Posted on 11/23/2025 5:26:06 AM PST by DFG
President Donald Trump told Just the News on Sunday morning that he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, striking a blow against a group long blamed for destabilizing the Middle East and radicalizing young Muslims.
"It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms," Trump said. "Final documents are being drawn."
The president's announcement came just days after Just the News published a long expose on the Muslim Brotherhood's activities and growing concerns inside the Trump administration. Trump has been considering the move since his first administration.
The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamist group founded nearly a century ago in Egypt but with chapters, parties, and affiliated movements around the world.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week designated the MB and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as being “foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations.” CAIR has denied the label and sued the Texas government. According to Politico, "CAIR says that proclamation, which bars its members from buying land in Texas, violates its members’ constitutional property and free speech rights."
Republicans in the House and the Senate, along with some Democrats, have been pushing the State Department to designate the Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated in August that the designation of the MB as a foreign terrorist organization was “in the works” but that the process was a lengthy and careful one, including because the MB has numerous branches and affiliates to examine individually.
A number of Middle Eastern countries have already taken action against the MB, with Egypt and Jordan banning the group and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain labeling it a terrorist organization.
The MB pushed back against the potential terrorism label during the first Trump administration, arguing in 2019 that “we will remain [...] steadfast in our work in accordance with our moderate and peaceful thinking in what we believe to be right, for honest and constructive cooperation, to serve the communities in which we live and humanity as a whole.”
"The Muslim Brotherhood will remain stronger — through God's grace and power — than any decision,” the MB added at that time. The MB’s motto is "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
The Brotherhood did not respond to a request for comment sent to them through their official English language website.
Gov. Abbott of Texas revealed on Tuesday that he had designated both the MB and CAIR as foreign terrorist groups — something that the Trump Administration has not yet done.
“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world.’ The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable,” Abbott said.
“Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas.”
The proclamation by Abbott argued that the MB “provides support to localized branches in countries and territories throughout the world, including groups that conduct terrorism internationally” and that the activities of MB branches have been “limited or prohibited” by other governments due to the MB “engaging in terrorism or attempting to destabilize those countries.”
CAIR responded by claiming they were being defamed and by attacking Abbott. “Greg Abbott is an 'Israel First' politician who has spent months stoking anti-Muslim hysteria to smear American Muslims critical of the Israeli government,” CAIR’s national organization said in a press release.
“By defaming another prominent American Muslim institution with debunked conspiracy theories and made-up quotes, Mr. Abbott has once again shown that his top priority is advancing anti-Muslim bigotry, not serving the people of Texas,” the group added.
Criminal investigations launched Abbott’s office then announced on Thursday that the governor had directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to “launch criminal investigations” into CAIR and the MB.
“The goal is to identify, disrupt, and eradicate terrorist organizations engaged in criminal activities in Texas," Abbott said. “We will target threats of violence, intimidation, and harassment of our citizens. We will also focus on individuals or groups who unlawfully impose Sharia law—which violates the Texas Constitution and state statutes."
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other Republican Senate co-sponsors introduced a bill in July which would call for the MB to be designated as a foreign terrorist organization, or FTO.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, and it provides support to Muslim Brotherhood branches that are terrorist organizations. One of those branches is Hamas, which on October 7 committed the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which included the murder and kidnapping of at least 53 Americans,” Cruz said this summer.
“They are committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests. American allies in the Middle East and Europe have already labeled the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and the United States should do the same, and do so expeditiously,” Cruz said.
Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Fla., and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., reintroduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 in July, arguing that it “implements a new modernized strategy for designating the global Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.”
“The global Muslim Brotherhood has numerous regional branches, including terrorist organizations such as Hamas, and spreads violence and instability throughout the Middle East,” Díaz-Balart said. “For this reason, it is crucial to U.S. national security interests that we prohibit U.S. dollars from enabling the Muslim Brotherhood’s dangerous activities, and that we ensure Muslim Brotherhood members are blocked from entering the United States.”
Moskowitz argued that “the Muslim Brotherhood has a documented history of promoting terrorism against the United States, our allies, and our society.”
The Brotherhood was founded by Sunni imam Hassan al-Banna in Egypt in 1928, with the aim of establishing an Islamic state — a caliphate — which would be governed by sharia law. Sayyid Qutb — a major thinker for and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s — was an Egyptian revolutionary whose promotion of jihad is believed to have inspired more modern jihadists such as Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The MB helped inspire many of the terrorist offshoots which would emerge in the ensuing decades. Egyptian Islamic Jihad — which counted Zawahiri as one of its leaders prior to him merging his faction with al-Qaeda — was active in the 1970s, prior to the Soviet invasion and U.S. intervention, and the group successfully assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. The Islamic Group was another jihadist group formed in Egypt in the 1970s. Palestinian Islamic Jihad was formed in Gaza in 1979 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it has been active in attacking Israel ever since.
Mohamed Morsi — the leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood — was soon elected president of Egypt after Hosni Mubarak’s February 2011 resignation. Morsi served in the role from June 2012 until July 2013. Following large-scale protests in June 2013, the Egyptian military — led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — removed Morsi from power. Sisi is the current ruler of Egypt.
Hamas is also considered to be a branch of the MB, and other Muslim groups and organizations are closely linked to the brotherhood.
This year in March, on the anniversary of its founding, the Brotherhood released a statement arguing that “throughout its long journey since its founding by the martyred Imam Hassan al-Banna (may God have mercy on him), the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ group has given great importance to the issue of Palestine, which has remained and will remain the central issue of the nation” and that the MB “has defined its approach to dealing with it by mobilizing all possible energies to support its resistance and defend its sanctities.”
The Free Press published a story this summer on “How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe.” The article cited a leaked report by the French Ministry of the Interior which concluded that “the Brotherhood’s strategy is to install a form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities.”
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy — which says it is “committed to fighting antisemitism on the battlefield of ideas” — has released multiple reports warning about the Brotherhood.
“The Muslim Brotherhood appears to be the intellectual inspiration behind all Islamist groups (and their jihadist offshoots) that operate today, such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hamas,” the institute assessed in 2023. “Sunni jihadist groups are grounded in the firm ideological roots that key MB ideologues pioneered in the last century.”
The institute released another report in November titled, “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into the United States.”
“This comprehensive study exposes and examines the Muslim Brotherhood’s comprehensive, multigenerational strategic campaign to transform Western society (especially in the United States) from within, through what its own internal documents describe as ‘civilizational struggle’ (jihad),” the report this month contended. “Unlike conventional terrorist threats, this strategy exploits democratic freedoms and institutions to advance fundamentally anti-democratic objectives, representing a sophisticated form of nonviolent extremism targeting Western democracies.”
The conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank released an October report on “Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood” and argued that “a more systematic approach to the Brotherhood is long overdue.”
“The ideas that animate Hamas are not unique; they are part of the Brotherhood’s common heritage. These ideas have also spread far beyond the Brotherhood, animating al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and many other lethal organizations. The spectacular violence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ensures a forceful response from the United States and other victims,” FDD said. “At the same time, their attacks contribute to a certain complacency regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, whose branches in the United States and Europe reject the use of violence within their host countries.”
The think tank added: “Yet globally, the Brotherhood is a gateway to terrorism, infusing members with the religious doctrines and hatred that justify violence. The most determined of these members then form splinter groups or migrate individually to terrorist organizations.”
FDD released a memo this month which “maps out the funding, leadership, and history of the Brotherhood’s activity in six countries in the Middle East and serves as a starting point for determining which branches merit U.S. designation under existing terrorism authorities.” FDD said their research showed why the U.S. “should designate the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”
“...he will designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization...”
I don’t think he can. As long as islam is recognized as a religion it pretty much puts them into a protected status even though they are more like a sect than an organized religion. And I can promise you that a lot, if not all, of the muslim mosques in the US are funneling money into terrorist organizations globally without using the name. Such organizations can include government and on line funding, the exploiting of charities, criminal activities and illicit financial networks like hawala. And these are many of those that work outside the normal networks but parallel to the system and is used for money laundering and financing.
wy69
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Nope.
gw made these idiots above reproach and a generation later we're contending with the actual islamization of America, including both codifying the silencing of Church bells and authorizing mooslim calls to prayer over loudspeakers in some locales. zero facilitated the invasion while hypocritically taking out terror extremists via drones and now Texas is combatting sharia law in its suburbs independent of the feds. The long game is patently obvious.
Thank God for Gov. Abbott & POTUS.
That stated, I want MORE. But I can appreciate what appears to be a strategy...if it comes to fruition in a manner that isn't reversible by a stroke of a dem pen the next time they hold the WH.
Muslim Brotherhood was started before WWII. They were behind the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He brought Muslim forces to back the Nazi’s and he helped design some of the worst extermination camps.
International Media, will never tell the public “these little dirty details”.
When we label the Muslim Brotherhood, Erdogan, Turkish Dictator, who sees himself the next Sultan of the Middle East; Erdoo will cry and Lie.
The Egyptian President, Sisi, wants no part of the Muslim Brotherhood. (look what happened to the MB president Morsi that Obozo installed? He was killed.) Sisi new, had seen and understands what the Muslim Brotherhood actually does. MB are a very old organization, that brings nothing but Lies, Chaos, Murder; and destroys all civilization. Note: Egyptians are not Arabs, although most speak Arabic. Egyptians are an ancient people, much older than Islam.
Exactly how does having a religious component of an organization give them protected status?
Or for that matter, how does any “religion” get protected status?
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
There will be a day when every group, legit or not, will do anything they can to use the first amendment like this. Another example is satanism. As long as they don’t cross over into current law violations like the obvious, murder, rape, bank robbery, the normal ones, they are within their rights to send their money anywhere they want as a religion. And as long as they funnel to organizations like those that funnel overseas they are within their rights. But even calling the MBH a terrorist organization while they are founding and funding many of the mosques in the US is cockeyed but somehow legal. Or overlooked.
wy69
Trump is going to be really conflicted if this NY Post article is true. DJT seems to have adopted the Qataris as his homeboys lately.
Qatar pumping tens of billions into universities to help Muslim Brotherhood weaken US, ‘destroy democracy’
Qatar pumping tens of billions into universities to help Muslim Brotherhood weaken US, ‘destroy democracy’
The question is, who is keeping their enemies even closer?
Am I the only person here who remembers that the MB assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981? That alone should tell you it’s a terrorist organization.
Am I the only person here who remembers that the MB assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981? That alone should tell you it’s a terrorist organization.
Sadat let some of them out of prison because the leftists were threatening his power; he thought that the two factions would weaken each other at little risk, and boy was he wrong about that. The MB had supposedly tried to assassinate Nasser in the 1950s.
You are correct. Looking back, I think my response was poorly composed. That’s my bad. To try to clarify what I meant, I was trying to say that the First does not protect any religion’s illegal activities. Anyone can worship as they please but they can’t terrorize their neighbors and use their religion as an excuse.
I’ve not been such a good wordsmith since the stroke.
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