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Joe Adam George: Muslim Brotherhood has its sights set on Canada

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Some time ago, I attended a closed-door meeting with foreign intelligence officials to discuss the growing influence in Canada of the Muslim Brotherhood, the powerful transnational Islamist movement that is the ideological root of all modern Islamic terrorism.

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The Brotherhood’s objective, I was told, is two-fold: to achieve a paralyzing effect on the ability of Canadian policymakers to act against it; and to steadily expand its influence in Canada. Indeed, the Gaza war has mobilized and emboldened the Islamist group’s “white-collar jihadists” in the country to advance its strategy of “civilizational jihad” — gradual institutional transformation, rather than violent overthrow.

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The officials also revealed that their analysis of internal Hamas documents — the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood — showed that the terrorist group views Canada as vital to its plans. “They love you guys,” one of them quipped. Last year, a Global News investigation revealed that roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada.

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