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.
You’d think MAGAts would like an ignorant, reactionary, anti-democracy religious movement.
This comment is pretty funny because the Muslim Brotherhood was democratically elected in Egypt and then overthrown by the military coup of Sisi which was backed by the USA and Israel.
Don’t you know democracy means western aligned and nothing else?