Muslim Brotherhood maintaining conspiracies against US

Amira al-Sharif

The Muslim Brotherhood started taking root in the United States soon after it was founded in Egypt.

The Islamic Society of North America, known to be a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, was founded in the first half of the 1960s.

The society is an important tool for this Islamic organization in gaining influence in the United States. It functions as a link between the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, on one hand, and the American administration, on the other.

The Muslim Youth League was founded in 1963 after the arrival of hundreds of Muslim youth to the United States for study in its different universities.

The league turned into the Islamic Society of North America in 1981. Several Islamic countries financed the society then. The society also enjoyed support from top figures of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi and former Qatari emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.

The society controls between 50% and 80% of mosques in the United States and Canada. This control gives the Muslim Brotherhood strong access to American streets.

In 1991, a Muslim Brotherhood document showed that the Islamist organization’s objective in the United States was to turn it into a Muslim nation.

The first generation of Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States consisted of those who belonged to the organization in their home countries and religious Muslims.

According to Zayed al-No’man, a Brotherhood leader in the United States, the presence of these people formed the nucleus of Muslim Brotherhood influence in the United States.

He added in an interview in the early 1980s that those forming the core of the Muslim Brotherhood in America were mere Brotherhood enthusiasts.

These people succeeded in sowing the Muslim Brotherhood seed in America, he said.

An organizational group, he said, was formed later with the aim of coordinating the work of all Muslim Brotherhood groups around the world.

These different Muslim Brotherhood groups produced their own leaders who formed their own senior leadership body.

Some of the Brotherhood leaders then suggested giving their group the name “Cultural Group.”

The group aimed at protecting the cultural identity of Muslims. However, the group was a mere façade for Muslim Brotherhood members to protect them against arrest.