Jihad: From Lethal Violence to Stealth Persuasion

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means."

"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating the 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."

"It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny." 

An Explanatory Memorandum for the Muslim Brotherhood's Goals in North America  

Jihad: Holy or Unholy War?
John L. Esposito
The concept and practice of jihad have been critical in the history of
Islam.1 From the rise of Islam and the creation and expansion of the Muslim
community, jihad has played a central role in Islam. Jihad (exertion or struggle)
is sometimes referred to as the Sixth Pillar of Islam. Throughout history, (as in
other faiths) sacred scripture has been used and abused, interpreted and
misinterpreted, to justify resistance and liberation struggles, extremism and
terrorism, holy and unholy wars.
The importance of jihad is rooted in the Quran’s command to struggle (the
literal meaning of the word jihad) in the path of God and in the example of the
Prophet Muhammad and his early Companions. In its most general meaning,
jihad refers to the obligation incumbent on all Muslims, individuals and the
community, to follow and realize God’s will: to lead a virtuous life and to extend
the Islamic community through preaching, education, example, writing, etc.
Jihad also includes the right, indeed the obligation, to defend Islam and the
community from aggression. Throughout history, the call to jihad has rallied
Muslims to the defense of Islam.
Since the late 20th century, the word jihad has gained remarkable
currency: used by resistance, liberation, and terrorist movements alike to
legitimate their cause and motivate their followers. The Afghan Mujahiddin, the
Taliban and the Northern Alliance, have waged a jihad in Afghanistan against
foreign powers and among themselves; Muslims in Kashmir, Chechnya,
Daghestan and the southern Philippines, Bosnia and Kosovo have fashioned
their struggles as jihads; Hizbollah, HAMAS, and Islamic Jihad Palestine have
characterized war with Israel as a jihad; Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group has
engaged in a jihad of terror against the government there and Osama Bin Laden
and al-Qaeda have waged a global jihad against Muslim governments and the West.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the century-old Egypt-based totalitarian, political, exterminationist leader in Islamist conquest for the universal elevation of Islam and the subjugation of all people on the globe -- to submit to a religion conceived by an Arab businessman in the 7th century Mecca of the Middle East who diligently mined the prophets, holy concepts, and sacred human values of the Hebrew Holy Book to freely lift those precepts and philosophical, historical antecedents to be used in the conceiving of Muhammad's own rendition of a holy scripture, the Koran, which he held to supercede those of two predecessor religions; Judaism and Christianity, as God's 'final word' -- must be recognized for the danger it is.

 

 

Since that inception in 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood has spread its tentacles throughout the world, with countless branches, both those dedicated to violent action -- in the Middle East, Africa and Asia -- and stealth persuasion -- in Western democracies; throughout Europe and the Americas, to use any and all methods between the two extremes to achieve the goal of Islamist domination. Recognizing its threat to their own status as governments, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood. It is past time for the West to catch up.

 

Moderate Muslim-majority countries are under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood's offshoots, just as Western countries are; the methodology differs, as do the techniques, but the end result is the same. Convert or die. Alternately, convert or live under Islam as taxed-and-tolerated inferiors. 

Islam is  now the fastest-growing religion on the globe, likely to overtake Christianity within the next several decades. Where Christianity sees slumping followings, Islam's is expanding. And as it expands it also exports itself everywhere across the world.

 

Through immigration, migration, and refugee claimants, Islam is infiltrating everywhere. Muslims have a tendency to obey Koranic instructions to hold themselves separate from those of other, or no religious affiliations. And since Islam is an entire way of life, subscribed by the strict tenets laid down for Muslims through their holy scriptures, there is no assimilation within another culture, their values, acceptance of a different history, and above all, laws, other than Sharia.

 

Observant Muslims heed their obligation to procreation. Through the scimitar, the Koran and the cradle, Islam grows its ummah unrelentingly, the global presence of Muslims, either in Muslim-majority countries or through the limitless diaspora. And wherever Muslims congregate to become part and apart of an established presence in non-Muslim countries they agitate for Sharia law, arguing that their numbers reaching majority status demands it. 

 

Oddly enough, for a strictly religious people, the incidence of crime among the Muslim population tends to be higher than for other groups. Illegal and criminal activities from human smuggling to trafficking in arms and prohibited substances such as recreational drugs go a long way to funding Islamist terrorism. Tellingly, Islamist groups have become proficient in their use of Western social and cultural concepts of fairness and equality, professing allegiance with social groups they have nothing in common with, and have no regard for, but to use them as helpful supports.

 

Appealing to the human rights due them, Islamists use the guise of victimhood to persuade social progressives abroad that they disproportionately suffer discrimination because of their religion, because of their culture and inherent beliefs, because of their skin colour, because their history is unappreciated, despite that Islam is a religion of peace. That criticism of Islam merely as a result of its proclivity to produce hordes of terrorists plaguing the world community in a violently constant replay of its founder's militancy of persuasion is 'Islamophobic', shaming the timid and the unaware to silence.

 

As the engine of Islamist totalitarianism the Muslim Brotherhood which has succeeded in inserting itself as an honourable representative of Islam throughout the West, with its machinations of its offshoots like    CAIR and its countless 'humanitarian charities' that purport to support the poor and the undertrodden in developing nations while siphoning the funds toward terrorism, it requires governments throughout the world to finally recognize its role in destroying what the Western world represents as democratic unions supporting human rights.

 

 

The Muslim Brotherhood's Influence in Canada

Parliament Hill Ottawa, Canada. Credit: Ron Przysucha

 

"The Ikhwan [Arabic for 'brethren'] 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 [Muslims] so that it is eliminated and God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."

From a 1991 memo of Muslim Brotherhood domination strategy

 

"[Canada has become] a hub for Muslim Brotherhood affiliated organizations that are exerting significant influence in Canadian civil society, academia, politics and government."

"[Many of whom have received funding from the government of Canada despite] verified ties to extremist entities, including Hamas."

"[The Muslim Brotherhood's] sabotage strategy [is clandestinely materializing in Canada]."

Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) report 

ISGAP Urges Canadian Government to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization

 

The long-lived transnational Sunni Islamist movement with its goal of creating a global caliphate based on Sharia law is widely thought of as the most influential and largest Islamist group in modern history. The network is supported by powerful states like Qatar and Turkey. Both violent and non-violent forms of jihad are championed by the Brotherhood in achievement of Islamist supremacy. Its Egyptian founder Hassan al Banna stated in 1928: "It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."

 

Al-Banna, a dedicated antisemite, and admirer of Adolf Hitler, had a pathological hatred for the West, Israel and Jews. Thought of as the "intellectual father of modern day jihad", Brotherhood idealogue Sayyid Qutib's radical prose outlined the ideological foundation for the Salafist jihadi movement, such that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri of al-Qaeda were inspired to spawn terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Islamic State.

 

The Muslim Brotherhood is "the world's incubator of modern Islamic terrorism", "the world's most dangerous militant cult", wrote Cynthia Farahat, an Egyptian-American counterterrorism expert, in her book, The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood's Industry of Death. In the 1970s officially renouncing violence to achieve its aims, its support for terrorist groups and its actions in effect yet remain violence-oriented. Hamas was created in 1987 out of the Brotherhood whose international leadership directed its branches globally to support the terrorist group.  

 

The very term 'Islamophobia' was popularized by the Brotherhood for the purpose of delegitimizing criticism of its Islamist ideology, with the intention of equating it with antisemitism, according to a leading scholar on the Middle East and Islam in the West, Gilles Kepel. Its success has enabled the Muslim Brotherhood to claim the moral high ground through implicating suspicion of Islam with victimhood. At the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation attempted to have criticism of Islam declared a universal crime.

 

Recently leaked, a French government report offered the most detailed official study of the Brotherhood's modus operandi and its European presence. The findings were ominous: the Brotherhood seeks to achieve its religio-political goal of gradual societal transformation; with plans to conquer not merely France, but the entire world of the West; findings that happen to reflect those of a similar 2015 U.K. government investigative report. Both France and the United Kingdom have effectively been flooded with a voluminous Muslim presence; the banlieus in France are unapproachable; both governments are wary of offending their Muslim demographics.

 

Canada presents as an ideal host for the Brotherhood given its permissive environment in the face of a newly fragile national identity courtesy of a decade of Liberal rule, its permissiveness of group-bloc votes, multiculturalism, wokeism and flagrantly oblivious immigration intake, including refugees and illegal migrants. The ISGAP report reveals an extensive ideological infrastructure the Brotherhood has furnished within Canada, through charities, schools and mosques, enabling it to infiltrate civil society and influence policy-generation under the mantle of religious and educational action. 

 

Marc Lebuis, the director of Point de Bascule, an organization tracking jihadist movement in Canada. testified before a 2015 Senate committee, revealing that a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader in Canada had inspired Muslims to work toward influential positions in government and the justice system and from that vantage point, put a halt to applying legal provisions incompatible with sharia law. 

 

In April, Jordan took the step of banning the Brotherhood which in effect posed a governing challenge to the Hashemite kingdom, joining Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates all of which had pre-dated Jordan's step by years previously. The sole western country to have banned the group is Austria. Designating it as a terrorist organization may yet eventuate shortly in the United States, where it is deeply engrained in the political and social fabric of the country. 

 

It is imperative that Western countries recognize the danger represented by the Brotherhood, a recognition that now prevails in the Middle East. Its ideology promotes hatred, rejecting liberal democratic values and rejecting western justice. Their corrosive world view undermines social cohesion, fomenting division and radicalization where it establishes itself. In Canada, government should begin the process by eliminating public funding to its affiliated groups, and prosecute those who commit crimes, blacklist terror-financing fronts and publicly reject the entire Brotherhood apparatus. 

 

Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP

 

Promoting A Universal Islamic Caliphate

"Hizb ut Tahrir Canada hereby announces, with regret, the cancellation of the Khilafah Conference 2025."

"This decision was necessitated by circumstances that were beyond our reasonable control."

"Hizb ut Tahrir categorically rejects the use of violence or material means in its methodology."

"The accusations linking the party to terrorism, extremism and violent activities are fabrications aimed at tarnishing its reputation."

Hizb ut Tahrir Facebook account

Inside Hizb ut Tahrir's  Khilafah Conference in 2023. Photo by Hizb ut Tahrir online promotion

"[Hizb ut-Tahrir's history of] glorifying violence and promoting antisemitism and extremist ideology and its support of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah] are entirely contrary to Canadian values."

David McGuinty, Minister, Public Safety Canada

 

"[The conference and the organizing group is] extremist [and] radical [and would] jeopardize decades of progress made by Canadian Muslims in promoting inclusivity and dialogue."

"Its ideology not only threatens national unity but also isolates Muslim communities and endangers vulnerable youth."

The Global Imams Council

 

"This is important progress in keeping Canadians safe. We are relieved that this conference isn't  happening, but we also know that the fight against extremism cannot stop."

"We will continue to urge the government of Canada to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as an illegal terrorist organization, as is the case in the U.K. and Germany."

Michelle Stock, vice-President, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Canada

 

"This dangerous event, organized by an extremist group banned in 13 countries, sought to undermine the very values of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy that define Canada."

"Thanks to swift and decisive action, the voices of  hate and division will not find a platform here."

B'nai Brith Canada

 

"The Canadian government must take the necessary measures to list this organization as a terror group under Canadian law, ensuring that it will never again have the opportunity to propagate its vile, extremist ideology in our country."

Michael Levitt, president, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

Members and supporters of the Islamist party Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, in support of Palestinians and against Russian and US intervention in Syria, October 16 (credit: OMAR IBRAHIM / REUTERS)

The incident in question, that of a Canadian branch of an international Islamist group whose purpose it is to incite Muslims in the Western Islamic diaspora to take on the mantle of jihad for the purpose of infiltrating and dominating non-Muslim countries to effect a cultural-religious revolution in favour of Islamic conquest where as improbable as it might seem logically to the Western mind, the end result is the establishment of a worldwide Caliphate that would overrule all other religious faiths, cultures and laws through the primacy of Sharia law under Islamic rule.

The group speaks disparagingly of the 'colonialist' West and its deleterious impact on Islam, contrasted with its dedication to bringing world peace and security to all countries, unifying them under the banner of the one true religion, Islam. Its message also carries the impact of antisemitism, defining Jews throughout the world and Israel in particular, as a threat against peace and security in its designs to dominate everywhere, a irony of acute dimensions. 

 

The group is recognized for what it is in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom both of which banned its presence. By listing an entity as a terrorist group, its property can be seized or forfeited, its finances and assets become frozen and banks used for the group's finances cannot under the terrorism act in Canada dispose of or disperse its property. Anyone or any group that knowingly participates in or contributes to such a listed entity's activities commits a crime under the law.

The Canadian branch of this group had planned a conference and on its website, advertising for the conference plainly stated its purpose; to achieve a worldwide Caliphate and in the process destabilize and destroy Western and non-Muslim governments. The group's activities pose a security threat to Muslim-majority countries as well, most of which react to their agenda by banning them there, as well, as a threat to their ruling governments.

The Khilafah Conference 2025 promoted a revolutionary ideology that calls for overthrowing governments to replace them with a unitary, authoritarian Muslim Caliphate where everyone must live under strict Islamic Shariah law. Civic leaders and Jewish and Islamic groups, upon learning of the conference and its promoters took instant action reactively, reaching out to government agencies. The question is why would not Canada's intelligence agencies be ahead of the situation, in identifying the purpose of the group and bringing the threat of its agenda to the notice of the federal government, advising for action?

A letter had been sent to Public Safety Canada warning of the conference and the agenda of the organizing group as a threat, by the Global Imams Council, an independent NGO that adheres to mainstream Islamic teaching. Many Jewish advocacy and antisemitism groups also brought notice to the federal government of the conference and what it sought to advance, calling for it to be shut down, the group declared a terrorist entity.  

The Hizb ut Tahrir logo.

(photo credit: WIKIPEDIA)

 

Afghanistan's Women Under the Taliban

"There is a need for greater advocacy efforts in support of women and girls in Afghanistan."

"In terms of number and gravity, we are still having the largest humanitarian crisis globally in Afghanistan: 28 million people are in need of humanitarian help."

"It's very important to make sure that aid will be directly and effectively delivered to vulnerable people, and that the Taliban will not be able to benefit from aid, or use aid delivery as a tool for legitimization or consolidating power."

"There have been a lot of cases of this nature [lack of formal paper trails to indicate the use of international aid to line the pockets of the Taliban] in the past few months. For international NGOs that continue to work in Afghanistan, it has been a dilemma."

"According to many international experts, these repressive measures against women and girls in Afghanistan amount to a gender apartheid."

Ambassador Hassan Soroosh, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Afghanistan ambassador Hassan Soroosh and administrator Tamim Amini doing the best they can with limited resources to provide services to Afghans in Canada and the U.S.  CBC

 

Appointed Ambassador to Canada by the previous Afghan government, Ambassador Soroosh has maintained the Afghan Embassy to continue providing consular services to Afghans in Canada, while advocating for the welfare, security and safety of Afghans everywhere. He has been involved in persuading the Canadian government to lift its legal prohibitions on delivering humanitarian aid from Canada to his country.

Ambassador Soroosh has never lost hope that in time Afghanistan by some quirk of happenstance and fate will once again be a democratic country, his people released from the theocratic Islamism forced upon his country by the Taliban since they re-secured Kabul as their barbaric fiefdom in August of 2021 with the withdrawal of U.S. and international forces, ceding the country back to Taliban rule. The international community withdrew their charitable investments with the Taliban return.

 

Young girls still go to school in Afghanistan but are excluded from education beyond that  EPA

 

Humanitarian funding and the humanitarian aid given to the struggling people of Afghanistan was severely compromised when the Taliban issued one of their female-centric edicts disallowing Afghan women to work for international NGOs. A great many changes took place with the Taliban return, one of the first being a renaming of the country to reflect their rule: the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a change unrecognized by the international community.

Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs has advised humanitarian groups that purchasing goods or hiring locals in Afghanistan involves the paying of taxes to the Taliban, considered under the Criminal Code of Canada as contributing to a terrorist group, which is how the Taliban are universally viewed. Afghanistan is a country in economic freefall, where humanitarian crises wrack the population, from a ruined health-care system to soaring rates of child malnutrition.

 

Afghan women attend a protest against their country's Taliban rulers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2023. Sami Yousafzai/CBS News

 

Ambassador Soroosh seeks a way to persuade the Canadian government to respond to his country's dire humanitarian situation, made more urgent in the wake of one of the coldest winters on record to hit the country. Under the Taliban, women and girls may no longer attend school after the primary grades. More recently universities have been placed off limits to women. Women must again as in the previous Taliban rule, be attended only in female-only hospitals and women-only medical professionals.

Woman are now barred from going to gyms and parks. Public flogging of women has been resumed for those who leave their homes absent the chaperoning presence of a male guardian. Amnesty International has urged the UN Human Rights Council to put a stop to Taliban impunity, citing "the suffocating crackdown on the rights of women and girls, and targeted executions of ethnic Hazara people".

Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada Hassan Soroosh stands outside the Embassy of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Ottawa, July 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

"It requires collective international efforts in terms of putting greater pressure on the Taliban. Because it seems that the Taliban so far have not felt the real pressure to change their policies and approach."

"Politically speaking, as experience shows in the case of Afghanistan, no regime and no system can survive without embracing the will of the people."

Afghan Ambassador Hassan Soroosh