Muslim Brotherhood terror designation is “delayed”

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This is a reflection of the influence the Obama holdovers and RINO trimmers plaguing the Trump administration. The thinking is that “the movement may well be tied to such bona fide terrorist groups as Hamas, its more legitimate political activities would complicate the terrorist designation process.” So what? Hitler was good to his dog; does that mean he was a good man? The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group and must be designated as such. “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win” — Ayn Rand.

Muslim Brotherhood groups here in America are actively working to destroy our freedoms and impose Islam: “The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand 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 and the hands of the believers…”

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How to deal with Muslim Brotherhood triggers Trump White House infighting

Legitimate political activity complicates designation

By Guy Taylor – The Washington Times, March 28, 2017:

The memo “explained that there’s not one monolithic Muslim Brotherhood,” according to one of the officials, who told The Washington Times that while the movement may well be tied to such bona fide terrorist groups as Hamas, its more legitimate political activities would complicate the terrorist designation process.

The Brotherhood has prominent political factions engaged — at least perfunctorily — in democracy in Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and several other Muslim-majority nations, and the State Department memo coincided with high-level pressure placed on the Trump administration from at least one of them.

 Senior diplomats from Jordan — a close U.S. ally — are believed to have weighed in heavily against the idea of adding the Brotherhood to the State Department’s foreign terrorist organizations list, said the official, because the movement’s political arm in Amman currently holds 16 Jordanian parliament seats.

But debate over the Brotherhood’s status remains biting in Washington, where hard-liners in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism say former President Barack Obama erred for years by failing to target the organization’s promotion of extremist ideology, and that President Trump is now badly fumbling a chance to rectify the situation.

Links to terror

 A small but vocal group of Republicans on Capitol Hill is pushing legislation that would direct the State Department to either designate the Brotherhood, as well as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, as terrorist organizations or justify why they are being kept off the list.

Sen. Ted Cruz, who reintroduced the Muslim Brotherhood portion of the legislation last month with a House version backed by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, says listing the movement would “codify needed reforms in America’s war against radical Islamic terrorism.”

“This potent threat to our civilization has intensified under the Obama administration due to the willful blindness of politically-correct policies that hamper our safety and security,” the Texas Republican said in a statement at the time.

“This bill would impose tough sanctions on a hateful group that has spread violence and spawned extremist movements throughout the Middle East,” added Mr. Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican.

While hard-line groups have rallied behind such assertions for years, the legislation also has a number of more moderate backers, including Qanta A. Ahmed, a Muslim British physician and author, who argues that the Brotherhood “birthed modern-day Islamism” as a “supremacist totalitarian ideology that seeks to undermine pluralist societies and impose hardline theocratic regimes.”

“Founded in Egypt in 1928 and with branches or affiliates in over 70 nations, the Muslim Brotherhood today masquerades as a legitimate Islamic institution and a benign democratic actor,” Ms. Ahmed argued in an article published this month by the National Review.

“It is neither,” she wrote, adding that the movement has “well-documented links to the financing of terrorism” and that “the United States should designate [it] as a foreign terrorist organization.”

Missing the nuances

Current and former State Department officials say those calling for the designation of a movement as broadly based as the Muslim Brotherhood are ignoring a host of complex factors that could undermine the designation’s legitimacy.

The Brotherhood, analysts say, exists as a vast and loosely knit political and social organization, with millions of followers and dozens of factions spread across the Muslim world.

Few question its promotion of Shariah or Islamic law, or that some of its followers have embraced terrorism — the most notable example being the Palestinian group Hamas, whose official charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas was put on the terror list in 1997 and has stayed there since.

But away from Hamas, many Brotherhood leaders were known during the 1970s to renounce violence in favor of politics. And recent decades saw factions of the movement embrace democracy to gain legitimacy in various Middle East nations, as well as to try to topple dictatorships.

Following the 2011 overthrow of Egypt’s authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood was — albeit briefly — democratically elected to power in Cairo before the nation’s military ousted the movement’s national leader, Mohammed Morsi.

While several Gulf Arab monarchies view the Brotherhood as an internal political threat, the movement’s factions are seen as part of the democratic landscape in other places, including Turkey, where many see the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a distant Brotherhood affiliate.

Creating problems

“If you’re talking about just broadly listing the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, you’re going to run quickly into a serious definitional problem,” says P.J. Crowley, who served as an assistant secretary of state for public affairs under President Obama.

“Certainly, if you look at Hamas, it’s part of the Muslim Brotherhood family,” Mr. Crowley told The Times. “But the Brotherhood is also a distant cousin of the AKP in Turkey, so once you start down that road, you get into an immediate problem that could create significant diplomatic issues. And what about Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia?

“The one thing that distinguishes the Muslim Brotherhood from groups like al Qaeda is that al Qaeda wants to blow up any democratic process, while the Brotherhood is theoretically prepared to participate in the democratic process,” he said.

A report by NPR recently maintained that the Brotherhood became popular among Middle East university activists in the 1960s and 1970s — and when some immigrated to the United States with student visas, they brought the movement’s ideology with them.

“They were helped even by our State Department,” Hossein Goal, who emigrated from Iran during the period, told NPR. “They gave them sanctuary to come here.”

It follows that members of the movement had significant roles in establishing mosques, Islamic schools and other U.S.-based Muslim organizations. NPR suggested that, over the years, the situation fueled debate over the whether the movement’s true aim was to participate in American life or to advance an Islamist political agenda in the U.S.

Seeking truth

One prominent U.S. Muslim organization says the push to get the Brotherhood listed as a terrorist organization today is a ruse. “We believe it is just a smokescreen for a witch hunt targeting the civil rights and civic participation of American Muslims,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“Sponsors and supporters of the designation have for many years falsely linked the majority of mainstream American Muslim organizations and leaders to the Muslim Brotherhood,” Mr. Hooper told The Times. “[This] will inevitably be used in a political campaign to attack those same groups and individuals, to marginalize the American Muslim community and to demonize Islam.”

One of the strongest advocates for designating the Brotherhood says that’s nonsense.

“It is a terrorist organization,” says Frank Gaffney, who heads the Center for Security Policy think tank in Washington. “It’s the leading edge in this country and elsewhere in the West for Shariah supremacism.”

Mr. Gaffney, who drew liberal ire during the Obama years for claiming the former president was secretly a Muslim, told The Times that U.S. policy has long been afflicted by thinking the “Brotherhood is part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

“We are in the fix we’re in today, 16 years since 9/11 and having basically lost two wars, not due to military inadequacies but due to this incoherent understanding, or nonunderstanding, of the nature of the enemy,” Mr. Gaffney said.

“One of the things that was most important about Donald Trump’s claim that he understood the nature of the enemy was that he seemed to recognize that it involves the Muslim Brotherhood — and, for that reason, he should designate it a terrorist organization.”

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vercingetorix
vercingetorix
7 years ago

“Hitler was good to his dog”, no he was not, because, after all, he had poisened his dog to death, just before he and wife (Eva Braun) killed themselves.
The Muslim Brotherhood is killing innocent & unsuspecting people in many countries, and it strives to make islam dominant in western countries. That makes it a terror-group beyond the shadow of a doubt!

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
7 years ago

It is interesting as we read ahead how numbers of people who kowtow to Islam in some way appear to increase daily. The President needs to come forward with a strong statement that Islam is the problem creating Islamic terrorism. A wimpy, RINO-inspired quote from GW Bush: “you’re either with us or with the terrorists” didn’t work then and doesn’t work now. What is happening now is worse than Pearl Harbor, the loss of Bataan, Corregidor, Guam and Wake, and the sinking of the USS Reuben James in October 1941, combined. We don’t identify or admit who the enemy is.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
7 years ago

If Trump backs down from this, he will have lost my, and millions of others support!

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
7 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

Don’t worry, he will get er done.
At least I hope so.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
7 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

I’m counting on it, if he fails on this though…..

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
7 years ago

BLAH…BLAH….BLAHHH.
The muzlum brotherhood is telling the USA not to designate the muzlum brotherhood a terrorist org. How sick is that?
Just do it and set it in stone. Do it now before it is to late.
Every day delayed the stronger their grip gets.

deweyv
deweyv
7 years ago

Trump lied to us or is a damn coward through with him

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
7 years ago

No more delays.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Republicans, stop behaving like democrats, you look stupid when you do that.

Max Rockatansky
Max Rockatansky
7 years ago

The saudis are probably spreading loads of money around Washington.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago

if thats true …. so what ??

livingengine
livingengine
7 years ago

Is there anybody else out there that doesn’t give a rat’s behind what Jordan, or Morocco think about anything, at any time? This is not leadership.

Pastor C
Pastor C
6 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Correct. This is not ‘leadership,’ it’s capitulation which leads to submission and subjugation. The future of America, at this point, looks ominous.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago

Ask Sadat what he thinks.

usn
usn
7 years ago

Running into new road blocks every day.

jim
jim
7 years ago

All you got do is ask yourself if,after throwing people out of the canoe one by one until you are the only one left is it ok for the crocodile to eat you. Effing dimwits.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
6 years ago

mom jeans allowed muslim zombie brotherhood to infiltrate all branches of government and the new administration will get rid of them as well.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Hitler was good to his dog; does that mean he was a good man?

Pamela’s question took me aback a bit. As disagreeable as it may be to some to read this, my reaction to the question was prompted by my realization that to all-too-many Moslems, Hitler is admirable primarily because he murdered so many Jews. The Koran itself seethes with enmity toward Jews, and many Moslems internalize that. Moreover, throughout the Moslem world, people care little about the philosophy of National Socialism or the Nazis’ way of appealing to historical resentments of Germans.

Hitler is admired in the Moslem world because of his slaughter of Jews. Hamas would like nothing more than to complete that mission. But don’t expect the United Nations- an international organization dedidcated to world peace- to criticize Hamas or any other Moslem group for that belief.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago

islam/sharia is spreading in US / elsewhere through persuasion / da’wah ……

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT !!

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

Of course it is. Because Congress has the blood of jihadi victims on their hands and callous disregard for American citizens in their hearts.

Pastor C
Pastor C
6 years ago

Islamic terrorism (civilizational jihad) is a cancer waging war against the body-politic of Judeo-Christian civilization. The longer we ‘delay’ in excising this malignant evil, at its core, the more likely this cancer metastasizes-which increases the likelihood of this patient (America) dying exponentially.

The Muslim Brotherhood has, clearly and repeatedly, stated its goal; our total destruction.

The real question is, “Why won’t we believe them?” Our stubborn and blind refusal to answer says infinitely-more about us than it does them.

Badger
Badger
6 years ago

“So what? Hitler was good to his dog; does that mean he was a good man?”

Actually he tried out his cyanide on his dog.

SFTOBEY
SFTOBEY
6 years ago

This act, as well as ending the demographic destruction of the United States should be the FIRST priority of President Trump. If not done, all of the good intentions about repealing ObamaCare and working on the tax code won’t mean a damned thing!

Not Always Here
Not Always Here
6 years ago

Trecherous Trump.

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