Think tank alleges Brotherhood networks embedded in Canadian institutions; named group cites completed audit

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, a US-based think tank, launched its second report on Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks in Canada on Monday 24 August, fourteen months after its first, published 26 June 2025. Titled *Islamism Beyond Islamists* and running to roughly 200 pages, the report argues the activity it describes is not a scatter of individuals but, in its own phrasing, “part of a structured transnational strategy of ideological entrenchment, institutional embedding, narrative control, and political and legal protection,” mapping alleged reach into the federal civil service, universities, electoral politics and civil society. ISGAP executive director Charles Asher Small said in a statement carried by The Algemeiner that the report “maps how interconnected ideological networks acquire legitimacy, institutional access, public funding, political influence, and protection from scrutiny.” The publication is confirmed. The findings are the contested claims of an advocacy organisation with a declared mission.

The Muslim Association of Canada, a named subject, told Fox News Digital the report “is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research,” calling it “a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias.” In the same statement MAC made a narrower and more consequential assertion: “The CRA audit has been completed. Preliminary questions raised around any links to the Muslim Brotherhood were dismissed from the CRA’s final conclusion.” The Files could not independently confirm that outcome with the Canada Revenue Agency; it is MAC’s account of a document neither party has published. The pickup was Fox News, The Algemeiner, the Jerusalem Post and Juno News. No wire service and no Canadian national outlet appeared in the 24–25 August cycle, and no response from Public Safety Canada was located.

Assessment: The interesting fact about this launch is its distribution, not its contents. A 200-page report on Canadian institutions travelled entirely through American and Israeli outlets with declared editorial lines on the subject, and Small placed a signed op-ed about his own report in the Jerusalem Post the morning after that paper ran a news story on it. That is a closed loop, and closed loops are how designation campaigns build a citation record without ever meeting a hostile question. The audit claim is the test. It is specific, it is documentary, and it is answerable by one phone call to Ottawa. Until someone makes that call, both the report and the rebuttal are assertions — and only one side is being amplified.