Posted on 11/04/2015 9:35:48 AM PST by Isara
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is trying to force the Obama administration's hand to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.
Along with Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), the presidential hopeful on Tuesday introduced legislation calling on the Obama administration to designate the Islamist political group as a foreign terrorist organization.
The bill, called the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, comes after a string of evidence suggesting the group supports terrorism, Cruz said, and after similar moves from a handful of foreign countries in recent years.
"As this bill details, the Brotherhood's stated goal is to wage violent jihad against its enemies, and our legislation is a reality check that the United States is on that list as well," Cruz said in a statement Wednesday.
The Obama administration has listed multiple members of the group on its terror list, thereby imposing special restrictions preventing Americans from dealing with them.
"Now we can reject the fantasy that their parent institution is a political entity that is somehow separate from these violent activities," Cruz added.
The Muslim Brotherhood in recent years has been a target of conservatives, who allege that the organization is a breeding ground for radical Islam.
In 2014, former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) spearheaded a similar effort to label the group a terrorist organization, though it ultimately failed to reach President Obama's desk. Bachmann had previously alleged that longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had links to the organization - an allegation that was widely condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
The legislation would not automatically trigger the labeling of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
Instead, it would express a "sense of Congress" that the group meets the criteria, and have the State Department explain within 60 days whether or not it agrees. If the State Department decided against listing the Muslim Brotherhood, it would have to provide a "detailed justification as to which criteria have not been met," the bill states.
In the legislation, Cruz and Diaz-Balart noted that Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other nations have described the group as a terrorist organization over the last four decades.
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was popularly elected following the country's revolution in 2012, and then deposed by a military coup the following year.
I thought it already was. I know in most countries around the world they are on the list. But since we have been infiltrated by them I suppose their not being on the list should be no surprise.
Cruz Control....keep going Ted!
Throw in Muslims for America, La Raza, MS 13, Los Solidos, Mexican Mafia, all the Drug Cartels, to include their associates, and every/any other hispanic gang and we’ll be good to go.
The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to the White House
Keep telling the truth, Ted!
>>Go, Senator Cruz, GO!
Bump that.
I will enjoy seeing who votes AGAINST this....
Don’t forget CAIR.
Marko.
Bachmann was widely condemned for making the allegation - the allegation itself was carefully left unverified, lest lawmakers be forced to take uncomfortable actions that might unleash the Great MAD Threats so delicately held at bay in DC.
A sneaky way to criminalize the president?
obama took them off the list. One of the first things he did when he first took office.
Wait....it was CAIR he took off.
Love it!
Simply read the stated plan and goals in the MB’s “The Global Project for Palestine” aka “The Project”
(http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=853 ) tells the story for anyone capable of cognizant thought:
“...In 1982, MB adopted a 14-page strategic plan known as “The Global Project for Palestine,” which outlined a 12-point strategy to establish an Islamic government on earth, Departing from standard Islamist rhetoric (i.e., Death to America! Death to Israel!), this Project represented a flexible, multi-phased, long-term plan for a cultural invasion of the West. Calling for the utilization of multiple tactics including immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy, and outright terrorism; the Project has served, since its drafting, as the Muslim Brotherhood master plan." The MB has subsequently spawned 29 “like minded organizations” which are infiltrating the USA in culture, on college and university campuses and in government and politics.
Re: “...Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood...deposed by a military coup the following year.”
Egyptian President Morsi had subverted Egypt’s Judicial and Legislative branches of government and thus their constitution, which is modeled after that of the USA. The Military officers upheld their oath of office in defending Egypt “...from all enemies foreign and domestic...” by overthrowing Morsi.
CAIR was listed among organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood’s American network. Its founders emerged from a separate Islamic organization that two courts have found played a supporting role for the terrorist group Hamas.....They are the same damn thing.
The Muslim Brotherhood subgroup, C.A.I.R., operates under obviously false pretense of being a “civil rights” organization, with offices across the U.S. The are nothing but a group of thugs threatening anyone who wants to look honestly at Islam and the Koran and the atrocities perpetrated in the name of Islam and the incite to hate and murder. C.A.I.R. fool useful idiots who recklessly and blindly cling to the delusional assumption that all people deep down inside want “kumbayah.” Islamic Kumbayah happens only when all non-Muslims are permanently put out of commission.
Oh No , they would have to arrest almost everyone at the White House
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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