RYAN MAURO: A WINDOW ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA
An Annotated Interview with DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary
nearly three decades of further growth and the concept of a US MuslimBrotherhood becomes even more of an absurd overreach.
In other words, Elibiary would have us believe that, if the Muslim Brotherhoodoperates at all in America, it is of no consequence. What is truly an “overreach” is theidea that, because the US Muslim Brotherhood network once complained it did notenjoy as much Muslim support as it would like, the group amounts to nothing today. As has been discussed previously, most of the organizations the Brotherhood has identified as its own and affiliated entities still exist. And many of those associated withthese organizations back when Elibiary acknowledges they were Brotherhood groupsare still active in the Muslim American community.
For instance, a 2009 Hudson Institute study51 examined the Islamic Society ofNorth America, the largest Brotherhood front in the United States. It concluded, “All but one of the individuals listed on the ISNA founding documents remain active eitherin ISNA or one of its affiliated organizations.” The study also noted athat ISNA andother Brotherhood affiliates “continue to exist in their original form.” In addition, a 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation52 provided a similar expose by giving its readers “a rare look at [the] secretive [Muslim] Brotherhood in America.”
