Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks embedded across Canadian institutions, new report alleges

A new report is warning that networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have become deeply embedded in Canada, raising concerns that Islamist influence taking root north of the border could pose a broader threat to the U.S. and Western democracies.

A report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) revealed ties between Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups and Canadian democratic institutions, civil society, electoral politics and higher education, demonstrating similarities with other activist movements in the West, a phenomenon some analysts have described as the "red-green alliance." "Canada's challenge is not simply the presence of individual extremist voices or isolated institutional weakness.

The report maps how interconnected ideological networks acquire legitimacy, institutional access, public funding, political influence and protection from scrutiny," Charles Asher Small, the research institute's executive director, told Fox News Digital.

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The roughly 200-page report, titled, "Assault on Democratic Values and Principles: How Islamist Entryism Weakens Civil Society and Higher Education in Canada," claimed "numerous apparent links" between the Muslim Association of Canada, a nonprofit based in Mississauga, Canada, and the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization established in Egypt in 1928 by ideologue Hasan al-Banna as part of a wider vision to create a global Islamic caliphate governing nations with rigid interpretations of Islamic law, rules and regulations from the majority Sunni sect.

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"The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research.

It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias," the Muslim Association of Canada told Fox News Digital in a statement.

"The CRA audit has been completed.