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Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

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Of course, if this is true, and Trump sees this through, it would be the most impactful statement of intent to date in taking the war on terror to the biggest players doorstep as opposed to welcoming them into your own house. Be interesting to see who comes out to block this move.

WASHINGTON — The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle East, according to officials familiar with the matter.

The White House directed national security and diplomatic officials to find a way to place sanctions on the group after a White House visit on April 9 by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, for whom the Brotherhood represents a source of political opposition. In a private meeting without reporters and photographers, Mr. el-Sisi urged Mr. Trump to take that step and join Egypt in branding the movement a terrorist organization.

Such a designation imposes wide-ranging economic and travel sanctions on companies and individuals who interact with the targeted group. The president responded affirmatively to Mr. el-Sisi, saying it would make sense. Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers have interpreted that as a commitment, officials said.

But the proposal has prompted fierce debate within the administration, including at a senior-level meeting of policymakers from various departments convened last week by the White House’s National Security Council, the officials said.

from www.nytimes.com

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  2. “Be interesting to see who comes out to block this move.”

    Be very interesting. Should heighten the contradictions with the BDS wing of the Democratic party.

    • it’s couldn’t happen to a better group the *********. Durbin will be one for sure

    • Huma Abedin who was chief of staff for the Secretary of State under HRC was on the masthead of the Muslim Brotherhood magazine as an editor. Her sister and mother were also on the masthead. In addition, Huma was spending tens of thousands of dollars on clothes and purses when she attended Georgetown. Her parents don’t have that kind of money. So she is likely to be someone’s asset.

  3. sunni islam and the sunni nations are still deep in terrorism and conquest ideology. The islamic brotherhood seems to be the guide for much of that movement. The are already unindicted co-conspirators in the holly land trial. I believe I have heard them mentioned as middle men to several sunni terrorist groups including hamas. It is hard to tell the various sources of organization and power behind violent expansionist and educational jihad are, but the islamic brotherhood is an often mentioned name. It would be good to have an article introducing the reader to the wahhabis, the university in egypt they are always talking about the madrassas, the Characters who play clerics to nations like the Ayatollahs. Till the chess board becomes clear to us, and hopefully better options are also available, when sisi took over its not like there was no more schools to attend. But till that time I will back Trumps move, and neocons like Netanyahu, we dont have the time to research everything, lets hope and pray our leaders are focusing on good targets and marching us forward. In G-d I trust.

  4. I can already hear the two female advocates in Congress calling the President an Islamophobe. The administration and a statement from the Egyptian president should prepare a joint statement addressing the danger that the Ikhwan poses to the world and its daily attacks against Christians in Egypt. The numbers of direct deaths and injuries throughout the world and its total support for worldwide jihad. President Trump must be extremely articulate and refrain from letting his feelings provide Omar, Tlaib and the far left be used against him personally. Both leaders should have victims and victim’s families talk about the atrocities that the Ikhwan have reaped on them.

  5. Trump may get distracted from this for a while. Civil war appears to breaking out in Venezuela today.

  6. Anybody who is against branding the Muslim Brotherhood what it is–a terrorist group–or has been up until now, including Trump, is, or has been, a terrorist, terrorist fellow traveler, sympathizer, collaborator, or whatever synonym you like.

    • When you have the CIA and FBI running around saying that white nationalists are the greatest threat, you lose all confidence in the ‘intelligence’ agencies.

  8. The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational totalitarian threat. About time a Western leader took that seriously. The Obama administration’s treasonous collaboration with it needs to be completely unraveled and reversed. The Brotherhood’s front organizations in North America, including CAIR, ISNA, and MSA, need to be closed, its operatives jailed or expelled, and its influence in society ended. Its very existence must be undermined worldwide.

  9. To strive for the designation of the Muslims Brotherhood as a terrorist group shows wisdom on the part of President Trump..

    This is in strong contrast to the traitorous collaboration of Obama withe jihadist enemies.

    An example of just how insidiously awful disloyal to America Obama actually is has been somewhat, expose by Jamie Glazov in his book with the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH . For on page 187 it’s revealed that “Before Trump took office, Obama officials were busy spying on Americans in an effort to actually protect the interests of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

    • “This is in strong contrast to the traitorous collaboration of Obama withe jihadist enemies.”

      Contrast? Yes.
      Strong?…not sure.

      While I fully admit that Trump is by far the best western leader we have today, I will not completely trust him unless Obama, the Clintons and the whole gang are brought to justice and, if convicted of high treason, EXECUTED.

  10. We’re gettin’ there …….. the last step will be, of course, to declare Islam a terrorist ideology and all those who obey Allah’s commands to commit acts of terror as terrorists! We’re gettin’ there ……..

  11. Pushing for the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood by President Trump does strongly reveal the great contrast between the Patriotic President Trump and the traitorous former President Obama ,with all his insidious scheming and collaboration withe powers of Islam.

    For example, Jamie Glazov in his book with title of THE JIHADIS PSYCHOPATH on page 169 it’s revealed that “Even Egypt’s Rose al –Yusuf magazine confirmed that six highly placed Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators within the Obama administration had transformed the United States ‘from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood ‘.’’ The same page further exposes that “Without a doubt, the Muslim Brotherhood heavily penetrated the US government during the Obama years and spread its tentacles across the entirely of US culture.”

  12. Instead of the FBI hierarchy, of Former president Democrat Obama, spying on innocent US citizens, they could of done real investigative work on The Muslim Brotherhood at home.

    Shame on the Democrats, you need to secure your borders, plus your ridicules immigration laws.

    • The rot started much earlier than Obama. No doubt Obama made it much worse.
      In February 1945, King Abdul Aziz met President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal. A historic handshake agreeing on supplying oil to the United States in exchange for guaranteed protection to the Saudi regime is still in force today. It has survived seven Saudi Kings and twelve US presidents. I doubt Trump will rock the boat.
      And the US has made and is making tons of money in getting contracts to modernise Saudi Arabia, develop the oil industry plus protection money for the Saudi regime. Donald Rumsfield made an infamous quote during the Gulf war- ‘We create our own realities’. Eerily similar to muhameddans creating their own realities.
      If anyone here believes the globalists running the US care whether the Saudis are funding, training and arming jihadis throughout the world, you are much mistaken. Islam is just one of their tools. Maybe the Saudis leaders are happy that the muslim brotherhood terrorist group is under scrutiny as they are a threat to them too.
      In the end, nations do not act morally. All most of them care is to make as much money as possible. Silly to impute any morality to nations, including Israel.
      In the case of islam, yes, any nation governed under islamic rules is truly despicable and must be opposed. But how can you do it when the rich and powerful nations are in bed with many of these islamic regimes?

        • Crusader, by and large we were “saved” from OPEC already by the “Shale revolution”. In 2014 oil prices nearly halved and since have stayed (relatively) Low (low enough). No longer has Carter OPEC, or even OPEC+ (Russia) the monopoly!

          A sea change! No longer is America dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Only it’s allies still do.

          And to our advantage; China still does!

      • OK, about what you wrote. As I see it, the democratic capitalist countries have the best governmental system. And I am in favor of all of them. So to me Israel is definitely Better than Saudi Arabia. Sometimes Democratic Nations are not enough in solidarity with each other. For me all of them should work together against all the Dictatorial Nations and “endeavour to devour them”, that is turn them in Democratic capitalist nations. But only peaceful. As their better political system permits and already has given them so much power,

        Simply because their system works better, makes more people more prosperous and happy on aggregate.

        That the Western Democratic Nations oppose some dictatorial states, some Islamic enemies, like Iran and now MB, while supporting others is smart!

        It is prioritizing to fight the bigger evil and It is trying to divide their de facto dictatorial competitors, and to weaken their alliance, their very power base, in favor of their own political system. Again, mostly peaceful.

        It is Saudi Arabia, an arch dictatorial state, that seems very confused.

        Yes, it’s royal house wants to cling to power and keep their fabulous wealth and lifestyle. And the Muslim Brotherhood threathens that, so the Saudi’s are against the MB as is their ally Egypt. And the Saudi’s strongly help US and Israel against Iran.

        But the Saudi’s do know that certain media and politicians in the West are vehemently against them and could gain power. And that means that if the MB and Iran are beaten that it will be Saudi Arabia that is opposed by the Democratic Nations, the next on the list.

        So do the Saudi’s still calculate that it is more in their interest to coöperate with the Democratic Nations? Perhaps because they themselves get more Westernized? Or because they feel mortally threathened by their MB and Iranian enemies? For sure, the West wants them to change, but only slowly and peacefully, but the West does not want to kill them.

  14. At last … the US should never have allowed Obama to get into bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. It was always a terrorist organization. Obama caused much misery to Egyptians by supporting them. They infiltrated American intelligence and the Democrat Party.

    It is not wrong to think of the Muslim Brotherhood as the Egyptian version of the Nazi Party. The MB are Nazis, but not out-and-out Hitlerites, though they are not adverse to Hitler.

    Islam’s Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a 22 year old Muslim who admired Hitler’s hatred of the Jews and persistently wrote to Hitler to express his admiration and his desire for Hitler’s Nazi Party to collaborate with Islam.

    When Hitler rose to power, his Nazis supported al-Banna, a school teacher, to grow the Muslim Brotherhood into its ally in the Middle East; by 1938, the membership of Muslim Brotherhood topped 200,000.

    During World War II, members of the Muslim Brotherhood spied for Hitler’s Nazis in the Middle East and fought for Hitler as Nazi troops in two specially formed Muslim Waffen-SS Handschar Divisions.

    ‘Handschar’ is German for scimitar, the curved saber used by the Islamic troops of the Ottoman empire.

    It is shocking that Obama would join forces with a fascist movement such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

  15. When does Pres. Trump have time to sleep? The President is no man to take on in a kick azz competition. I bet he does it, and does it soon.

  16. “But the proposal has prompted fierce debate within the administration…” I’d love to hear what arguments are presented in opposition. It really shouldn’t even need to be debated.

  17. It’s a start.

    Then Trump can shut down CAIR.

    Islam really does not have any place in America in 2019.

    If Ilhan has a problem with it she can always move back to Somalia.

  18. The Democrats will be coming out en masse and in force to try to block Trump’s rational move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Shutting down CAIR would be a logical second move.

  19. “But the proposal has prompted fierce debate within the administration, including at a senior-level meeting of policymakers from various departments convened last week by the White House’s National Security Council…”

    Anybody in the Council who speaks out in opposition to this proposal reveals themselves to be, at best a fool and at worst, a traitor. Get rid of them all, Mr. President.

  21. Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
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    *Excellent* news.

  22. “Be interesting to see who comes out to block this move.”

    Erdogan does not like this.

    • Doubtless, Ilhan Omar and Tlaib will protest with indignation the “vilification” of the MB.

  23. Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have all classified the Muslim Brotherhood as an illegal terrorist organization. So why any criticism of the President of the United States of America for wanting the same?

  24. Islam is a multi-headed, multi-tentacled monster. Ban the LOT! Make them ALL Proscribed Organisations. To balance things up @ the same time, Pres. Trump ought to ban the KKK & all those dingbat White ‘Supremacist’ groups. This should have been done in the latter part of the 19th.Century. The early 20th. at the latest.

  25. Read also “The Black Stone,” by me, a detective novel about the Brotherhood’s early, murderous intrusions in the U.S. in San Francisco (1930). It’s one of my most popular titles.

    • I’ll check it out, Edward.

      There was a lot of Jihad terror–the “Zebra” killings–in the 1970s in San Francisco, too, which few people know about.

  26. Great news, next Justine will have to tell all his friends in Canada, they have to go. I can hear him now ”Well, um, I know Canadians are Islamophobic, um, hate mongers, un, and have no real culture of their own, um, but they want you out of their country. I am so sorry, you see um, I do care, um, about CAIR, um, you are like brothers to me.” Perhaps Imam Mazin Abdul-Adhim, Canadian leader of Hibz ut-Tharir, of London, Ontario will be packing his bags and leaving on a midnight plane to Iraq soon.

  27. And here I was, furious about Trump branding the Iran Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group, when they had nothing to do with this country, and NOT branding the Muzlim Brotherhood with that label, as they ARE in this country. Well, about time….I didn’t think he would do it. Finally…it’s late in the game, but he’s finally getting somewhere!

    I still wish he’d take that pretty little speech OFF of the White House dot GOV webpage, that he made, to the thousands, if not millions, of muzlims in this country!

    It’s bad enough, another pretty speech, to the Nigerian president, is still on the White House dot GOV, webpage too. Hundreds of thousands of christians have been murdered over there, and Trump praises this man, and calls that country, a “democracy”! Ugh!

  28. AIPAC should be the first on the list to be blocked for their participation in the genocide of Palestinians in Palestine for over 70 years.

    • Palestine, no such place, 800% increase in population would be the opposite of Genocide if you mean the muslim residents of Gaza, Judea and Samaria
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=386989
      (citing source from “your side”)
      Check out the statistics of Christians in the region if you want to understand Genocide, and the only place they not rapidly disappearing, but growing is Israel.
      am Yisrael chai

  29. If he does that can he shutdown the country of Canada? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and five of his M.P.’s are currently under a Criminal Investigation for using Taxpayer’s money to fund the Muslim Brotherhood! Just read Security Expert Tom Quiggin’s book and reports!

  30. good riddance to mb and cair; their ONLY agenda is to destroy our country with their hate belief system and pure bull crap. this should have been done a LONG time ago. thanks to obama the islam jerks have a serious foothold and should be removed from ALL government jobs; especially in very sensitive areas. get oca, omar, and tlaib off all committees, period. they are islam/soros puppets. the Mccarran/warner act was to not allow muslims to hold office in our country; and those idiots voted against it. look it up and wake up or some of this crap could have been avoided.

  31. BROOKINGS INST PODCAST:
    Why is the Trump administration pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists?
    Shadi HamidWednesday, May 1, 2019
    ⦁ Senior Fellow ⦁ Shadi Hamid examines the Trump administration’s renewed push to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, how this move reflects the administration’s priorities in the Middle East, and the repercussions of criminalizing the activities of millions of people in U.S.-allied countries.

    • “Criminalizing the activities of millions of people in U.S.-allied countries”–as if the activities of Jihadists would suddenly become benign so long as we ignore them.

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