A Master of Magic

Dear Florida: Did you know the daughter of a former U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader is operating on your soil and collecting school voucher dollars for her Islamic schools? Magda Elkadi Saleh sits at the center of Tampa’s Islamic school network. She has founded and led institutions including the American Youth Academy (the rebranded continuation of the Islamic Academy of Florida), Universal Academy of Florida, and Bayaan Academy. These schools now participate in Florida’s school-choice voucher programs - routing public education dollars into the first stage of a parallel Islamic infrastructure. Her father, Ahmed Elkadi, was the national leader (Mas’ul) of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood from 1984 to 1994. He was instrumental in building the movement’s American infrastructure, co-founding the Muslim American Society, and holding leadership positions including President of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which holds title to hundreds of mosques and Islamic properties nationwide as waqf. Her maternal grandfather, Mahmoud Abu-Saud, worked closely with Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna in Egypt and later settled in Florida. Saleh has also served in leadership roles with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and works with CAIR-Florida - the same organization Governor DeSantis designated (along with the Brotherhood) under state law citing Holy Land Foundation records. While Florida has labeled the Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist-linked entities, her network continues to expand with public legitimacy and public dollars: schools shaping the next generation, professional associations building internal referral systems, and a documented institutional footprint in Tampa. This is not a secret, I went to Congress and exposed this - but it seems no one in your state cares!? Tampa local leaders even honored her! You can not make this up! This is the multigenerational Brotherhood-linked infrastructure operating in plain sight in a red state, funded in part by Florida taxpayers. Residents in Pinellas already showed up against a single mosque expansion. The question is when Florida will investigate the operator whose family built the larger system. SEE HERE: rairfoundation.com/florida-a…