The Muslim Brotherhood Has Earned Its Terrorist Designation
April 23, 2017
Originally published under the title “Muslim Brotherhood Earns Its Terrorist Designation.”
In an April 11 Brookings Institution report titled “Is the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?” senior fellow Shadi Hamid states that the Trump administration’s proposed designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group “could have significant consequences for the U.S., the Middle East, and the world.”
Contrary to the wishful thinking of the Obama administration, the Muslim Brotherhood cannot be appeased.
Among many astounding claims in the report, the three most misleading among them begin with his statement that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “non-violent Islamist group,” that “there is not a single American expert on the Muslim Brotherhood who supports designating it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” and that President Trump’s advisors were enlisting Americans in what Mr. Hamid calls “civilization struggle.”
