An offshoot of the Southeast Asian Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) has been described by the Investigative Project on Terrorism as an “ideological cousin” of the Muslim Brotherhood. Following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left more than 1,200 Israeli civilians dead, ICNA blamed Israel for the violence while omitting mention of Hamas entirely. In 2010, ICNA published a handbook that quotes the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and endorses violent jihad against so-called “occupiers” of Muslim land, as well as the institution of Sharia law. The handbook has since been removed from ICNA’s website.