• Division of the North American Islamic Trust
• Founded by the Islamic Society of North America
• Has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

See also:   Muslim Brotherhood   Islamic Society of North America


A division of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Audio-Visual Center (AVC) was formally established in 1981 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) "to provide Muslims with Islamic audiovisual materials of the highest quality and attractiveness." (One of AVC's fellow NAIT divisions is the Islamic Book Service.)

In 1983 AVC set up the largest Muslim-owned commercial audiocassette-duplication facility in the United States. Specializing in Qur'anic albums and other Islamic-related recordings, this facility developed a production capacity of 1.2 million cassettes and CDs per year. AVC also cultivated a large capacity for video recording, production, and graphic arts, as well as an in-house printing facility to meet the needs of ISNA and its affiliates. Many of AVC's books and audio recordings promote Wahhabism, a most extreme form of Islam.

AVC was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document -- titled "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America" -- as one of the Brotherhood’s 29 likeminded "organizations of our friends" that shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation. These "friends" were identified by the Brotherhood as groups that could help teach Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands ... so that ... God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."

Also named in the Muslim Brotherhood document were:

• American Trust Publications
• Association of Muslim Social Scientists (of North America)
• Audio-Visual Center
• Baitul Mal Inc.
• Foundation for International Development
• International Institute of Islamic Thought
• Islamic Association for Palestine
• Islamic Book Service
• Islamic Centers Division
• Islamic Circle of North America
• Islamic Education Department
• Islamic Housing Cooperative
• Islamic Information Center (of America)
• Islamic Medical Association (of North America)
• Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
• Islamic Teaching Center
• ISNA Fiqh Committee (now known as the Fiqh Council of North America)
• ISNA Political Awareness Committee
• Malaysian Islamic Study Group
• Mercy International Association
• Muslim Arab Youth Association
• Muslim Businessmen Association
• Muslim Communities Association
• Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada
• Muslim Youth of North America
• North American Islamic Trust
• Occupied Land Fund (later known as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development)
• United Association for Studies and Research