[J]ust as Islam is a religious faith and a system of worship, it is also patriotism and nationality. ...As such, Islam does not recognize geographic frontiers nor the distinctions of nationality or race, but considers all Muslims as one single nation and the Islamic homeland as one single territory, no matter how far-flung or remote the countries of which it is composed may be.
On the Doctrines of the Muslim Brothers, 1940s.