The Lie:

• The Muslim Brotherhood is a credible political and social movement that can be trusted with public and donor funds.

The Truth:

• The Muslim Brotherhood stole enormous Gaza aid funds — including a $500 million campaign exposed by Hamas itself — and continues to spread the radical anti-Western ideology that inspired Hamas, al-Qaeda, and other extremist groups.

Background

• The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 and operates today as a global Islamist network.
• Its ideology has influenced Hamas, al-Qaeda, and other extremist movements.
• Brotherhood-linked figures and organizations have repeatedly been accused — including by Hamas — of diverting or exploiting humanitarian funds.

Truth Explained

• The Muslim Brotherhood stole roughly $500 million in “Gaza donations” through Waqf al-Ummah, a Turkey-based Brotherhood charity. Arab media reports confirmed that the group ran a massive fundraising drive for Gaza — and then “failed to deliver these funds to their rightful recipients.”
  https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-874233
  

• Hamas itself exposed the scandal after investigating it in January 2024 — publicly disavowing Waqf al-Ummah. Hamas issued a formal statement titled “exposing and disavowing certain institutions and individuals,” banning all dealings with the charity and declaring it exploited the crisis “to collect large sums of money” that never reached Gaza civilians.
  https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-874233
  
•  Hamas’s outrage is performative. The Muslim Brotherhood’s $500 million theft simply revealed a corrupt fundraising ecosystem that both groups have relied on for years — the same ideological network, the same opaque money channels, and the same pattern of exploiting Gaza for political and financial gain.
  https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-874233
  
• Arab researcher Maher Farghali confirmed this is part of a recurring Muslim Brotherhood pattern: exploiting Gaza for cash.
  Farghali noted it is “typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to exploit Gaza and Palestine for money,” but the scale of this theft — and Hamas’s anger — made it uniquely explosive. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-874233
  
• The scandal is not an exception — it fits decades of evidence showing Brotherhood networks diverting funds, exploiting Gaza, and promoting the same extremist, anti-Western ideology that produced Hamas, al-Qaeda, and other groups. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/muslim-brotherhood-organizational-crisis-and-declining-capabilities
  
• This pattern extends into Western networks connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. A Times of Israel analysis notes that CAIR’s founders “emerged from the ashes of US-based Hamas fundraising entities” — and Hamas formally identifies itself as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Together, these sources show that CAIR’s origins sit inside the same ideological and organizational ecosystem, with the same opaque fundraising structures seen across the Brotherhood. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-muslim-brotherhood-goes-to-city-hall/, https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/10/27/patient-extremism-the-many-faces-of-the-muslim-brotherhood/
  
• U.S. officials are already scrutinizing Brotherhood-linked organizations.
  In August 2025, Sen. Tom Cotton formally requested an IRS investigation into CAIR’s nonprofit status due to “deep ties to terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.” https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-to-long-investigate-cair-for-ties-to-terrorists
  

Quotes

• “It took advantage of the situation in Gaza to collect large sums of money… but failed to deliver these funds to their rightful recipients.” — Hamas statement, Jan 2024 (Jerusalem Post)
• “It is typical of the Muslim Brotherhood to exploit Gaza and Palestine for money.” — Researcher Maher Farghali (Jerusalem Post)
• “Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right… It should not subsidize organizations with links to terrorism.” — Sen. Tom Cotton on CAIR, Aug 2025 (U.S. Senate letter)
  

Takeaway:

The Muslim Brotherhood’s $500 million Gaza theft is not an isolated scandal — it exposes a global pattern of fraud, extremism, and exploitation that harms Palestinians while enriching a corrupt ideological network.