietly infiltrate a societies’ institutions to gain influence and promote their fundamentalist religious agenda.
Hamas is a Brotherhood offshoot. A 2025 Global News investigation reported that about 450 people playing roles in Hamas “have ties to Canada.” Experts have testified to the Senate on the Brotherhood and its risks, and research institutes have rung alarm bells about the group. But the words “Muslim Brotherhood” have, to my knowledge, never been publicly uttered by Prime Minister Mark Carney or by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
