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 Muslim Brotherhood was behind most of the Islamist groups in America. In Cold War terms think of the Brotherhood as the Communist Party. Designating the MB can potentially be used to nuke the entire infrastructure of the ‘green’ part of the Red-Green line especially when you consider the legal impact of the FTO designation.
This is what some in the FBI and DOJ appeared to be working toward with the post 9/11 raids before the Bush administration at the behest of the usual ‘Gulfie’ players and the domestic MB groups shut it all down.
American history would have been incredibly different if instead of chasing Jihadis around Afghanistan, we had reacted to 9/11 by shutting down, deporting and denaturalizing the Brotherhood in America.
Despite the usual complaints, the justification for the designation is straightforward. The MB is the nexus for Jihadi groups including Al Qaeda and Hamas. Hamas is literally the Brotherhood in Gaza which is why it’s been supported by CAIR and other Islamist groups. And Al Qaeda was really spawned by an Egyptian MB spinoff group. MB groups formed some of the most vicious militias in Syria (even as domestic MB groups lobbied for them).
Of course the designation is just the first step. The next step is the focus and willpower to implement it. As we’ve seen with the Antifa designation, without those, a designation doesn’t do much, but it still sets an important precedent, especially when it comes to the infiltration of American political life by groups like CAIR.
And certainly any cooperation between Islamists and law enforcement.
