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A nearly 200-page ISGAP report alleges that organizations and activists aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have secured access to Canadian political, educational and civic institutions, while a major Muslim charity named in the report strongly rejects the findings as biased and unsubstantiated.
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A newly released report is raising questions about the extent to which organizations allegedly aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have gained influence within Canadian politics, higher education, charitable institutions and civil society, with its authors warning that the developments could carry implications beyond Canada for the United States and other Western democracies.
The roughly 200-page analysis, produced by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, examines what it describes as interconnected ideological networks that have gradually obtained legitimacy, government funding, institutional access and political influence in Canada.
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According to Fox News, the report examines alleged relationships between Muslim Brotherhood-aligned organizations and Canadian democratic institutions, electoral politics, universities and civil society. Researchers also drew comparisons with alliances involving other activist movements in Western countries, a phenomenon some analysts have labeled the “red-green alliance.”
Charles Asher Small, executive director of ISGAP, said the report’s central concern extends beyond isolated organizations or individual figures.
“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,” Small said.
Small argued that Canada’s traditionally open democratic structure — including its emphasis on citizenship, civil liberties and public trust — has increasingly encountered what he described as malign foreign influence and ideological entryism.
He warned that such networks could contribute to antisemitism and efforts to weaken mechanisms of democratic accountability.
The report, titled “Assault on Democratic Values and Principles: How Islamist Entryism Weakens Civil Society and Higher Education in Canada,” devotes significant attention to the Muslim Association of Canada, one of the country’s largest Muslim charitable organizations.
ISGAP alleges there are “numerous apparent links” between the Mississauga-based nonprofit and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna and developed around a political and religious ideology seeking a broader Islamic social and governmental order grounded in Sunni interpretations of Islamic law.
According to the ISGAP report, individuals in leadership positions at the Muslim Association of Canada have been “directly or indirectly” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The authors contend that such relationships could influence the organization’s activities.
The Muslim Association of Canada categorically disputed those claims.
“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 organization told Fox News Digital in a statement.
The association also pointed to the outcome of a previous examination by Canada’s tax authority.
“The CRA audit has been completed. Preliminary questions raised around any links to the Muslim Brotherhood were dismissed from the CRA’s final conclusion,” the statement said. “MAC is a solely independent Canadian organization. The ISGAP report amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society.”
The Canada Revenue Agency scrutinized the Muslim Association of Canada during a 2023 audit and said at the time that there were indications of relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The association denied those allegations and argued that the examination reflected systemic bias and “Islamophobia.”
Following the audit, the Canada Revenue Agency did not revoke the Muslim Association of Canada’s tax-exempt charitable status.
The new report reaches beyond charitable organizations and alleges that groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood have also attempted to influence Canada’s electoral system.
Among the examples cited is a coordinated “Vote Palestine” campaign during the 2025 election cycle. According to the report, the campaign obtained endorsements from 344 candidates representing four Canadian political parties.
Small told Fox News Digital that he believes the patterns identified in Canada should also concern policymakers in the United States.
“The radical left wants to weaken Western or American hegemony, as does radical political Islam,” Small said. “Radical political Islam wants to rid the Islamic world of any influence of the United States, of Europe, of Christianity, of Judaism in its region to ethnically cleanse it.”
Small compared what he described as today’s alliances between radical left-wing movements and Islamist organizations with political coalitions surrounding the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
“I think we look back to the Iranian Revolution where the radical left and the Islamists joined together to replace the Shah, and “replace the influence of the United States,” he said. “It’s the same playbook. They’re using the same strategy in Europe and now into Canada.”
Dalia Ziada, a Muslim scholar who fled Egypt after publicly criticizing Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, expressed a similar concern.
Ziada described the convergence between radical Islamist movements and elements of the radical left as a potential threat to American politics and Western democratic societies.
“For five or seven years now, we have been seeing some kind of a ‘sinful marriage’ between the radical left and radical Islamism, the groups that hate Western liberal democracies and desire to destroy them,” Ziada told Fox News Digital.
The findings come amid broader scrutiny of overlapping protest and advocacy networks operating internationally.
A Fox News Digital investigation identified roughly 425 organizations spanning communist groups, Muslim advocacy organizations and anti-Israel activist coalitions that it described as participating in a coordinated transnational protest network. Collectively, those organizations generate approximately $1 billion in annual revenue, according to the investigation.
The Muslim Brotherhood has also faced increasing scrutiny from the Trump administration.
In January, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
The administration took additional action in July by sanctioning a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official whom Treasury accused of helping finance the military wing of Hamas.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration would continue targeting organizations and individuals accused of facilitating terrorist financing.
“The Trump administration will relentlessly pursue terrorists and those who finance them,” Bessent said in a July statement. “Whether operating under the guise of charities, businesses or underground financial networks, those who enable Hamas will be exposed, sanctioned and held accountable.”
The full ISGAP report urges the Canadian government to adopt policy changes intended to limit what its authors describe as Muslim Brotherhood-aligned influence within elections, higher education and other established institutions.
Its conclusions remain disputed by organizations named in the research, particularly the Muslim Association of Canada, which maintains that it is an independent Canadian organization and says allegations tying it to the Muslim Brotherhood have not been substantiated.
The competing claims place the report within a broader debate over foreign influence, political activism, religious organizations and the boundaries between legitimate participation in democratic institutions and coordinated ideological efforts to shape them.
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