Key Judgments
- [CONFIRMED] – On November 24, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14362, directing the State and Treasury Departments to evaluate Muslim Brotherhood chapters for Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist status. On January 13, 2026, the departments acted: Lebanon’s Muslim Brotherhood chapter was designated an FTO and SDGT; Egypt’s and Jordan’s chapters were designated SDGTs for material support to Hamas. This is the first concrete US terrorist-designation action ever taken against Muslim Brotherhood chapters – though it designates foreign chapters, not any U.S.-based organization.
- [CONFIRMED] – CAIR chapters in at least six states have promoted coordinated K-12 curriculum material reframing the September 11 attacks as a response to US foreign policy, according to trial and advocacy-group documentation reviewed for this series. Separately, a “Resistance Toolkit” published by Students for Justice in Palestine within days of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack characterized the massacre as legitimate “resistance” and announced intent to bring that framing to American college campuses.
- [CONFIRMED] – CAIR has financially sponsored Students for Justice in Palestine members disciplined under university codes of conduct, and publishes a “Hostile Campus” report labeling universities that discipline pro-Palestinian activists as engaged in what CAIR characterizes as suppression of “anti-genocide voices.”
- [CONFIRMED] – Esam Omeish – former Muslim American Society president and a two-decade leadership figure at Dar al-Hijrah, documented in Part II of this series – was appointed to a Virginia statewide immigration commission by then-Senator Tim Kaine in 2007 and resigned weeks later after 2000 remarks praising Palestinians who chose “the jihad way to liberation” surfaced publicly. This connection is established in Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser’s sworn 2018 congressional testimony, not asserted fresh by CommandEleven Intelligence.
- [ASSESSED] – The pattern across K-12 curriculum influence, university-level activism financing, and at least one documented instance of political appointment access illustrates a network operating simultaneously across educational and political institutions – though this dossier does not find evidence of a coordinated master plan executing these efforts in concert, and treats each channel as independently documented rather than centrally directed.
The January 2026 Designations: What Changed and What Didn’t
Executive Order 14362 marked a genuine first: no prior US administration had taken concrete terrorist-designation action against any Muslim Brotherhood entity as such. The January 13, 2026 designations – Lebanon’s chapter as FTO/SDGT, Egypt’s and Jordan’s chapters as SDGTs for Hamas-related material support – followed roughly seven weeks after the executive order’s signing.
- [Important nuance] This action designates foreign chapters. It does not designate any U.S.-based organization discussed in this series, and it does not, on its own, create new legal exposure for CAIR, MAS, ICNA, NAIT, or any other domestic entity examined in Parts I through III. What it does change is the evidentiary and political environment: a sitting administration has now formally found that specific Muslim Brotherhood chapters meet the legal standard for terrorist designation, based on material support to Hamas. Whether U.S.-based organizations have documented financial, personnel, or organizational ties to the newly designated foreign chapters – as opposed to to Hamas directly, addressed in Parts I and II – is, per this dossier’s review, not yet the subject of public government findings. This is the most consequential open question this series identifies for future monitoring.
Separately, an October 14, 2025 congressional letter from Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Elise Stefanik requested the Treasury Department investigate CAIR specifically for potential Hamas ties – a request CAIR responded to by disputing the constitutionality of its own HLF-trial unindicted co-conspirator status, a claim the Fifth Circuit’s actual ruling does not support, per the analysis in Part I of this series.
K-12: Shaping the Next Generation’s Curriculum
According to documentation reviewed in Senate testimony examined earlier in this series, CAIR chapters in at least six states have promoted curriculum materials reframing the September 11 attacks as a response to US foreign policy rather than an act of terrorism. This traces directly to strategic intent documented decades earlier: the 1993 Philadelphia Meeting transcripts, examined in Part I, record participants explicitly discussing the need for curricula that would prevent Muslim children raised in America from “growing up surrendering to the issue of peace with Jews.” Whether the current curriculum initiatives are a continuation of that specific 1993 planning or an independently arising parallel effort, this dossier cannot establish with certainty – the organizational and personnel continuity documented across this series makes the former plausible, but no direct evidentiary chain links the two beyond shared organizational sponsorship.
University Capture: SJP, NSJP, and the Post-October 7 Escalation
Students for Justice in Palestine traces its first chapter to Hatem Bazian, who also founded American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) in 2006 – the organization examined in Part II whose current Executive Director, Osama Abuirshaid, is a former Islamic Association for Palestine editor. AMP helped found the National Students for Justice in Palestine umbrella in 2010.
The escalation following October 7, 2023 illustrates the network functioning at full capacity: within days, SJP published a “Resistance Toolkit” characterizing the Hamas attack as legitimate resistance and committing to bring that framing to American campuses – a document later entered as a court exhibit in unrelated litigation. CAIR’s Executive Director Nihad Awad told an AMP convention audience weeks later that he was “happy” to see people “break the siege,” prompting a White House disavowal; Awad subsequently said his remarks were “taken out of context.” CAIR has since financially sponsored SJP members disciplined under university conduct codes and published a recurring “Hostile Campus” report characterizing university disciplinary actions against pro-Palestinian activists as a form of institutional bias.
- [DATA DEFICIT] – This dossier does not characterize all SJP or NSJP campus activity as centrally directed by CAIR or AMP leadership. The organizational founding connections and financial sponsorship documented above are established facts; individual chapter conduct varies, and this dossier does not attribute every local chapter’s actions to national leadership without direct evidence.
The Mosque and Charity Network
Beyond Dar al-Hijrah, examined in Part II, the broader network includes prominent humanitarian organizations whose leadership has documented Muslim Brotherhood affiliations. Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) – the largest Muslim charity in the United States and a USAID partner – has drawn scrutiny over board chairman Khaled Lamada’s documented social-media associations with Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood figures, including a 2015 photograph showing Lamada displaying a Muslim Brotherhood salute alongside exiled Brotherhood-linked figures. The parent organization, Islamic Relief Worldwide, has been designated a terror-linked entity by the United Arab Emirates, barred from refugee work in Bangladesh over radicalization concerns, and refused banking service by Credit Suisse, HSBC, and UBS. IRUSA disputes these characterizations.
Political Access
The clearest documented case of political access remains the Omeish-Kaine connection: a Brotherhood-linked organizational leader appointed to a state government commission by a sitting US Senator, who resigned within weeks once the appointee’s public record of pro-jihad statements surfaced. This dossier treats that case as established by sworn congressional testimony, not as an isolated allegation.
A second, less individually dramatic but broader pattern involves the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), whose leadership has maintained documented contact with Turkish AKP-linked organizations in the United States (MUSAID USA, the Turkish American National Steering Committee) and traveled to Ankara in 2018 to congratulate President Erdogan following an election the Committee to Protect Journalists that year characterized Turkey, under his government, as having jailed more journalists than any other country. CAIR’s Southern California chapter head has separately praised Erdogan’s government publicly.
- [DATA DEFICIT] – This dossier does not find evidence that either MUSAID USA or the Turkish American National Steering Committee registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act despite lobbying activity connected to Turkish government interests – a gap flagged in congressional-adjacent reporting but not, to this dossier’s knowledge, the subject of a formal enforcement action.
Series Continuity
Part V closes this series with a synthesis of Parts I through IV and connects this body of evidence directly to CommandEleven Intelligence’s ongoing US Domestic Threat Landscape series, specifically its planned Islamist extremism component.
Sourcing Base (Confidence-Tiered, with Links)
CONFIRMED – Primary Record & Official Action:
- US Department of State/Treasury, designation actions of Jan. 13, 2026 (Lebanese, Egyptian, Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood chapters)
- Executive Order 14362, Federal Register, filed Nov. 28, 2025 (signed Nov. 24, 2025)
- Lara L. Burns, Written Testimony, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Aug. 5, 2026 (K-12 curriculum, Cotton-Stefanik letter, SJP/AMP post-October 7 conduct)
- M. Zuhdi Jasser, Written Testimony, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, July 11, 2018 (Omeish/Kaine appointment; IRUSA/Lamada photographic evidence; USCMO/Turkey contacts)
- “Day of Resistance Toolkit,” Exhibit A, Parizer v. AJP Educational Foundation Inc., 1:24-cv-00724 (E.D. Va. May 1, 2024)
ASSESSED – Credible Secondary Reporting:
- ADL Center on Extremism, “Students for Justice in Palestine Endorses Terrorism and ‘Dismantling Zionism'”
- Peter Baker, “White House Disavows Islamic Group After Oct 7 Remarks,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 2023
- Committee to Protect Journalists, 2017 annual prison census (Turkey ranking)
Excluded from this dossier: Any claim that current U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations have direct, documented financial or organizational ties to the specific foreign chapters designated under EO 14362 in January 2026. No public government finding to that effect exists as of this writing; this dossier flags the question rather than answering it.
The Muslim Brotherhood Series
- The Conspiracy Documented – Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood’s American Front
- The Affiliate Network – Dar al-Hijrah, CAIR, and the American Brotherhood’s Web
- Financial Infrastructure & Legal Obstruction – How the Network Funds and Defends Itself
- Institutional Capture – Mosques, Classrooms, Campuses, and Congress
- What Four Decades of Evidence Adds Up To
