Trump Moves to Designate Some Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood As Terrorist Organizations

As I've mentioned several times: Obama literally had the Muslim Brotherhood in the room as the US military formulated its terrorist-identification policies. They got a veto as to whether intelligence officers could treat certain beliefs as cause to suspect someone as terrorists.

Trump isn't Obama.

President Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to weigh labeling some Middle Eastern affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups, taking aim at the controversial Islamist movement.

In an executive order, the president directed his administration to consider whether to designate Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan or elsewhere as foreign terrorist organizations. He gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent 30 days to submit a report, and 45 days after that to take action.

The order claimed the three countries' Muslim Brotherhood affiliates "engage in or facilitate and support violence and destabilization campaigns."

It accused the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood's Lebanese chapter of helping launch rockets at Israel after the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and alleged a leader of the Egyptian chapter "encouraged violent attacks against U.S. partners" after the attack.

The White House also said members of the Jordanian chapter have "long provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas," itself a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot and a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

If the groups are designated as foreign terrorist organizations, it would become illegal under U.S. law to knowingly provide funding or other material support to them. The designation can also lead to travel bans against members or the freezing of funds held in U.S. banks.

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Some Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt and elsewhere have renounced violence. But the group has long been controversial, with critics -- including U.S. allies -- saying some affiliated groups have engaged in violence or espoused extremist views. Egypt's military government formally banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, and Jordan banned the group earlier this year.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization last week -- and CAIR, too.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations.

Why it matters: The designation authorizes "heightened enforcement" against both organizations and their affiliates and bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas, according to Abbott's office.

It also authorizes Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the organizations to shut them down, Abbott said on X.

Driving the news: In a proclamation, Abbott accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "engaging in terrorism or attempting to destabilize countries" and calls CAIR its "successor organization."

The order invokes the Texas Penal Code and Property Code, which allow the governor to classify organizations that "threaten the security of this state."

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a transnational Islamist group with offshoots including Hamas.

You know that federal election law forbids the use of churches and synagogues for political purposes? So-called c3 charities do not pay taxes, but the catch is that c3 charities cannot engage in partisan activity.

This law has long been ignored as far as black churches go.

Surprise surprise -- Islamic mosques are immune from the law, too.

Amy Mek @AmyMek

🟥 WARNING - THIS IS HOW WE LOSE AMERICA

CAIR Now Has a Muslim Super PAC to Capture U.S. Elections Using Mosques as the engine -- and they have already begun.

CAIR Leader Nihad Awad can be seen in EPIC Mosque in Texas, teaching Muslims how to use tax-exempt mosques, a CAIR c4, and a new Muslim SUPER PAC to make or break elections....

This is the exact weapon needed to install candidates like Zohran Mamdani across America, to which their Super PAC donated!

He openly instructs them to:

-- Use the MOSQUE (tax-deductible) to build the voter bloc
-- Use the CAIR C4 to lobby, draft, and fight laws -- Use PACs to fund candidates
-- Use the SUPER PAC for unlimited money to flip races

His words, not mine:

"These are the organizations that make or break races... There is a Muslim Super PAC today."

So instead of being banned over its documented terror-tie history, CAIR now sits on top of the machinery used to make or break elections.

This is the missing piece -- the power key.

While CAIR preaches takeover plans from pulpits and trains 100,000 future operatives...

📌 This is not influence -- it is an organized political seizure project running off tax-exempt religious infrastructure.

J. Michael Waller calls this executive order "solid" in terms of both what it does and the legal arguments advanced to support the order.

posted by Ace at 02:20 PM

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