Posted on 02/10/2017 6:34:30 PM PST by markomalley
President Trump may be ready to intensify his antagonism of Muslims. Reports suggest that the White House is considering an executive order directing the State Department to assess whether the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Some Republicans, including Trump’s erstwhile rival Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), have been pushing for this for a long time, and it will have ramifications far beyond the Middle East, where the group primarily operates. The result is likely to be intimidation, harassment and smears of Muslim and Arab groups here in the United States.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 and sought to instill Islamic values into everyday life. It later evolved into a popular social and political organization and became Egypt’s leading opposition party. It has since inspired similar movements in countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, Jordan and Morocco. The Brotherhood disavowed violence long ago, and noted scholars have emphasized that it has fostered democratization and moderation in the Middle East. Two previous U.S. administrations concluded that it does not engage in terrorism, as did a recent report by the British government.
Despite this overwhelming evidence, some have suggested that the Brotherhood is waging a civilizational jihad and intends to destroy the West with the support of civic and political organizations in the United States. These are unfounded conspiracy theories, though: The Brotherhood doesn’t have a known presence in the U.S., most Muslim Americans know very little about it and no organization active in the U.S. has been shown to have any connection to it.
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Just not enough.
Are you sure you didn’t write this piece?
When Egypt finds one they get executed.... LOL liberals are on the wrong side of the issues. This article is what it looks like to see the fall of the Democratic Party.
TFBMFs
This is what they call journalism. An opinion piece telling us what to think about a terrorist organization that supported Hitler in WWII.
CAIR will be next.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization.
Any muslim that supports them supports Islamic supremacy, which is antithetical to being a loyal American.
If they don’t like it, they should leave.
The Brotherhood doesn’t have a known presence in the U.S.
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This is a flat out lie.
Funny. I don’t remember anyone worrying that labeling Tea Partier a terrorist group would hurt all Tea Partiers.
Why, are all American Muslims terrorist?
Uhhhhhhh, yes. That "some" is the mooselimb brothahood.
Maybe you don’t want to be called a terrorist group, don’t act like one.
If we don’t let Muslims into the country, they will kill us.
Arjun Singh Sethi
He’s 36 years old and an obviously indoctrinated product of eastern elite schools.
Stuff it!
There was a lovely Muslim woman on Maria B’s show today, very gentle and really shocked at the behavior of liberals. But she really came alive when Maria mentioned making the MB a terrorist organization. She was so happy. No, I don’t think it will cause trouble with the Muslim community, at least not the communities that are not harboring terrorists
I need a new Tag Line....
Should I add a,
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Cuckooqiyya: Is an islamic political tenet that allows muslims to tell a lie to a non-muslim that is such a baldfaced cuckoo lie that the non-muslim literally laughs his head off. This saves wear and tear on their swords.
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