Radical Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating US colleges to ‘transform Western society from within,’ report warns

The Muslim Brotherhood is half-way through its plan to “transform Western society from within” by covertly embedding itself in college campuses and other institutions across the US, a new report warns.

The analysis, published by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy on Wednesday, calls on the US to designate the Islamist group as a terror organization in a bid to thwart its efforts to penetrate all aspects of American life.

“We are now 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100-year plan to entrench themselves into key institutions in the United States and other western societies to undermine and destroy our democracy,” said ISGAP’s director, Dr. Charles Asher Small.

“This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them.”

The 200-page report claims to have exposed the group’s “civilization jihad” strategy, which involves influencing college campuses and other educational institutions, as well as government agencies.

University campuses, in particular, are an “important strategic arena” for the group’s strategy, according to the report — titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Systematic Analysis.”

The Muslim Students Association, which operates chapters on more than 600 college campuses — including Columbia University and NYU — serves as “the primary vehicle for campus influence”, the report alleges.

The report claims, too, that the Students for Justice in Palestine group — which “cooperates with the MSA” — has been “particularly effective in advancing Brotherhood objectives” tied to the Israel-Hamas war.

ISGAP called on the US government to designate the Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization as the first step to stamping out the group’s influence.

The release of the report comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday formally labeled the Brotherhood, as well as Council on American-Islamic Relations, as foreign terrorist organizations.

The Brotherhood is a transnational Sunni Islamist group founded in Egypt nearly a century ago with offshoots that have been linked to past violent attacks.

Its leaders insist it renounced violence decades ago and seeks to set up Islamic rule through elections and other peaceful means.