The White House is confirming that President Trump is in consultation with national security officials in trying to find a way to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a “foreign terrorist organization.“
The move was apparently precipitated by Egypt’s junta leader Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi,
who urged Trump to move against them during a recent White House visit.
At this point, Trump ordered officials to start looking for a way to
impose sanctions on the group, and it seems that’s going to require
tossing them on the terrorism list.
The big obstacle to this is that the Muslim Brotherhood are not
terrorists, but rather an ideological movement, and the primary impetus
against them has been their success in political engagement in certain
nations, particularly Egypt, where their political success was deemed
unwelcome by the entrenched powers.
Almost exclusively international bans on the Brotherhood came out of the
2013 Egyptian coup d’etat, which brought military leader El-Sisi to
power. A Muslim Brotherhood-backed party won the first (and last) free
election of the post-Mubarak era, and labeled them terrorists for
resisting the coup. In the ensuing purge, Saudi Arabia and its allies
endorsed the junta’s move, arguing that a military-ruled Egypt was
better for the region than a democratic one.
Trump’s interest in such a move likely centers on a desire to please
El-Sisi and the Saudis. Such a move would also allow his administration
to crack down on certain Muslim groups within the United States which
are accused of having ideological ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The muslimbrotherhood is supporting radical islamists all over the world.
with the help of the US government, as you no doubt know. look at Syria.
Of course, i think a big part of the Administration wants to “work” with the muslimbrotherhood and Turkey.
The MB is also linked to the Israeli fetish about Hamas. Anything Israel wants, Israel gets.
Just like anything what we do for the Saudis.
Therefore,eliminate and silence any independent opposition group that would challenge the tyrannical rulers in the region.Drive every one underground and motivate others to join the extremist groups and employ violent means which the tyrants would use to justify their oppression and abuses.
It’s important to remember that when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in Egypt, they immediately began behaving badly toward the Christian minority. Democracy in the hands of theocratic true believers is not a winning strategy for stable society. and Sisi put and end to that failed experiment.
In fact democracy — despite ts elevation to a kind of political religion in the United States — generally sucks. Just take a look at what it’s done to the United States: owned by Israel, the MIC, the Bankers, Big Pharma, & the insurance people.
Democracy of the owners, by the owners, and for the owners … the moneyed class …
” … and brain-raped on their behalf by the corporate media.
Reagan’s CIA Director William Casey infamously said, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
We have a one dollar, one vote, fake, subverted “democracy”. “The best Congress money can buy.” Mark Twain
Certain wings of the MB probably could be considered terrorist organizations and the US and UK have used them on a number of occasions themselves to stir up unrest, but they’re a very decentralized movement and factions often operated independently of others. I think this is much more about the Saudis, who see the MB as competition for Sunni hearts and minds from Yemen to Syria, than Egypt.