The Holy Land Foundation funneled $12.4 million to Hamas and the conviction made history.
The organization at the center of that network has chapters on every Florida state university campus today.
And DeSantis just designated it a terrorist organization – while it keeps recruiting your grandkids.
The Muslim Students Association Is a Muslim Brotherhood Front Group
The Muslim Students Association is not a typical college club.
The Muslim Brotherhood identified the MSA as one of its own organizations in a 1991 internal memo.
That memo outlined what the Brotherhood called a "Grand Jihad" – a mission to destroy America from within using front groups, social engineering, and influence operations on college campuses.
The MSA was built to be one of those front groups.
It currently operates on every Florida state university – Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of North Florida, and the University of Central Florida, among others.
The Wall Street Journal has reported the MSA was initially funded by the Muslim World League – a Saudi-based organization that promotes Sharia law worldwide.
According to Pew Research, the Muslim World League maintains deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The MSA also solicited donations for the Holy Land Foundation before the U.S. government shut it down in 2001 and designated it a terrorist organization.
The connections do not stop at documents and paper trails.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the man who masterminded the September 11 attacks as al-Qaeda's number three – was an MSA member at North Carolina A&T in 1986.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, who served as MSA national president in 1982 and 1983, is serving a 23-year federal prison sentence for fundraising for al-Qaeda.
Ali Asad Chandia, former MSA president at Montgomery College, was convicted in 2006 on three counts of material support to the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The Muslim Students Association is not a pattern. It is a pipeline.
Muslim Brotherhood Scholars Are Promoting Sharia Law at Florida State Universities
In early 2025, MSA chapters at both Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University invited Sheikh Mokhtar Maghraoui to speak to their students.
Sheikh Mokhtar served as a member of the Fiqh Council of North America – another organization with Brotherhood ties.
At least one former FCNA board member was listed as a conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case itself.
Sheikh Mokhtar teaches students about the "necessity and benefits" of abiding by Sharia law – divine governance over every aspect of life, including economics, family structure, and social order.
The FAU chapter also invited Dr. Ahmed Howeedy, a local physician completing a degree in Islamic Jurisprudence from a school in Amman, Jordan.
Islamic Jurisprudence is Fiqh – the human application of Sharia law.
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These are not abstract theological conversations.
These are structured, organized efforts to build the next generation of Sharia advocates on American campuses – using state university facilities, on American soil, in 2025.
DeSantis Designated the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization and Its Campus Arm Keeps Recruiting
In November 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury and State to designate Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
In January 2026, Treasury formally designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches as Specially Designated Global Terrorists for their material support of Hamas.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued his own designation of the Brotherhood at the state level.
And in the Senate, Ted Cruz has led the push for the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 – which describes the Brotherhood as "committed to the overthrow and destruction of America."
Representative Mario Díaz-Balart, who helped push the bill through the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the Brotherhood's influence "insidious" and a direct threat to U.S. national security.
But here is what nobody is saying out loud.
DeSantis designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization – and the Brotherhood's campus recruitment arm is still operating freely on universities he oversees.
Trump designated Brotherhood branches overseas.
The MSA chapters on Florida campuses have not been touched.
The University of South Florida case is the template for why this matters.
In 2003, USF Professor Sami Al-Arian was arrested by the FBI on multiple terrorism charges and later pleaded guilty to providing material support to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Al-Arian had used his university position as cover for years.
The Muslim Brotherhood built the Muslim Students Association in 1963 specifically for this purpose – and every Florida state university is still letting them run it.
Trump and DeSantis drew the line overseas.
Someone needs to draw it at the campus gate.
Sources:
- White House, "Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists," WhiteHouse.gov, November 24, 2025.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, "Treasury and State Departments Designate Muslim Brotherhood Branches as Terrorist Organizations," Treasury.gov, January 13, 2026.
- Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, "Díaz-Balart, Moskowitz Reintroduce the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025," MarioDiazBalart.house.gov, July 16, 2025.
- Center for Security Policy, "The Muslim Brotherhood's Muslim Students' Association: What Americans Need to Know," CenterForSecurityPolicy.org.
- Investigative Project on Terrorism, "Muslim Students Association Dossier," InvestigativeProject.org.
- FBI, "No Cash for Terror: Convictions Returned in Holy Land Case," FBI.gov, November 25, 2008.
- Javier Manjarres, "Muslim Brotherhood Terror Group Fans out Across Florida College Campuses," The Floridian, March 26, 2026.
