Posted on 07/11/2019 11:51:44 PM PDT by robowombat
President Trump would have designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization right after his inauguration in 2017, but has faced strong opposition from the Swamp
JULY 12, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM
This latest push for the designation appears to be the result of Trump’s recent meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. “The president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern, and this designation is working its way through the internal process,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in May.
Be sure to watch the video at the end where Muslim Brotherhood leaders publicly admit that their holy grail, with the assistance of their North American and European front groups such as CAIR, is the overthrow of the U.S. government and establishment of a global caliphate.
FortuneBut do the actions of this nearly century-old group support such a designation? The Washington establishment says “no.”
The criteria to designate an organization as a foreign terrorist organization requires that it engage in terrorist activity and that such activity “threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.”
The biggest obstacle in meeting these criteria is that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a singular, cohesive body. There are some offshoots, such as Hamas in the Palestinian territories, that have in fact engaged in acts of terror. Hamas, and a handful of others, including two splinter groups from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, are already designated terrorist groups.
The Trump administration has not clarified whether its designation would apply to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood or the broader network across the region. But the reason that el-Sisi, and some of his allies in countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would want the designation is clear: they see the group as a threat.
Following the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Mohamed Morsi became the country’s leader and the political party associated with the Muslim Brotherhood won nearly half of the seats in parliament. El-Sisi, a former general, helped lead a coup in 2013 to depose Morsi and has since overseen the arrest of thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Under his rule, el-Sisi has sought to pressure the U.S. and the U.K. to designate the group a terrorist organization, but they have repeatedly refused. The Bush and Obama administrations found a lack of evidence to support the designation. A December 2015 review by the British government came to a similar conclusion.
And the so-called Swamp “experts” are in agreement:
William McCants, a scholar of militant Islamism at the Brookings Institution, wrote back in 2017 that “the Brotherhood as a whole, in several different respects, does not meet the criteria for designation under the statute. That’s why, despite pressure from governments like Egypt and the UAE over a protracted period of time, it has not been designated to date under any of the previous three administrations.”
Daniel Benjamin, the former coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department, agrees. “State looked at this in 2017-2018 and concluded there was no legal basis for designation. That continues to be true. The admin is again, as with the IRGC move, warping the process for political purposes. It’s malpractice and ultimately dangerous,” he wrote on Twitter.
“We can disagree on whether the group is bad, authoritarian, illiberal…but on the specific issue of whether they meet the criteria for being an FTO, a foreign terrorist organization, the argument and the evidence simply aren’t there,” said Brookings senior fellow Shadi Hamid.
Washington Post columnist who was killed in the Saudi embassy, Jamal Khashoggi, a Muslim Brotherhood associate himself, put it in even starker terms in a piece he wrote just months before his murder: “The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes.”
It was good when the Egyptian Military gave MoBro the slapdown.
The muslim brotherhood assassinated Anwar Sadat.
Muslim Brotherhood propagandists:
scholar of militant Islamism at the Brookings Institution
coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department,
Brookings senior fellow
Washington Post columnist
They won’t even treat Communism like Communism anymore (especially now that it has completely taken over the Demonrat party, Big Ed, the pop culture, Derp State, et al).
This article has a lot of warning signs for fake news. What they’ve done is just add “the swamp stopped Trump” to a story that is currently in the news.
The enemies that were at the gate are now inside
The embedded and leftover Obama bureaucrats who are MB-friendly, especially those in the US Intel Community, need to get out!!
When Code Pink and Bill Ayers and Google and Obama [Valerie Jarrett] and the US State dept tried to hand over Egypt to the muslim brotherhood
the NY TIMES, Washington Post etc. NEVER ONCE mentioned that the muslim brotherhood assassinated Anwar Sadat.
They did for a while. Then the Egyptian People kicked them out and took their Country back. While they were in power, they did a lot of damage. A lot of Christian Churches were burned. A lot of Christians were murdered.
Exactly.
In another age not that long a ago was a Congress of the United States. It knew that its first purpose was defense of the United States. The United States could really use a Congress once again.
Yesterday, the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, Nancy Pelosi,
instructed illegal aliens nationwide how to avoid Ice raids.
Kamala Harris: Immigration Raids Are 'A Crime Against Humanity'
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/kamala-harris-immigration-raids-are-crime-against-humanity
Booker: Trump "Had The Media" Write About Migrant Caravans As If They Were A Threat To U.S.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/11/booker_trump_had_the_media_write_about_migrant_caravans_as_if_they_were_a_threat_to_us.html
Thanks robowombat.
Trump critics are again warping the facts just to smear POTUS. Surely both Bush and Obama investigated the facts and the law before coming to their conclusion. Trump should be given the same prerogative to look into the matter. Nothing has been decided, as the article clearly states. And yet they start the story with a claim that "he would have" done it right after his inauguration but they don't support this assertion. And the quote that he is 'warping the process' is likely unsubstantiated. His critics continually jump the gun and exaggerate.
Congress has abdicated to the Executive. Nearly every law written, agency of government, initiative and program created by an act of Congress relies on the Executive to administer. Congress comes in after the fact with “oversight” but then only when some scandal comes to light or when one party uses something as advantage over the other. And even in their oversight capacity, they generally do nothing to improve the process or punish bad actors. Oversight almost never results in changes to the law or reduction or reallocation of funding. The woman who rubber-stamped Mohammed Atta’s visa renewal (without him even asking for a renewal) was given a promotion. Lois Lerner was allowed to retire. Abuse at the DOJ & FBI goes unpunished even with the GOP in charge of Congress. They are do nothing. And maybe we are better off for it at the moment because Congress especially the House is designed around political parties and electioneering not governing. But ultimately we need a Congress that works for the best interests of the country, not the best interests of the party, fundraising and elections.
<>But ultimately we need a Congress that works for the best interests of the country, not the best interests of the party, fundraising and elections.<>
See what Madison had to say about factions in Federalist 10.
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