The Ikhwan in North America: A Short History
THE NEFA FOUNDATION
www.nefafoundation.org
By Douglas Farah and Ron Sandee
Executive Summary
The current federal court case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) in Dallas, Texas,' offers an unprecedented inside look into the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States, as well as its goals and structure. The documents discuss recruitment, organization, ideology and the development of the organization in different phases in the United States. The prosecution in the case has presented many internal Muslim Brotherhood documents from the 1980's and early 1990's that give a first-ever, public view of the history and ideology behind the operations of the Muslim Brothers (known as the Ikhwan or The Group/ in the U.S. over the past four decades. For researchers, the documents have the added weight of being written by the Ikhwan leaders themselves, rather than interpretations of secondary sources.
The most compelling evidence of the Brotherhood's true aims is contained in an internal memorandum written in 1991 by as senior Brotherhood leader and titled: "On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America." In the document, the author is strikingly clear about the ultimate goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States:
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"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.
The exhibits make four things clear:
1) Many of the existing organizations that have set themselves up as the interlocutors
between the Islamic community in the United States and the outside world (including government, law enforcement and other faiths) were founded and controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood from their inception. Many of them changed their names over time
to achieve broader national acceptance. 2) The Brotherhood established a highly-structured organization with many different faces
inside the United States while deliberately and continually seeking to hide the
Brotherhood's links to its front groups. 3) The agenda to be carried out by these groups in the United States in reality had little to
do with publicly proclaimed goals of the organizations, such as promoting civil rights protection for Muslims. Rather, the true goal is to destroy the United States from the inside and work for the establishment of a global Islarnist society.
United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al, No. 3:04-CR-240G, United States District Court for the Northern Division of Texas, Dallas Division. All exhibits are referred to by the number assigned to them in court, and are additionally available for download via the NEFA Foundation website: http://www.nefafoundation.org.
Government Exhibit 003-0085; 3:04-CR-240-G; U.S. V. HLF, et al. p.21.
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