Fiqh Council of North America

The Fiqh Council of North America (originally known as ISNA Fiqh Committee) is an association of Muslims who interpret Islamic law on the North American continent.

According to its website, the Fiqh Council traces its origins back to the Religious Affairs Committee of the then Muslim Student Association of the United States and Canada established in the 1960s. In 1980, after the founding of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Religious Affairs Committee evolved into the Fiqh Committee of the Islamic Society of North America, and was eventually transformed in to the Fiqh Council of North America in 1986.

Its 18 members issue religious rulings, resolve disputes, and answer questions relating to the Islamic faith. As outlined in its by-laws, the Council's primary objectives include: "To consider, from a Shari'ah perspective, and offer advice on specific undertakings, transactions, contracts, projects, or proposals, guaranteeing thereby that the dealings of North American Muslims fall within the parameters of what is permitted by the Shari'ah." The Council's opinions are not binding.

A document from May 1991 issued by the Muslim Brotherhood and titled “An Explanatory memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” listed the Fiqh Council of North America among the 29 like-minded organizations that shared the common goal of destroying America and Western civilization and ultimately aimet at turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation.

The Memorandum offers a roadmap for the “Enablement of Islamic in North America, meaning: establishment an effective and a stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base, aims at unifying and directing Muslims’ efforts, presents Islami as a civilization alternative, and supports the global Islamic State wherever it is.”

The authors of the document emphasized the importance of understanding fully the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America as responsible for waging a grand jihad that would ultimately destroy the Western civilization from within. They stressed that this struggle would succeed in “sabotaging its miserable house by their hands at the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

According to the Memorandum, the mission of the first generation of affiliated Muslim Brothers coming to the U.S. was indeed to create a practical framework for the gradual achievement of the Muslim Brotherhood objectives on American soil. Towards that goal, the authors of the document listed 29 organizations that were supposed to silently work together to accomplish that mission. Fiqh Association of North America appears on that document as “ISNA Fiqh Committee.”

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