New Report Details Muslim Brotherhood Network Growth in Canadian Institutions

A comprehensive new study has documented what researchers describe as an extensive network of Muslim Brotherhood-aligned organizations operating within Canadian democratic institutions, raising questions about the potential implications for Western security and democratic governance.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy has released a 200-page report examining the connections between various Canadian organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egypt-based movement founded in 1928 with the stated goal of establishing governance under strict Islamic law across multiple nations.

Charles A. Small, the institute’s founding director and president, described the situation as “well advanced” Muslim Brotherhood entryism into Canadian society. According to the research, these networks have established connections within Canadian civil society, electoral politics, higher education institutions, and democratic governance structures.

The report focuses particular attention on the Muslim Association of Canada, a Mississauga-based nonprofit organization that operates mosques, community centers, schools, and educational programs throughout the country. The research alleges that leaders within this organization, one of Canada’s largest Muslim charitable entities, maintain either direct or indirect associations with the Muslim Brotherhood that may influence the organization’s activities and objectives.

Small emphasized that the challenge facing Canada extends beyond isolated incidents or individual actors. The documented networks, according to the research, have successfully acquired institutional legitimacy, gained access to public funding, cultivated political influence, and established protections from critical examination.

The phenomenon, which some analysts have termed the “red-green alliance,” demonstrates patterns similar to activist movements observed in other Western democracies. This characterization refers to the apparent cooperation between progressive political movements and Islamist organizations in pursuing shared objectives within democratic societies.

Traditional Canadian democratic values, Small noted, have been built upon principles of openness, citizenship rights, civil liberties, and public trust. The research suggests these foundational elements may have created vulnerabilities to what the institute characterizes as malign foreign influence operations designed to promote ideological infiltration, antisemitism, and weakened democratic accountability.

The Muslim Association of Canada has disputed the report’s findings, characterizing the research as biased and unsubstantiated. The organization described the allegations as recycled claims lacking credible evidence.

The broader implications of this research extend beyond Canadian borders. Given the integrated nature of North American security arrangements and the close relationship between Canadian and American institutions, developments in one nation frequently affect the other. The potential for ideological networks to establish footholds in one Western democracy raises legitimate questions about similar vulnerabilities elsewhere.

This report arrives at a time when Western democracies are increasingly examining foreign influence operations and the mechanisms through which non-democratic ideologies gain access to democratic institutions. The balance between maintaining open societies that respect religious freedom and protecting democratic values from organizations that may seek to undermine those very principles remains one of the central challenges facing contemporary Western governance.

The Canadian government has not yet issued an official response to the report’s findings.